Round Up: Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Reviews Are Impressive, Most Impressive

There's also alot of bugs, I will wait for few patches to play it because it's destroying the experience for me.

That eurogamer review was absolute cringe. She loved it for 10hrs then proceeds to 'backtrack' herself towards disliking it. What?!

And pre-patch technical issues should NEVER affect a score/recommendation. Majority will never experience the game pre-patch.

From the bits I’ve read I’ll probably wait a bit for patches to come out as seems to be quite buggy, especially on PS4 apparently. I definitely get it at some point but doesn’t sound like something I need to get day one.

On the 3rd planet, absolutely loving it, had no issues at all on ps4 pro.

Eurogamer really is grumpy this week with the new releases lol

Just bought it will start playing this evening. Looks real good. 🙂🙂🙂.

Just got back from picking this up the reviews look good ish can't wait to play it. At last a good star wars game this generation 😁

@BarefootBowser Oh no please don't hit Santa maybe give him a hint instead 😟😟😉😉.

Will grab my physical copy in a few hours at the store, no work today.

I didn’t know it was all lightsaber (no gun) for our caracter, I hope the combat is varied enough... but I’m sad this won’t fill my blaster envy!

@daveofduncan unless day one patch doesnt fix these issues. Im not talking down about this game, im definitely buying it this week, but how would a reviewer know if day one patch is gonna fix these issues. Another great idea would be dont release a game as a buggy mess.

Sounds like virtually every Star Wars game before it... ultimately disappointing.

It baffles me how so many different devs over the years have failed to make a worthy game from such an impressive universe.

I bet Amy Hennig's cancelled game would have been so much better.

I like titanfall 2 so I'm getting this sometime in the future, after I'm done with DS.

So is there a 10hr trial via EA Access?

I know there wasn’t the usual pre-release trial but now that spoilers aren’t going to be a thing is there one?

Star Wars not my thing but would happily play a good star wars story game but the dark souls like combat puts me right off why cant any developer/game designer do anything other then Dark souls style combat. One of biggest gripes this generation is everything trying to copy souls combat instead of doing there own thing.

The highest score is from IGN.
How surprising.

this looks fantastic, I'll wait a while as PS4 game lose value so quickly for some reason, but will defo pick this up.

Will get it on Black Friday! Excited for this!

Hmm, I'm still unsure on this. The main drag for me is that apparently, Cal is not a very interesting character.

Wow! I expected it to be pretty good but this is a bit surprising, in a great way! Won't be 0laying until Christmas but I'm looking forward to it, hopefully the bugs are squashed by then

Wow, EA releases a game I'm actually interested in. I think the last time that happened was probably 007: From Russia With Love on the GameCube.

Played a few hours so far & I'm really enjoying it, no issues or bugs. Its just the kind of rollercoaster action adventure I've been craving😃
The voice acting is quite good too.

I get out at 4pm , speeding home so I can play ! JK. But I can't wait to get home so I can play .

I'll consider this as other soulslike games and I'll buy it only after a price drop, especially since it seems you can 100% it in 15/20 hours.

the gameplay (for the first 2-3 hours at least) seems a bit derivative of other games to me. the environment traversal seems to have taken a lot of cues from uncharted, though having to constantly hold L2 makes it more cumbersome than it should be, especially with occassional camera annoyances. the wall-running obviously feels a lot like titanfall. combat seems a bit souls-light i guess, with it's reliance on parries/timing and dodging and attacking at the right moment. for me, it seems fairly tough on normal. when it takes three of four solid strikes with a lightsabre to take down a swamp-rat, the jedi illusion is dissipated somewhat. the saving-system might get annoying, especially losing all XP if you die before you hit a meditation point where you can save (and when you do save, everything you killed respawns). the backtracking slogs are terrible design decisions imo, and that's early on when you might only have traverse 20 minutes through the environment to reach the ultimate mission marker. goodness knows what it's going to be like later on going back to the same planets and having to go much further. the slog back might not be so bad if you felt like a jedi badass, but that doesn't appear to be the case. it doesn't actually look as good as i thought it would either (maybe it's because i've been playing death stranding), it's certainly decent looking, but because it's a star wars game i kind of expected a bit more visual wow. i think battlefront looks better. not sure about the story because i haven't seen a lot of it, but so far none of the characters are particularly interesting.. there's a lot of exploration and secrets to find it seems though, the environment exploration is pretty good, it's better than the combat so far (ymmv of course). so far, it's been bug free (on PS4 pro) for the intro mission/quest and first two planets. still too early to tell if it hits that star wars itch, or if i'll lose interest.

@Enuo IGN Italy rated this 8.2 and Death Stranding 9.8
"Italians rate it better"?

I’ll admit that I held back on preordering this primarily because of EA’s prior track record with the license. That said, I’ve still been hoping that Respawn could pull off something special and it sounds as though they’ve managed to succeed on the whole, My plate’s pretty full at the moment, but I definitely plan on picking this up after the holidays.

I was only able to play through the first area before having to get to work and I think it has potential to be a fun experience. The controls feel a little clunky but still manageable for now. I'm afraid that the clunk will make the planetary backtracking an unfun slog though.

@Enuo I recalled seeing a quote from them in one of the trailers saying that it could be a game of the year contender.

Gameplay still seems a little dull to me, and combat, from what I've seen, has little variance? A few more nuanced moves would have been cool. Force unleashed may have lacked a little in the presentation and elegance of this, but I feel it was a much bigger and more impressive release for what it offered than this outing.

I still not convinced. It looks repetitive.

@leucocyte I though the same at first but you don't actually need to hold L2. Just pull the trigger when you want to first grab on to something, then you can let go even when you jump between ledges

@0D0 Says the person with a Death Stranding profile picture!! (I'm enjoying DS by the way )

@leucocyte Not sure why you're holding L2 for so long, you press it once to grab onto a wall, then you can let go and climb. Also meditating doesn't respawn enemies, only resting does. So you can meditate, use your skill points, then leave and you'll be fine. Only if you want to recharge your health, etc and rest, that's when enemies reset.

I'm having a blast. It's very similar to the Tom Raider games more than Unhcharted. It has that arcadey control feel. Plenty of exploration, traversal, combat, collecting, customization. I'd give it a 9.

On my Christmas list, cant wait to try!!

Stayed up till 2AM for it to go live... played till 4 AM!! 😅

Loving it... They have done a great job! Starts with a bang from the start.

Cant wait to play this when i get home i am happy the reviews are good hopefully the sales are good enough for EA to prove that single player story linear games are still selling well shakes fist at EA

@Mergatro1d I'm loving DS and I don't find it repetitive as a repetitive action game where you repetitive slay foes.

I played it for a couple of hours this morning and it was ok, it's far from the best looking game I've played in the last few years and Cals running animation seems off somehow, also I had a few very hard drops in framerate but only briefly. It just felt like I'd already played it before, from the Uncharted 2 opening to the first planet you travel which looks like it should be in Destiny all while looking for the telegraphed wall running or climbing bits to navigate.

I'll carry on playing as it's still very early but it certainly hasn't wowed me yet

ZERO issues for me on a “Pro”, really well polished game for me

Tomb Raider with a light saber? Sold!

@Mergatro1d @MattyHammo - i'm pretty sure that early on in the game during the intro mission when i let go of L2 i fell to my death, so i just assumed it had to be held continuously.

@carlos82 - i felt the same about cal's animation, it just doesn't look/feel right.. it's kind of like he running with a limp. hard to explain.

@thefirst facts, Days Gone got the same bullsh*t.

Please excuse my language, but Barfooning Palonie. I might just find myself buying a game from EA, not the EA of the 90s or the 00s but the rotten sack of fungus that is the EA of 2019! Well at least I am going to wait for the first few patches to drop along with the price a little bit, YEP.....That will teach e a ........

8.75? What an obnoxious number.

@leucocyte I was doing the same thing, holding L2, but then realised that it's only to initially grab then you can let go. Even jumping across while climbing there's no need to press it again.

I agree with the animations, both Cal and enemies. They're not as smooth as they could be. It feels more arcadey than realistic, but you get used to it.

@thebakerswife same here, I've just been playing it again and to be fair the next planet is a million times better. I can see how the levels are opening up with all manner of routes to take and the stormtroopers are very chatty and entertaining.

There's still something odd about the animations, not in combat as they seem really good but when walking

@leucocyte it looks like his legs are too far apart, width ways or something. I was holding the stick just slightly earlier and he just sort of juddered across the floor. The game is a lot more fun now I've got off of that training planet so that's a positive.

Something seems off with the visuals as a whole though and even on the Pro, performance issues crop up albeit briefly and I think Battlefront 2 looks a lot better from what I remember. Maybe it's just that I've been playing Death Stranding and its animations and visuals are superb. Most importantly I'm starting to enjoy it more now and the planets do seem more fun to explore even if I'm not looking forward to the backtracking

I pre-ordered this. No regrets. So far so good. It is a great time for Star wars fans.

@Spoonman-2

Then noticed in 4K it was blurry all the time, mate said turn off motion blur in the options, and that sorted it out

@thebakerswife How about some old school RPG goodness? Baldurs Gate?

See EA when you effort in development in a game like this you get good results and get your fruits of your hard labor.

@thebakerswife

The Wookies seem malnourished and in need of a wash to me, but then I realise they are supposed to be prisoners 🤔

@LaJettatura I heard that too. Makes me want to buy it...lol..I'm a huge Tomb Raider fan..ha..ha. Not sure if you were being sarcastic though, but I'm getting this now.

@thebakerswife We all go through different seasons. I'm 46 and female and my gaming drive has gotten stronger and I'm asking myself whats wrong with me..lol.. Simply, I just love games right now.

@carlos82 - yeah, cal looks a bit bandy-legged when running. overall, i too kind of expected the visuals to be more impressive - even the facial animations in cutscenes lack a certain visual sharpness, though like yourself i'm coming from death stranding. so far i haven't had any performance issues on the pro, but i've not come across/been in combat with that many enemies at once.

i'm about to hit the third planet.. the second planet is better than the first - since there was an empire presence, it was more densely populated with enemies, so you could at least slice through a few stormtroopers, or listen to their banter, and some interesting puzzle elements when you reach the tomb area. after completing the objective, i found it a bit confusing how to escape.. it's one area that's a bit frustrating, it's not at all obvious on occassions how to progress, and the holomap isn't always that helpful, and that was one looong track back to the ship to head for the wookie homeworld.

@thebakerswife
No way. The graphics in Proust are terrible.

Gotta say I'm loving it and even the fighting can change abit go on out and find the upgrade to your saber. Also for some of you on picture quality there is motion blur and picture......static or fuzz they call it something for effect. Also remember this is unreal engine not the frostbite engine like battlefront.

It looks okay, but I'm not sold on it. I presume there will be DLC and perhaps a Complete Edition for this in the not too distant future? Maybe I'll pick it up then.

Three scores posted 9, nearly 9 and 8 - Comments on push square include “sounds like other Star Wars games that will ultimately disappoint.”

Hahaha. Classic. Games that score 8 are disappointing.

I love Star Wars but i just can't warm to this game. I find it boring and the worlds seem bare. It's buggy with textures popping in and out and just can't see why its getting such favourable reviews when it obviously could have done with a few months cleaning up. Just another example of EA cashing in before Xmas. I used to get fed up of people EA bashing but I'm starting to understand why. I will give it another go after some updates but I'm off to carry on with the Outer Worlds.