3/10 I spent about as much time fighting the game, as I did fighting the enemies.

Not sure which one is more on rails. The story, or the fighters in this game. The story is nothing to write home about. Inconsistent mess, worthy of the star wars name as of late. Where the game fails spectacularly for me is the controls.

The controls are a mess by default. The fact that the control scheme and control tips change depending on where you gave the last control input makes mixing joystick with keyboard very hard. Some of those tips are ouright uselss..like when it tells you to activate something with joystick 1, even though it is not bound on that controller, so it does not give you an actual button to press.

Some of the controls are counter intuitive, the configuration UI lacks options and explanations for many important things. You cannot set dead zones, you cannot disable mouse acceleration either, should you be playing with a mouse.

Some controls that you would expect are simply non existent.. my pet peeve in this is the targeting.. you can target the enemy you are looking at, cycle through targets (one direction), or you can lock "your attacker". You cannot, for the life of you target the enemy closest to you, which is otherwise pretty much a standard in similar games. I cannot tell you how frustrating it is when during a dogfight, you see an enemy fly past your screen and then you spend the next minute trying to actually find that target and lock it, when clearly it is the enemy closest to you at that moment.

The combat itself feels okay for a star wars game, I haven't played enough to really comment on the balance between the various weapons, but some of them definitely feel more fishy than others.

The story could have been the saving grace for this game, but the story mode is, well, I am not impressed to be honest. I have played the beginnings of the story and have seen a few pieces of what comes after and I am not at all feeling the urge to play those missions to experience that story myself.

The characters are nothing but exposition boxes that you can turn on to hear some extra lines of inconsequential monologues.

Worth the 40 bucks? Frankly... if it would not have been for the 5 hours I already spent on this game (first few missions and some MP battles), I would probably refund it. I cannot find it in me to really pick it up and play it anymore due to all the annoying bits mentioned above.

3/10 I spent about as much time fighting the game, as I did fighting the enemies. Not sure which one is more on rails. The story, or the fighters in this game. The story is nothing to write home about. Inconsistent mess, worthy of the star wars name as of late. Where the game fails spectacularly for me is the controls. The controls are a mess by default. The fact that the control scheme and control tips change depending on where you gave the last control input makes mixing joystick with keyboard very hard. Some of those tips are ouright uselss..like when it tells you to activate something with joystick 1, even though it is not bound on that controller, so it does not give you an actual button to press. Some of the controls are counter intuitive, the configuration UI lacks options and explanations for many important things. You cannot set dead zones, you cannot disable mouse acceleration either, should you be playing with a mouse. Some controls that you would expect are simply non existent.. my pet peeve in this is the targeting.. you can target the enemy you are looking at, cycle through targets (one direction), or you can lock "your attacker". You cannot, for the life of you target the enemy closest to you, which is otherwise pretty much a standard in similar games. I cannot tell you how frustrating it is when during a dogfight, you see an enemy fly past your screen and then you spend the next minute trying to actually find that target and lock it, when clearly it is the enemy closest to you at that moment. The combat itself feels okay for a star wars game, I haven't played enough to really comment on the balance between the various weapons, but some of them definitely feel more fishy than others. The story could have been the saving grace for this game, but the story mode is, well, I am not impressed to be honest. I have played the beginnings of the story and have seen a few pieces of what comes after and I am not at all feeling the urge to play those missions to experience that story myself. The characters are nothing but exposition boxes that you can turn on to hear some extra lines of inconsequential monologues. Worth the 40 bucks? Frankly... if it would not have been for the 5 hours I already spent on this game (first few missions and some MP battles), I would probably refund it. I cannot find it in me to really pick it up and play it anymore due to all the annoying bits mentioned above.