an overall improvement over the first one on the gameplay and presentation aspects, the combat is more faster and exciting, the lightsaber attacks and combos just has more weight to them, using the Force powers is still pretty cool, the gameplay still feels entertaining and dynamic thanks to the technology that the game runs.

the presentation and polish is also miles better, the visuals on the first Force Unleashed were already dated even by 2008 standards but this is definitely better game in terms of graphics and audio, it's more defined and extravagant overall. the same goes to the polish, the animations are better and the jankiness got drastically reduced. the game still runs at 30 FPS on the PC version and trying to fix this brings issues with the physics but I felt it was less apparent than the first game.

unfortunely the story is even worse than the first game and it has less content going on, the writer had just 3 weeks to write this whole game and it shows, it's clear that they had no clue on how they should continue Starkiller's story, the first game just felt more conclusive in regards to his character arc, some of the cutscenes are also cringe inducing. the whole thing is also painfully short even more so than the first game, I finished the whole thing in one sitting and the amount of extras doesn't do any favors if we are talking about replayabliity.

overall an solid and fun game in terms of gameplay, the production values got bigger too, I think if they had more time during development this game would "redeem" this franchise, it's an shame that the third game got canned after Disney bought Lucasarts.