8 Developers That Got Away With Selling You The Same Video Game Twice

7. Star Wars The Force Unleashed II (LucasArts)

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One for the glorified DLC pile, The Force Unleashed II came with more cinematic trappings than the likes of Prototype 2, yet its length was painfully short.

Atop that, you spent most of its runtime re-unlocking the same powers so you could dispatch enemies in much the same way as before. Physics stayed the same - which were always too overpowered when it came to the speed of Force-throwing a Stormtrooper in the first place - and Starkiller's batch of attacks barely changed.

Worst of all, the game's paltry handful of levels combined with powers that encouraged speed and group-based killing meant you could rattle through this full price title in an afternoon. Adding insult to injury was a tacked-on "Actually there's a clone of you!" ending where the original Starkiller got stabbed in the back, leaving fans with less a goodbye wave and more a middle finger to chew on.

The very idea of a Force Unleashed 3 was buried after Lucasfilm canned a ton of Star Wars Expanded Universe content in 2014, though with the narrative groundwork being so hacked to pieces as it stands, maybe that's for the best.

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