Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order

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8.2

Generally favorable reviews- based on 998 Ratings

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  1. Broyax
    Apr 2, 2023
    0
    Ah ça faisait longtemps… c’est le retour du Jedi ! mais sans le Knight… Quoi qu’il en soit, les Jedi Knight ont toujours été des jeux lourds et désagréables, y compris depuis le tout premier Dark Forces qui remonte à Mathusalem ou presque !

    Ce nouvel épisode est démoulé par Respawn, le responsable des Titanfall et on note encore une fois leur obsession récurrente : courir sur les    Ah ça faisait longtemps… c’est le retour du Jedi ! mais sans le Knight… Quoi qu’il en soit, les Jedi Knight ont toujours été des jeux lourds et désagréables, y compris depuis le tout premier Dark Forces qui remonte à Mathusalem ou presque !

    Ce nouvel épisode est démoulé par Respawn, le responsable des Titanfall et on note encore une fois leur obsession récurrente : courir sur les putains de murs ! mais on s’en fout de courir sur ces putains de murs, on n’en a rien à foutre, putain ! En tout cas, le jeu est beau, du moins lors du premier niveau qui en met plein les yeux mais par la suite, le soufflet retombe et les graphismes sont dans l’ensemble simplement corrects… mais avec une direction artistique soignée.

    Signalons cependant un mode performance qui tient fort bien la route, du moins sur Series X (encore heureux me dira-t-on !). Le combat est indéniablement brouillon et le petit con qui tient lieu de héros a une tronche de cake : on dirait le fils de Ben Affleck !

    On se rend vite compte que ce Jedi n’est qu’un mélange d’Unchartiep et Dumb Raider rebouté, soit de l’exploration lourdingue avec ici et là des énigmes à la con (on erre comme un pauvre hère dans cette maudite étagère pas vraiment ludique… ou pas assez). Très bizarrement, on ne peut sauvegarder que dans des endroits prédéfinis disséminés sur la carte (aucune minicarte n’est présente, soit dit en passant) et le fait de « méditer » pour se soigner fait réapparaître tous les ennemis ! mais de qui se fout-on ?

    Mais pour tout dire, rien ne va dans cet ‘Tomb Raider’ raté, starwarisé à la sauce disniaise et woke. Les personnages secondaires sont très laids (pour ne pas dire repoussants) et ont le charisme d’endives avariées. L’histoire est bidon de A à Z… Et le pire concerne tous ces niveaux qui ne sont que des saletés de phases de plateformes infernales et recyclées…. On est dans un Mario ou quoi ? le jeu n’est jamais amusant et s’évertue à nous crisper et à nous énerver, sans cesse, du début à la fin. En bref, c’est de la grosse daube !    … Expand
  2. HauMauKhau
    May 28, 2021
    0
    Frame rate issues, crappy jump and ledge grabbing mechsnics. Otherwise it's really good game! But alas! It's a sin to rate any ea game above 0. I am a religious guy so...
  3. Wombleslurp
    Nov 23, 2020
    0
    I love Star Wars, but this game is an infuriating, half finished mess with truly diabolical load times (standard xbox one). Possibly the biggest waste of time I've ever spent whilst gaming, at least it was "free" on game pass.
  4. LoopAj4x
    Jan 1, 2021
    4
    The game has too many problems, it is a below average experience.
    Frame ratings constantly dropping during the fight scenes (and I've played on performance mode on Xbox One X) - Bugs and glitches as you go, it lacks polish.
    The actual gameplay really falls around climbing and killing the local fauna (which believe or not is more challenging than the actual empire enemies). There's a    The game has too many problems, it is a below average experience.
    Frame ratings constantly dropping during the fight scenes (and I've played on performance mode on Xbox One X) - Bugs and glitches as you go, it lacks polish.

    The actual gameplay really falls around climbing and killing the local fauna (which believe or not is more challenging than the actual empire enemies). There's a lot of collectibles - which are all useless, just cosmetics.

    This is a fan service only, there are many better options to play other than this game if you are not a Star wars aficionado.    … Expand
  5. Praulent
    Nov 23, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game is overrated and hyped up even on EAPlay. The story is fine, kinda uninspired and on par for star wars stories. The gameplay is where this game starts to fail, when I wasn't bored by long load times, long drawn out cutscenes of characters just staring at each other, I found myself frustrated at the "puzzley" nature of this game.

    When I installed this game I expected a fun adventure action game similar to Force Unleashed, instead I got a boring, unoriginal, star wars skinned version of uncharted/tomb raider. If you like puzzle games and star wars then this is for you! If you like playing a powerful Jedi who can flip around mowing down any and all enemies in his/her path than purchase or replay Force Unleashed.

    This game is boring plain and simple. The story takes no risks and neither does this game play. I expected a much more exhilirating Jedi experience not sitting around getting my ass kicked by lizards and the like. The animals in this game are harder to kill than the people and most the game I have spent trying to figure out how to navigate the levels. Confusing layouts, no clear direction, but very harsh limitations wtf were the level designers thinking.

    Save your money on this one and just go play force unleashed instead.    … Expand
  6. KingLewy
    Nov 18, 2019
    4
    TL;DR Uncharted with a lightsaber and a plethora of bugs.

    The story was OK(ish). The game itself just felt half-finished. Combat was clunky, didn't flow well at all. There were multiple glitches, of which I've seen reported on all platforms. Some affecting game play, others with cut scenes out of sync from audio. The "extracurricular" activities involved collecting a few seeds.....    TL;DR Uncharted with a lightsaber and a plethora of bugs.

    The story was OK(ish). The game itself just felt half-finished. Combat was clunky, didn't flow well at all. There were multiple glitches, of which I've seen reported on all platforms. Some affecting game play, others with cut scenes out of sync from audio. The "extracurricular" activities involved collecting a few seeds..... Really?!

    There were subtle things too which made the game feel unfinished. Such as when underwater and opening chests the same animation plays on land, which involves your droid entering and shuffling around. Except in water it doesn't. After which your character comes out with a witty (repeated) one liner - that makes no sense because he's underwater with a "breather" equipped.

    Even the credits weren't traditional Star Wars themed. Music overall was dull, you didn't include any of the original Star Wars soundtrack?    … Expand
  7. Amarsuperstar
    Nov 21, 2019
    3
    Imagine the first Assassin's Creed but worse graphics and bad gameplay. Heavy and inaccurate controls. Good story for Star Wars diehard fans. Bad game.
  8. NeoMorph
    Nov 15, 2019
    3
    Fallen Order is a decent game but I’ve never been a fan of Dark Souls (or metroidvania either). The enemies either come at you and you dodge only for the enemy to curve in midair and still hit you or you dodge and are out of the way and they STILL hit you. On the other hand a lot of times I’ve swiped through the enemy but it doesn’t register. Oh and don’t get me started on the swing ropeFallen Order is a decent game but I’ve never been a fan of Dark Souls (or metroidvania either). The enemies either come at you and you dodge only for the enemy to curve in midair and still hit you or you dodge and are out of the way and they STILL hit you. On the other hand a lot of times I’ve swiped through the enemy but it doesn’t register. Oh and don’t get me started on the swing rope mechanics. That need redoing from scratch because the physics is just messed up. You can swing off one rope and get thrown a mad distance and then another time you let go only to drop right away. Drives me nuts. Refilling your stimpacks also refreshes all enemies which is confusing. It’s the one mechanic I hate with a vengeance. Respawn them when you return to a planet, not every time you loot some stims. Imagine Fallout where every chest spawns the enemies back. It just doesn’t work. Force Unleashed is better than this. Combat is better. Story is too. And Vader isn’t like a hyperactive trash talker Like Second Sister is. But that’s my opinion of an older gamer… Expand
  9. tdebug
    Dec 2, 2019
    3
    I see some people compare this game to Uncharted, but unfortunately I see little connection. Uncharted is a game with a beautiful story, which I could not leave behind, until I finished it. This game is basically a platform jumper in the world on Star Wars. Game difficulty is mainly archived by wonky controls and continuously respawning enemies.
  10. curzon_dax
    Dec 6, 2019
    4
    Way overrated because of Star Wars fans. This was clearly a copy-cat of various other games but of course in an extremely bad quality. This was clearly a fast money grab by capitalizing on an established fandom, do not waste your money on trash like this.
  11. RayvsHals
    Nov 17, 2019
    4
    Boring, repetitive, frustrating, unintentional death due to bugs, unfinished and pathetically optimised graphics and feels like Disneyland jumping from rope to plant.
  12. senorsandman
    Nov 23, 2019
    0
    Simply put, overall, this game is not fun to play. Initially, the opening sequence captured my attention. Very detailed and immersive. But once the limited, basic parameters are established, (i.e. you can never pick up any weapons off dead troops and start mowing down Stormtroopers or Imperials because the game relies solely on unrealistic lightsaber combat), you get bored. I saySimply put, overall, this game is not fun to play. Initially, the opening sequence captured my attention. Very detailed and immersive. But once the limited, basic parameters are established, (i.e. you can never pick up any weapons off dead troops and start mowing down Stormtroopers or Imperials because the game relies solely on unrealistic lightsaber combat), you get bored. I say “unrealistic” because although you can cut through creatures like a warm knife through warm butter, suddenly the lightsaber only performs scrapes and cuts on the enemy troops and other bipedal threats. WE ALL HATE THIS LIMITATION. It makes no sense. Platforming is useful in some games but this **** is just annoying. Bull**** puzzles whose only function is to irritate. Entirely too linear. Bogus “rewards” for finding a crate. Upgrades aren’t impressive and/or all that interesting. I turned it off once I realized the game simply had no depth beyond what I’ve already mentioned.… Expand
  13. FrostbiteSlash
    Nov 16, 2019
    0
    Game runs terrible on the one x. So many frame drops and good few crashes as well. EA back to their finest of releasing unfinished games or else they just didn't care about the xbox versions because theres only 900 thousand of us on the X. Should have gotten it on the ps4 pro, my biggest mistake this year!!!
  14. zaclinmac
    Dec 1, 2019
    1
    This game pretty underwhelming, the combat sucks, the storyline is pretty lazy, and I’m two hours in and super bored.

    At the beginning of the game a person drops your character presumably to his death, but he gets lucky. Why would an inquisitor whos job it is to watch you die drop you to your death. Then when your ship lands at the imperial outpost why does no one even register that    This game pretty underwhelming, the combat sucks, the storyline is pretty lazy, and I’m two hours in and super bored.

    At the beginning of the game a person drops your character presumably to his death, but he gets lucky. Why would an inquisitor whos job it is to watch you die drop you to your death.

    Then when your ship lands at the imperial outpost why does no one even register that you’re there? A tie fighter even flies right past the ship. Nothing, not even registering that you’re there parked at the port.

    There are tons of logical errors like this throughout the first few hours.

    Honestly I wasn’t expecting KOTOR but based on the reviews I thought it would be comparable. It’s not, very mediocre. Sad.    … Expand
  15. Xynonic
    Nov 20, 2019
    3
    Boring. For the combat you don't feel like you're holding a lightsaber, more like a bat. There are not many enemies (they start recycling them after a while) and dismemberment which is only on non-human creatures, is lame. WAY too many cosmetic boxes in the game that make it not feel rewarding to explore the planets. Graphics are ok, not that good for a 2019 AAA game though.
    If you're    Boring. For the combat you don't feel like you're holding a lightsaber, more like a bat. There are not many enemies (they start recycling them after a while) and dismemberment which is only on non-human creatures, is lame. WAY too many cosmetic boxes in the game that make it not feel rewarding to explore the planets. Graphics are ok, not that good for a 2019 AAA game though.
    If you're looking for a star wars game I would not recommend this one.    … Expand
  16. Uzi_Lover
    Dec 24, 2019
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Its great for the first couple of hours or so then it dawns on you how shallow it really is. The combat is clunky and given that most of the game is combat it needed to be better. First the camera will pan out so you cannot see whats happening on regular occasions which when you are required to block and parry with accuracy completely ruins it. Enemy's can suck you in with combat animations and will quite often glitch so they are stuck on a door or facing the wrong way etc... not to mention having to take down atst's with a light sabre just felt ridiculous, would have been better to just not include them. The platforming is pretty much poor mans tomb raider combined with a world map that's unreadable and endless back tracking with no fast travel gets old real fast. This game could have been so good but unfortunately it's crap and im not sure why all the high reviews, it may well be the best star wars game in a while but that doesn't say a lot.… Expand
  17. SammyHauguth
    Feb 1, 2020
    4
    After the Story and when I'm out collecting things I have forgot.
    It's impossible to find the way back to the goddamn ship...

    I have to find guides that helps me with it, and that's not good, It's pretty bad!

    And about the combat, the force (power?) get's to zero real quick, real bad!
    Never seen a Star Wars movie there the force is unavailable to use before...
  18. kuhl99
    Jan 4, 2020
    4
    Force Unleashed 3. The worst of the series. Disney has no originality. They copied what someone else has already done better. They are the Xerox of Star Wars movies, games and TV shows. They are to afraid to bring out anything original or good.
  19. kolorahl
    Dec 17, 2019
    3
    This isn't a popular opinion, but to me the combat and "rest" system in this game are its two biggest downfalls. But before I dig in, here are the positives.

    The game looks great, sounds great, and I liked the main character. The RPG "skill point" system was also nice, allowing you to progressively make your character better in the ways that matched your play style. And the story, that    This isn't a popular opinion, but to me the combat and "rest" system in this game are its two biggest downfalls. But before I dig in, here are the positives.

    The game looks great, sounds great, and I liked the main character. The RPG "skill point" system was also nice, allowing you to progressively make your character better in the ways that matched your play style. And the story, that I played up until, was good. I liked it. It wasn't amazing, but it definitely drew me in enough that I wanted to know what was going to happen next.

    Now for the negatives, starting with combat. Lots of people seem to love the combat. For me, I would recommend the combat of Dark Souls over the combat in this game, even to non-gamers. The timing of parries/blocks and the hitboxes in this game are maddeningly awful. Even when I turned the difficulty all the way down to "Story", which gives you the least enemy aggression and the largest window for parrying, it was still awful. In fact, it was worst on "Story" difficulty because enemies will sometimes stand in front of you for *minutes* without doing anything if you let them, which is entirely too passive to be interesting. But you'll be trying to reflect a blaster shot and sometimes it works, even when the shot is like 10 feet to your right, and sometimes you'll block and still get hit in the chest because it didn't register your guard. Same thing with melee fights but worse because if you get hit by the first light attack in a chain, your character is so bad at fighting that they just can't block mid-chain so you either need to find an opportunity to dodge-roll away or you just take the damage. And then even if you do roll away, the game technically punishes you for not parrying blows. Enemies have block gauges and when you parry you can take a chunk of that gauge away. But even on "common" enemies, you have to parry at least three times, but the block gauge regenerates after a few seconds of not taking a hit, so if you dodge away you might be letting the enemy regenerate all that hard work you've done up to that point. And don't even think about using your own light attack chains to deplete it, because all enemies will always block if they have the gauge for it and they will always parry you somewhere in your chain. Always.

    This wouldn't be awful if not for the "rest" mechanic, which literally resets all enemies on the map. You see, you get a limited number of healing items which only replenish when you rest. You can't find more of them in the field so resting is literally the only way to get more healing items. But if you just finished a really hard fight near a save point, and then you rest to get back all your healing items, any difficult enemies you defeated are back and potentially blocking your path forward. It's not enjoyable to use up all your healing items on a mini-boss, save your progress, replenish your supplies, and then have to fight him all over again. Probably requiring you to replenish your healing items all over again, thus starting the never-ending cycle of pain. This wouldn't be so bad if combat was actually compelling and competent. But again, your main character is a terrible fighter and should probably die in most fights because every action he takes is drawn out, slow, inefficient.

    Other nit-picks include force power not regenerating over time. It's the force, you always have the ability to use it, it's just your only constitution that determines how often you can pull off tricks. You shouldn't have to hit enemies constantly to use force powers in battle, it doesn't make sense. Also, if you are going to reset all enemies after resting, then you should be able to replenish healing items on the map somehow, without resting. That or the main character needs some kind of slow health regen. Finally, your character somehow forgot all the basic force stuff, like pushing and pulling, which seems ridiculous because he effectively uses force pull at the beginning of the game and then has to re-learn it later to actually use it whenever he wants.

    Overall, I think Control spoiled me. I played it through t completion before even touching Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. It had a great combat system with supernatural abilities similar to Jedi force powers. In fact, if you re-skinned Control with Star Wars, it would have made a substantially better Jedi game than this. Can't recommend this game, but I can recommend Control if you want to basically have Jedi powers, just with a supernatural theme.    … Expand
  20. mikmara
    Jan 13, 2020
    4
    I was extremely excited about this game -- going as far as buying a new Xbox One X. However, after several hours of gameplay I found myself bored and truly forcing myself to play. It's pretty much a less fun version of Tomb Raider with poor mechanics that is Star Wars themed (I actually loved the new Tomb Raider series). Let's start with the good.

    The good: - Graphics are fantastic.    I was extremely excited about this game -- going as far as buying a new Xbox One X. However, after several hours of gameplay I found myself bored and truly forcing myself to play. It's pretty much a less fun version of Tomb Raider with poor mechanics that is Star Wars themed (I actually loved the new Tomb Raider series). Let's start with the good.

    The good:
    - Graphics are fantastic. It's beautiful.
    - Story is pretty interesting.

    Now with the bad:
    - The game feels like it's pretty much on rails.
    - Gameplay mechanics are a bit silly. Animations take a bit too long and that is what makes fighting challenging (and frustrating). The poor mechanics make block/parry mostly useless.
    - The force "abilities" are boring. as. hell. Spoiler alert: one of them is a double jump. How exciting...
    - It quickly gets repetitive.

    I had high hopes and that's maybe where I went wrong. If I could go back in time and reclaim the money and time I spent I would in a heartbeat.    … Expand
  21. BenDovah
    Feb 2, 2020
    1
    Really nice visually but one of the most frustrating games i've played. Lots of bugs and really poor objective-system. Don't recommend it.
  22. Gameerguys
    Mar 24, 2020
    1
    If you want good combat go to different games. I've beaten a couple of dark souls games but this is a poor clone. This is due to auto locking and damage being way too high, a 1/8 for blaster fire is kinda much when we have zero ranged attacks. Honestly I just found myself wishing for power beyond basic stuff like push and pull.
  23. Vitton
    Apr 26, 2020
    1
    I completed the game at Jedi Grand Master. Felt decieved and disappointed. The game is trying to be so many things it's not. The only good in this game is animation of characters faces. Gameplay is repetitive and buggy, progression is very uneven, the story doesn't exist and you don't care, level design is so ugly and clunky, character development is absent. And again it's soooo buggy, theI completed the game at Jedi Grand Master. Felt decieved and disappointed. The game is trying to be so many things it's not. The only good in this game is animation of characters faces. Gameplay is repetitive and buggy, progression is very uneven, the story doesn't exist and you don't care, level design is so ugly and clunky, character development is absent. And again it's soooo buggy, the most buggy game I've ever played. That's the shame.… Expand
  24. ZT679
    Jul 22, 2020
    4
    Gra w pierwszej chwili zachwyca światem, walką nawet opowieścią. Niestety im dalej w las tym gorzej. Opowieść zaczyna się robić banalna i nudna. Walka zamiast dawać satysfakcję frustruje. Lokacje są do siebie bardzo podobne i monotonne. A najgorsza wada gry jest skandalicznie nieprecyzyjny model wspinaczki. Nie polecam tej gry! Mogę ja podsumować słowami „Miłe złego początki”
  25. jormungaund
    Jun 10, 2021
    4
    Pretty graphics, a halfway decent story, absolute **** combat controls. **** and unresponsive controls don’t make your game “difficult”, they just make it ****.
  26. GrumpyParrot
    Jan 24, 2023
    3
    This game has the Star Wars licence, but apart from that, it's as generic a puzzle platformer as they come. Or should i say frustrating, because the controls for jumping are not really great. Framerate is also shaky at times, No, a new uncharted this is not.
  27. Kabeljo
    Jul 13, 2021
    1
    Mario jumping crap! The Hole game is about jumping and running. Boring, The story is Also nothing to jump for.
    The first mission is good! After that….!
  28. peanut_1223
    Jul 31, 2021
    4
    This is one of the most disappointing games i have ever played ... The story is boring and Forgettable , the characters have no emotions , everything is stiff and feels so fake and scripted , the game is so buggy and glitchy 80% of the time , And the map is not helpful AT ALL!!!. The only good thing about this game is the boss fights, the combat,the ending , the locations , and some of theThis is one of the most disappointing games i have ever played ... The story is boring and Forgettable , the characters have no emotions , everything is stiff and feels so fake and scripted , the game is so buggy and glitchy 80% of the time , And the map is not helpful AT ALL!!!. The only good thing about this game is the boss fights, the combat,the ending , the locations , and some of the puzzles. EA HAS FAILED ONCE AGAIN.… Expand
  29. anemiate
    Feb 2, 2021
    3
    I inherited an OG Xbox One and picked this game up through GamePass as my first "next gen" console experience. Just finished Dathomir last night. The story is compelling if a bit silly at points, the environments and maps are enjoyable (if frustrating to navigate), and I deeply appreciate the inclusion of a "story mode" difficulty for those of us who are terrible at Souls-lite combat. ButI inherited an OG Xbox One and picked this game up through GamePass as my first "next gen" console experience. Just finished Dathomir last night. The story is compelling if a bit silly at points, the environments and maps are enjoyable (if frustrating to navigate), and I deeply appreciate the inclusion of a "story mode" difficulty for those of us who are terrible at Souls-lite combat. But DANG, y'all, the optimization on this game is HORRIBLE.

    I've gotten everything from t-poses, broken enemy AI, henious framerate dips, nonstop texture pop-in, mid-fight loading screens, but the most egregious offender has to be Greez's stubble that will just phase in and out of the top of his head at random. It's honestly laughable just how busted the game is. I'm gonna finish it because I paid nothing for it and, frankly, fighting waves of t-pose enemies is pretty hilarious at a certain point during the evening, but skip this technical failure unless you're a fan of continuous glitches.    … Expand

Awards & Rankings

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#38 Best Xbox One Game of 2019
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#4 Most Discussed Xbox One Game of 2019
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#35 Most Shared Xbox One Game of 2019

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Generally favorable reviews - based on 33 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 26 out of 33
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 33
  3. Negative: 0 out of 33
  1. Forbes
    Dec 11, 2019
    95
    Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is one of the best Star Wars games I’ve ever played and one of the best “Soulslike” games out there, surprising as that may sound.
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  2. Edge Magazine
    Dec 5, 2019
    70
    As uneven and unpolished as it is, Fallen Order is still the best game to emerge from EA's stewardship of the Star Wars license, even if that's to damn it with faint praise. [Issue#340, p.98]
  3. ZTGD
    Dec 5, 2019
    90
    Jedi Fallen Order is one of the best games in the Star Wars franchise and one of the best games of 2019. It has some sore spots, but the story, characters, worlds, and combat more than make up for its shortcomings. Fans of Star Wars will love it. Fans of action/adventure games will have a fantastic time. It is great to finally see Respawn branch out and get a chance to craft something they clearly have a passion for. This is not a game to be missed and gives me hope for the future of the series.
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