The game was awesome in my opinion, especially when you become the Sith Stalker, that thing looks badass. Yes the Star Destroyer part was overpowered and didn't make sense, I felt bad for Proxxy he was my favorite character in that game, and when you fight him as Darth Maul that was about as epic as it gets. Did you know that Sam Witwer, the guy who voiced Starkiller in the Force Unleashed, also voiced Darth Maul in the new Clone Wars episodes? Just thought I would throw that out there.
My favorite character in the Force Unleashed easily is Darth Vader and Maris Brood. I liked Starkiller in the beginning when he hunted down and killed the Jedi, then I hated the game the point he became all "noble" and "good" and fell in love with Juno Eclipse. That was just..meh. I bought the game, believing we were going Dark Side in the entire thing only to find out he chumps out and joins a Jedi? And the lightside ending is made canon? Just like the KOTOR games. Frankly, I don't play Star Wars games that much. The only game I will buy would be the Old Republic, because there is no way they can ruin each character storyline(Especially the Sith) and make it lightside canon. That would be horrific.
The story was just crappy. So, a boy raised by Darth Vader in Sith ways all of the sudden becomes the victim and whines about being betrayed? I guess Vader left out the part where the Sith always betrays one another, as Shaak-Ti says it. It's just mind boggling that he wouldn't want to plot his own revenge to take out Vader and the Emperor using the rebels as pawns. Last thing a dark-sider should do is sit around and complain that they were stabbed in the back. All Sith betray one another sooner or later. Sidious himself betrayed his master, Darth Plagueis by giving him too much whine and killing him in his sleep. Then he backstabbed Darth Tyranus, replacing him with Darth Vader, then he tried to replace Vader with Starkiller, and when that didn't work, he tried again by trying to make Luke kill Vader. While when that was going on, Darth Vader tried to use Luke to kill Sidious so they can rule the galaxy. Not to mention, as soon as Anakin became Darth Vader he wanted to use his wife to overthrow Sidious. He barely became a Sith and he already was thinking about killing the man who "promised" to save his wife.
In any case, they only added Darth Maul in the Force Unleashed because they were suppose to make a Darth Maul game where we play as Darth Maul. But they decided to make the Force Unleashed since Darth Maul was a character whó's fate people knew about(That didn't stop them from making a damn Obi-Wan game and Jango Fett game, did it?). Frankly, I would of went crazy if they made a Darth Maul game, cause he is easily my favorite character in Star Wars next to Boba Fett and a few others. And there would be no way to make the ending lightside, since Darth Maul has always been a Sith.
I actually knew Sam Witwer was going to play Darth Maul way before anyone else did. I remember reading the article that rumored that he would be voicing Maul last year, and the article was just published, so I was among the first haha. And Sam Witwer also voice "The Son", and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KysjZWFzAw0&t=1m52sHe also plays Aidan the vampire in Being Human. He is easily one of my favorite actors.