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Your Jedi powers grow as the game progresses, and players are free to commit acts that strengthen their ties to either the Dark or Light side of the Force. Once the commitment to good or evil is made, you lose all your Force powers from the opposing side but gain the ability to add more powerful tricks to your arsenal from the side you chose. All the neat stuff from the movies is there, like the Force pull that lets you disarm enemies, and Vader's sadistic favorite, the Force grip, for choking enemies from a distance. Other powers like Force jump give you greater mobility in the game, and all the Force powers add immensely to Jedi Knight's gameplay.
Graphically, the game holds up well. Resolution can be cranked up to 1,600 x 1,200 if your video card is up to task. Although the environments you move through lack detail the level design is so spectacular, we doubt you'll care. Few games offer environments this massive or varied, and the familiar Star Wars architecture lend a great deal of atmosphere to the game.
The movie tie-in also means that Jedi Knight has some of the best sound effects ever. From the hum of a lightsaber to the roar of a passing TIE bomber, everything is authentic and immediately recognizable. If you missed this game the first time around, don't make the same mistake with this bundle. --T. Byrl Baker
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II,
By Knewace (The other side) - See all my reviews
This review is from: LucasArts Archive Series: Star Wars Jedi Knight (CD-ROM)
Jedi Knight is a first person shooter with a great gameplay, storyline, lots of weapons and jedi powers. An excellent single player game with great multiplayer options. The gamelevels are huge and very well desinged, The multiplayer is awesome. I love to duel with the lightsaber. The level design is fantastic much better than dark forces. It has a lot of great action and a lot of RPG elements and you need to solve many objectives, It has a lot of secrets too. The bad things are that the graphics are outdated today and the charecters do not look real. The AI is also very bad, No reaction from the others if you kill your own guys. But without a doubt Jedi Knight is the best star wars game ever.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Star Wars fans, First-person shooter fans! Check this out!,
A Kid's Review
This review is from: LucasArts Archive Series: Star Wars Jedi Knight (CD-ROM)
Jedi knight is a great game. its that simple. the game is agreat first person(or third person, as you can change the view) shooter, and is fun to star wars fan and all video gamers alike. It has many great features and weapons. the weapons go from your fists to the concussion rifle to the lightsaber. Also another feature are the oh-so-fun force powers! In the game you can choose the path of a light or dark jedi, which changes which force powers you can use. Classics like Darth vader's grip, and the emperor's lightning! Also light powers like blinding and healing. There are also a set of neutral powers that can be used on both sides of being a jedi. in the game you face a wide array of creatures, bounty hunters(including Bossk and Greedo, the gamorreans and the tuskens!), imperials, and the seven dark jedi(lightsaber and force duels-- a blast!). there are some problems, sadly...graphics don't really measure up, AI not great... but its still really good! Enough said. Really.Good.Buy.Now.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great first person shooter for those w/o Celerons,
This review is from: LucasArts Archive Series: Star Wars Jedi Knight (CD-ROM)
Jedi Knight is supposed to be the sequel to an older LucasArts game, "Dark Forces". Like that earlier game, JK is a 1st person shooter built upon an elaborate story, and again centering on the ex-Imperial commando turned soldier of fortune, Kyle Katarn. In this entry, a Dark Jedi named Jerec seeks the ultimate power trapped within the ancient and time-lost "valley of the Jedi". When Jerec kills Kyle's father, Kyle sets off in revenge, only to learn that the power of the galaxy is at stake. In every way, JK is a massive leap over Dark Forces. Sound and graphics are improved - with the newer game supporting the expected John Williams-style soundtrack. The graphics are not only richer but more nuanced as well - instead of characters and structures that look like colorform-cutouts, you'll see feel the claustrophobic crush of ventilator shafts or narrow walkways of spaceships, stare in awe at Jerec's towering citadel on Sulon, and feel the earth move under your feet as you navigate catwalks on Nar Shadaa. The interface is also an improvement, with more realistic POV movement, as opposed to the clunky keyboard interface of Dark Forces. In the older game, it felt less like you were playing a walking person, and more like you playing a car - I couldn't play without dramamine. Action-wise, you not only rely on blasters and other weapons, but on a lightsaber and your force powers. Your powers increase as you locate secret areas on various levels. There's a consistent reliance on strategy and problem solving rather than mindlessly mashing a fire button. Hidden locales of JK are actually out in the open and rely on the rich scenery as a camouflage - you're so busy marveling at a network of elevators in Nar Shadaa, that you miss a vent-port on the inner shaft of the elevator. The biggest improvement is in the story - which is tighter and more linear than in DF (you travel to fewer planets along a set path, instead of meandering around as in the older game) and allows you to become a jedi knight with all of its mystical powers. This introduces an underused idea: while some games let you play either good or evil characters, JK starts you off as "Kyle" letting your gameplay decide whether you will become a good jedi or the darkest of dark jedi (differences include different force powers, but also results in some different alternate levels towards the end. The evil Kyle gets the best mission - escape from a crashing spaceship tumbling side over side). Many of the levels take nods not only from Star Wars, but from other famous movies: the persecuted town of Baron's Hed on Sulon looks like pre-war Cairo in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (gunless swordsman, not included), and Indiana Jones would look at home in the ancient temple grounds of the valley of the jedi. A less expected riff has Kyle making his way down from the top floor of Jerec's tower, starting at the top floor (where you evade an overflying tie-fighter), working your way back into the building through ventilators and riding elevator shafts to elude waves of officious sounding stormtroopers faster than you can say "yipeee kayay, you scruffy nerf-hereders!" Otherwise, between Williams' score and the faithfully recreated sound effects, Star Wars fans should feel right at home. If you get tired with the levels offered here, the game supports 3rd party levels available for free on the web. I played this game for years on my P166mmx (no hardware acceleration) with smooth framerates and no lockups. Adding a 3d card only enhanced gameplay. If your computer is too slow for "Half-Life", this is the game for you.
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