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If you're a fan of Star Wars, this is you pick....
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 07, 2001
Author: Amazon User
If you love FPS (First Person Shooter) games and you love Star Wars, this game is for you. Although it's old(made with the same old engine as Duke Nukem and Shadow Warrior), it's still a cool game. Base on the comics Dark Forces--Rebel Agent, is the story of Kyle Katarn, a once Imperial officer is now a mercenary for the rebels. It's the prequel to the famous Jedi Knight games.
Great Action Game
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 1 / 2
Date: May 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User
I absolutely love this game, its one of the best action games I've ever played. The levels are scary, challenging, and fun. If you like action games, and you like star wars buy it.
Not a bad game fot it's day, but it's looking very dated
3
Rating: 3,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 20, 2001
Author: Amazon User
This game is an old DOS based game, the graphics are terrible, the charechters are flat, and the resolution is stuck in 320x240. I dont know how the sound is because it wont work with my windows ME sound card driver. The game play is not that bad and the levels are interesting but the lousy graphics serve to somewhat ruin this. This isn't a bad game it's just not as good as some of the other FPS's out there.
Worth more than just ten bucks!!!!!
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 2 / 4
Date: August 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User
Whats stopping the Empire from achieving creating super soldiers? You, of course! Rush into to battles with thermal detonators, stormtrooper rifles, concussion rifles, even the occasional repeater gun. Fight through tons of different enemies each level, and encounter the brute deadly force of kell dragon! This game set the standards for first person shooters everywhere.
game tester
4
Rating: 4,
Useful: 0 / 1
Date: October 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User
this is a pretty good game even though the graphics are a little cheese.But for only ten bucks u mite as well buy it and it is great for those super boring days when u cant do anything.o and by the way one kid said star trek voyager elite force is a rip off but i think if u like this game u will also like this star trek voyager elite force it is a little harder
then this game and it has better graphices.....wayyyyyyyyyyyyyy better graphics.
Old but Good
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 08, 2001
Author: Amazon User
Let me start by saying that this is a pretty old game, so the graphics are somewhat...unimpressive, but this game is a lot of fun. It ties into the movies (getting the Death Star plans. Saving general Madine) It's a very addictive game and you'll find you're self playing nonstop.
A classic
4
Rating: 4,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User
This is a PC gaming classic. Got an old PC and looking for some fun? This is [dollar amount] well spent. I paid [dollar amount] for it when it was the hottest game on the market (6 years ago?).
i still play this game
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 13 / 14
Date: December 14, 2001
Author: Amazon User
My shelf is full of games I've played all the way through one time, a few I never finished, and a few I've played through a couple of times, but I've played Dark Forces many times. It was the first first-person shooter I ever played, but it's more than nostalgia that keeps me coming back. While the graphics are dated, this game is still compelling for a number of reasons: you have *real* short- and long-term missions -- not just killing, but figuring out puzzles, achieving goals, getting artifacts, etc; the weapons and gadgets are fun; the surroundings are great -- various planets and ships in the Star Wars universe; the villains are always cool and often extraordinary (Boba Fett! Dark Troopers!); you can jump and crawl; there's a good mapping utility and there are secret stashes of ammo. I love this game.A strength: the game is very stable. A weakness: no saving within a level! A bonus -- the music is very good.
Get this game. If you value action and creativity, enjoy the Star Wars milieu, and don't despair over dated graphics, you will probably really like it.
An oldie, but not neccessarily a baddie
3
Rating: 3,
Useful: 2 / 3
Date: February 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User
"Dark Forces" (or as fans say, "DF") was the prequel to "Star Wars: Jedi Knight" (JK), the game which LucasArts and Raven software expect to follow up this spring with "Star Wars Jedi Outcast". Though all of these games fit the so-called "first person shooter" category, the difference in time is marked by the relative advances in graphics, sound and overall gameplay. Unfortunately, because DF is the oldest, these weaknesses are most obvious in that game. DF introduces the character of Kyle Katarn, a former Imperial Commando who went solo rather than torture captured rebel spy Jan Ors. Not entirely won over by the rebel cause, Katarn nevertheless carries out certain high-priority, low-profile missions that require him to sneak and shoot (actually run and blast) his way into highly fortified areas. In the opening mission, Kyle breaks into an imperial fortress to steal plans for the first Death Star, allowing Princess Leia to obtain them on her way home to Alderaan. The meat of the story that forms the rest of the game has Kyle tracking down a new Imperial weapon - the "Dark Trooper", a sort of souped up version of the regular stromtroopers who've been dropping like flies since May of 1977. When a rebel outpost is mysteriously wiped out, Kyle goes in to investigate. Further levels send Kyle to other planets - ice planets, completely urbanized planets (Coruscsant is a stop), planets that appear to be all cliffs, and one planet where you spend a lot of time floating in a sewer (Anoat, which I think was the planet that Han and Leia decided not to go to in "Empire"; despite what happened in Bespin, it was still a wise choice). You also travel to Nar Shadaa (the floating city) get captured by Jaba the Hutt (you escape, but not with your weapons), and slink around various spaceships. The story doesn't carry that well into the game - if not for cutscenes and mission briefs, you wouldn't know what the point of all the shooting was. The missions themselves seem hodge-podge (you go to various planets to get clues about the new weapon and where it can be located, but little else links one level to another) but come together to form a more cohesive story by the end (the final levels are more closely linked, hinting of the climax). Though a shooter, DF is also a puzzle game, requiring you to drop your blaster and think for a moment (the power to destroy a wave of stormtrooper is nothing compared to the power you'll need to reach the center of the maze they were guarding).Time hasn't been kind to this game, and anybody raised on the likes of "Quake 2" or DF's own sequel, JK, will likely be appalled by its low-end graphics (this game is circa 1994, and has a minimum hardware req. of a 386!) and MIDI sound (which is similarly unkind to John Williams famous music). What really kills it is how the game simulate the first-person perspective - there are separate controls for turning Kyle's head sideways AND for looking up and down. That is problematic enough when having to deal with dangers above (probe droids and mind-probe droids) and below (the sewer monsters). Combine that with the artificial feeling of Kyle's movements, and you'll feel like you're seeing the world less through his eyes and more through the windshield of a car he's driving (sustained gameplay reportedly induces nausea). Nevertheless, the thinking-shooter's aspect of the game is more than enough to warrant a shot at this pre-modern game. Those who complete the game and tire of its levels can download third-party levels designed by fans as well as mods (you can play Boba Fett). If you are stuck with something lower than a 100 Mhz Pentium and will do anything short of buying one to get the Star Wars experience, this may be the game for you.
Not bad for it's day.
4
Rating: 4,
Useful: 1 / 3
Date: February 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User
It was very cool when it first came out, and would be a good buy for any fan who wants to experience the thrill of blasting stormtroopers, especially for it's current price.
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