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awsome!!!
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 0 / 2
Date: July 31, 2003
Author: Amazon User
this game is one of the greatest games for the computer. I love playing on the internet with other people!!!
A marvel for a new Jedi gamer...
4
Rating: 4,
Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User
I started my gaming career four years ago with Half-Life and its "mods." With this recent game from LucasArts, I was amazed at its graphics and levels and shocked that the same company that produced "X-Wing" could make something similar to Unreal, Half-Life, or other shooter games. I only wish that this game would be more stable on my Win OS; I had to restart the game a couple of times before continuing. And I also hope that LucasArts would stick more towards PC's rather than producing it's Star Wars games for gaming consoles.
the best
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 0 / 2
Date: June 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User
I beat the game it had super grapics and each level was pritty hard. The last level has alot of tricks made by Dessan
Simply the best
4
Rating: 4,
Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User
Without doubt, this is one of the best Star Wars games ever made, second only to Rebellion.
The book centres around the story of Kyle Katarn, the main character of the Dark Forces/Jedi Knight series. Kyle and his partner, Jan, are up to old tricks, and are this time investigating some Imperial trouble for Mon Mothma.
The story itself I found to be tripe, which is why I gave this game 4 and not 5 stars. But nevertheless, i will explain it. After some initial 'probing' missions, Kyle comes across an Imperial conspiracy with a dark Jedi who plan to do some very evil things.
Later in the game, something happens to a close friend of Kyle's, something that prompts Kyle to return to the 'Valley of the Jedi' to regain his Jedi powers. After this, Kyle gets his lightsabre back, and his force powers continue to grow as he searches for the answers to the various puzzles until the game comes to a predictable, yet satisfying, ending.
The game is a gem of a first person shooter, and incorporates many traditional weapons such as the stormtrooper blaster, Wookie bowcaster, and thermal detonators. However, after the first few levels, Kyle recieves his lightsabre, and this is where the game really begins to shine.
The best part of the game, for me, were the lightsabre battles. With such realistic graphics and sound effects, I really understood what it was like to be Luke during his final confrontation with Vader. I have played the game through twice, and plan to do so again.
Every Star Wars fan should own this game, it is simply the best.
AWESOME GAME
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User
This game is awesome! I have never played a game I liked so much!!! If you like the Star Wars universe even a little bit, and enjoy the lightsaber, buy the game! The first few levels are pretty bad, because you don't have the lightsaber. BUT, when you get it, you are ready for it. It starts out as a routine mission to an "abandoned" planet, but then you meet this big dynasor who kicks your ... around. I wont spoil the plot, but you eventually get to slice the baddie right through! Graphics are amazing, sound quality, heavenly. Just one thing; make sure you have enough RAM to keep this thing running. I don't, and the game freezes for like, a minute, and is really sluggish. Other than that, the game is awesome! BUY IT!!!
great!!
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User
When I first saw this game I was at bestbuy playing the demo, I actually made my dad spend an extra hour at bestbuy so I could play it more. Now this is the sequel obviously to the original jedi knight game, note that I never had a chance to play it.
A few months after the bestbuy incident I ordered it, the installation is very quick and easy so I started the game itself.
I saw the opening movie and it just didn't cut it, the movements in the movie were just a tad too blocky and unrealistic, surprisingly though in the actual game, the movements were much more fluid and felt more natural. But what really earned this game it's score were the graphics they are absolutely amazing, I was surprised that much because it almost impossible to get this sort of graphical quality with a non-tweaked default windows card. When you get the lightsaber in something like the fourth level, and you turn it on, I sware it looks exactly like it does in the movies. Also, I forgot to mention that the sound is absolutly awesome. Along the levels you get a variety of useful weapons from a bazooka to a wookie bowcaster but nothing can come close to comparing to the light saber, with a little practise, this baby can clear a room in five seconds with the boomerang move. Also totally awesome is the force powers, you get force push, pull, mind trick, choke, and ofcourse my personal favorite force lightning, and with a few cheats, you can get it all instantly. Now the only problems that I had (and it isn't a very big ones at all,) is that there is a bit of chugging in certain levels such as yavin swamp, and that it is a tad repetitive and in certain levels hard to progress. The levels if you get a good veiw of them are really huge and you get that sense that it's a real world around you. My very favorite thing though, is that you get to meet up with characters, such as luke, and lando, and ofcourse 3p0 and r2.
Another cool thing is that there is a cantina sequence with the episode 4 cantina music, and that totally brought me back to the day. But one final downside is that the multiplayer option doesn't work on windows XP (atleast not for me.) The control is very good. I thought that one of the best parts was that you can have a lightsaber duel. The story is abit confusing but so what.
Even if you don't like star wars you are gonna love this game, a defintie mustbuy for anyone with a computer! fantastic!!
Just a note, this game does take quite a bit of RAM and I would not recommend it on a windows 95/98 editions, though nothing that can't be fixed with an extra card or two. Once again, AWESOME!!!!!
Best Game-Until KotOR
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User
This game is awesome! I love all the awesome lightsaber moves and how the different levels of the Force Powers make the powers do different things! This compares quite favorably to Jedi Knight. For one thing, in Jedi Outcast, you actually flip when doing Force Jump, unlike Jedi Knight. This game is so realistic! If you're a fan of Star Wars, and really want to get into the Star Wars universe, this is the game for you!
Better than the last one.
4
Rating: 4,
Useful: 0 / 5
Date: February 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User
In the old days(how old-_-), lucas arts did all the development for star wars contents but I guess lucas arts were good at adventure genre(and still is and will be)but at other genre, so lucas arts alone weren't enough to handle all those various types of star wars contents and all those fancy movie things that need to converted into polygons. So I guess that made Lucas arts to let other developer companies(raven,barrent,bioware etc.) to put their own pro genre into star wars and give players a much better star wars experience.
This is one of the game born because of Lucas arts's decision that I explained.
What is good?
1.Great grahpics- It's hard to describe the great graphics but when you play it's hard to find slow-downs(I use a Riva TNT2 and didn't find much slow downs)
2.enemy hacking, bullet flying, no time for stopping gameplay- This star wars is all about action,you don't really need to worry about your health because you can charge it up to max with your force thing, and laser blasters even have machine gun mode and ammos are almost always found in enemy weapons, and if you don't won't to get hurt in the middle of a crossfire. Just use your lightsaber like carzy and buzz around like a mouse.(just a joke)
3.Great level design- need words(-_-)
What is bad?
1.Not much lightsaber tricks- swing. boomerang and what else
2.too action- too action sometimes mean repetative, make sure you get the demo before you purchase
Overall, Great star wars game, but if playing SIms,RCT are games that just right for your mind, this game won't be fun.
AWESOME
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 17, 2003
Author: Amazon User
This game rocks out loud. Sure it's a little old but who could hate slashing storm troopers in half. It's way better than jedi academy, trust me. It only costs 20 bucks i mean come on. You can use force powers, a lightsabre, and a arsenal of weapons like bazookas. THIS GAME RULES, THE BEST STAR WARS GAME EVAR!!!!
Better than the original
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User
I have spent 40 hours already playing the single player game and i still have a couple of levels left, so this is not by any means a short game. If you liked the original jedi knight you will love this. The action is much more exciting with fancy saber moves (hold the direction keys AFTER you swing)and acrobatics. The slow motion deaths are really cool, as are the evil jedi reborn that you fight. The force powers and weapons are much more useful and fun to play with in this game. The graphics rock, but only if you have a powerful system and a good video card. i have a geforce 2 and it looks great but with a 3 or 4 ti it would look much better, but it still looks twice as good as the original. if you have a slow machine you may want to hold off, i tried the lower settings which they recommend for the minimum requirement systems, and it looks like dark forces 1, real blocky. The only part of the game which i don't like are the cut scenes because the main character looks like a wimpy freak, i cringe when i have to watch those, kyle holds his lower lip down and bears his teeth all the time and you would think that at any minute he would start drooling or tear into the flesh of his hot little pilot friend. ok enough about that, it won't affect my rating because the action in this game is awesome. and i have only barely begun to touch the multiplayer games. the end
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