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The Best Game Ever Made!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 11
Date: September 03, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I found out about this game by playing a demo in 1996. Not to long ago I bought it. Sure the graphics woudn't be called good today but their okay. Infact I think Dark Force's enimies are clearer than in Jedi Knight (which stinks). I coudn't stop playing it. I would recomend this game to any Star Wars fans. Here are some tips:

1. Blow up walls with cracks.

2. Watch the floor for mines.

3. Run around while fighting complete Dark Troopers.

4. Shoot PGUs that are far from you and they might hit some enimies you can't see.

Here are some cheat codes. type them in while playing.

lapostal - full health, all weapons, and full ammo

lamaxout - all items

laimlame - invencibility

labug - fit into small places

For more codes go to gamesages.com

Still one of the best

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: February 06, 2000
Author: Amazon User

While this game is getting a little dated, it is still easily one of the best on the market. Though its pixelized graphics and low-res video can't stand up to today's 3D FMV standards, and the midi soundtrack is silly after MP3, this game can hold its own.

It has great control, cool weapons, and a nitty-gritty real feal to it. Also, it's still just as cool as when it first came out knowing that you get to go and mow down stormtroopers. This game has a good solid plot, and lots of cool and familiar baddies and weapons.

This game also has a lot of firsts...It was the first, or at least one of the first, 1st person shooter to have a plot. Another major change from previous shooters is that there are actually goals within the levels...In Doom and such you're just trying to brainlessly shoot your way through a maze and out of a level, but here you're trying to brainlessly shoot your way through a definite defined area trying to complete several set objectives so that you can advance on your quest. And yet a third first is the secondary fire mode on many weapons.

The biggest problem in this game is a lack of a save option, but that isn't that big of a problem because these aren't huge, frustrating levels. While they sometimes take a while, they're logical and succint, unlike some newer games where you have to run halfway around the world to get anywhere.

For this low a price, this game is definitely worth getting.

The First Is Always The Best

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 22, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This is great! You get to be fully emerced in the Lucas Star Wars envirement. You board star ships and shoot it out with storm troopers. Even Vader has a cameo but you don't get to shoot at him just see him in the interludes. If you like star wars buy this. If you like first person shooters, get this. It has realalistic people(for the time it was made) and does not go for the blood that all the others do it has a storyline instead! It only lacks two things, one I want to fly that fighter of his and two, what the sequel has, a lightsaber. It does have great weapons though(nothing beates the missle of a dark trooper gun when you hear that great bo-thoom soud :) And you do get to use stealth and choose how you wish to complete a mission, ie: kill them all or sneak in and get it done. Like I said, it is a great title, and a must have!

Outstanding entertainment

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: July 23, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Dark Forces is one of the best games I have ever played. Even though the game is 5 years old and the graphics are admittedly dated the actual gameplay and play value are still very fresh. The game is set in the popular Star Wars universe where you, as Kyle Katarn must complete numerous missions for the Rebel Alliance including stealing the Death star plans and blowing up an Imperial Star Destroyer. The look and feel of the game is excellent and really draws you into the atmosphere of the game complete with a good midi score.

Where this surpasses Doom is it's portral of the Star Wars universe and it's on-going storyline which keeps bringing you back for more. And with fan produced levels the entertainment value is infinite.

Does anybody really need this game?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: March 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This was probably a great game - a first-person shooter based on Star Wars. Introducing the charachter of Kyle Katarn - an ex-Imperial commando turned soldier-of-fortune - Dark Forces will send you to the reaches of the galaxy to learn the secret of a new Imperial Weapon. When isolated rebel ouposts are crushed by waves of "Dark Troopers", Kyle is enlisted to track their base. Travelling to worlds boasting sewers, icy cliffs, volcanos, rivers and labyrinthine factories, you piece together the clues that will lead you to the Imperial Crusier, "Arc Hammer", and a showdown with the Darkest of them.

Dark Forces is a great game for those with a computer too slow to run its sequel - Jedi Knight (a Pentium 90 or less). These people won't be able to appreciate the improved graphics and sound of that newer game. Unfortunately, even in its own time, Dark Forces was burdened by a weak storyline and frustrating gameplay. Though you played a person, the movements of walking and head-turning seemed artificial, less like a walking person and more like a car driving - you may want to keep that dramamine nearby. Because the range of eye-movement is limited (especially compared to JK) it's hard to get a good situational awareness. Also, owing to mid-1990's AI, the enemies are pretty dissappointing - you pretty much wipe out only the enemies you'll find in any one area. Take out an imperial platoon in one area of a prison block, and you'll find another later on completely oblivious to that fact. Another dissappointment is how little LucasArts has updated the game - while X-Wing and Tie Fighter have been updated to exploit 3D hardware acceleration, DF seems as dated as ever. Buy it only if you're running on something less than a 486. Beware - this disk comes with 3 playable levels of Jedi Knight, and you'll be spoiled forever for Dark Forces if you so much as look at any one of them.

Good for anybody who can look past the graphics.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: January 22, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I'll admit, the first time I played this game was nearly three years ago, and I'll also admit it was fun. The graphics were good, if you liked paper cutout dolls walking towards you and shooting. However, the gameplay was fantastic. It was one of the first 3D adventure/action game that I had played in my life, and it blew me away. So, if you want a good gaming experience, and can see past the early graphics, then buy this game. If you have to have good graphics in a game with a good storyline and all that jazz, then get the sequal to this game, which is one of the best there is.

Great Music and Graphics for it's time.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 02, 2000
Author: Amazon User

When this game first came out, it was a big change for me from what I was playing (Mario Brothers & Pac-Man). Although I'd seen 3D graphics like this before (Super Nintendo: Donkey Kong) it was still great enough to play! And still is, too!

You're Kyle Katarn, your mission? You have about? (I won't tell) of them. You go through them saving people, blowing up ships, killing monsters, getting new weapons, and with all the sounds from the Star Wars Series. The music at the start of a game starts slow, but as the Acton starts, the music starts into a blast!

It is different to 3d Graphics now, but if you're a true Star Wars fan and enjoy doing the right for the Federation this would be a great game to get!

NOTE: Some missions are hard; you have to observe the walls and corners. Some walls have hidden goods inside; you'll have to blow up the walls with the cracks on them to go through. Around some corners there are robots that kill you so, BE VERY CAREFUL!

Also, the music is different, not as much the same as "OUTLAWS", but a little more Arcade style.

If you haven't played this game yet, join the Celebration and play: DARK FORCES!

Oldie, but a goodie

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 17, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Dark Forces is a first person shooter set in the Star Wars universe. Unfortunately, time and tide have robbed the game of its...um...force. As Kyle Katarn, you enter and navigate various imperial installations, solve puzzles, and make life unpleasant for countless stormtroopers. You do this in order to amass clues about a new imperial weapon - the Dark Trooper, before setting out to combat the trooper on his home turf. Your journeys will take you to varios settings (ice planets; volcanic planets; fully urbanized planets; space stations and the Arc Hammer that is home to the Dark Trooper).

Many editions include a playable 3-level demo of DF's sequel - Jedi Knight. Whatever you do, DON'T PLAY IT. Unless your computer is too lame to really play JK (topping out at about 90Mhz) JK's superior game play, graphics and sound will forever spoil you for the older game. The head and body movements of DF are stilted, artificial, and hard to coordinate; while the locations and characters look cartoonish. And that would be a shame. While DF is a creature of another age (the early 1990's) it's a lot of fun.

The best first person stinker ever invented!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 9
Date: February 02, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Just horrible. The first level is somewhat plausible (considering it's inconsistent with the story), but afterwards, there is no unifying level theme, little to no varying of enviromental textures, and just no fun to play. For example, in the Weapons Testing lab level, there were no testing labs, no scientists, and no way this thing could be a testing base.

In the future, when you see Lucasfilms make anything besides a flight sim or an adventure game, run as fast as you can!

piece of cow dung

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 14
Date: February 27, 2000
Author: Amazon User

the only part of this game that is cool is the three levels of jedi knight. get jedi knight instead of this dung. the graphics stink and so does everything else(the sound's okay).

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