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I really liked this game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 30, 1999
Author: Amazon User

True, I've seen better graphics on other games, but those games didn't let you cut off Stormtroopers arms with a lightsaber. I thoroughly enjoyed this game, from story to action (although I agree, the story would have made a better movie).

I love this game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: December 05, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I had this game since the very day it came out and i still LOVE it. It is amazing in every aspect. It just keeps getting better and better. I like the cogs, it ads for cool patches, amazing skins and bitchin' add on levels. It has awesome graphics, for not requiring a 3d accellerator, a great story line...awesome weapons..and the lightsaber is every Star Wars fans dream.. And last but not least..The force powers..some of them are awesome-persuasion, healing, blind, throw,jump, run, sight, pull, destruction, and lightning...the stupid newbie powers are force protection, deadly sight and grip...I have beat this game on easy, medium and hard and it is a challenge even when you know what is gonna happen=)

best multiplayer game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: February 27, 2000
Author: Amazon User

When i got this game i expected nothig more than a dark forces but oh man is this game cool. the graphics are awesome, the sounds, the everything. the multiplayer games are the bomb. youll see what i mean. buy this, its worth your money.

still a great value

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I had to write a follow-up review now that about 3 years has passed since my last one, and two sequels to this game have been published. Despite playing the newer games, I dusted off and fired up my old copy of Jedi Knight/Mystery of the Sith (JK/MOtS) and had a blast. The two are obviously dated, but don't suffer as much in comparison in terms of game play as the original "Dark Forces" (circa 1994) had in light of JK/MOtS. Like DF, all the games in the Jedi Knight series are first person shooters. JK/MOtS added the lightsaber and force powers with an enhanced game engine - besides better graphics and sound, it was now possible to combine moth horizontal and vertical head movements using the mouse (DF had separate buttons for vertical looking, which made the interface feel exceedingly clunky in comparison). Also, basic movements were more natural - you never had that feeling prevalent in DF that you were a golf cart instead of a person.

But above the improved engine, JK excelled because it was as much a SW experience as it was a game - with a tight story line, excellent level design and filmed FMV cut scenes. (Most people hated the cut-scenes - poorly acted and not very effects laden - but I loved them; they added to the movie-like feeling and, anyway, "Attack of the Clones" had horrible acting and scenes that went on much longer) You never had that feeling of other shooter games where you suddenly stopped and wondered - OK, where am I, what am I looking for and why am I hitting all of these buttons. The story returns pro-rebel mercenary Kyle Katarn to the fore. Learning that his father was killed by an evil dark jedi named Jerec, Kyle sets off on a mission of revenge. Soon he learns more - that Jerec rules an entire faction of imperials intent on locating the lost "Valley of the Jedi" (also featured in "Jedi Outcast"). The burial place of countless jedi, the valley also holds a bottomless reservoir of their force power. The plot has Kyle tracking a traitorous droid named 8T88 from Nar Shadaa to his father's home planet of Sulon (the droid decodes a map leading to the valley - the map is then destroyed). Great level design makes each player map seem less a map than a place that must be navigated. AI suffers in terms of the imperial troops - who prove bad enough before their blasters are force-grabbed away. Balancing that out, the game is generous with boss modes - sending you up for 5 lightsaber duels with the dark jedi, including the climactic duel with Jerec. Personally, I hated the saber duels - they always seemed to boil down to hopping and slashing with sabers. (Jedi Outcast is most improved in that respect - there are much better looking duels, and more of them). Your force powers are divided between generic powers (speed, jump, sight) and those specific to light (heal, persuasion) or dark (lightning) forces. Your reliance on dark or light powers (and your ability to keep from killing various innocent by-standers) will determine whether you are a light or dark jedi. (The consequent difference for one side or another is not that great - mostly it determines which of Jerec's evil jedi you will fight in one of the latter duels, and which cut scenes you'll watch). Sound and graphics compare well with the newer games, and the overall plot makes you feel like you're in a Star Wars movie.

This edition also comes with "Mysteries of the Sith" - a companion disk that uses a slightly altered game engine and was originally released separately, but otherwise required JK be installed. In MotS, you play Katarn for the first several missions, then assume the role of Mara Jade, a former imperial agent brought to the light (her character was introduced in the novels of Timothy Zahn). The tight plotting of the first game is gone - replaced by looser story arcs (as Kyle, you must save a rebel base from an imperial ground assault, then destroy an orbiting asteroid the imperials are using to stage their attack; as Mara, you will infiltrate the palace of Kapa the Hutt and then, in a switch, go to work for him; you will also track down and try to retrieve a jedi holocron and save a rebel corvette from marauding pirates; eventually you will follow Kyle back to a mysterious planet of the Sith where it's dark and swampy, the locals are hostile and hungry, and your weapons don't work). If uneven, MotS has its share of thrills and challenges. AI is noticeably improved (with stormtroopers ready to go fisticuffs when their blasters are force-grabbed) and gameplay is much more challenging on the whole. Should you tire of the levels provided, an entire on-line community has crafted single and multi-player levels for both games.

In short, both games are still great values and enjoyment isn't terribly undermined by your having played Jedi Outcast - though it's obviously not the mind-blowing experience of 1997 (still, it's aged better than the Spice Girls). If you've got a P4 - it's just an excuse to turn the graphics up to excessive. I first played this on my P200MMX computer with VoodooII graphics acceleration, and enjoyed every minute. On my P4, I had no Windows XP problems, and was able to crank graphics to the full.

The Best Game Ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is without a doubt the best game ever. Absolutley no competition from other games. Play the single player and as soon as you finish it start playing it multiplayer. You will be playing 24-7 for the rest of your life. It's that good. This game doesn't deserve 5 stars, it deserves 10! I must get the sequel!

One of the Best

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 10, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game not only impresses through expertly designed levels, but its graphics and opponents are also some of the best in the genre. The big force, however, is the story, where one has the ability to choose between the dark side and the light side. The perfectly produced movies, or cutscenes, will keep you at this game for hours on end; its force powers introduce an entirely new variable into the category of action games, of which it is one of the clear leaders.

This is the best game ever.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 06, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game has it all, good story, gameplay, levels, and the graphics are still nice even with all the newer games coming out. It really shines in multiplayer mode with customizable levels of Force powers and such. The MotS add-on pack isn't that great, but it's a nice bonus.

Great but easy game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: November 22, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I loved Dark Forces, and I was eagerly waiting until my computer would have the modifications it did to play Jedi Knight. I played it, and was awed by the whole game. The only problem is that it is amazingly easy (I play on easy mode, but Dark Forces was challenging on easy mode). You'll find that it is a very cool game. Mysteries of the Sith I haven't yet gotten to.

Great game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: April 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is such a great game that it made me want to get more Star Wars games! controls are great,[cheats are also great] and the graphics are good. plus when you use force powers it almost looks almost realistic.

The closest one can ever come to being a Jedi Knight!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 23, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is definitely a cool game, no doubt about it. This game totally obsoletes the first Dark Forces (that game is pretty old!). This game truly immerses you in a 90% authentic Star Wars environment. Great graphics, unlimited movement (like Azrael's Tear), and the wonderful soundtrack from the movies. I wish this game had more ties with the movies (like having Luke, Han, Chewie or Leia appear), but the plot of Kyle Katarn and his battle aganist the Dark Jedi is still pretty good. The movie sequnces are my favorite for they broaden your sense of the game and bring the characters alive. My only complaint is why there needed to be so much combat and less puzzles and such? I get so sick of gunning down storm troopers. The fights with the Dark Jedi are COOL and the Force powers are really fun to use. All in all this is a great game and one of the cooler games of today that can run on lower resolution computers.

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