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May the force be with you.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is another great game in the Star Wars series. This is kind of a sequel to Star Wars Jedi Knight Dark Forces 2. Like in Jedi Knight Dark Forces 2, you are the mercenary Kyle Katarn who once knew the ways of the force, but forget them when returning to his mercenary ways. You guide Kyle and his partner Jan through the galaxy attempting to stop an evil Jedi knight named Desann from taking over the galaxy. To defeat Desann you must recall upon the powers of the force. The sequel brings back the force powers and the light saber from the original, but this time they are better. There are more force powers and they are easier to control and use. When you use the light saber in Jedi Outcast it uses a 3rd person perspective instead of keeping the 1st person like it did in the Jedi Knight Dark Forces 2. There's also a new added feature were you can throw the light saber. You also bump into Luke and other characters such as Lando and Mon Mothma. You travel through cities such as Yavin, Nar Shaddaa, and Bespin. There are many grueling light saber duels that you must deal with throughout the game. You even get to use an ATST for a short period of time. The game is length is really amazing. There are something like 22 missions each packed with Storm Trooper killing and evil Jedi knight smashing. I still don't understand how they fit all of this on one 700 MB CD. So get this game and be on your way to fighting evil and risking your life in order to restore peace to the galaxy. Good luck, and may the force be with you.

luke I am you father lol :)

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: April 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This has got to be the best game Raven as put out I feel like im in a star wars movie if you dont like this game something is wrong with you just joking but this is a star wars fan's dream come true the best star wars game ever made trust me you need this game lol :)

Naturally Fantastic

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: December 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Lucasarts produces only fantastic games. Try Jedi Academy and Knights of Old Republic.

My only issue with this one is the lack of combo moves you can do, and the difficulty of dispatching enemy jedi.

Do play this game. Its worth it, and does justice to the Old Jedi Knight II with Kyle Kataryn and Jerec.

Unsophisticated Saber Duels prevent a complete Jedi Feel

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 31, 2002
Author: Amazon User

There are plenty of good things to say about this game and many reviewers do a good job at presenting that, so allow me to do some complaining.

My biggest problem:
When people join a server you are already in, there sometimes is a lag spike. For me, every so often, my computer just freezes, and even alt-control-delete can't save me, I have to press my reset button on my computer.

Graphics:
Quake engine is used. Models look great, but some of the textures on the environments are pretty dull. There is dismemberment in single player if you punch in some commands. However, it's too bad there is no dismemberment in multiplayer, which would have been a spectacle. I know we want to protect our children, but why not give us a choice in the menu? After all, most gamers are normal and responsible people, and for that matter, many are not children.

Interface:
There seems to be a pattern for Raven games that are powered by the Quake engine (Soldiers of Fortune II: Double Helix has the same problems). The menu doesn't remember what you just had it on. For example, I am looking at servers to join online and I click on say "Jim's Server". I click on "Server Details" to look at its rules and the IP. When I am done, the menu takes me back to the top of the list and I have to find "Jim's Server" AGAIN! Furthermore, when you try to join a server and you are unsuccessful by way of needing a password (no you don't know if the server is passworded or not until you try to join) or server is full, it doesn't take you back to the last menu, it takes you back TWO menus! And to add to that, when you are loading into a server and you change your mind for whatever reason, you can press escape, BUT you HAVE to wait for the whole thing to load as if you were actually going ahead with joining that server that you want to cancel out of. And again, when it finishes loading, it takes you back to?. You guessed it, TWO menus back. What a hassle.

Controls:
The game has a problem remembering your controls. Sometimes you may have to re-configure your keys. It took about two weeks for it to settle in and now it doesn't do that anymore.

Saber Fights:
Perhaps the most enjoyable thing about being a Jedi is wielding a light saber. It feels great to watch it ignite and disignite, and listen to the realistic sound (well realistic as in it imitates the sound in the films well). However, a game called Jedi Knight should put into detail a light saber fight. The fights are not as cool as you may think. There is a whole lot of swinging going on and a whole lot of missing. There is usually random swinging and sometimes you feel like the swing went through the opponent, as he is unmarked. I could swear sometimes I am so sure I hit that guy, but all I caught was air. Don't get me wrong, there is a method to hit people, and I am getting pretty good at it myself; but is it fun and is it realistic? Not even close. I know this is all fantasy, but when I say realistic, I am not talking about people flying around and magically griping each other's throats from 20 feet away; what I mean is simple and logical real world physics. If we are all Jedi, then why can't we hit anything? Try it, you will see. I know I am not a samurai, but give me a sword and a moving target and I bet I can still hit it seven out of ten times. In this game, your successful hits are probably three out of ten.
There should be a very elaborate system of sword fighting in today's games. I know it is hard to implement, but this random swinging and missing thing is annoying; this is Jedi fighting (you know, Star Wars, arguably the most influential phenomenon in pop culture history?), not puppet boxing.

Here are my watered down praises about Jedi Knight II:
Great controls.
Great action.
Great netcode, lag free.
Almost bug-free on the first release - UNBELIEVEABLE!
Raven and whoever else is involved should be very proud of this game. Great job guys.
The buggy interface and the unsophisticated saber duels prevent me from giving it a perfect score. My true score is 8/10.

Great game, except for the jumping puzzle.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: November 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is really good except for a jumping puzzle that made me want to through my computer out the window. The force powers are unique and add a new dimension to the first person shooter.

Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: November 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast is a first person shooter. It is one of the best star wars game i have ever played with an excellent single player and multiplayer gameplay. The story you play kyle katran who has to save the valley of the jedi. The single player gameplay is excellent with superlative level design, The levels are very long, very hard and very fun to get through. The first few levels are not that great but once you have the force powers and the lightsaber the game becomes very intresting. The force powers are very fun and great. The puzzles are great and very hard solve. This is one of the best single player games i have played in recent times. Jk2 is built on the quake3 engine and the graphics and sound are excellent. I played the game on the OpenGL video mode and the game runs great. But unlike other quake3 games like Rtcw and Mohaa the quick loading is not instant. Jedi Knight II is the best star wars game ever, It is not to be missed action game.

Best Star Wars Game PERIOD

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: October 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

My first Star Wars games was X-Wing. It was awesome. Then I played Tie-Fighter, it was just as awesome (I'm an Empire myself so enjoy being evil). After those two I was very disappointed with the rest of them. None of them could meet up then Dark Forces came out. I played the demo then played a friend's. It was awesome. It was Doom, but with something good. Then I heard about Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight. That was even more fun then first one. It became my all-time favorite first person shooter (which eventually tied with Star Trek: Voyager: Elite Force). But Jedi Knight II: Outcast, is by far the ultimate again. It's a first person shooter (although it later levels I almost always used the light saber and force powers) that beat anything and it was based in the Star Wars Universe (Expanded Universe for the book fans (recommend Timothy Zahn books)).
They did release a patch which helped with some problems. The only drawback to this game, the price. But like all software it will go down in price, eventually. If you like shoot-em-ups, get this. If you like Star Wars, get this. If you don't own a computer, buy one, then get this.

Great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I own the Collector's Edition of this game- and boy, am I glad that I got it. Along with the original Dark Forces and Jedi Knight, I also received a cool looking light-up lightsaber keychain.

As for the game itself- overall, it's a masterpiece. The gameplay is filled with fun lightsaber, guns and force power action. Yeah, the puzzles could be a bit more varied, but they're not that hard as others have claimed. The graphics- man, one of the smoothest that I have seen. The plot will keep driving you till the end. I haven't played MP over the net, but with bots- it's not so bad... Of course- the music and sound is top notch. With guess appearances by Lando (voiced by Billy Dee Williams himself!) and Luke (yeah, you get to fight along side them), this game really is top of the line.

Is it as revolutionary as Half-Life or Deus Ex? In short, no. But, it's pretty good in terms of capturing the movies and going just a little bit beyond.

Great Star Wars game for a change.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Well, it's taken them years to make a game that's back on the par they set at X-Wing and TIE Fighter, but Lucasarts finally did it. If you are a Star Wars fan, a First Person Shooter fan, or both, get this game. It's definately a challenge from level 1, with puzzles being by no means simple throughout. The lightsaber fighting system is very well developed and complex enough to let you really have a duel. Moreover, the multiplayer is as good as CounterStrike. All in all, this is going to be the best Star Wars game until Knights of the Old Republic comes out. Definately a good buy.

Become a Jedi? Heck yeah!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Jedi Knight II is a really fun game. The story is interesting, the characters are good, the graphics are nice enough (how exciting can corridors really get?), and the structure of the game keeps the player involved from start to finish. As a Star Wars fan, I can hardly imagine a more exciting premise for a game than becoming a Jedi, which is exactly what you do in Outcast. I know I'll be waiting in line for JK III to come out next year!

As a side note, this is the first "serious" computer game I've played. I'd previously believed myself to be incapable of the kind of eye-hand coordination necessary for this sort of thing, but I learned pretty quickly how to get around in Jedi Knight II and I look forward to applying those skills to other games.

Oh--and listen to what the storm troopers say. They're hillarious.

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