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Still Playing After All These Years

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

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This was the 2nd game I purchased for my Macs, and it's the only one I still play. It really is that good. The story is original and well executed, the voice actors are excellent, and the gameplay is fun. The graphics may not be state of the art these days, but they are subtle and more believable when compared to many of today's games which rely overmuch on special lighting effects. Some of the puzzles are frustrating but once learned you find they are really quite easy. The jumping puzzles and chasms can result in deadly falls, but hey, who said the galaxy was a safe place? Hone your force jumping skills. And your other Force powers. You'll need them.
The cinematics are well done and really carry the story forward as they segue you into the next level. The John Williams score is used effectively. If you like being immersed in the Star Wars universe, this game is for you.
The game is based on the Quake 3 Arena engine, so it plays really smoothly on any new hardware. Even older iBooks like the G3 I had perform well enough to play Jedi Outcast. On my PowerBook, the game flies. The multiplayer game is good, with the standards Capture The Flag and other team play, but it really shines in Jedi Duel, where the fights are one on one, with the winner remaining to fight the next player on the server. This is pure Star Wars light saber dueling and it takes skill and finesse to be a good duelist (if one doesn't use cheats, that is).

I wish LucasArts would release more games like Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast. Jedi Academy was good, but was more like an expansion to Jedi Outcast. Jedi Academy did pick up at the end though, and the Dark Side ending leaves plenty of room for a new Jedi Knight game with Kyle Katarn hunting down his wayward apprentice.

The best Star Wars game I've ever played.

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

I have to give LucasArts a big bravo for this one. I haven't seen a good Star Wars game out since X-Wing Alliance. I thought the game was done brilliantly.

As a fan of the original Jedi Knight, I noticed the differences right away, primarily in the light saber system. In the original game, I adored the light saber and used it at every chance. I also embraced the force powers and used them, as well as the saber, more often then all my other weapons combined, but that was pretty hard since force powers only targeted one person at a time. Also, the saber fights weren't what I had hoped when I first saw the game. If you manage to pull it off right, you can get some of the slower, swashbuckler style fights seen in the original flicks - it was usually a standoff in which both people would sit back and run at each other now and again trying to land a blow while online saber fights were simply z-swing frenzies, but JKII changed that.

Now your choke can move people, you can pull multiple targets (and their guns) and force speed causes you to move faster in every aspect. The light saber fights were done beatifully, modeled after the Matrix-like fights from Episode I, with plenty of acrobatics and saber-clashing action (I especially love winning a saber lock). Some of the puzzles can be a pain, but once the action starts, you'll be begging for more.

All in all, I would have to say this is the best Star Wars game I've ever played. I recommend it to any Star Wars or FPS fan.

Quite good, but definitely not perfect.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Jedi Outcast is probably the best Star Wars game on the PC. I like it because it features lightsaber combat, one of my favorite things about Star Wars. The graphics are good, but aren't the best out there. The music, Sound FX, and voice acting are all very good.

The biggest flaw in this game is the difficulty. Even while playing on the Padawan difficulty, you still can't find your way through many of the levels with ease. The levels don't flow at all. The best description of this flaw would be this: "Trial and Error". You die on one part, and re-load your saved game and just keep trying. It gets old fast, very fast. Sometimes you just search a level a million times to find one door, and miss it. A day later, you finally just give up and look at the strategy guide. This game is MADE for strategy guides.

But the lightsaber combat is awesome. There are so many saber moves, force moves, and more. This is where it really feels like a Star Wars movie. Getting your saber back is the only motivation I had for passing the first 2 levels, Kejim and Artus (you don't have a saber in these levels).

Overall, this game is a great Star Wars game, but gets frustrating, and not in the good "I must finish this game" kind of way, it gets frustrating in the "I can't do this, it's boring now!" kind of way. But I garuntee that you will be re-loading your saved games over and over again, just to relive those awesome saber battles featured.

Outstanding Multiplayer

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The multiplayer fun in this game is unbelievable. There are so many ways to play and strategy/tactics to apply. The configuration of your force powers will say a lot about you. Are you on the light side, where you can only absorb the dark side, protect, and heal, or the dark side, where you electrify, choke, and steal?

The sabers make this game. You have three fighting styles, and no one can ever forget the backward stab after they've impaled an opponent. In combination with your force powers, the saber is UNBELIEVABLY COOL!

Peep this: You can force pull your enemy's weapons out of their hands. You can force push grenades or missiles BACK at the person who launched them! You can throw people off ledges, you can choke someone, pick them up, and drop them off a cliff. You can force push someone onto the ground, then shoot them as they try to get up. You can force pull someone to you, and saber them as they try to stand. You can drop detonation charges in a busy area, and blow them up remotely. (More than one way to kill a Jedi!) If someone force chokes you, you can push them away, or whip out a blaster and empty a clip into them! I can go on and on...

And the saber fights aren't just random swinging. You definitely have a well-built melee design in this game.

All in all, I would say this is one of the most enjoyable first person shooters ever made. Go Lucasarts!...

Thank you LucasArts

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Jumping 30 feet straight up I take out my enemy by throwing my lightsaber at the stormtroopers head, accomplishing this only after I had master the force.

One of the addicting features of this game is that your force abilities increase in power as the game progresses (you start out with none). There are definitely some difficult puzzles (a couple that if you miss one key component you could spend an hour trying to complete at no end). The story line is decent, but the rewards (weapons and force powers) are the reason I could not stop playing.

There is an automatic defense against blaster fire and other evil Jedi when you're wielding the lightsabar, that is real handy during a multi-person attack. You will be forced to use your lightsaber when fighting Jedi that have gone to the dark side, which can be very intense fights (I found myself literally swearing at my opponent on the screen more than once). The re-playability did not rate high in my book. The graphics were exceptional, sound track was entertaining, and game play was user-friendly.

Some Star Wars purist might have a problem with some of the story line, but my hat goes off to LucasArts and Raven for make a truly gratifying game. If you go ahead and purchase this game I hope will enjoy it as much as I did.

Perfect balance

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 14, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game has great balance.

1. The bad guys are never too tough and never too easy. The light saber is a great weapon, with so many oppurtunites to use it. Even in situations were you think you can't use, it you can. I find throwing it is a cheap amd good way to fight.
2. The level design is great. In some case the force speed fighting tactic wouldn't work because the fight was in a narrow hallway, making for some nasty suprises.
3. Multiplayer is great, there is nothing wrong with it, at all, I mean at all.
4. Huge, massive story.
5. Dark Jedi are great.

But enough with the good here is the bad:

1. The final boss was to easy.
2. The force was almost uselesss, aside from push and heal. It just cost too much.
3. In levels 8-10 there are some impossibly acurate snipers. I don't wanna wall hug, zigzag, and crawl around in a Jedi game, that's for Medal of Honor.
4. The first levels are not bad, but they are subpar and needlessly troublesome.
5. A few of the later levels have situations that really are too bad to describe. Beatable, and short, but really useless.
In spite of these complaints if you buy Jedi Knight 2 you won't regret it.

Fun Game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Jedi Knight:Jedi Outcast was really a fun game to play. I picked it up from the library and enjoyed playing it for the two weeks I had it. It was much better than Jedi Knight:Dark Forces 2; you get lots of cool weapons and the graphics are great. In this game Kyle Katarn is trying to stop fallen Jedi Desann who has found the Valley of the Jedi and is trying to empower others with the Force.

This game ROCKS.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If I were limited to only one word to describe this game ... "Epic" would ALMOST cover it.

Like I say in the header, this game ROCKS. The Star Wars universe has never looked better, and it's never played better, either. It succeeds on every level. In fact, I would say it's even better than the original Jedi Knight, and that's a statement I never thought I'd make.

Lightsaber combat has never been so dizzyingly addictive as what you'll find here. Short of being cast for a part as a Jedi in Episode 3, this is the closest you'll ever come to George Lucas's brand of swashbuckling. The enemies are a widely varied lot, from Imperial stormtroopers and officers to alien mercenaries to the Force-sensitive Reborn, and you'll love every moment of fighting them. The boss enemies are challenging, but not impossible to beat. And the cameos in the form of Luke Skywalker and Lando Calrissian are a mind-blower, especially when you and Luke are fighting side-by-side.

Buy this game. You won't regret it, and it's money well-spent. I can't say it any clearer than that, so let's put it up in big letters:

BUY THIS GAME!

Great game, check your hardware.....

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

this game is great but be careful on the system specs for the game, it sas you need a radion graphics card but i have a ATI Rage 128 and it works fine with some glitches. If you have a system with a radion or better go for it the game is great.

The best Star Wars game out yet

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: April 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Jedi Outcast is SO COOL! If you liked the last 2 jedi knight games then you are going to love this one. You play as Kyle Katarn again except now you have given up the force. On a mission to a detention mining camp something (I'm not saying anything) makes Kyle pick up his lightsaber and call back the powers that he had long forgotten.
This game's graphics are very nice, an upgraded version of the Quake III engine, but still, I had actually expected better. At times the graphics can seem a bit blocky and not very fluid. I was dissapointed at the way the space ships took off, because it looks the way they did in Jedi Knight (they kinda just lifted up in a straight path, stopped for a second then went forward ina a straight path). Other than that this game is all gold. As many other people have said, the death animations are awesome. I like how now the Force Jump is holding down the jump key. It makes it easier. Force saber throw is now just the secondary fire for the lightsaber.
... the Multiplayer experience is awesome, just like in Jedi Knight. One thing I'm afraid of though is hackers. In Jedi Knight there were a lot of hackers.

This game is awesome go buy it now.

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