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DO NOT BUY THIS GAME

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 19
Date: April 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

THIS GAME...is the biggest waste of money I have ever spent. I absolutely love Jedi Knight - Dark Forces II. That is one of the best games I have ever played. So I had understandably high expectations for Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast. And the screen shots on the LucasArts site looked cool. I couldn't find a Demo version to download and try, so I just went out and bought it. I even splurged...for the Collector's Edition with the two other Jedi Knight games and the keychain.

If you are familiar with Jedi Knight - Dark Forces II, you will find this game incredibly frustrating. Here are my complaints:

1) There is the issue of graphics quality. I am using the game on one of the latest and fastest PCs, and the game is still very choppy and the graphics are very geometric. Very poor quality.

2) I cannot figure out how to get past the first cutscene featuring Mon Mothma asking Kyle Katarn to check out the Valley of the Jedi. When I die, or whenever I start the game, I have to sit through this dross again and twiddle my thumbs.

3) The controls are totally different than those of Jedi Knight - Dark Forces II. Even if you have the patience to go into the keyboard settings and chance the keys so their functionality tries to match that of Jedi Knight, there are all these new weapons that make it very difficult to decide which key to use for which weapon or feature.

4) Performance [stinks]. Kyle doesn't jump high enough to actually reach anything. It is so incredibly hard to kill anyone by shooting them because your aim has to be totally dead-on (no pun intended), the gunfire is very slow, and the gunfire doesn't home in on the enemy if you aim sort-of nearby (like it did in Jedi Knight). I keep wanting to use keys as they worked in Jedi Knight. It's just very disappointing.

I am not even encouraged to get a slight distance past the Shuttle Tydirium at the beginning of the first level. It is just so annoying. What a waste of money. I could spend less...on one of the LucasArts Archive games and have more fun than I am having with this...

And I am really upset that LucasArts would release something like this OBVIOUSLY before it is in decent shape. They should have used Jedi Knight as a model and not changed a damn thing except improve the graphics a bit and create new levels. They messed everything up by changing the functions, adding weapons, and making it only usable by people who can drop [money] on a new computer.

Force is defently with this game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 14
Date: October 13, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If you love watching Jedi battles then pick this one up its great however in the first few levels you dont get lightsabers you get them a bit later and Ill tell you this is one really long game good story you get to fight along side with lukeskywalker or Lando.Not to mention the force powers from lightning to lightsaber throw mindtrick push and more so you can think of multiple ways for taking out your enemys

The multiplayer is very fun tons of games and levels and gamemodes pick from tons of charecters and pick what color you want your lightsaber to be.Playing Capture the flag with lightsabers is alot of fun
So if you own a Computer,PS2,Gamecube,or an Xbox and you like lightsabers then order this game right now

How Good Games Go Bad

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 106
Date: November 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I have played the first jedi knight, and I thought that it was freakishly horrific. You other people don't have a clue what you are talking about, but I do. I have the PC Gamer magazine that talks about this game, and it looked pretty bad to me. Plus, I don't like the way Raven makes the game: it makes them (...), just like Elite Force. The Quake III engine is just as bad as everything else, so I am not too happy about the release of this game!

this game is BAD

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 19
Date: May 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game made me he maddest I have ever been in my entire life! Why? Well, in the first third of the game all you do is walk around shooting people. Plus, you have to figure out insanely difficult puzzles that you would never figure out unless you had a strategy guide. After about 4+ hours of gameplay, you get your lightsaber. And then it's fun for a while.... until you get to the parts where you have to fight 100 guys at a time. THIS GAME IS HARD!!!!!!!!!!!! It took me 6 HOURS to complete 1 lightsaber level! I had to load my saved game at least 200 times. This is no exageration. Every time I moved, I was shot dead.

Good graphics. Awful gameplay.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 16
Date: February 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

"Jedi Outcast" is the third installment in the outstanding "Dark Forces" series. Sadly, it is also the first misfire. "Dark Forces" and "Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight" were superb games both in terms of graphics, gameplay, and story arc. Admittedly, the graphics are good for "Jedi Outcast", but it fails miserably with gameplay. The keyboard plays a singularly important role in any PC-based video game. With that being fact, it's imperative that actions that keyboards performs be smooth and fluid. It was with the two previous installments in this series, but the control is nothing short of totally aggravating. The movement is 'herky-jerky', almost like it regressed to earlier technology. Aiming the weapons at the targets is nearly impossible because the targets move too fast to acquire with the current setup. Also, trying to pan the player's view up and down and from left to right is very shaky. The gameplay is so awful that I have been forced to stop playing the game because I do not have the patience to deal with it. I suspect the game, itself, may actually get quite good. Unfortunately, I cannot give a rating based on how good I think the game could be if only the gameplay were better. The fact that the game is too aggravating to continue to play dooms "Jedi Outcast" to the lowest score possible. Perhaps the versions ported for actual gaming systems perform much better. If they do, I will review this game much more favorably for that platform.

iMac users beware!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 14
Date: December 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Will ONLY work on latest (flat-screen) iMac with super-duper graphics card! Disappointed children are not a pretty sight -- if you have a "lesser" iMac, stay away!

If I could give it 0 stars I would!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 24
Date: March 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

LucasArts STOLE MY MONEY!

this is one of the worst games i've bought in 4 years. Although the graphics may be fancy thats about it. The game play is terrible, the levels are dry, and the animations are choppy (even on my P4 256ram!!!!). Its like the only thing they focused on was pretty still pictures to lure unsuspecting gamers with screan shots. This game is JUST NOT FUN!

In addition to these problems there are hundreds of bugs in this version. I believe that they released this game way to early and I would not buy this product! Save your money and please stop supporting everything they stamp a star wars logo on!

STARWARS stamped across the box cannot justify such a terrible game.

This game is an "OutCast"

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 34
Date: May 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game was a total disappointment to me. I loved all the other Star Wars games but this one is different. The graphics a pretty bad and the frame rate tends to slow down quite a bit. I don't have a brand new computer but its not that old and has been upgraded a few times and the game is still bad. I can't even stand looking at the grapics and all the flaws it looks like a playstation 1 game almost. Now if you have a brand new...[expensive] computer than get the game other wise for get it. I can honestly say I am a huge Star Wars fan, but I played this game for like 3 mins or less and was sick of everything ex. the controls, the game play, the slow downs, and I could go on and on...

Could be - but isn't quite

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: September 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

While being a fan of Star Wars and first-person 3D action games, I would say I expected more. I've got the first Jedi Knight and the Mysteries of Sith expansion and liked them a lot. Those I would rate to five stars since the playability and overall quality is proven, I kept playing them over and over again even if I had already played them through. And actually I've played the first in series, the Dark Forces, which was pretty good game also and was indeed a driving force for me to buy the first Jedi Knight game (aka Dark Forces II).

So why only two stars to game that has had so glorious reviews from all over the scene? Two reasons: first, the requirements for hardware to run it smoothly. Second, the lack of new ideas in the game.

My hardware specs to run this game are AMD K6-2 3D Now! @ 450 MHz, 128 MB system memory, ATI Rage Pro 128 with 32 MB graphics memory and a sound card which is not fully DirectX compatible (works with DirectX 7 and below but creates sound echoing with DirectX 8). Okay, okay, I know these specs are just below from those recommended in the game, but still I feel Lucasarts went the wrong way adopting Raven technology for this project. I would have been satisfied with improvements in the old game engine and having the game running smoothly. When playing JK2, my frame rate is 13fps indoor levels and 4fps (!) in outdoor levels and levels with lots of action. And at 4fps a game is totally unplayable. So if you do not have a harware well above the recommended specs, save yourself and don't buy this game unless you are ready to upgrade your hardware.

What comes me to the second point: lack of new ideas. I've reached the level that after completing I should (finally) get the light saber. It has been a long way of pretty dull levels in a sense that they really aren't much different than any Quake-style "kill all or be killed" levels, puzzles are no different than in first Jedi Knight game. I would have expected more interaction with the environment than just pulling switches, and more freedom to choose routes to end the levels. Now all levels are very straight-forward with just one or two (obvious) secret places.

All in all, until I get a hardware upgrade I'm not playing the game anymore - 4fps is a horror show. And I'm not expecting miracles to happen even when I get to the light saber levels.

This game is pretty pour

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 12
Date: March 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I guess the first thing i'll say is that I got Jedi Academy BEFORE I got this game. I was HUGELY dissaponted. I really liked Jedi Academy but this game is not that great. I have cheat codes so I can have all wepons and all amo and I can be undying. There are partes in this game that are INSAINLY tought. There are way to many puzzles - I don't mind puzzles but there are simply way to many. And some on them are insainly hard. I would recomend you to get Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy - way better the puzzles aren't insain and you get to choose what you look like and....well I could go on but i'll leave it there. If you aredy have Jedi Academy and you want another star wars game that is $20 then you sould get Battlefront thats anoter great game. Just don't get this game.

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