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Jedi Outcast Addon Pack

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is essentially an add-on pack intended for fans of the original.

Fans have always been creating their own game levels and mods since Dark Forces 2, but what keeps people buying the LucasArts add-ons is that they are always so much better than fan-created levels. The runaway tram level in this game is one example.

Pros:

- JA has some exceptional new levels with new locations to explore.
- More jedi powers and moves
- Ability to customize your own padawan.

Cons:

- You don't really feel like part of the academy. I remember in Wing COmmander, you really felt like you were part of the team because you got to go on missions with them and talk to them. In JA, you spend most of your time alone or with Kyle.
- Each mission feels like an add-on module rather than part of a whole story.

If you have played thru all of the Katarn series, you will probably like this one too. It doesn't add much new but it is still quite enjoyable after a long day at work to come home and choke a few stormtroopers and Force push them off a ledge :)

But I think the next generation of the series has to innovate the game significantly to keep the fans interested. Perhaps a series of training levels, like in a less tedious version of Kengo, that will allow you to increase your force powers and build your own saber fighting style, would be good. THen you could practice them in a Jedi Dojo.

Pretty Good Game...Better than the last one

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

STJK:JA played pretty well on my system (P4 2.0ghz, 384MB RAM, 32MB ATI video card), and only locked up once. The gameplay was smooth, the graphics looked great, and the challenges were a lot of fun.

Here's the game in a nutshell. You play a character of your choosing (human male or female, or an alien) and your design (even the clothes on your back are custom). You're on your way to begin Jedi training, when something happens. You soon find yourself on joint adventures with your "master," or, if deemed easily done, by yourself.

The game's scope is vast - lots of different worlds (including Hoth), and lots of NPC's. The best part, though, is what happens when you become a Jedi Knight (not an easy task, by the way). While you get to custom design your own lightsaber in the beginning, you get to choose your blade AND fighting style at the game's midpoint - and yes, you can choose a double-bladed saber, just like Darth Maul. Slaying dozens of Sith followers with the double bladed saber was just plain fun!

What's not so good? There are quite a few of those silly little puzzles (e.g., throw a switch to deactivate a force field, but the field comes back on in three seconds), but other than that, everything is well put together.

If you've played the previous Jedi Knight games, you'll really enjoy playing this one. Oh, yeah - one more thing: at a point during the game, you'll have to make a choice. Right before you decide, save the game right there. There are two endings to the game, and this way you'll be able to do both.

Even better than Jedi Outcast

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far, away *dramatc silence* TADAAA! Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is now in stores even in Sweden! A whole lot of new features is available - you can for example design your own character and you own lightsabre - YAAY! I recommend a Purple Arbiter, it's just...beautiful. You can't choose red in sp though =( okay, this game will blow your brains out, it's great! You play Jaden, a male/female with nothing to loose. On the way to the Jedi Academy you ship crashes and on the way to the academy, you'll find youself in the middle of the action. There's some kind of scepter that can ressurect an old Jedi Sith, and if summoned, who knows what he will do?! It's better to destroy the scepter and be on the safe side of things, right? Yep. Anyway, there's this cult, called the Desciples of Ragnos, a group of dark jedis fighting to protect their leader so that that person can ressurect Ragnos himself. The story is great, trust me. I won't tell you anything else, and spoil the fun. When you move up from student to knight, you'll get a new kind of sabre - either a Darth Maul-inspired two-handed lightsabre, of a double, with two lightsabres, one in each hand. You'll LOVE it! You can also choose between the Light and the Dark side near the end, and both endings are GREAT! I won't reveal more info, but this: BUY IT! It's a wonderful game with a great story and effects! The reason it gets 4 stars instead of 5, is that you'll need to have played Jedi Outcast before this to keep up on things. A lot of characters and envirements are still in place, and LucasArts have choosen to believe that everyone who play Jedi Academy has played Jedi Outcast, but they haven't said anything about it in their press-releases. I have, but not everyone has. So if you haven't played Outcast yet, do it before playing Academy! It will make your life easier.

The best Jedi Game to date

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Take the best form Jedi Outcast, and make it better: You get Jedi Academy. The Raven team evolve as they learn and they present us with a game that fullfils a Jedi Wannabe dreams. You get to choose you own saber, your own character and your own missions.
Start as a Jedi Student who with no previous training has built his own saber, and develop your skills under the vigilan eye of Jedi Master Kyle Katarn.
The graphics in this game (for PC) are just amazing. Color and textures come to life as you progress in the game and visit new and exotic locales. While missions may not be complicated (rescue a droid, for example) the enemies you encounter and the characters that acompany you (some great cameos, by the way) inmerse you in the Star Wars Universe.
Multiplayer gaming is wonderful. A lot of new locales to fight on, like the Reactor Chamber from EI or new Hoth white-plains. Again,you get to choose your weapon (saber, two sabers, double saber) color, character and force powers. Play agains bots or human via a LAN or Internet.
All in all, a true Star Wars experience, just one word of advice: Minimun requirements for this game are high, not all cards taht were supported by Jedi Outcast are supported now. Check the official site and if you can, this is a great game to upgrade your PC for.

Great game but missing 2 things

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Jedi academy is great game but lacks infra-red goggles and Macro-binoculars which always came in handy in the other Jedi games. The lightsaber combat is good with lots of speciality moves(my fav is the forward lunge from a roll). Visually and audio are very good with sound effects.I would recommend it very highly to any Jedi Knight:Dark Forces Fan.

Jedi Outcast Revisited

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Don't get me wrong, If I had never played Jedi Outcast (to which jedi academy is its succesor) I would think Jedi Academy is a wicked cool game! BUT, it seems LucasArts has simply re-released Outcast with a SLIGHTLY different look, the same graphics engin, the same weapons, virtually the same force powers, the same characters...and only with a slightly different setting and different locations. Ok, yeah, you can choose which color your light-saber you use and what you look like etc.... wow - I've never had that in a game before (note the sarcasm). In my opinion, games in a series are meant to evolve and change over time - like Warcraft for example...the graphics and characters and story changed dramatically between the 3 games. An even better example would be the Ultima series -each game was different than the one before it (with some similarities inherant in being a part of the same game series.)
In the end, Jedi Academy = Jedi Outcast - take your pick.

Lot of fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If you enjoyed Outcast, you'll like this. It's true that it was a bit short in comparison. Also, some of more powerful foes were not as tough as in Outcast -- I'm not saying that because I'm a great gamer, because I'm not. There was more fighting than puzzles in this one, which suits me fine. The dual and double-bladed lightsabers were awesome. I ended up with the latter and it served me well.

Fun but not inspiring

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 17, 2003
Author: Amazon User

First off, Jedi Academy was fun. I had a good time with the additional Force powers and exotic sabre styles. The game is completely full of lightsabre combat and minimizes puzzle based tedium.
The downside includes a ho-hum story. It's not bad, just not inspiring. If there had been consequences for dark side power development and evil acts throughout the story it would have been a lot more interesting and engaging.
I had a good time playing this game and will do so again but this is not game of the year material.

Great fun but AI lacking

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The game is fun and nice on the eyes. The big problem is the AI is pretty dumb. They just stand there and shot and most the time they miss you (though that is keeping with the stormtroopers ability to shoot). Maybe I'm too used to Half life where they guys try to avoid being shot.

A message for George

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Great Game! You actually need skill to play, not like the Battlefront games. Mr. Lucas why have you abandoned the game genre that started it all?
Please continue the story, especially for us who are still using a PC.

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