Posted on: May 25, 2016
peewee_RotA
Verified ownerGames: Reviews: 3
Unfairly Reviewed
Many reviews of this game are unfairly made. It came out during a time when Multiplayer a main selling point for games. It's unfair to rate the multiplayer, especially a nostalgic memory of it, without the same experience available today. New players cannot expect to play the same game that was released. Reviewing only the single player, this is one of the worst quality games every commercially produced. The gameplay and level design is abominable compared to Dark Forces 1 & 2 and Jedi Academy. All first person shooter features of the game are glitchy, unfinished, or unwieldy. Dark Forces II, for example, tried to recreate gun combat from the prequel. Jedi Knight II abandons the previous gameplay and replaces it with one that is extremely glitchy and unreliable. Basic features like movement and combat are "unwieldy" if being nice. In fact, it is difficult to describe the gun combat without resorting to insults. They did not properly test the game before release, and only nostalgia hides that fact from veteran players. The level design is good in parts but most of the single player level design is terrible. Players are presented with puzzles that have no instruction and wrong moves result in death. Inconsistent themes make hazards appear safe. There's no feedback for failure or success. The player simply has to stumble upon solutions and then stumble upon the exit that the solution opened. Proper solutions often trigger movement glitches which kill the player and make the solution seem incorrect. Many puzzles seem to have two solutions but the secondary solution will result in eventual death, causing unrecoverable save positions. Exploration is an important part of every other title in this series. It is routinely punished with death in Jedi Knight 2. Exploration was simply removed from this game. Do not explore. In closing, this game could never stand on its own. It's very sad to see the franchise being used as a fake symbol of quality for this unfinished game.
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