Star Wars™: Jedi Knight™ - Jedi Academy™

I was glad to find this game on GOG as I had played JK2 back in the day and in it's current form on GOG so was looking forward to more of the same. Maybe I just have different expectations these days but this game felt a bit less polished than JK2 to me, a bit rushed, story less engaging, characters less developed and voice acting not so good, level design not as good, and shorter overall. Still worth having but don't expect the same experience as JK2 IMO.

Unfortunately the game just seemed to drag on a little too long for my taste, which isn't a good sign when the campaign is only roughly ten hours long. The gameplay ultimately got fairly repetitive towards the end of the game largely thanks to a lack of enemy variety and the lightsaber duels in which I more often than not just ended up spamming left click. Additionaly, the story is one big Star Wars cliché, a problem that's exacerbated by some fairly bland story missions. Thankfully the game does offer some decent character customisation and it's hard to deny that running around as a Jedi is lots of fun, at least for the first half of the game. Overall if you're a fan of Star Wars looking for a solid action game then give this game a shot, just don't expect anything amazing.

12 EUR for the four Knights (Jedi 1 + 2 and Old Republic 1 + 2) would make sense but each of them 9 EUR that is simply not worth it. All of the games are from the very beginning of century...

During all those years since this came out I've tried several times to get into the game. I like the way you progress through the story and so on. But overall... By the time I finish the first planet and start to do some missions I just don't see any point in playing further. Feels so boring to me... The gameplay itself, I don't like it. In general I enjoy these old games but this doesn't catch me at all. If it wasn't set into the Star Wars universe, didn't have Star Wars badge, lacked lightsabers, known faces and familiar voices and sounds? I don't think some would actually remembered it (but that's a common problem with Star Wars games in general). Played on ThinkPad with Windows 10, I don't think I noticed any major issues.

Once again, gog is as lazy as steam. Up to a certain point in the game, your computer will crash, forcing you to unplug it, and/or remove the batter if it's a laptop. As with Jedi Outcast, it's the exact same glitch that happens on the steam version, indicating they are exactly the same thing. For both these great games, both steam AND gog did a sloppy port, probably not evfen bothering to playtest, and if they did it's even worse. Shame on you gog for being no better than steam and making me waste another ten bucks on this garbage.