Star Wars™: Jedi Knight™ - Jedi Academy™

Good game and you can run it with OpenJK on macOS Catalina. You just need to extract installer with innoextract tool, install OpenJK and copy base folder extracted with innoextract into proper directory used by OpenJK :)

This game continues the epic series and improves in every way. The graphics still hold up today and the gameplay is legendary. This is well worth the price for any action or shooter fan, and is mandatory for any Star Wars fan!

Gone are the needlessly complex level design, incredibly irritating platforming, and ridiculous boss fights of JO. The game is fairly short (11 hours on my first and, so far, only playthrough) and split up into sections - you get a set of missions you can undertake (I've already forgotten, but I think there were either two or three sets of five missions), after which there's a mandatory plot-crucial mission. After each mission, you get a skill point you can allocate to one of 8, if I'm not mistaken, Force powers. You won't have enough to max out every single one by the end of the game, so think about what sort of playstyle you want. I think there's one new weapon in the game. As with JO, I didn't bother much with weapons, I saved them for larger opponents that attack from a distance. Naturally, lightsaber combat is where this game shines. Now, I think I may have given Jedi Outcast an unfair review when I said the lightsaber combat was unsatisfying and felt like you were slicing air, I just didn't understand it properly. Even still, it feels smoother here. Additionally, maybe 2 3rds into the game, you get to choose if you want to continue with a single saber, dual sabers, or a double-bladed saber. The game had been fun, but from that point onwards, it was a joy, seeing the lightsaber twirling around and slicing stormtroopers apart effortlessly. I got the impression that bolt-reflection was slightly nerfed. In addition to choosing the type of lightsaber you want to continue with, there's this one, I figure, plot-defining point where you make a choice and it's the type of thing that tickles your imagination and makes you want to go back for another playthrough. All in all, a relatively short and thoroughly satisfying experience, recommended for Star Wars fans and everyone looking for a great game with a focus on melee combat.

When being compared to its predecessor, Jedi Outcast, Academy can--somtimes accurately--be accused of being more of an expansion than a sequel. The majority of models for the main cast have been reused as well as an identical arsenal of weapons with very few, if any new additions. With that being said, what Jedi Academy offers is polished gameplay, an expanded lightsaber combat system, character customization and short, fastpaced levels that never leave you feeling bored or stuck. With a devoted modding community that has been going strong sense 2003, Jedi Academy is very much still alive, with maps, skins, multiplayer and new campaigns by a talented fanbase. This final entry in the Dark Forces series may very well be an expansion, but it is an excellent, huge, and stupendously fun one at that.

I've played so much of this game over the course of my life and I love every playthrough! This is one of the best Star Wars games of all time and is a must play for any fan. The best part is that this has that delicious, unique Legends flavor to it. The one thing I'll say is that the aiming seems off, I don't know why or how exactly but it is. Not a deal breaker for me but I just want people to be aware.