Posted on: August 21, 2024

Jadek_

Игр: 102 Отзывов: 2

Just finished it

First 3 levels are the worst you can imagine. If you reach the 4th level, the game becomes fantastic. I never attained such liberty to control a jedi in any other franchise. It allows you to play with the powers of the force you like and the lightsaber fights, even if a bit simple, are truly pleasant. I have to mention that i have huge bias, since i played jedi academy for a very long time in my youth. So, i am very attached to the core of its gameplay. The story is OK. Fairly coherent and you encounter some famous characters of the franchise.

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Posted on: December 23, 2017

Phaid

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Игр: 142 Отзывов: 5

Tedious and not fun

I loved Jedi Academy back when it came out, but I had never played Jedi Outcast until now. I got Jedi Outcast because everyone says it is the better title, with the same mechanics but a better story and gameplay. I don't understand how anyone can feel that way. The combat system is incredibly dated and feels about as tactical as the original DOOM. The gunplay you are forced to endure is awful, with inaccurate weapons, no cover system, and enemy AI that just runs around from side to side to dodge your already inaccurate shots. Skill and tactics are irrelevant; the combat situations you are put into are inherently unfair, so the key to survival is just to manage your health power ups and keep your shields and ammo topped up whenever possible. Worse than the combat is the level design. The missions take place on a succession of bases, which consist of endless mazes of corridors that meet in near-identical rooms. Progress requires you to solve puzzles, some of which make sense and some of which are utterly illogical. There are no hints, and the game's design language isn't consistent, so there is no indication of what you need to shoot, what you can open, what consoles you can activate to get to the next piece of the level. It's just a clickfest of trial and error until you manage to stumble upon the solution, usually after you've fallen to your death or been burned alive numerous times in the attempt. All in all, this never feels like a Jedi simulation. It's just 1990s FPS mechanics dressed up in a Star Wars skin. If your idea of fun is dying and reloading constantly until you get it right, and having to look up walkthroughs on the web to discover where to go next, this game is for you. I will say that the game runs well, and the engine works great on modern 16:9 and even ultrawide displays with just a few config file entries. So if you're an old-school fan of the game and want to relive it on a modern system, it definitely will satisfy that. Just don't go into it sight unseen and expect a satisfying Jedi simulator; skip this and go for the far superior sequel.

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Posted on: February 12, 2021

janmojzis

Игр: 4 Отзывов: 1

A great fun for masters or padawans

Now this game was a big break in comparison to Jedi Knight I. Smooth graphics, good resolution and textures and antialiasing, also shaders. Great feeling and gameplay. And well balanced too. You starting with just your trusty blaster and few first levels you play classic shooter. Later, in the game, as story progress, you came to experience the force powers too. You will have to earn your lightsaber in a well designed level. Storyline will take you through many well designed levels and various different environments (cloud city of Bespin, Nar Shada, Carim reactor, Yavin swamp, ...) just a-must-to-try for any star wars loving dude. Fights are great source of fun. Not only there are plenty of different weapons to try, often you can use an alternative attack. Also lightsaber fights are interesting and catchy. Regarding force, you have three possible levels to try, increasing automatically as you progress. Try a force grip lifting a stormtrooper sky high and push him even further above with force push! Or burn a group of enemies with force lightning. Try force speed not giving your foes to take a chance. Needless to say, soundtrack is famous, as is standard for star wars games. Smoothly changing from calm to live action themes. Well, seems that plenty of folks have troubles running this game on Win 10. For me, using Win 10, I had a no choice. Having no working code for Win 10, I had to manually download a Open Jedi Knight code, set it for Jedi Knight (default is for Jedi Academy) and compile it. Success. Now I have a working Jedi Knight II under Win 10. Might be useful for others. If interested, I can provide the binary. I suppose, I had to patch to higher version of the game too, before the compiled code worked compatible. I had not observed any nasty bugs during my playtime. I played with this new binary from first to the last level.

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Posted on: May 1, 2025

tacossmellgood

Игр: 209 Отзывов: 21

Worth a Play...

JKII is a fun game, but it's let down a bit by some buggy controls and erratic difficulty. The main issue from the challenge in JKII doesn't come from good enemy AI or level design, it mostly comes from how quickly your character takes damage; the energy meter and shields might seem like a lot to look at, but each hit from an enemy blaster does a lot of damage, and if you get hit, you will most certainly be repeatedly hit by the same enemy over and over. So is it a hard game? No, not really. It's a game that requires a little bit of patience to learn the attack patterns of your enemies and, in the case of squeeze points in the maps, learn how to cheese them from a distance before they become an issue. JKII never rewards going in with guns blazing and that is surely going to get you killed every time. The game design so favors caution that I would almost call it a stealth game, if not for the fact that you will mostly be killing your enemies and not knocking them unconscious. This is exactly why the opening sequence is so difficult, because it's a relatively open area with a lot of gun wielding enemies to fight in one spot, with fairly scant places to hide from them. Once you get inside the first building, you don't really have another place like that in the game until the end of the mines, and that's the toughest spot in the whole game. Once you get a lightsaber and force powers, your main issue will then become snipers and enemies with heavy rockets and guns that can cause instant death from a great distance. Also, the wonky controls will occasionally stick you inside of a wall or flip you out of a window that you didn't intend. Lightsaber battles are fun, but they can often feel a bit random and decided more by luck than your skill. It's not pure button mashing, but it will come down to the choices made by your AI opponent more than anything. Still, JKII is a very fun game on the first playthrough or two, and it will satisfy the Star Wars urge.

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Posted on: May 4, 2019

MindflayedMimic

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Игр: 93 Отзывов: 1

Great saber duels, serviceable otherwise

Before anything, a definite must have for series fans. If you like Star Wars, you'll find a lot to like here. Coming at it purly on the merits of it's design, it's a real slog for the first half. The shooting is average, but it's all you'll be doing for the first couple hours. Even after getting your saber it'll be another hour or so until your moveset feels strong enough to rely soley on. The game's a real tease like that. The very first level after getting your saber is filled with snipers that you cannot deflect, for example. The duels against the dark jedi are peerless, though. Some of the best feeling lightsaber fights in gaming, which comes at a cost. The floaty physics feel great for fighting and not great for the platforming that will be thrown at you. Quicksave early and often, as bottomless pits are everywhere. To the game's credit, it avoids a lot of poor design choices made by many early '00 games. The levels may make you scratch your head from time to time, but are never labyrinthian (though it can be tough to tell what is interactable). Enemies progress along a similar curve to you in power to where they never feel hatefully designed. By the end you'll be equally as deadly and powerful. I know it's not a great selling point to say if you can make it 'X' amount of time it'll be fun, but if you can make it to the half-way point (Bespin), you will be in for a good time. There's also no shame in just skipping to there anyway if it's too much of a drag. The story's not exactly good or deep, but at least it's not as 'fan fictiony' feeling as Extended Universe narratives can get. Besides, what more reason does anyone need in an action game than "There's some evil jedi, go be awesome"?

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