Star Wars™ Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II includes Star Wars™ Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II and Star Wars™ Jedi Knight - Mysteries of the Sith.
Whatever path Kyle Katarn chooses will change the face of the galaxy forever.
Star Wars™ Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II continues the story of Kyle Katarn, a young...
Star Wars™ Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II includes Star Wars™ Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II and Star Wars™ Jedi Knight - Mysteries of the Sith.
Whatever path Kyle Katarn chooses will change the face of the galaxy forever.
Star Wars™ Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II continues the story of Kyle Katarn, a young mercenary that successfully infiltrated the Empire, as he embarks on a quest to discover his past and learn the ways of the Jedi. In order to protect the galaxy Katarn must confront his father's murderers, led by the Dark Jedi Jerec, and stop them from obtaining the mysterious powers of a "Valley of the Jedi", a focal point for Jedi power and a Jedi burial ground. As Katarn embarks on his journey to defeat the Dark Jedi he must also shape his destiny, by choosing to follow either the light side, or the dark side.
Mysteries of the Sith
Kyle Katarn's adventures continue five years after the events in Dark Forces II. Invading Imperial forces advance upon a quiet Rebel outpost, interrupting Kyle's trianing of a brave new Jedi, Mara Jade. First introduced in Timothy Zahn's award-winning Star Wars™ novel, Heir to the Empire, Mara Jade combines her experiences as a smuggler and Emperor's Hand with her apprenticeship as a Jedi Knight. Mara's training will continue in the field as she makes use of four new weapons and five new Force™ powers to secure supplies for the New Republic. Meanwhile, Kyle pursues what he believes to be his destiny as he searches for secret treasures in an ancient Sith temple. Will you uncover the Mysteries of the Sith?
I love this game, and I am glad to have it in gog.com
Sadly, the game does not support 3D for Windows 10 (unlike Windows 7) and it seems, that the previously included "Mysteries of the Sith Add-On" had been removed!?
This is why I have do downvote it to 2/5.
Jedi Knight was very impressive when it first came out, a time when expanded universe novels and games were essentially the only Star Wars stuff out there besides the original movie trilogy. The plot is a little bare bones and a bunch of villains just appear with almost no backstory, but the live action cutscenes are still great, even if the acting is slightly off and the CGI elements are very obviously not part of the scene. The worst thing about JK is the in-game graphics, which have ugly, grainy textures and jagged polygons, similar to an early Playstation game. I highly recommend getting the Jedi Knight Remastered mod, easily installed via a simple exe, to bring the graphics up to a more bearable standard, closer to Jedi Knight 2. There are a few other flaws as well, such as cumbersome, hard-to-use and often ineffective Force powers, mines that immediately blow up in your face if you use their primary fire mode, and a heavy reliance on a lightsaber combat system that manages to be incredibly simple yet almost impossible to reliably attack or defend yourself with. But overall, it's a fun ride with great level design and deep immersion into the Star Wars universe.
The Mysteries of the Sith expansion goes a little deeper into the expanded universe lore, has even more complex level design (sometimes a little too much, you'll be searching a few rooms for several minutes just to find where to go next), and a few new weapons and powers. It's essentially more of the same (minus the live action cutscenes), but exploring new planets and seeing even more cool Star Wars tech, a lot of which has continuity with other games such as TIE Fighter or Shadows of the Empire. The final levels are an unfairly difficult slog through endless lightsaber battles, but at least manage to be atmospheric, and cheat codes are easy to find if you just want to get through the game.
If you use a graphics mod, this title holds up really well and is highly recommended.
It's literally DOOM with a Star Wars skin and more story. So what's not to love? If you love Star Wars, check. Did you love DOOM? Check! Did you wish DOOM had more story? Check!
Honestly, this is a fun shooter game; that mixes in some story to give you that Star Wars feel through and though. Very enjoyable game.
Ok so I bought this game way back when I bought my very first graphics card, a shiny 3dfx jobby with a whopping 4mb of ram!
Rose tinted specs aside this game still holds up today imo. The character models are very primitive by todays standards and the graphics date back to the very early days of graphics cards so you should adjust your expectations in those regards accordingly.
The level design is pretty good and the locations are quite varied. The animations are janky but have their own charm. The sounds are pure Star Wars and therefore automatically awesome and phrases from several of John Williams SW movie scores play throughout adding greatly to the atmosphere.
The gunplay is fast and frenetic and the 3rd person lightsaber combat is basic but fun. The story is bog standard gaming fare and the fmv is really badly acted and cheesy. Perfect.
I had a great time with it when it first came out and I'm having a great time with it again now.
So what are the caveats?
Well It runs like absolute garbage in win8 and even though I haven't tried it on windows 10 I should imagine its much the same. For a start the 3d accelerated graphics cannot be enabled with a basic install on Win8. The only option you have is software rendering which is a bit pants. Trying to enable 3d gets you a black screen with the sound playing and the the hud only.
To enable 3d for this game in Win8 you have to download the DGVoodoo workaround and even then the game runs like a sideshow with blurry textures everwhere and rubbish lod. It kinda works but it's terrible. And forget running at any playable resolutions higher than 640x480.
The only way I got this game to work as intended was to install Win7 alongside Win8 on a dual boot sytem and load it up in Win7 which contains the necessary files and system framework to run it properly . Wallah, all cool and good times to be had.
It was a wonderful gaming experience. I can recommend it to anyone, who has no problem with the graphics. Personally I like the visuals very much because they are not irritating or sickening, but maybe I'm just old. Schortly after I played it through, I did it again. A truly rewarding gaming experience through as I think great Leveldesign most of the time.
Very easy access through GOG, way easier than installing the CD-Version. Thanks!