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It's true, I can't handle the Force!!!
Owners of low level Pentiums (200 mhz and less), dissatisfied with the performance of such new games as "Half-life" and "Rainbow-6" on their antiquated systems should get LucasArt's "Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight". The sequel to the classic Star Wars game, "Dark Forces", JK offers more than improved graphics and sound reflecting hardware advances since the mid-90's. With its more realized worlds, fleshed out charachters and complex puzzles, playing the newer game feels like watching a new Star Wars movie that doesn't...well...dissappoint. And because of the improved gameplay, as opposed to special FX which change little from movie-to-movie, the experience is even more palpable.

In JK, you become Kyle Katarn once again - the freebooting soldier of fortune. Out to find his father's killer, Kyle crosses paths with an army of dark jedi marshalled by the Evil Jerec. Cruising the galaxy in the typical miles-long Star Destroyer, and flanked by an endless army of stormtroopers, Jerec searches for the fabled "Valley of the Jedi", a burial ground holding the force energy of countless Jedi. Were he reach this sacred battleground, warns the spirit of a departed jedi, "the eradication of an entire star system, in a whisper, would be within his power!" Revenge is forgotten and galactic salvation takes priority. Along the way, Kyle will learn the ways of the jedi - to make super jumps, high-speed dashes, or grab guns from his enemies. But every Jedi faces challenges as he grows in power, and the game allows Kyle the choice of eradicating the dark side...or succumbing to it.

JK has a much tighter plot than DF, keeping the action within a smaller number of worlds and locations, with a much more linear progression. Gameplay is also improved in that, for a first-person shooter style game, the body movements are much more natural. The up-down and sideways head movements, separately coordinated in the older game, are easily managed with a single mouse control. While the rigid head-movements tended to give players of the old game car-sickness, players of the newer game can leave their Dramamine in the medicine cabinet. The levels are mostly diverse and the John Williams score keeps things hopping. Star Wars devotees may even remember which of the movies' scenes go with which music.

Non-fanatics need not go hungry, as the game supports a seeming ocean of add-on levels produced by game enthusiasts. While most of these internet-downloadable levels add on the Star Wars theme, others, called Total Conversions, or TC's, restructure the game to recreate anything from Star Trek to 007. Parts of JK itself seem to recall other movies. The occupied city of Baron's Hed recalls pre-WW2 Cairo from "Raiders" (outgunned swordsman, not included), while Indiana Jones would've felt at home in the darkened tunnels of a Jedi Temple towrds the endo of the game. In another level, Kyle must escape from a towering Dark Jedi fortress by creeping through vents, jumping through elevator shafts and crawling around very narow ledges, all faster than you can say "yipee-kay-yee you fuzzy nerf-herders!!"

That said, the game is not without cons. AI is pretty spotty - with storm troopers running for cover once they've lost their blasters. As in the movies, the troopers fall like flies while commandos seem more duarable without all that armor, and have a much better aim. The biggest dissappontment is the game's biggest selling point - mano-a-mano using lightsabers. In the films, saber duels represented the epitome of brute force and choreography. Technology hasn't reached the stage where such a myriad of body movements can be represented in software, and the combatants in JK seem to hop around like crazed monkeys until, inexplicably, one of the chimps wins out. Inevitably, the game climaxes on just such a duel against Jerec himself.

Until then however, JK is compelling and downright fun. Replay value is high given the complexity of each level. I downloaded the demo in 97' and played it almost non-stop for 2 years before getting the full game. (Custom levels won't work with the demo or the SE version that comes with repackaged editions of the original DF) This edition comes with "Mysteries of the Sith", offering added missions and improved graphics over JK, but still requiring the older game to run. You won't be dissappointed, and you'll give that old pre-Celeron system a new lease on life.

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Jedi Knight Review
This game is amazing! All of the original Star Wars game were either side scrollers, flying games, or first person shooters. Jedi Knight changes all this. Jedi Knight IS classified as a FPS, but the gameplay is much better than all the rest of them, and there is a 3rd person toggle. Number one, as Kyle Katarn, you can use a lightsaber, the Force, and other items to defeat seven Dark Jedi. The storyline is the classic Lucas Arts 'one man vs. an army' plot, but there is something about Jedi Knight that sets it aside. Maybe it is that there are seven level devoted to lightsaber dueling, or the great multiplayer. There are quite a few jumping puzzles, one in the fourth level that, if you make one slight mistake, you fall 300 feet in a pool of water. The lightsaber is very easy to use. It will automatically block saber swings and shots, as well as cut through grates and cut off enemies' arms. This game has 21 levels to it, and the companion Mysteries of the Sith adds 14 more, as well as a new playable character, Mara Jade Skywalker. There will be a sequel, Jedi Outcast, out in 2002.

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Star Wars: Jedi Knight Dark Forces 2 with Mysteries of the S
I thought that this game was excellent because you get to use your gun, and when you runout of ammo, you get to use your trusted lightsaber(or you can switch weapons!). Both games have a great storyline and i recommend them to anyone who is looking to have SOOOO much fun playing a starwars game.8)/:)