Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II (includes Mysteries of the Sith)
Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2 caters to the farm boy in all of us by letting players grab a lightsaber and fight their way through the Star Wars universe from a first-person perspective. You slip into the boots of Jedi wannabe Kyle Katarn, guiding him through several adventures that should appeal to any Star Wars fan. (The two of you out there who don't care for Star Wars will just have to find another game to play.) Your Jedi powers grow as the game progresses, and players are free to commit acts that strengthen their ties to either the Dark or Light side of the Force. Once the commitment to good or evil is made, you lose all your Force powers from the opposing side but gain the ability to add more powerful tricks to your arsenal from the side you chose. All the neat stuff from the movies is there, like the Force pull that lets you disarm enemies, and Vader's sadistic favorite, the Force grip, for choking enemies from a distance. Other powers like Force jump give you greater mobility in the game, and all the Force powers add immensely to Jedi Knight's gameplay. The included Mysteries of the Sith add-on picks up the adventure five years later. This time you get to play as both Kyle Katarn and Mara Jade, the female Jedi from Timothy Zahn's novel Heir to the Empire. This time around you must adhere to the Light side of the Force, but that doesn't make gameplay any less interesting. Success in these expansion missions require much more use of your Jedi powers than the original game, and actually having to think our way through problems in a first-person shooter (especially in the last few levels) was a refreshing change. Graphically, both games hold up well. Resolution can be cranked up to 1,600 x 1,200 if your video card is up to task. Although the environments you move through lack detail the level design is so spectacular, we doubt you'll care. Few games offer environments this massive or varied, and the familiar Star Wars architecture lend a great deal of atmosphere to the game. The movie tie-in also means that Jedi Knight has some of the best sound effects ever. From the hum of a lightsaber to the roar of a passing TIE bomber, everything is authentic and immediately recognizable. If you missed this game the first time around, don't make the same mistake with this bundle. --T. Byrl Baker Pros: - One word: lightsaber
- Massive environments with a familiar theme
- Ability to choose Light or Dark paths with specific powers (such as healing or lightning) for each
Cons:- Enemies aren't very intelligent
"A Jedi's strength flows from the Force. But beware of the dark side." --Yoda In Dark Forces, Kyle Katarn, a young mercenary successfully infiltrated the Empire. Jedi Knight continues the story of Katarn in Dark Forces 2 as he embarks on a quest into his past and learns the mysterious ways of the Jedi. With this knowledge, he must stop seven Dark Jedi from unlocking the powers of a hidden Jedi burial ground. This task forces Katarn to decide his destiny. If he chooses the Dark side, he will come into enormous power. If he chooses the Light side, he faces seemingly insurmountable evil. Whichever path Katarn chooses will change the face of the galaxy forever.
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Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2 (Jewel Case)
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Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II (includes Mysteries of the Sith) Reviews
The levels are made up of loads of rooms, secret places, giant pools of water with sea monsters, huge air vents, and other great challenges. This game is a great buy. The first level is great. In dark forces 2 the stormtroopers and every other enemy you encountered couldn't shoot or think straight. The mysteries of the sith game is really cool. This game has wonderful force powers. The lightsaber battles are fun but they could have been a little better. I just beat it about two months ago.
The best thing about mysteries of the sith is, you don't have to be kyle katarn throughout the whole game. The graphics are way better and the stormtroopers skill with a blaster a lot better. I defeated the game on the dark side and i'm replaying it on the light. There are harder enemies with a lot more intellegence.
I would highly recommend these games they are the best. I did not use any cheats of any kind. I haven't beaten it yet but then again I haven't been working on it. My favorite is force electricity.
I've read some reviews for this game where the gamer had to go find cheats for it. The graphics are really bad on my computer but once I get used to them it's not so bad. It was an extremely long and hard game. I would be a little concerned about the graphics.
You get to be mara jade. The game dark forces 2 is my favorite game. She isn't more powerful than kyle or anything but a change is nice once in a while.
However, in the matter of plot, Dark Forces and MOTS are still EXCELLENT. I have extremely fond memories of playing the MOTS demo over and over when it first came out and then years later, actually finding the full game on Amazon at a time when it was deucedly difficult to find. Force powers are just as good as the newer games (for the most part). In the newer games, lightsaber combat is much more advanced and the multiplayer is much more fun. Try this game; you won't be disappointed, especially if you're a diehard Star Wars fan and want any action/fps/adventure game you can lay your hands on. GG I just got a system good enough to play Jedi Knight 2 and Jedi Academy, but I must say, Dark Forces 2 and Mysteries of the Sith are STILL brilliant Star Wars games.
I would wish for a better mapping system that is easy to comprehend. This game was good in it's time, but by today's standards is lacking in terms of graphics and gameplay. The MOT renditions of Mara left much to be desired graphically. If not for the cheats, I would have found it unplayable. I wish that you were not stuck playing Kyle Katarn most of the time. I suppose for the diehard SW fan, any game is good, but if I want to see Mara Jade, I am better off with a book or comic. He is just a minor character, and not very interesting.
Perhaps my system is too modern for this ancient software. The shooting was easy, while navigating the game map was hard. In addition, Mysteries of the Sith cutscenes would play at a speed too fast to see or hear. The levels are mazes, and I got lost so often I had to use a cheat to complete most levels.
I recommend this game as heartily now as I would've eight years ago. Kyle Katarn is the name of the man you play as. I also liked how they handled the ending duel. I'd been hearing about it since '96, when PC Gamer did a feature on it, and after reading that article, I knew I'd be buying this game. It's also so simple that you'd never think of it. Jerec, a Dark Jedi, aided by six others like him, who will do anything to get that secret. It's worth a lot more than you'll pay for it.
He did an incredible job, make no mistake. Kyle and his allies Jan Ors, an Alliance soldier; Qu Rahn, assisting you from beyond the grave; and Wee Gee, the family droid are all archetypes cut from the STAR WARS cloth, which is nothing but a good thing in my mind. I did like the setting of the Sith temple. Nar Shaddaa is like Hong Kong in space, with buildings crammed together without planning. He joined up with the Rebel Alliance, and you played as him in the game DARK FORCES, which was sort of a prequel to this game. It's audacious, and it fits in PERFECTLY with the Jedi precepts. And the Valley of the Jedi and its tombs evoke are so rich with history, you can almost hear the spirits of the Jedi speaking to you in the hallways of the burial grounds.
Simple; his father, Morgan, knew the hidden location of the Valley. Buy this game. While SITH had a few flaws why would Kyle have to re-learn Force abilities he already had. This was the first game that brought a true melee weapon a lightsaber and Force powers into an FPS and made them work flawlessly, something no one thought was possible until then. Why not say who the Sith WERE, instead of just dangling the name around. This game had two different endings, depending on which path you choose. Who kills him.
But, the game doesn't begin with that; instead, it starts with the execution of a Jedi Knight who's been in hiding all this time. That secret is the Valley of the Jedi, an ancient Jedi burial ground where the Force is extremely concentrated. The settings are just what you'd expect, full of atmosphere that could've been lifted directly from the movies. In fact, I went and bought it BEFORE I EVEN HAD A COMPUTER OF MY OWN TO PLAY IT ON. It was also the last game (until ENTER THE MATRIX) that used FMV sequences between missions that actually helped flesh out the story taking place.
This place is genuinely creepy, where the spirits of the dead know no rest, and never will. This was the first computer game I ever bought. He's a former Imperial officer who resigned out of rage when he learned his father had been killed by Imperial operatives. And because it's been out for so long, you can pick it up for a fraction of the price of the current games.
Now, it's a year after RETURN OF THE JEDI. Morgan was good friends with Rahn. You take missions aiding both the fledgling New Republic and the newly-rebuilt Jedi Order, until you travel to a forgotten Sith temple to rescue Kyle from the dark side.and from himself. JEDI KNIGHT blew me away when I played it. Until HALF-LIFE came out a year later, this game was the one to beat. And Morgan was murdered by Jerec, who didn't know what secrets Morgan had. Now, let me tell you why. Sulon is a pastoral agrarian world, at least where it isn't under the Empire's heel.
Anyone who taps into that massive stockpile of power would gain literal godlike abilities in the Force. The Empire is reeling, fractured, disorganized, and the Alliance's star is rising. . It's set five years after the events of JEDI KNIGHT, which naturally assumes you chose the light side. You play as Kyle again in the first few missions, who's taken on an apprentice Mara Jade, a character introduced in Timothy Zahn's STAR WARS books from 1991-1993 (HEIR TO THE EMPIRE, DARK FORCE RISING, and THE LAST COMMAND).
And granted, the graphics are pretty seriously dated now in 2005, it's still a great game; a true classic. It quickly becomes a journey of self-discovery for Kyle, who takes up Rahn's lost lightsaber and races to beat Jerec and his allies from finding the Valley and stop them from exploiting its power.or taking that power for himself. This Jedi, Qu Rahn, has been living on the run because he has a secret that would've meant absolute power in the hands of anyone who gets it. After that first batch of missions, Kyle goes off to chase down a lead, leaving you controlling Mara for the remainder of the game.
But if you choose light Force abilities, and you go out of your way to defend civilians, you'll become a Jedi Knight, and work to protect the Valley from Jerec and his Dark Jedi. So what does all this have to do with Kyle Katarn. It's a low-tech game, so it's practically guaranteed to run on whatever rig you have. The Dark Jedi, on the other hand Jerec, a twisted and evil former Jedi from the Old Republic; Sariss, a cold, calculating perfectionist; Maw, a hateful being whose rage fuels his power; Boc, a warped and clearly insane Twi'lek; Pic and Gorc, a bizarre set of twins like you've never seen; and Yun, the youngest and best of the bunch are almost all inspired by the title characters from Akira Kurosawa's classic film THE SEVEN SAMURAI.
I loved every aspect of it, all of which was thanks to Justin Chin, who was the project leader and who wrote the story. If you choose dark Force abilities, and you callously slaughter civilians, you become a Dark Jedi yourself, competing with Jerec over the Valley's fate. Also packaged in this bundle is the one and only expansion pack for it, MYSTERIES OF THE SITH. When it came out in the fall of '97, it blew the doors off every magazine that reviewed it.
I really enjoy the games where the controls make sense, the camera angles are positioned right and you are able to move freely and choose the weapons you want, not feeling like you have a handicap from the fault of one of the programmers. It's a great game that I highly recommend. Great camera angles, with the choice of 1st or third person. Out of all the Star Wars games I've played, PC and Xbox, this game for the PC is the best. It has the real Star Wars feel, great music, an original storyline that can stand on its own. I was sad when it was over.
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