Customer Reviews
You want a worthy adversary? I'll GIVE you a worthy adversary... 
2006-01-09
Kyle Katarn was once a Jedi Knight. He once helped the fledgling New Republic in its strugle against the Empire. Until Drommund Kaas, when he confronted the darkness in himself, and gave in to it. So he gave up his lightsaber to Luke Skywalker, swearing never to touch the Force again. He went back to working as a New Republic mercenary alongside Jan Ors, the only other person in the galaxy who knew the location of the fabled Valley of the Jedi, and the incalculable power it contained. He might have lived the rest of his life that way, with only his blaster, his wits, and Jan, the woman he loved, to count on.
Until they took one mission that ended all that.
They met Desann, a powerful Dark Jedi, and his apprentice Tavion. They, along with Admiral Galak Fyyar, an Imperial scientist, are trying to find a way to artificially infuse the Force into living subjects, to mass-produce their own army of Dark Jedi. Needless to say, they succeed...and it's all Kyle's fault. So what's a former Jedi to do?
Simple. Take back your Force abilities, reclaim your lightsaber, and go hunting.
This game did a great job of improving on the combat and Force powers of the original JEDI KNIGHT. Your Force abilities are taken directly from the movies, with none of the showy powers you saw in the original. You end up with eight in all; four neutral, two light, and two dark, but they're selected for you automatically. You can't upgrade them as freely as you could before. The lightsaber combat is vastly improved; they used motion-capture to animate Kyle and his enemies, and it shows. Even the lightsabers themselves look better, like they were taken directly from the movies.
The enemies are just what you'd want in a STAR WARS game. They basically fall into three categories; Imperials, bounty hunters, and the Reborn. The Imperials range from stormtroopers (killing them NEVER gets old), officers, droids, and engineers. The bounty hunters are from four different races; Rodians, Grans, Trandoshans, and Weequay, and they're pretty much interchangable. But the Reborn...oh boy, are THEY a challenge.
The Reborn are the result of Admiral Fyyar's experiements in artificially stimulating midichlorian production. They're all Dark Jedi, and they're all insane from the process. You'll want to pay attention to what color they're wearing when you fight them; orange and blue aren't so bad, green is tougher, but red and black? Be ready for a FIGHT. And that's not even counting the Shadowtroopers...
The 'boss' enemies are nicely varied as well. Reelo Baruk, the criminal connection, is nothing. Admiral Fyyar, with his shielded power armor, is like a walking tank. Tavion and Desann are VERY crafty; those two are the toughest enemies in the game.
Fortunately, you won't be completely alone. Jan Ors fights alongside you briefly, as do Republic soldiers and fellow Jedi Knights. Raven Software even had the brilliant idea of bringing in Lando Calrissian (voiced by Billy Dee Williams HIMSELF!) and Luke Skywalker to back you up. In fact, fighting alongside Luke is one of the game's high points; the two of you are squaring off against both stormtroopers and Reborn in one area. My only complaint is that it was over WAY too soon.
The locales are just as eclectic as you'd expect from a STAR WARS game, or movie, for that matter. You go from an abandoned Imperial listening post, to a crystal mine under Imperial control, to Nar Shaddaa, Bespin, an asteroid base, an Imperial Star Destroyer, even Yavin 4, home of the Jedi Academy itself. And every location find new ways to challenge you, no matter what powers or weapons you have at the time.
But once again, it's the story that pulls you in more than anything else. The continuing story of what happens to the New Republic after the movies is compelling enough -- I think we all wonder what happened after RETURN OF THE JEDI -- but framing it around the events of Kyle Katarn's life puts YOU right there in the middle of it all. Kyle's a fascinating character, make no mistake -- kind of like a hybrid of Luke and Han Solo -- but YOU'RE the one directing the action. YOU'RE slugging it out with stormtroopers. YOU'RE slinging a lightsaber against Dark Jedi.
YOU'RE a Jedi Knight.
And that's the best selling point I can think of.
The Force is with this Masterpiece! 2005-11-15
Graphically, this game is a work of art. The shiny surfaces, glowing lightsabers, and vibrant colors make this a winner.
As far as gameplay those, you can even forget the graphics! This gameplay is so good, you could play it with terrible graphics, and still have an aweseome time!
The score by John Williams is another highlight. The music enhances the tension, action, and drama of this game.
Overall, this is the best star wars game i have ever purchased or played.
Still Playing After All These Years 2005-11-02
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This was the 2nd game I purchased for my Macs, and it's the only one I still play. It really is that good. The story is original and well executed, the voice actors are excellent, and the gameplay is fun. The graphics may not be state of the art these days, but they are subtle and more believable when compared to many of today's games which rely overmuch on special lighting effects. Some of the puzzles are frustrating but once learned you find they are really quite easy. The jumping puzzles and chasms can result in deadly falls, but hey, who said the galaxy was a safe place? Hone your force jumping skills. And your other Force powers. You'll need them.
The cinematics are well done and really carry the story forward as they segue you into the next level. The John Williams score is used effectively. If you like being immersed in the Star Wars universe, this game is for you.
The game is based on the Quake 3 Arena engine, so it plays really smoothly on any new hardware. Even older iBooks like the G3 I had perform well enough to play Jedi Outcast. On my PowerBook, the game flies. The multiplayer game is good, with the standards Capture The Flag and other team play, but it really shines in Jedi Duel, where the fights are one on one, with the winner remaining to fight the next player on the server. This is pure Star Wars light saber dueling and it takes skill and finesse to be a good duelist (if one doesn't use cheats, that is).
I wish LucasArts would release more games like Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast. Jedi Academy was good, but was more like an expansion to Jedi Outcast. Jedi Academy did pick up at the end though, and the Dark Side ending leaves plenty of room for a new Jedi Knight game with Kyle Katarn hunting down his wayward apprentice.
Force is defently with this game 
2005-10-13
If you love watching Jedi battles then pick this one up its great however in the first few levels you dont get lightsabers you get them a bit later and Ill tell you this is one really long game good story you get to fight along side with lukeskywalker or Lando.Not to mention the force powers from lightning to lightsaber throw mindtrick push and more so you can think of multiple ways for taking out your enemys
The multiplayer is very fun tons of games and levels and gamemodes pick from tons of charecters and pick what color you want your lightsaber to be.Playing Capture the flag with lightsabers is alot of fun
So if you own a Computer,PS2,Gamecube,or an Xbox and you like lightsabers then order this game right now
3 years later... 2005-09-08
...and three years later I buy the game.
Wow! Awesome! I can't believe it runs so well after the three years of its release! Everything looks and feels great on my XP. This is one of the only games I have purchased and and not had to return due to the CD being messed up or some corrupted file. So... I'm happy!
I thought no one would play the multi player anymore but there seem to always be games going on. Yep, this is a game I would suggest to any gamer.
Master YaYa 2007-06-08
Great multuiplayer game. I play with my grandkids in Indiana and my daughter in California, we have a blast. Server is so easy to setup, my 10 year old grandson did it on his own. The single player game is great too and challenging.
Choke, turn, drop. No more stormtrooper! 
2007-01-13
That about sums up the fun of the game. You can do a lot with it, more so than other Star Wars games, or like genre games. Like the title says, my favorite thing to do is to choke the enemy, turn, and drop him from a high place, and there are plenty of those. Or you can just raise him 30 feet in the air on flat ground and drop him. Or use force lightning to zap a group. Or throw your lightsaber. Or hit speed boost, throw your lightsaber, run through a group of baddies and wait for the saber to catch up to you and take out all the baddies. Get the idea?
There are upteen ways to slash, jump, force pull weapons, push droids around, trick that idiot trooper, and be an all-around Imperial stomping machine. You don't start out with force powers, but you pick them up fairly quickly.
The bad side, if you don't like jumping around or spending a lot of time to figure out where the road is supposed to turn, you are going to become quite frustrated. Jumping puzzles over bottomless pits and finding cracks in the walls that lead to the next area are all too common. I spent half my time in the game on those two areas alone. There are walkthroughs out there that help, yet for some reason, I couldn't alt-tab my game. Not sure if that is user error or not, yet most other graphics-intensive games I play can.
Storyline is good, yet the cinema scenes are limited to ships and ok short videos. The interaction between the characters in these sequences are limited to the world of the game (i.e. no cinema, just polygons and sharp movements)
Overall, if you want a hack-and-slash game that has plenty of puzzles to figure out, this is the game for you.
It's good if moded 2006-12-13
The game is so bad lucasarts should of stop the game from being sold. But when you mod the game it the best game in the world. The game needed 2 stars for how fun it is and for its overall but when moded the game is fun . So don't get the game for gc,xb and ps2 version's just get it for pc because that's the only one that you can mod.
A benchmark in the Star Wars line of games 2006-07-10
You know what? I absolutely hate it when people say that this game was hard. I beat it on normal in one week! And this was when it first came out, when I was about twelve years old our around there maybe thirteen. But, anyway this game was so fun! I got it the week it came out and that Christmas vacation, me and my brothers were glued to the computer playing that game, or at least watching me play it. I have beaten that game five times now and it never gets old!
This game is pretty pour 
2006-03-16
I guess the first thing i'll say is that I got Jedi Academy BEFORE I got this game. I was HUGELY dissaponted. I really liked Jedi Academy but this game is not that great. I have cheat codes so I can have all wepons and all amo and I can be undying. There are partes in this game that are INSAINLY tought. There are way to many puzzles - I don't mind puzzles but there are simply way to many. And some on them are insainly hard. I would recomend you to get Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy - way better the puzzles aren't insain and you get to choose what you look like and....well I could go on but i'll leave it there. If you aredy have Jedi Academy and you want another star wars game that is $20 then you sould get Battlefront thats anoter great game. Just don't get this game.
