STAR WARS™: Dark Forces Remaster Reviews

Fantastic remaster of a fantastic game. Next to Star Wars TIE Fighter, this is one of the best Star Wars games ever. It exists somewhere in between the Doom engine and Build engine in terms of interactivity, with some really cool facsimiles of Star Wars locations. It's nice that they got the Avenger demo level functional and included that.

I was quite surprised by this game. For an early 90's FPS that had to live up to the expectations of Doom it's a really good FPS for it's time and still holds up really well today. Some levels however are a huge pain to navigate and I had to refer to a guide a few times in order to get past certain "puzzles" which were cryptic as hell. The weapons, music, enemies, and story are all pretty great though. I love the little extras they added to make this game a little more modern like with how they remade all the cutscenes. A lot of effort was put into this remaster and it shows. Give it a try! It's a good Star Wars fps!

Fun game! I played it a little bit back in the day when it came out, but I never beat it, so I was excited to try out the remastered version. Overall, I liked it! I got a little annoyed at some of the puzzles, but I guess they weren't too difficult to understand :) Not sure if I'll ever play this again, but I'm glad I finally beat it!

They finally fixed the worst of the audio timing problems that they launched with. Great way to experience this classic game and the start of the Dark Forces/Jedi Knight series. If you try to play the non-remastered version of the game, you'll notice the music is way off on modern PCs, the graphics are illegible even by the standards of 20 years ago, and the controls feel really old because it was meant to be played with keyboard-only. The remastered version lets you play with modern controls with graphics that feel like it came from that era but with sprites that are actually at least twice the resolution. Their implementation of bloom isn't good. I recommend turning it off. They should've given the option for a wider and more subtle bloom.

As somebody who grow up, with the Star Wars series and it's universe, Star Wars: Dark Forces and the jedi knight games are worth playing it if you are a fan of FPS games and Star Wars! :D Thank you, Star Wars for changing my life! :D Nightdive Studios, remaster Dark Forces 2 next! :D

A faithful remaster of the original. Also thanks to the fan community for the engine upgrades. A unique a fun legacy take on Star Wars FPS gameplay with a focus on puzzle solving almost as much as general FPS shooting aspect.

Same game, just looks better on newer hardware. So if you liked it before, you will like it better now.

Often surprisingly labyrinthine. Nonetheless, it's a lot of fun, really easy, really short. The port works flawlessly. The upscaling is a little....... wonky at times on the artwork. There IS a toggle to flip-flop between new and old art, at least, so if you're not a fan, you can play in squint-o-vision. Still, one of the greatest to ever do it. Remember to open your PDA and look in your inventory if you're stuck lmao

Dark Forces is the beginning of Kyle Katarn' story, a one man army capable of blowing up entire imperial bases all by himself simply by walking inside and shooting everything that moves. He also punches dragons to death with his bare hands. Seriously, instead of sending this guy to retrieve the Death Star plans, rebellion should have just send him inside the Death Star and let him do his work. While some enemies like the Dark Troopers can be a challenge, the biggest enemy in this game is at times confusing level design, but that's how they made them back then. Oh, and the f***ing mines some sadistic developer decided to place everywhere in the later levels. Other than those small frustrations, it's a lot of fun, just mass murdering away stormtroopers like Anakin slaughtering children. And as a remaster, this was pretty well done. You can still certainly see, feel and hear it's a 90s shooter, but it's visually cleaner, and controls better. It's pretty much what this game really needed in my opinion. Hope they give Dark Forces 2 the same treatment.

Kyle Katarn must legit be cursed with the amount of games he's featured in that have borderline incomprehensible level design.