STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast™ Reviews

good

Love both games since i was a child.

The Kyle Kartan does not turn around when the small Andor barks

One of my favorite Star Wars games, classic!

old school gaming before it was pay to win and full of woke s*it

Back when lightsaber and combat was still fun, newer games are very locked into animations and pre-configured moves. During Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy you had freedom of movement that has not yet been recreated. Sure it doesnt look as neat but it feels amazing! You see a platform? if you can jump high enough you can reach it, no need for pre-determined ledge grab points or such!

The game is solid overall but has this weird glitch where sometimes when you die, it won't let you load your game. This is very annoying late game when there are lots of things late game that can one shot you. Then you have to close the game out and reload it to pick up your save point.

I grew up playing this game on older windows setups and this right here is PEAK star wars gaming. Nobody can tell me otherwise.

After being disappointed with Jedi Fallen Order, I remembered that I hadn't played Jedi Outcast, a game held in high regard because of its groundbreaking saber combat. And it was very fun! The game starts like a pure FPS until Kyle Katarn gets his lightsaber, then it presents you with a fluid and intricate melee system. Instead of preset damage values (like, for example, a light attack doing 20 damage, a heavy attack doing 50 damage etc) it calculates damage based on penetration depth and speed, making positioning and angling crucial and revealing a high skill ceiling, especially in multiplayer. In single-player, it is much more forgiving, and you can relish the power fantasy of mincing dozens of stormtroopers and pushing them into pits. I recommend binding force powers to individual buttons, because the default "previous-next" list is clunky to use. Level design is mostly great, with interesting locations and cool set pieces, although it can get confusing at times. I never got really stuck, but at some points had to run back and forth looking for the way to proceed. One frustrating level (Nar-Shaddaa) has annoying snipers, but don't get discouraged - it's just one stage. Overall, one of the best Star Wars games. It feels fresh even today and plays great.

It takes what made Dark Forces II and Jedi knight very good games and adds up better graphics, better sound effects, better AI, and more gameplay features. Although its gameplay becomes repetitive, cinematics are still on very old resolution, and the ending is very easy. A small hickup considering the age of the game (It launched in 2002, idk why steam says 2003). Still, its surpassed by many games during its time. Nevertheless i consider this an absolute must if you are a Star Wars fan. At least for the first levels. Not a ground breaking title, but a great game. Kyle Katarn's story is still better than the Star Wars movies since Disney bought the rights. ---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☑ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☑ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☑ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☑ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☑ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☑ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☑ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10