Amazing game....blal blah blah you'v heard that a thousand times. This however, is the REAL deal! Oldschool masterpiece
User Rating: 9.9 | Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II PC
I bought this game back in 2001 and from the moment i saw the first cutscene ("tell me what it is so these gentlemen won't have to expose their darker side") ("the dark side? I've been there. Do your worst!") i knew this game was something special and that i would have no more free time left on my hands till i finished this true masterpiece. I Know it can be hard to go back and play old games with graphics like these when the glam and glory of next-gen visuals is within our grasp. But hear what i say, since playing this game i have probably played 8-10 newer star wars games with perhapse better graphics but NONE of them can come even close to how great the gameplay is in this game. The graphics at the time of release were some of the best around however, and even today get the job done. the cutscenes being live actors was both awesome and hilarious, lets just leave it at that :) Playing through both Jedi outcast and jedi academy as well as KotoR 1 and 2 i realized something was missing from them that was permeating and drenching every stormtrooper, every pixilated tileset, every glow as you use the force in jedi knight: dark forces 2. that something is called fun. and this game is so full of fun to be had i have officially deemed it my second favorite game of all time. It took me somewhere between 20 and 30 hrs to beat it and a couple puzzles can be pretty hard (it's not some lame-@$$ "move this block over this panel on the floor" type of puzzles) with these you actually have to use your head. The greatest things about this game is the lightsaber combat, force powers, and story. the guns are pretty fun too but didn't stand out compared to the other stuff. I'm still mad at myself for losing my copy of this game...so later on today i will go buy it again. thats how good it is! If you have a Hastings entertainment store nearby that's great, because they're the only place i've seen this game in the past 6 years or so. if not then you'll have to order it online i suppose. It is worth the effort to track down a copy trust me!
