Astonishingly beautiful, regardless of age.
User Rating: 9.5 | Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II PC
Despite games like Jedi Outcast, Jedi Academy, KOTOR I and II being readily available to me at any given time, I will always come back to Dark Forces II. Time has not hindered it's ability to recapture within me that spark of pure joy as I run through the Gran-filled corridors of Nar Shadaa or wipe the valley floor with Jerec's blind ass. It's in moments like these when you realize, no video game to date has captured that sense of power and beauty in such a revolutionary way. I still can't wrap my mind around just what it might be that makes this game so awesome. The first thing that comes to mind however, are the cut scenes. I laughed, I cried, I was transfixed and to an extent transported into the very emotional core of each and every character within the game, despite the often cheesy acting and rather dated graphics. Then again, it could be the magnitude of the levels. The fear instilled in me by those flying talon equipped bastards in various levels has remained unmatched to this day by any other game I've ever played. Regardless, everyone on the face of this planet owes it to themselves to allow their own personal transportation to that galaxy far, far away in what may very well be the best video game of all time.
