The game that fueled a flame for Star Wars

User Rating: 10 | Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast PC
By renesito | Review Date:
I had always enjoyed Star Wars movies as a kid and recognized them as ingenious works of art, but this game was the catalyst for my passion of Star Wars. Ironically I bought it by pure chance. The year was 2002 and I was a young boy in a Best Buy store. As I walked the isles, from the corner of my eye I saw this grown man quickly pick up a black and bright blue box and walk to the cash register with it. Immediately I thought this was very odd thing I had seen. Why was somebody so old buying this game, and not even looking at the back of the box to see what the game was about! Surely this had to be an interesting game, I thought. I then proceeded to the pick up one of the boxes, not even reading the name of it I turned to the back to see what the game was about. I noticed lightsabers, my favorite thing from Star Wars. I then read force powers and that's when I knew I had to buy this game.

I got home and started playing, the game had the best graphics I had ever seen, back then these graphics where pure cream of the crop technology. I kept playing, each passing hour getting more and more absorbed by the game. I started to notice a fascinating storyline never before witnessed by me in a game. Characters with so much depth they felt four dimensional. The game kept improving with each mission, first a lightsaber, then force powers, more force powers and a huge array of bad guys to chop down. One of my fondest memories was the mission where rain hits the lightsaber and it shoots little sparks into the air. Another involved a cheat which allowed saber-realistic-combat, that is, it would chop enemies limps off with just one swing – that was the best fighting you could get in a game in 2002 and still few games surpass it nowadays. The storyline is so well put together that anyone who plays it will fill rewarded as each mission passes.

The multiplayer was a big hit too and I had dial up, but who cared… I was determined to force jump, run on walls and slash noobies online. Wow those where good times.

This game is a classic and a must play! Thanks to it I became a diehard SW fan that has kept playing other SW games looking to recapture the thrills of Jedi Outcast, which ironically has lead me to replay Jedi Outcast countless times as most other SW games fall short.

Long live Kyle Katarn

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