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"Jedi Knight 2: You *need* this game"

Morning.
Jedi Knight 2:Jedi Outcast.

If you have a PC and you like Star Wars.
If you have like FPS.
If you like shooty games.
If you like...well...games?

You need to get this game. Really, you do.
I haven't played a decent Star Wars game yet, and boy is this decent.

Plot?
You're a bloke with a beard and you have to shoot lots and lots of Stormtroopers and Empire commanders.
Not deep, not analytical but that's for some spod to talk about.

So why is it so cool?
Graphics? Sure, it's one of the best looking PC games about utilising the Quake engine but then some.
Massive levels, huge cavernous rooms with narrow ledges, massive hangars (with Tie-Fighters in. Eh? Eh? Tie-Fighters!), all manner of different levels but they all look stunning.
But it's not all "run here, shoot him and run somewhere else".
Oh no, thought is going to be required here.
But balls to all that techy stuff.

This is Star Wars. This is the best Star Wars game yet.
Why?
Because they've captured the universe and feel perfectly.

Stormtroopers? Got 'em. They event talk to each other and threaten you with the exact voices and moves from the movie.
Tie-Fighters? Got 'em. Loads of them in a hangar, just standing there.
Until you get to level 3, and then they're screaming about over-head with that distinctive howl we all know and love.
Oh, and that's the same level that the AT-ST (2 legged AT-AT walkers) appear.

There are those black detention block droids with the needle that threatened Leia. You can shoot them.
There are those sensor droids from Empire (the ones that Han shoots at the beginning).
There are all manner of little Star Wars touches.
Remember that little droid thing that Chewie yowled at when he was being taken to the detention block? The one that turns and scutters off?
They're in there. And you control one for a section.

I've been playing solidly since I got this yesterday and it's fantastic.
Oh,and the lightsaber.
Wait until you get that.
Oh sweet baby. It rocks, and it panics the stormtroopers when they see it. They run off as you would do from a Jedi.
But it's not just that it looks cool, oh no.
You get about 24 different moves with it, including a Matrix-like ability to run along a wall for a short moment.
And force powers you can use - but I won't spoil those.

Multiplayer?
Yep, and then some. Just check it out for yourself.
Lando Calrissian appears (voiced by Billy-Dee Willaims), Luke Skywalker is in it. Darth..oops, not going to talk about that.

You can't go wrong if you're even a part Star Wars fan.
Or if you just like momentous FPS games. (but you can also switch to 3rd person, a la Max Payne).

Get this game and meet me online for some hot Jedi Action where I'll lightsaber your monkey ass.

Any demo out of this baby?

Me and Goatboy just tried about a minute ago, but we kinda messed it up a bit. :0)

We'll have to organise something.

I couldn't agree with you more Goatboy, this game is excellent, i had been looking forward to this for some time and its blown me away, the graphics are great (if you have the hardware!) , the gameplay is fun, especially in multiplayer, its just amazing, the single player apprently takes around 35 hours to complete, and i'm only on the 1st level still! Mainly because i can't drag myself away from the multiplayer, do any of you play the game online? we could set up a game sometime :)

Ain't you glad I tells ya yo get tha now huh?

But I'm stuck at the moment, can't get that sodding lightsaber. Open the cage, run with force speed, even try to pull it towards me while running, but I can't get the damn thing.

Anytime for a multiplayer battle Shanks and Goatboy, I'm looking forward to it already.

Being a Jedi with powers rocks.

The tests are a bit frustrating in the temple, but once you get your lightsaber?
Everyone will suffer the wrath of the Jedi. (but in a good way, no Dark Side here).

You get massive levels and about 8+hrs before you even reach the Jedi Temple where Skywalker appears and makes you tart about to get your powers and lightsaber.

And the 1st real chance to show-off?
In a Cantina (complete with that Cantina tune, Greedo people everywhere).
You talk to the bartender, he gets moody, you whip your saber out and have the lot of them.
Bit tricky? No worries, just use the Jedi "speed" trick that slows them all down/you really fast and sliced them all.

Oh, and turn on "dismemberment" as an option.
Oh baby...

I want a new Star Wars game, the last one i got was Jedi Power battles on PS1 and to be honest that wasnt much cop was it.

The thing is, do i get this, or the new starfighter game on the PS2. I heard good things about it, and not owning the first one this is more tempting than ever.

oh well thats alright then.
i dont like the views where you just see the gun sticking out at the side all the game.

Hercules! wrote:
> So is the camera like on your characters stomach and all that you can see is his
> gun?

It depends if you are in 3rd person or first...

If your in third, you have a Lara Corft perspective...

If your in first, you get the generic FPS perspecitive..

You can play in whicever perspecive you choose, and switch whenever you please...

So is the camera like on your characters stomach and all that you can see is his gun?

Hercules! wrote:
> Is it like quake?

It uses the Quake3 engine... but its been 'heavily' modified (e.g. they have tripled (?) the polygo count.

>The way the camera is and everything?

Its a first and third person view game, obviously no camera troubles in FP, Ive also had none so far in 3rd person either?