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Sat 30/03/02 at 10:57
Regular
Posts: 787
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.
Sat 30/03/02 at 11:08
Regular
"Eric The Half A Bee"
Posts: 5,347
My favourite Styar Wars touches so far...

4. the Stormtroopers run and slide all over the place like cheap movie extras (just like in Star wars)
3. They use Black and Red computer consoles (and with giant 70's computers... just like in Star Wars!).
2. All the Imperial Officers speak in British accents (just like in Star Wars).
1. The doors open and close and superfast speed, just like in the movie... (Just like inStar Wars)

As Star Trek : Elite Force showed, those boys at Raven may all be Geeks, but they know how to work it! :)
Sat 30/03/02 at 10:59
Regular
"Hmmm....."
Posts: 12,243
Is it like quake?
The way the camera is and everything?
Sat 30/03/02 at 10:57
Regular
"Infantalised Forums"
Posts: 23,089
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.

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