STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II

it doesn't work on new machines. great game though. one of my favorites as a kid. was hoping to play it again but controls do not work, and the when i change the resolution it black screens.

The game has always worked fine for me. I booted it up today and its broken. Mouse up turns right with high sensitivity, mouse right turns right with high sensitivity, mouse down turns right with high sensitivity, mouse left turns right with high sensitivity. I hate pc gaming.

I haven't touched this game since i was a child and i just cheated on it anyway as i was to young to actually understand what i was doing. - Played it through as an adult however brought back memories and happenings i didn't get to experiance as a kid. Kinda goofy story when you think about it, alot of puzzles to do.....had to watch a guide on some of them but overall a great Star Wars Game.

Great game! Fast overall movement with a great free form range for tackling challenges throughout the game. Jerec is a great main antagonist and Kyle Katarn is a great main protagonist that hopefully both will show up in official Star Wars media again this decade.

Still worth a play if you are a big legends fan and don't mind the at times janky gameplay of these old school 3d shooter games. The story is a pretty average Star Wars story but the main character is the GOAT Kyle Katarn so it automatically gets a A+ from me. The levels are really fun in this game and definitely a step up from Dark Forces 1, and the boss fights are actually really fun. This was the first ever game to have 3d lightsaber combat so it is pretty dated and definitely doesn't hold up very well. The blaster gunplay is very similar to Dark Forces 1 and is pretty fun. I really love this game and all of the Dark Forces/Jedi Knight games and I would definitely recommend all of them. And PLEASE Disney make these old games and books canon again this era of Star Wars is AWESOME!

I guess this is my favorite game of all time. I've bought it a lot of times over the years, grew up during the Microsoft Gaming Zone clan and ladder days, and now playing through again, with OpenJKDF2 and a PS4 controller. Life is still good!

I love how the story was adapted from the book. I used the graphics mods from moddb to improve the look. While I saw the game was partially remade on Unreal Engine 5, I just wished someone would've made a full game with the Jedi Academy engine. I am pleased and enjoy going back to play the levels.

No me esperaba que el Doom de Star Wars evolucionara en un simulador de Jedi, pero vaya que si valió la pena.

I have a vague memory of watching a multiplayer demo of this being showcased at a county fair when I was six years old. (Of course, when I got my hands on the keyboard I instantly fell off the level and continued to do so.) Now that I'm almost thirty years older I'm obviously not quite as impressed, but like the first Dark Forces, you have to consider that was essentially inventing new rules for the shooter genre as it went along. Unlike Dark Forces, however, the leaps made here are still capable of being appreciated, albeit with caveats. The obvious one is the shift from Doom-esque sprites to full polygons, which LucasArts made more than the most of. Characters are recognizably distinct, the FMV cutscenes are delightfully cheesy in telling what is actually a decent story, and the levels are impressively sprawling (take note: this is very much a 90s game that did not believe in handholding). Using the mouse to aim gives the combat a fluidity that wasn't possible with DH 1's more rigid control style, and the lightsaber - oh, the lightsaber. Unquestionably a game-changing weapon, it is a joy to use against enemies, and while the dueling combat is rather rudimentary, the fact that it works at all is truly impressive when you consider there was nothing like it in 1997. In terms of the fundamentals, Jedi Knight was the equivalent of a console generation leap rather than an iteration, and it still shows. That said, there are still some old-school aspects holding it back. As I mentioned earlier, levels are impressively large and filled with secrets, but despite the addition of a third-person camera navigating around them can be a bit of a chore - the emphasis on jumping puzzles, especially ones which require you to use the terribly imprecise Force Jump, require considerable patience to master. On top of that, there's often a lack of real direction - more than once I spent minutes going in circles before stumbling onto my next objective without realizing it, most often in ship-based levels where corridors seemed to loop in upon themselves and crawling through a maze of ducts and drainage pipes left me thoroughly confused (quick tip: if it looks like a switch, try and hit it, because it probably is one - that'll save you hours of searching). And oddly enough, the one place DH II actually falters compared to I is aurally - the sound effects are typically top-notch, but the music - while it's fully orchestral compared to the first's MIDI tunes - simply reuses motifs from the films and is poorly looped, becoming tiresome very quickly. But don't let those things dissuade you from giving this a try. It's rightfully lauded as a big leap for both Star Wars games and the FPS genre as a whole, and well worth another trip across the galaxy.

Still holds up after all these years.

Brings me back to my childhood