The two games are virtually identical in gameplay, but Jedi Outcast managed to piss me off all the time with its surprise stealth sequence, robot escort mission, sniper city stage, dark caves full of bitey things, and mazelike level design, and this didn't. Sure it could still use an automap, it's not flawless, but overall this basically plays like my rose-tinted memories of its predecessor. It's as good as I once remembered the earlier game being, but more fun than it actually was. The lightsaber combat takes a while to get used to, but once you've figured it out the game becomes ridiculously easy for the first half or so, at least on Normal difficulty. The game's much less of a convoluted pain in the ass maze than Jedi Outcast, but finding your way around the levels is still the hard bit and 9 times out of 10 you're going into a fight knowing you're going to win. The joy of it comes from having a toolbox full of Force powers and getting to decide how you want to win. It's always fun to activate Force Speed, run along a wall, bounce off a Stormtrooper's head at the end, do a flip, slice through his two friends, then spin around and Force push the guy off a cliff as he's getting up.įor all my complaints about the cutscenes earlier, the game does feel a lot like Star Wars in the times that characters aren't talking, and it's very easy to skip the bits when they are. I'm not going to say the story and cutscenes are objectively terrible, but they're made of a type of bland cheese I don't find appealing. The game's pretty much a set of unconnected missions, so the plot doesn't add much to the package anyway. Plus it has multiplayer! Which I didn't try. If you've any interest in third person Star Wars laser sword action, Jedi Academy is worth checking out. In fact I'd say that if you only ever play or replay one of the Jedi Knight games, this is the one to go for. The first dead screenshotted stormtrooper is intact. I remember that the lightsaber in this game could cut enemies arms off with a single swing, or allies heads by just casually passing by in a corridor.
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