Jedi Outcast (aka Jedi Knight II aka Dark Forces III) is damn sweet and worth the extra $4 for overnight
PostPosted:Fri Mar 29, 2002 3:03 am
<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>I dunno about the rest of you, but I Loved Jedi Knight. Me and a friend would play on Oasis for hours on end. Not to mention the SP was very good as well. Sadly, JK only supported 4-6 players max... I don't even know if it went over 4. Anywho, Jedi Outcast is a worthy successor.
Only 2 complaints with Single Player: 1) no live action cutscenes. even though it's very sweet on the Q3 engine, I miss the rewarding JK cutscenes... in-game cutscenes in JK remind me of what the addon did (Mysteries of the Sith) with it's cutscenes. This is no biggee. 2) A little too much puzzle solving at times. You can spend over 20 minutes wandering a completely cleared area because there's one little lever or secret door that you didn't catch, or in my latest case, I would have had to have been watching a certain camera at a certain time to figure out what to do next.
Now, Multiplay is a different ballgame from JK. I know we're all used to servers with 16+ players, but like I said, JK only had 4... and monstrous lag that made saber dueling impossibly unfair. I've been playing online for about half the night and I must say it is one hell of an experience. Running around a map trying to kill 15 other players while they try to kill you with sabers, weapons, and using the Force (Force Push can be REALLY annoying when on levels that are on catwalks of high rise buildings). Saber dueling is not only possible, but improved as well. No simple repeating attack pattern, now you actually have different movements and tactics (saber throw is pretty neat as is being able to spin with it and uppercut, etc). Besides FFA, there's Team FFA, CTF, CTY (Capture the Ysalimiri... basically the same thing on the same maps except the person with the Ysalimiri can't be harmed by the Force, nor can he use it) as well as a Dueling mode (wait in line and go at it 1on1). I miss the Mystery of the Sith's game Kill the man with the Ysalimiri... but they have basically the same thing just reversed called Jedi Master (only 1 lightsaber on the map, he who has it can use the Force and no one else can. Kill the Jedi, get a point. The jedi gets points for Every death of a non-jedi regardless whether he killed them or not).
Jedi Outcast: fun as hell, but to survive online you need mad reflexes (and finger reaching power...)</div>
Only 2 complaints with Single Player: 1) no live action cutscenes. even though it's very sweet on the Q3 engine, I miss the rewarding JK cutscenes... in-game cutscenes in JK remind me of what the addon did (Mysteries of the Sith) with it's cutscenes. This is no biggee. 2) A little too much puzzle solving at times. You can spend over 20 minutes wandering a completely cleared area because there's one little lever or secret door that you didn't catch, or in my latest case, I would have had to have been watching a certain camera at a certain time to figure out what to do next.
Now, Multiplay is a different ballgame from JK. I know we're all used to servers with 16+ players, but like I said, JK only had 4... and monstrous lag that made saber dueling impossibly unfair. I've been playing online for about half the night and I must say it is one hell of an experience. Running around a map trying to kill 15 other players while they try to kill you with sabers, weapons, and using the Force (Force Push can be REALLY annoying when on levels that are on catwalks of high rise buildings). Saber dueling is not only possible, but improved as well. No simple repeating attack pattern, now you actually have different movements and tactics (saber throw is pretty neat as is being able to spin with it and uppercut, etc). Besides FFA, there's Team FFA, CTF, CTY (Capture the Ysalimiri... basically the same thing on the same maps except the person with the Ysalimiri can't be harmed by the Force, nor can he use it) as well as a Dueling mode (wait in line and go at it 1on1). I miss the Mystery of the Sith's game Kill the man with the Ysalimiri... but they have basically the same thing just reversed called Jedi Master (only 1 lightsaber on the map, he who has it can use the Force and no one else can. Kill the Jedi, get a point. The jedi gets points for Every death of a non-jedi regardless whether he killed them or not).
Jedi Outcast: fun as hell, but to survive online you need mad reflexes (and finger reaching power...)</div>