![]() With Jo圜ons, a Pro Controller or some other kind of gamepad, slaving through the initial Kejim and Artus bases are brutal. Seven or eight Stormtroopers and officers will burst out of a door charging your way, and all you’ll have to deal with it is the horrifically inaccurate Stormtrooper rifle and not a lot of heatlh and shields to fight back with.īack on a PC with a mouse and keyboard, all of this was a hell of a lot more manageable. Future levels will have snipers that can nail you from half a mile away. Enemies will be peering down on you above from ledges and higher platforms as you walk through hallways. (And don’t get me started on those bloody spiders in the Artus Mine mission, which are next to impossible to accurately target with Jo圜ons and the motion controls.) The save system is basically intact in the Jedi Outcast console version: the checkpoints haven’t been updated for modern sensibilities, so if you’re not regularly saving manually, then you’re going to find yourself retracing an awful amount of ground.Īnd that’s not even counting for the fact that a lot of Jedi Outcast‘s enemies and levels were designed to deliberately trip you up, or at least to make you cautious about progressing. The first mission alone could take around an hour if you didn’t remember the location of everything, not to mention any instances where you forgot to quick-save and got caught out by a band of Stormtroopers. ![]() Back in the day, that meant a lot of ducking in and out of corners, firing single charged shots from the blaster pistol because health pick-ups were far and few between. Kyle Katarn’s doesn’t have any force powers when Jedi Outcast begins, and the first mission in Kejim Post is crawling with Stormtroopers, officers, and lots of oldschool FPS puzzling. It’s a completely faithful port of the original - perhaps too faithful. The levels are big and expansive, there’s plenty of hidden secrets and things to find, it’s complicated and involved in ways only ’90s singleplayer shooters can be, and the game really opens up when Force powers start kicking in.īut that’s also a huge problem with the Switch and PS4 re-release of Jedi Knight. But I also played them on a PC, and replaying the opening five levels on a Switch in 2019 is an exercise in masochism.ĭark Forces 2 and Jedi Outcast are two of my favourite Star Wars games from the ’90s, and definitely some of the best DOOM/ Quake spin-offs from that era. ![]() I loved the Jedi Knight games growing up as a kid. ![]()
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