Today I will be reviewing a old star wars jewel Star Wars Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast. I recently
replayed the game and felt I might as well try my hand at reviewing. I will be putting images in
spoiler tags to make the initial post size smaller.
Jedi Outcast is a first-person shooter where you play as Ex-Jedi Katarn during the game you will
fight your way through hordes of Stormtroopers,Crimelords and many Dark Jedi.
Story
You play as Kyle Katarn you will initially be assigned to investigate a Imperial Remnant base with
your partner who suprisingly resembes Lora Croft to me, Jan Ors. The base starts out as your
outpost until you run upon the research area and get entangled into a Imperial scheme.
In missions later your partner Jan Ors will get captured and killed by the Dark Jedi Desann who is
basicly a Dinosaur man. Upon this happening Kyle goes into a rage and swears vengeance and
retakes his spot as a Jedi so he may have his revenge.
Im not going to go any farther into the story because I'd spoil what I think is prolly one of the
best storys from a star wars video game (not counting Kotor series since thats what the games
about the story mainly)
overall the Story is maybe a bit above average.
Gameplay
This is where the game shines the most wether your cutting people up with your lightsaber
blasting them with your many weapons or using the force to electricute push or pull enemys
you will be enjoying the combat of the game.
The weapons at your disposal consist of are your pistol, the E-11 (stormtrooper gun), a heavy
repeater(machine gun pretty much) laser sniper, rockets, the flechette(shotgun) and mines and
thermol detonaters, Each weapon has a alt fire some have a charged blast a rapid fire mode
with less accuracy or even homing, You can get alot of variation with how you use them in different
situations since you don't have to stick to your lightsaber when you get it.
The Lightsaber might be the best part of the gameplay you can combine it with the force and throw
it or utilize its 3 different fighting styles to fight your enemys and get in saber locks with ohter dark
jedi.
Your forcepowers are what this game are about being a Jedi because of this they have givin you a l
large range of them, Some of the powers include: Force push, Force Pull, Force Lightning, Grip (choke),
Mind trick and Force jump. At the beginning of every level after you become a Jedi you will gain new powers
you your old powers will get higher level such as level 2 force push can push enemys farther and ones that are
farther away.
Last but not least the puzzles. The puzzles in this game vary to open up ventilation shafts to sneak
over your enemys to using your force powers to move objects, activate switches that are un-reachable,
use a computer to control a mouse droid to go through small shafts and find a way to open the door for
you or simply clear a room of enemys without actrually fighting them.
Cons for Gameplay in General
- Most boss fights are ridiculously hard mostly the Dark Jedi ones since they will use push and pull
to make you fall and it takes forever to get back up
- Your force heal for about the first two thirds of the game takes forever to actrually heal you full it
adds alot of time to gameplay and you have to use the lower levels standing still.
- Some puzzles are way to hard to figure out what you have to do.
-The First level your a Jedi is covered with snipers which shots you can't block with your saber.
- Can't skip cutscenes! this is very annoying when your stuck at a boss since they usually do bit of talking
before they even start to fight.
Sound
Like every star wars game before and after it the sound is amazing featuring John Williams
doing some of his best work and authentic Blaster and lightsaber sounds. The Voice overs are
generally well done including Alien dialect for the Rodians and Trandoshans you may incounter.
Bugs/Issues
Not sure if this is a bug but in the cutscenes the mouths on the characters look weird probably
just the fact that the games pretty old.
Sometimes your saber will 'Ghost' through enemys that are running away mainly
with w+a and w+d attacks.
Graphics
This game is pretty old but the graphics are still decent for we call 'adverage' nowadays. It
was a pretty darn good looking game at its time. The Lightsabers have a glow to them and
look better then the sabers in The Force Unleashed for wii and ps2 which says alot about the
quality of them being like 5-6 years younger then TFU.
Multiplayer
Jedi Outcasts multiplayer is much like other fps's multiplayer but with a few new things to go along with the star warsy feel. You can choose between many different characters to play as in multiplayer such as a rebel trooper to a rodian, each character has a blue and red variation you can choose and will be forced to uuse in team modes (you can choose the blue and red versions in FFA) you can enable and siable weapons and force powers in the server options for more gameplay variations. I'lll now explain the game modes.
FreeForAll (its actrually written like this in the game)
FFA is your adverage deathmatch game mode kill people to score points commit suicide or fall in a pit without someone forceing you in and you lose a point.
TeamFFA
Same as FFA only in team (what a suprise)
CaptureTheFlag
Each team has a flag at their base. You must go to the enemy base grab there flag and return it to yours to score a point if your flag is missing when you come back with the flag you cannot score and must wait for someone to kill the flag carrier and walk over the flag so it warps back to place.
Capture the Yssalimari
this is the same as CTF only the flags are replaced with yssalimari and the carrier cannot use force powers this adds alot more trouble to the one with the flag and will need alot more teamwork to win in this mode.
Jedi Master
This is like FFA only each player has no lightsaber or force powers, at the beginning a holocron will spawn somewhere in the map and the first person to grab it gets a lightsaber and full force powers who ever kills that player gets the holocron and can easily kill the other players.
Overall Its a pretty good game which is definitly worth a pick up if your a star wars fan or are
into fps's with some good puzzles.
replayed the game and felt I might as well try my hand at reviewing. I will be putting images in
spoiler tags to make the initial post size smaller.
Jedi Outcast is a first-person shooter where you play as Ex-Jedi Katarn during the game you will
fight your way through hordes of Stormtroopers,Crimelords and many Dark Jedi.
Story
You play as Kyle Katarn you will initially be assigned to investigate a Imperial Remnant base with
your partner who suprisingly resembes Lora Croft to me, Jan Ors. The base starts out as your
outpost until you run upon the research area and get entangled into a Imperial scheme.
In missions later your partner Jan Ors will get captured and killed by the Dark Jedi Desann who is
basicly a Dinosaur man. Upon this happening Kyle goes into a rage and swears vengeance and
retakes his spot as a Jedi so he may have his revenge.
Im not going to go any farther into the story because I'd spoil what I think is prolly one of the
best storys from a star wars video game (not counting Kotor series since thats what the games
about the story mainly)
overall the Story is maybe a bit above average.
Gameplay
This is where the game shines the most wether your cutting people up with your lightsaber
blasting them with your many weapons or using the force to electricute push or pull enemys
you will be enjoying the combat of the game.
The weapons at your disposal consist of are your pistol, the E-11 (stormtrooper gun), a heavy
repeater(machine gun pretty much) laser sniper, rockets, the flechette(shotgun) and mines and
thermol detonaters, Each weapon has a alt fire some have a charged blast a rapid fire mode
with less accuracy or even homing, You can get alot of variation with how you use them in different
situations since you don't have to stick to your lightsaber when you get it.
The Lightsaber might be the best part of the gameplay you can combine it with the force and throw
it or utilize its 3 different fighting styles to fight your enemys and get in saber locks with ohter dark
jedi.
Your forcepowers are what this game are about being a Jedi because of this they have givin you a l
large range of them, Some of the powers include: Force push, Force Pull, Force Lightning, Grip (choke),
Mind trick and Force jump. At the beginning of every level after you become a Jedi you will gain new powers
you your old powers will get higher level such as level 2 force push can push enemys farther and ones that are
farther away.
Last but not least the puzzles. The puzzles in this game vary to open up ventilation shafts to sneak
over your enemys to using your force powers to move objects, activate switches that are un-reachable,
use a computer to control a mouse droid to go through small shafts and find a way to open the door for
you or simply clear a room of enemys without actrually fighting them.
Cons for Gameplay in General
- Most boss fights are ridiculously hard mostly the Dark Jedi ones since they will use push and pull
to make you fall and it takes forever to get back up
- Your force heal for about the first two thirds of the game takes forever to actrually heal you full it
adds alot of time to gameplay and you have to use the lower levels standing still.
- Some puzzles are way to hard to figure out what you have to do.
-The First level your a Jedi is covered with snipers which shots you can't block with your saber.
- Can't skip cutscenes! this is very annoying when your stuck at a boss since they usually do bit of talking
before they even start to fight.
Sound
Like every star wars game before and after it the sound is amazing featuring John Williams
doing some of his best work and authentic Blaster and lightsaber sounds. The Voice overs are
generally well done including Alien dialect for the Rodians and Trandoshans you may incounter.
Bugs/Issues
Not sure if this is a bug but in the cutscenes the mouths on the characters look weird probably
just the fact that the games pretty old.
Sometimes your saber will 'Ghost' through enemys that are running away mainly
with w+a and w+d attacks.
Graphics
This game is pretty old but the graphics are still decent for we call 'adverage' nowadays. It
was a pretty darn good looking game at its time. The Lightsabers have a glow to them and
look better then the sabers in The Force Unleashed for wii and ps2 which says alot about the
quality of them being like 5-6 years younger then TFU.
Multiplayer
Jedi Outcasts multiplayer is much like other fps's multiplayer but with a few new things to go along with the star warsy feel. You can choose between many different characters to play as in multiplayer such as a rebel trooper to a rodian, each character has a blue and red variation you can choose and will be forced to uuse in team modes (you can choose the blue and red versions in FFA) you can enable and siable weapons and force powers in the server options for more gameplay variations. I'lll now explain the game modes.
FreeForAll (its actrually written like this in the game)
FFA is your adverage deathmatch game mode kill people to score points commit suicide or fall in a pit without someone forceing you in and you lose a point.
TeamFFA
Same as FFA only in team (what a suprise)
CaptureTheFlag
Each team has a flag at their base. You must go to the enemy base grab there flag and return it to yours to score a point if your flag is missing when you come back with the flag you cannot score and must wait for someone to kill the flag carrier and walk over the flag so it warps back to place.
Capture the Yssalimari
this is the same as CTF only the flags are replaced with yssalimari and the carrier cannot use force powers this adds alot more trouble to the one with the flag and will need alot more teamwork to win in this mode.
Jedi Master
This is like FFA only each player has no lightsaber or force powers, at the beginning a holocron will spawn somewhere in the map and the first person to grab it gets a lightsaber and full force powers who ever kills that player gets the holocron and can easily kill the other players.
Overall Its a pretty good game which is definitly worth a pick up if your a star wars fan or are
into fps's with some good puzzles.
