Jedi Academy/Outcast

rubberduck · 15 Jan 2008 at 11:04

Hi

I used to love Dark Forces and Jedi Knight, however Jedi Academy and Outcast were released at a time when I wasn't really playing a lot of games. Are they still worth getting? Have they aged gracefully?

Frapple · 15 Jan 2008 at 11:13

I played through them both and adored the multiplayer, not sure how they're getting on now mind.

There might be a demo out there somewhere, give it a shot.

platypus · 15 Jan 2008 at 11:15

Jedi Knight 2 is a good old game, definitely worth playing through.

Bean0 · 15 Jan 2008 at 12:12

I went through Jedi Academy again for the hell of it just a few months ago, still great fun.
Seemed to be a lot more difficult than I remembered from the first time though for some reason.

ssmacc · 15 Jan 2008 at 12:15

I installed Jedi Academy not long ago and the graphics look very dated (if you've played the likes of COD4 / Crysis etc). but as said, its a very playable game...I still play Total Annihilation (built for Windows 95) so I shouldn’t call graphics (brilliant simply RTS)

aeT · 15 Jan 2008 at 12:39

Awesome games, get them played!

KPeh · 15 Jan 2008 at 13:31

JK2 is a lot better than JA, the latter a mishmash of missions without a decent narrative.

z0mbi3 · 15 Jan 2008 at 13:37

KPeh said:
JK2 is a lot better than JA, the latter a mishmash of missions without a decent narrative.

From a saber point of view you can't beat JA.

skullman · 15 Jan 2008 at 13:50

KPeh said:
JK2 is a lot better than JA, the latter a mishmash of missions without a decent narrative.

Sleepery · 15 Jan 2008 at 14:07

KPeh said:
JK2 is a lot better than JA, the latter a mishmash of missions without a decent narrative.

I thought the level design was a lot better in JK2 aswell. Well worth a look

Curunen · 15 Jan 2008 at 17:55

They're both great games.
Yes JK2 singleplayer is much better.
JKA saber system is really good.

Have a look into this mod: 'Moviebattles II'
I play it a lot, and can certainly say it is well worth it.

Ricochet J · 15 Jan 2008 at 18:05

Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy are both worth getting. The reason I love Outcast is you need to use guns where as in Academy you can get away with completing the game with just a sabre. One good thing with Academy is you get to choose your destiny!

Pulseammo · 15 Jan 2008 at 18:54

KPeh said:
JK2 is a lot better than JA, the latter a mishmash of missions without a decent narrative.

Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight and Jedi Knight: Outcast were two of the greatest games ever. JKA was a let down imo. The sabers were better, but that's all there was.

Pick up JK2, you wont be disappointed if you liked Dark Forces 2 back in it's day.

marl · 15 Jan 2008 at 20:24

I thoroughly enjoyed both games!

Skyboat · 15 Jan 2008 at 20:36

Played all the DF/JK games all the way from the ancient Dark Forces 1! All quality games, although I agree that the story in JA was pants, but the combat was a lot better than JK2, which was better than JK1 and JK1:MotS. Dark Forces was just lasers pew pew, no sabers

but lots and lots of stormtroopers

HangTime · 15 Jan 2008 at 22:09

I preferred JA to JO.

The problem with JO is that the early levels are very mundane, moving through bland corridors with a couple of guns, solving a couple of boring puzzles here and there. It also has a few highly frustrating platform sections.

JA on the other hand is compulsive right from the start, with a nice training area before you getting a lightsabre early doors. It also has some very basic RPG elements in that you get to choose what missions you want to do, what loadout you want (weapons) and what force powers you want to learn between missions. It's less linear but consequently the storyline isn't quite so strong.