I have been playing this game for a while now. Finished about 10 levels I think. This is one of those rare games where transition from FPS to TPS has been made so seemlessly. I have absolutely no idea why this isn’t as popular as Half Life and Quake.
I have played Half Life only recently, and while I am not saying that Half Life isn’t as good as it’s made out to be (it’s as good and better), I cannot imagine why Jedi Knight didn’t go on to win awards, and why only a little over 10,000 people on GameSpot own the game.
I suppose it’s unfortunate, this situation reminds of me No One Lives Forever, one of the best FPS games I have ever played - excellent and varied level design, hardly any bugs, totally solid game, yet didn’t become popular.
However, I am happy that I finally got to playing this game. It’s fantastic, and I remommend this game to every fan of FPS games, even if you don’t like Star Wars.
12:03 PM 11/21/2006
I think the best part about the force is that it will replenish on its own. I have finished stage 11 of the game, and I found that the saber combat with the reborn is still not very fluent, and it’s a little awkward. Mind you, the its still good, but comparatively, it could have been better.
11:20 PM 11/21/2006
Finished the 12th level. The final fight with Tavion wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be. I just lured her into one of the dark corridors and used Force Speed and quick tapping of primary fire to defeat her.
I was hoping the force powers ranking would increase, but they didn’t. Perhaps they will incease in the next few levels or so. It would be fantastic to have the same sort of the powers as the reborn.
11:47 PM 11/28/2006
Three more levels to go and I will finish my first Star Wars game. It should have been Phantom Menace, but unfortunately, that CD got damaged and I couldn’t play any longer…just when there were 6 levels remaining. That game was a lot more difficult compared to this game, I felt, because the view is more isometric and not strictly 3rd person. But some of the levels were fantastic, and the puzzles were hard to figure out as well.
However, I like this game better than Phantom Menace, and I cannot wait to get to the end.
10:13 AM 11/30/2006
Just finished the game. The final level wasn’t as difficult as I thought it was. I have been playing a whole lot over the last couple of days and went through the levels pretty quickly. Just when I felt I had enough of the force and lightsabers for a while, I finished the game.
Great game play experience along with great audio and soundtracks from the movie, make this one of the best I have played. Now I need to find another game to finish.
Let’s give the force a rest.
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