Date: 2/28/16
Review Number: 30
Game:Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
From (Creator Publisher): Raven Software/Lucasarts
Played On: Steambox w/Controller
Steam Price as of Review: $9.99
Total Time played: 60 minutes
Review:

Little bit of disclosure here, the actual game the wheel of morality picked was Dark Forces 2, Jedi Knight, but after spending fifteen minutes getting it to load properly only to find that the game would consistently crash on me on either of my machines, I gave it up as a bad job and moved to the sequel. and honestly, what a sequel it is, or at least what a sequel I remember it to be, though the actual playtime I had reminded me of exactly how slow the game was to ramp up. Now, I will say without a doubt that as far as first person shooters go, the Jedi Knight series was, and in a way still is, my favorite FPS series (though that title has been somewhat superseded by the bioshock series in recent years), and for many legitimate reasons outside the whole Star Wars fanboy thing. The storylines are in depth and give you a characterization that is lost in so many of the other FPS genre, the character models were ahead of their time (that time being very long ago of course, so that doesn't hold quite as much water now) and the game did what I believe was the first well done implementation of third person perspective with a melee weapon that I had seen. Not to mention all the nice force powers you would get as the game progressed into its later stages. Though in a way, the end of that statement is one of the game’s flaws; because it's far more story oriented than other FPS games, the actual story itself can lend to slower gameplay, which in the FPS world is something that seems out of place now, even Bioshock was fairly quick to ramp up the special abilities and Plasmids, whereas in the 60 minute playtime I got with this game I wasn't even close to getting my lightsaber.

All that being said of course, this is no reason to dislike the game, it has just become one of those games that you want to take more time with, as opposed to the quick and dirty games that I've been reviewing lately. This is a good thing, really, but it just means that I can’t really review this one as thoroughly as I can many other games. But still, on the potential that one hour of playtime has on it's own, this game can certainly stand a cut above most of the other FPS games of it's time, and is a definite buy from me.


Game’s Fate: Uninstalled, but not for the merits of the game itself, just more that I know that Jedi Academy is better, so Ill wait for that to keep
Buy/No Buy: If you haven’t played it, you definitely should. Even if Kyle is no longer canon, It's still a interesting story, and worth the playtime. Buy

Date: 2/28/16 Review Number: 30 Game:Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast From (Creator Publisher): Raven Software/Lucasarts Played On: Steambox w/Controller Steam Price as of Review: $9.99 Total Time played: 60 minutes Review: Little bit of disclosure here, the actual game the wheel of morality picked was Dark Forces 2, Jedi Knight, but after spending fifteen minutes getting it to load properly only to find that the game would consistently crash on me on either of my machines, I gave it up as a bad job and moved to the sequel. and honestly, what a sequel it is, or at least what a sequel I remember it to be, though the actual playtime I had reminded me of exactly how slow the game was to ramp up. Now, I will say without a doubt that as far as first person shooters go, the Jedi Knight series was, and in a way still is, my favorite FPS series (though that title has been somewhat superseded by the bioshock series in recent years), and for many legitimate reasons outside the whole Star Wars fanboy thing. The storylines are in depth and give you a characterization that is lost in so many of the other FPS genre, the character models were ahead of their time (that time being very long ago of course, so that doesn't hold quite as much water now) and the game did what I believe was the first well done implementation of third person perspective with a melee weapon that I had seen. Not to mention all the nice force powers you would get as the game progressed into its later stages. Though in a way, the end of that statement is one of the game’s flaws; because it's far more story oriented than other FPS games, the actual story itself can lend to slower gameplay, which in the FPS world is something that seems out of place now, even Bioshock was fairly quick to ramp up the special abilities and Plasmids, whereas in the 60 minute playtime I got with this game I wasn't even close to getting my lightsaber. All that being said of course, this is no reason to dislike the game, it has just become one of those games that you want to take more time with, as opposed to the quick and dirty games that I've been reviewing lately. This is a good thing, really, but it just means that I can’t really review this one as thoroughly as I can many other games. But still, on the potential that one hour of playtime has on it's own, this game can certainly stand a cut above most of the other FPS games of it's time, and is a definite buy from me. Game’s Fate: Uninstalled, but not for the merits of the game itself, just more that I know that Jedi Academy is better, so Ill wait for that to keep Buy/No Buy: If you haven’t played it, you definitely should. Even if Kyle is no longer canon, It's still a interesting story, and worth the playtime. Buy