Product Description

Join the Rebel Alliance covert operatins division, infiltrte the Empire, then battle every man and machine the Imperial Forces can muster. First-person ground combat. Call on 10 weapons to fight twenty types of enemies. Fully interactive environments - morphing walls and floors, moving platforms and conveyors, realistic lighting and atmospheric effects. Explore the Star Wars universe up close and personal. Climb Catwalks, look and shoot up and down, jump off ledges, wade through garbage.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #21539 in Video Games
• Brand: Lucas Arts
• Model: 30641
• ESRB Rating: Teen
• Platforms: Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 95
• Format: CD-ROM

GameSpot Review
After the release of Doom, gamers were besieged with more first-person shooters than you could shake a rocket launcher at. More imitative than innovative, most of these clones have long since been forgotten. Thankfully, LucasArts' Dark Forces has not suffered the same fate. One of the first titles to actually improve upon the Doom formula, Dark Forces managed to rise above me-too status and become a great game in its own right.

The story is straight to the point: the Empire has commissioned a new type of Stormtrooper, known as Dark Troopers. These devastating killing machines are being developed in several remote bases. As Kyle Katarn - a former Imperial Officer who has joined the Rebellion - you must investigate each exotic locale, searching for evidence and employing sabotage techniques to thwart the Empire's devious plan. Along the way you'll face an entire cast of familiar foes, including Stormtroopers, Imperial Guards, Boba Fett, and even Jaba the Hutt.

Using an enhanced engine that allows jumping and crawling, Dark Forces is more than just another 3D kill-fest. The levels are diverse and ingenious, with plenty of creative obstacles standing between you and your goal. These obstacles range from simple puzzles that open new areas, to arcade-like action tests that require you to jump along rocky crags and make your way across moving conveyor belts. While they can be occasionally frustrating, Dark Forces' diverse gameplay requirements make this title more mentally challenging than your average key hunt.

Of course, it doesn't hurt that the game is set in the Star Wars universe. It's much more fun to blast Imperial lackeys than faceless monsters. The familiar setting is enhanced by your enemies' taunts, like Stop, Rebel Scum! Dark Forces' only real flaws are its tragically short length - less than a dozen levels - and its lack of multiplayer options or add-ons, which severely limits the replay value. --Ron Dulin/SpotMedia Communications
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Manufacturer Description
In Dark Forces, Kyle Katarn, a young mercenary, successfully infiltrated the Empire. Jedi Knight continues the story of Katarn as he embarks on a quest into his past and learns the mysterious ways of the Jedi. With this knowledge, he must stop seven Dark Jedi from unlocking the powers of a hidden Jedi burial ground. This task forces Katarn to decide his destiny. If he chooses the Dark side, he will come into enormous power. If he chooses the Light side, he faces seemingly insurmountable evil. Whatever path Katarn chooses will change the face of the galaxy forever.

Customer Reviews

Still one of the best
While this game is getting a little dated, it is still easily one of the best on the market. Though its pixelized graphics and low-res video can't stand up to today's 3D FMV standards, and the midi soundtrack is silly after MP3, this game can hold its own.

It has great control, cool weapons, and a nitty-gritty real feal to it. Also, it's still just as cool as when it first came out knowing that you get to go and mow down stormtroopers. This game has a good solid plot, and lots of cool and familiar baddies and weapons.

This game also has a lot of firsts...It was the first, or at least one of the first, 1st person shooter to have a plot. Another major change from previous shooters is that there are actually goals within the levels...In Doom and such you're just trying to brainlessly shoot your way through a maze and out of a level, but here you're trying to brainlessly shoot your way through a definite defined area trying to complete several set objectives so that you can advance on your quest. And yet a third first is the secondary fire mode on many weapons.

The biggest problem in this game is a lack of a save option, but that isn't that big of a problem because these aren't huge, frustrating levels. While they sometimes take a while, they're logical and succint, unlike some newer games where you have to run halfway around the world to get anywhere.

For this low a price, this game is definitely worth getting.

Outstanding entertainment
Dark Forces is one of the best games I have ever played. Even though the game is 5 years old and the graphics are admittedly dated the actual gameplay and play value are still very fresh. The game is set in the popular Star Wars universe where you, as Kyle Katarn must complete numerous missions for the Rebel Alliance including stealing the Death star plans and blowing up an Imperial Star Destroyer. The look and feel of the game is excellent and really draws you into the atmosphere of the game complete with a good midi score.

Where this surpasses Doom is it's portral of the Star Wars universe and it's on-going storyline which keeps bringing you back for more. And with fan produced levels the entertainment value is infinite.

The First Is Always The Best
This is great! You get to be fully emerced in the Lucas Star Wars envirement. You board star ships and shoot it out with storm troopers. Even Vader has a cameo but you don't get to shoot at him just see him in the interludes. If you like star wars buy this. If you like first person shooters, get this. It has realalistic people(for the time it was made) and does not go for the blood that all the others do it has a storyline instead! It only lacks two things, one I want to fly that fighter of his and two, what the sequel has, a lightsaber. It does have great weapons though(nothing beates the missle of a dark trooper gun when you hear that great bo-thoom soud :) And you do get to use stealth and choose how you wish to complete a mission, ie: kill them all or sneak in and get it done. Like I said, it is a great title, and a must have!