Force powers can be used to grant you speed and healing or you can tap into Katarn’s darker abilities and do a Darth Vader throat grip or fire out purple lightning. With the gunplay now optional, you can run around in third-person deflecting enemy fire with your lightsaber while jumping and flipping all over the place. This changes the game for the better in a profound way. How can that be? Well, most importantly, eventually Kyle gets himself a lightsaber and starts re-learning his Force abilities. Throw in the upscaled but still primitive visuals, the incredibly fiddly and ugly menu systems and the rubbish save system that doesn’t let you delete saves in-game (and occasionally bugs out like the Switch version also does) and you’d be forgiven for expecting this review to be a mauling but here’s the thing: Jedi Outcast is good. If you want it to last weeks, go it alone. If you want this game to last 15 hours, do that. If you’ve never played the original or have forgotten most of it, you will be reaching out for a walkthrough. Even several hours in, it still finds ways of surprising you with examples of dreadful level design. We really cannot state enough just how bad it is and with none of the modern conveniences of having a mini-map or a way-marker, finding your way around Jedi Outcast is truly joyless. A grate up in a ceiling that you can destroy, a lift that is disguised brilliantly as a floor panel or a way out high up somewhere that only be reached by climbing up some bit of scenery that you’d never think of trying to scale. But most of the time you’re looking for something that is stupidly hidden. If you’re less lucky, the door will be locked and you’ll need to find a switch to open it or a key from an enemy. Invariably you are always looking for a way out of wherever you are. Now in 2002 the level design of this game was dire but in 2019 it’s arguably some of the most aggressively hostile level design of all time. Aside from the clunky controls which aren’t optimised at all for consoles, something that is especially apparent with the lack of a crouch toggle, the game’s other glaring fault soon becomes apparent: the level design.
I also began to use the game’s quicksave system to back up my progress every few rooms. I eventually restarted, dropping the difficulty and going again. The first blaster you get is mostly awful, requiring the alternative mode charging shot to really do any damage and so at first you feel a bit under-equipped, especially when the Imperial forces seem to be able to kill you pretty easily and despite offering a very early checkpoint, those restart points end up being very very rare, surprising you at how much progress you generally lose when you die.Īll that means that your first few minutes with Jedi Outcast are miserable. In terms of the combat at this point it is standard first-person shooter fare. He starts the game working as a mercenary with his partner, Jan Orr, and for several hours, the game is initially just a first-person shooter set in and around a lot of Star Wars flavoured assets as you battle your way through rooms and corridors filled with Stormtroopers and Imperial Officers. The game is set eight years after Return of the Jedi and features Kyle Katarn, a former Jedi who has given up his Force powers after nearly succumbing to the Dark Side.
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Being one of the few PC games that I bothered to complete more than once, I was particularly thrilled to have another go at it and this was all despite the fact that I can take or leave Star Wars generally. Octoin PS4 tagged first person / jedi outcast / lighsabers / port / remaster / shooter / star wars / third-person by Richieīack in 2002, Jedi Outcast, stood out as being one of the few truly good Star Wars games and with the franchise currently faltering in the hands of EA, we were as pleased as we were surprised to see the game was getting a current-gen remastering.
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