The lingering forces of the Empire have splintered into various sub-factions and are jockeying to fill the power vacuum, and today’s villain is Jerec and his Dark Jedi, who operate out of a special Super Star Destroyer and have access to all the classic Imperial toys. While Dark Forces took place some time between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back, couching it directly in movie canon, Jedi Knight catapults us years forwards to some time after Return of the Jedi - to the time of the fledgling New Republic. If you have Dark Forces II, I recommend you do the same.) I was unable to take any screenshots of the FMV cutscenes, so you’ll have to trust me that they’re great.

I am absolutely going to hold onto these files for future reference. (The dgVoodoo website is completely blocked by my BT router because it’s falsely marked as a scam site, but I finally tripped over an alternative download in the archive of. I fully expect your mileage to vary - Dark Forces 2 is an absolute ballache to get “right” and 90% of the fixes mentioned in any forum thread are dead links. Traditionally this would have been time to break out the XP machine, but that didn’t like 3D acceleration at all! And was I about to play in software rendering, only 8-bits-per-pixel and unable to take screenshots? No way!Įventually, it was dgVoodoo back on Windows 7 that got things running for me. I’m sure you know how much I love a good game skybox, so I wasn’t willing to let this slide. While Dark Forces runs inside DOSBox and so is completely insulated from the vagaries of modern graphics drivers, its sequel, alas, is not. While the fresh digital download I picked up off gog was broadly functional on Windows 7, I did see a lot of nasty graphic artefacts most particularly the “Hall of Mirrors” effect anywhere there should have been a sky. Yes, Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II is the one with the live-action cinematics, supplanting the hand-painted characters of the first game’s cutscenes with proper costumed actors.ĭark Forces ended with a distantly observing Darth Vader asserting that “the force is strong with Kyle Katarn.” Let’s find out just how strong, shall we? Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II If I said that Star Wars: Dark Forces would have made a perfect film, then it’s no surprise that its sequel basically just went ahead and made a film.

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