![]() ![]() Despite being a Jedi, you can still get your hands on some super powerful weaponryĪnd now for the bad. It is in essence, the original game as it was on PC, with just the mildest of contemporary visual embellishments. Regardless, let’s start with the good news Jedi Outcast trucks along at a buttery smooth 60 frames per second and updates the existing visuals to 1080p. The real problem that Jedi Outcast has, and it’s something that I alluded to at the start, is that the port just isn’t very well thought out at all. Jedi Outcast Hasn’t Aged Very Well, At All Nonetheless, once you get into a scrap with some enemy Sith things become very satisfying as you use all manner of Force Powers and lightsaber skills at your disposal to get the job done, with such encounters evoking the more action-packed and epic fights that the cinematic Star Wars canon has previously played host to. The actual look, sounds and feeling of shooting blaster or swinging a lightsaber is all delightfully on pointĪlso, when the Jedi based combat does start kicking off, this is where the hybrid perspective stuff kicks in as Jedi Outcast mandatorily shifts to the third-person perspective once the Lightsabers start swinging, which is somewhat jarring it must be said, though the option also exists to play the whole game in the third-person perspective should you so wish. The problem however, is that these powers such as Force Push, Force Lightning and so on, are doled out in a linear fashion and as such, there is no way for you to customise your own Force loadout, so to speak. Things naturally pick up once you start earning Force Powers and become a proper Jedi Knight, not least because Kyle Katarn’s complicated history as a Dark Side acolyte means that he has access to both Light and Dark Side powers. The silver lining of course, is that the weapons, from Imperial Blasters to the whooshing whirr of a Lightsaber attack, all look, feel and sound absolutely on point when taken in comparison to its cinematic counterpart. I know that Stormtroopers have been a running joke when it comes to battle competency for more than four decades, but you really shouldn’t see Imperial Officers doing the same tricks. For a start, the enemies are denser than Rancor excrement either running towards you and dying, or getting stuck on corners and… dying. Of course any shooter is and should be judged by, well, the quality of its shooting and it’s here that Jedi Outcast falters somewhat. ![]() Some aspects, well most aspects of Jedi Outcast haven’t really aged that well Levels are linear in fashion, often requiring you to blast/hack/power your way through legions of Imperial and Sith foes as you turn on switches to disable shields, use turrets to break down massive doors, escort NPCs around the place and so on. Katarn has forsaken The Force a decision he soon regrets as a shadowy Sith sect is on the rise, forcing Kyle to once again embrace The Force in order to defeat these insidious new foes.Ī hybrid first-person and third-person shooter, Jedi Outcast was developed by frequent Call of Duty dance partners Raven Software and also by id Software, from whom the game engine originates. ![]() In Jedi Outcast, set some eight years after the events of Return of the Jedi, we find that Mr. In case you don’t remember the PC original (I wouldn’t blame you – it came out back in 2002 when the PS2 was still gracefully ascending to the top of the home console pile) Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast puts players in the force-charged boots of Kyle Katarn, the protagonist from the previous game, Star Wars: Dark Forces: Jedi Knight. Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast PS4 Review Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast Is An Enjoyable, If Largely Thoughtless PS4 Port Most definitely not a remake (as is borne out by its budget price, admittedly), and pretty much only ticking the minimum number of boxes to fulfill the definition of a remaster, Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast has literally been crushed and smooshed into a massive great big conversion machine whereupon someone has haphazardly pressed the ‘Make PS4 Version Button’, and so here we are. Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast is one of those ports. ![]()
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