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Knights of the Force - Jedi Academy TC (NSF56k)
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I just stumbled on this today somewhere else... and it looks awesome. It's a multi and single-player total conversion for Jedi Academy, adding new maps, characters, sabers, and vehicles from Episodes 1-6. From the site:
Character select:
There is a trailer up, as well... youtube version on the site, or huge download versions.
Some screens:
I'm downloading the demo now.. wanted to let my fellow Star Wars dorks know about it.
A bar that allows the player to change the game speed and an improved special menu has been added to change the camera angles as desired. Also added an option to enable health bars. By turning this option on you can see health bars above enemies' heads. Realistic dismember option added for lightsabers and sharp-edged weapons. Also added a "Realistic Lightsaber" option that makes the game more enjoyable and realistic. When you turn on this option, Lightsaber acts like in the movies and is effective when touching and object or enemy even if the player hasn't attacked. Gamorrean, Tusken, Weequay, Gran and such characters' weapons causes the player to bleed (spear, tusken staff, mace, axe). This option can be turned of from the KotF's CD menu. New weapons and their wielders were added such as Weequays with shield and torch, Destroyer Droideka, Super Battledroid and 4 armed General Grievous. These characters have been refitted for singleplayer.
Character select:
There is a trailer up, as well... youtube version on the site, or huge download versions.
Some screens:
I'm downloading the demo now.. wanted to let my fellow Star Wars dorks know about it.
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Note that the original game is pretty terrible. So be sure to get a deal.
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True. And it's awesome how he says nothing about it being delayed, but has no problem using broken English to declare how hard it is to make the mod and how he's alone in creating this giant project and blah blah blah fuck you gimme the mod.
It's funny because, judging by all the videos he's posted, it seems like it's in some state of completion. Ah well.
I remember ShimSham liking it a bit when it first came out, so I may get it just to play it anyway. So there.
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Correction: The original game's story is terrible. The gameplay is damn solid.
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Which is why Jedi Outcast is the preferable game: same great gameplay, less stupid game.
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At least the end section of the dark side story is kinda cool. If I knew how to spoiler on these newfangled threads I'd mention it.
Man I loved Jedi Outcast.
I never actually tried Academy though - I take it's not worth the trouble?
It has some nifty setups, like speeder bike stuff and a moving train level. If you can find it cheap, go for it.
It's harder to get dismemberment to work, but well worth it.
The story is indeed shit. But hey, I can overlook that for some *vromm, vroom* swish dead stormtooper action.
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That was the train level, right? I started speccing my character to have Choke 3 before I got to that level just so I could drop everyone off the edge of the train.
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Yeah. Whenever I fire it up, I always levelskip to Bespin.
...then again, I kinda like money
I played this and Halo back to back, and I enjoyed this considerably more.
Academy is a few years old by now, and wasn't that intensive for its time - depends on your comp, but you might be able to run it.
Unless you mean you no longer have a comp.
I think it just sucked compared to the previous game, Jedi Outcast.
And I must be the only one who still doesn't have a clue how light saber fighting works. I can do only 1 or 2 of the moves.
The Jedi Knight games are some of my favorite games of all time.
Man, so many good times with outcast. I played it more than academy.
I played academy a shitton, and it was a blast, but after a while the lack of reliable dismemberment and the increased randomness of the lightsaber combat engine made me lose interest.
I hated dual sabers, if you played like me at full lightsaber damage, running in with dual sabers got you killed instantly. So slow.
Only staff and single saber had the control and defense needed to face another lightsaber opponent and not die in the first attack.
Playing the game normally dual was fine, of course.
But theres nothing like facing off against a lightsaber opponent and knowing if you fuck up, you die instantly. Made the fights intense, so you would actually back off and wait for the computer to make a mistake, and have little standoffs and shit. So theatrical.
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npc spawn luke
npc spawn kyle
npc spawn tavion
npc spawn alora
npc spawn jedi
npc spawn reborn
...and so on. You can also add in multiple rancors and wampas using the same commands. It's a lot of fun, but bewarned... Kyle is a bitch.
I tried the demo of the mod and it seems unreasonably unfair... neither I nor any of my friends can complete it properly, no matter whether we choose Obi-Wan or Jango.
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Objectively speaking, I found Jedi Academy to have some fucking amazing levels and improved gameplay over Jedi Outcast. The story was pretty lame, and a number of levels sucked, but after "tier 1" the game kept getting better and better. The tier 2 and 3 finales were better than many things in JK2, and and in between there were some jaw-dropping levels. (Chandrilla comes to mind.) I found that it was well worth the $20 I spent on it.
So in summary, don't knock it - it wasn't a bad game, and in a lot of ways the customization elements offset the bad parts.
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I was curious and downloaded the demo of the original. It is, as far as I can tell, unplayable.
It was the bestest thing since sliced bread back when it was released...
Edit - Beaten to the punch.
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Yeah it sucks, but it's the only mod I ever made.
Anyway, this one looks fun, but what I'm really waiting for is the Dark Forces TC that will never actually be finished. (If only, if only...)
Also, Jedi Knight was great because it didn't have a bunch of throw away "dark jedi" like the later games. The Dark Jedi we tough and worth the fight, not stormtroopers with lightsabers.
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