Second Dark Forces Mod Demo Out

The team behind the Dark Forces mod for the Jedi Academy engine have released another Demo. The newest demo contains the first three levels of play, new weapons, enemies, a new portion of the Dark Forces soundtrack, and some 5 minutes of fully rendered cutscenes. Amazing work.

Re:Imagine....

[justforaday]

What exactly do you want us to imagine?

Umm...nah, better not...

Re:Star Wars without a Lightsaber? Suckage

[Zangief]

Hell, after using the blaster in Dark Forces/Jedi Knight, I can actually buy greedo missing!

Heresy! Han shoot first!!!

Re:Star Wars without a Lightsaber? Suckage

[HanShootsFirst]

He sure did..

Re:Star Wars without a Lightsaber? Suckage

[GMFTatsujin]

Sour grapes.

With the Jedi Academy engine backing the mod up, surely you can use the cheat codes to give yourself a light saber. I can't imagine that the modding folks would leave that out. If they did, well, that's another story.

The first demo was awesome, lots of fun to play with the updated graphics and behaviors. I went out and found Dark Forces in the $5 bin at my local software dealer so that I could play the whole game through, only to find it to be completely unplayable at GHz speeds. :) This

Running Dark Forces on today's computers

[Anonymous Coward]

What be this story about "unplayable at GHz speeds"? I've run it under Win XP on a 1 GHz computer, and I never noticed any speed problems.

If you still want to get the canonical DF working, try this guide [df-21.net].

If you need a reason to install it, look at some of the mods [df-21.net] that have been made over the years, especially the Dark Tide series. There's also a candidate for the worst game levvel [df-21.net] ever made.

- [Darth Oosha]

Re:Star Wars without a Lightsaber? Suckage

[patternjuggler]

surely you can use the cheat codes to give yourself a light saber

Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side.

Dark Forces was the only game of the series I really liked- saber fights and the force looks good on the screen, but I'd rather play Han Solo than Luke Skywalker.

Awesome...

[Mitleid]

...just plain awesome.

Dark Forces is one of the best FPS', if not one of the best games, I've ever played. For it's time, it had the perfect blend of action, story and environment interaction that really makes it a true classic. Next to DOOM, I think it's one of the only FPSs I've played straight through multiple times. Plus, it's set in the Star Wars universe.

As for this MOD, I have to say it looks great and I'm going to have to keep my eyes on it. While the update to the graphics engine will add some new depth to the classic Dark Forces levels (I remember always LOVING the "Detention Center" and that level set in the mine), I really hope the gameplay can be carried over as well. In the meantime, let's hope Lucasarts doesn't shut it down, eh? Though I don't own Jedi Academy, I'd definitely pick it up for this MOD alone, so I hope that should be incentive enough for Mr. Lucas to keep his lawyers off of this one.

Wow, can they do this?

[rsilvergun]

I remember the original dark forces II has pretty huge city scaps where you'd look up and see a skyscraper rising to the heavens. The jedi knight games didn't seem to have this effect and I was really disappointed. I figured the QIII engine couldn't really do that kind of effect (it's optimized for close in death matches after all). Guess I was wrong :). Let's hope we can get some guys like this to make a new Jedi game that plays like the original when they finish this project.

Re:Wow, can they do this?

[dzym]

All that is is just a skybox. Nothing to it, really.

Re:Wow, can they do this?

[wolssiloa]

well his point still applies
he was comparing SW:DFII:JK vs SW:JK2
IIRC, in JK1, when you looked down, it faded into black to appear that it went so far that it turned dark. But I'm not sure. JK1 did have more epic, large-scale maps and architecture than JK2 did anyway.

Cool, the first one is the best anyway...

[DeepEyes78]

Seriously, I was pretty disappointed when they gave Kyle Katarn jedi powers in the sequels. I always felt they should've used another character instead. Katarn, being a rough-and-tumble mercenary, struck me more as having a pragmatic Solo-ish attitude ("Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid."). Now that I think about it, DF2 didn't really leave a lasting impression (the hokey cutscenes didn't help) and I didn't progress any further in the series.

Just my two

Not only does it look good...

[Ninja of the North]

But it was done with out the Single Player Source Code (Raven/Lucasarts havent released a SP SDK yet, and probably won't).