Jedi Knight Academy

Wed Sep 17, 2003 10:01 pm

Just wondering what people thought of the new demo of Jedi Knight Academy?
you can download it from Game Pro
http://www.gamepro.com/computer/index.shtml

Thu Sep 18, 2003 12:45 am

I was so hyped for this game, and then I tried the demo. In my opinion, it sucks more balls than a lotto machine.

Is it just me, or does it seem like a step back from what Jedi Knight II was?

Thu Sep 18, 2003 12:48 am

no i don't think so i played the full game only but its great. don't know why you think its a step back.

Thu Sep 18, 2003 8:44 am

I'll comment on it as soon as I play it. For some reason the download that I got last night refused to self extract, and then when I tried to do it my self there was an error.

I played JKII 2 years ago to this day, when it first came out. That was the first game to get me off of joysticks and onto keyboard controls. I also liked that game a lot, since it taught me about scripts and tweaking. But I never ever play that game now because too many people cheat on the multiplayer servers, and that really pissed me off. Ive been in servers where the admins would put everbody to sleep (literally paralyzing your player) while you were sword fighting. Also in everyway RTCW is a better FPS. But JKII had good graphics I thought, and the network code was good I thought (but thats taken from Quake). I probably wont be impressed by Jedi Academy but I'll post about that later.

Thu Sep 18, 2003 8:59 am

I keep on getting an error, so I think Im just going to forget about it. Too much hassel.

Thu Sep 18, 2003 9:28 am

Originally posted by El Cid
I keep on getting an error, so I think Im just going to forget about it. Too much hassel.

Yeah, I get an error too. Oh well.

Fri Sep 19, 2003 11:37 pm

I am playing the full game right now and I think its great. It doesn't seem like a big step from JKII imo but JKII was great so I am really enjoying it.

Sat Sep 20, 2003 5:36 am

same here i enjoyed it alot but i'm allready tired of it not really my kinda game. i have jedi 2 and 3 but i think i only play on special occasions

Tue Sep 23, 2003 11:20 am

wasn't crazy about JK2 so i didn't bother with JA
force powers were cool but the single-player just bored me and i never finished it
(that entire 1st level of JK2 was awful IMO, after a while it just felt like the dev's were forcing me to run through a bunch of boring early levels to get to the fun (force) parts later in the game)

i'm a crank about Single Player shooters in general tho

only ones i've finished in the last 5 yrs are
Deus Ex
MoH:AA
Halo
SoF1
Half-Life
OpFlash

Tue Sep 23, 2003 12:17 pm

It is ok. Wait 5 monthes when it is $20.00.

Tue Sep 23, 2003 12:36 pm

yup
i just picked up Mafia for $25- game's a year old but (now that i have the cpu to play it) it's easily one of the best games i've played in the last 2-3 years

lots of similarities to GTA3- but much better storyline, characters, atmosphere, missions

very few games earn their shiny new $50 pricetag so i'm all about gaming on the cheap