Post by voltage on Oct 6, 2006 16:25:52 GMT -5
An awesome game, just got it a month ago and man is it amazing. It features some incredibly wonderful settings:
Story!
You start off as a force sensitive Jaden Korr, who has discovered how to make a lightsaber, with no force teaching beforehand. You are sent to Luke Skywalkers Jedi Academy on Yavin 4. You learn the ways of the force. Become a jedi, fight the dark side.
Character!
Pick your species, appearance, and clothing. Features some 27 different combos for each species.
Species included: Human, male or female, twilek female, male rodian, female zebrak(maul's species), male Kel Dor.
Clothing styles: 4 different upper torso garments, and 4 different lower torso garments per species.
Facial features: 3 per species
Lightsabers!
Then there is the lightsaber customization. Pick your hilt, pick your color. Red is not available without cheats, and I use that frequently lol. Yellow, orange, green, blue, purple, red.
I believe 8 different hilts, but you can download more.
Force!
Force powers are earned by completing missions. Your core powers go up levels by completing tiers, where as the light and dark side powers o up through selection.
Core Force Powers
Push, Pull, Speed, Sense, Jump, Saber Offense, Saber Defense, and Saber Throw
Light Force Powers
Protect (lowers attackers damage)
Absorb (absorbs enemy force attacks)
Heal
Mind Trick
Dark Force Powers
Drain(drains life from opponents)
Rage(enrages player, makes them invicible for an amount of seconds depending on force points, depletes health and force)
Grip(chokes victim)
Lightning(devastating attack)
Force powers can be 'learned' up to three points each, then you have learned that power fully and it will be of most value to you. All powers are learnable, but only a few can be learned to the highest level. Your selection of powers determines your orientation, light or dark, but does not influence your orientation directly.
Gameplay!
The game is based on tiers, three of them. A tier consists of 5 missions, and at the end you go on a special mission that follows the storyline. When you choose a mission, you get a briefing, you select your weapons, and you choose one force point. The idea is that with more mission experience you gain knowledge of the force. Some of the featured missions you see will be, hoth, mos eisley spaceport, Darth Vaders Castle, and many more. In game play is fascinating, you can pick first or third person, third person usually with lightsaber and first with other weapons. At the end of each tier you gain more experience in your core powers, and when you finish the first tier you receive another saber combat style, featring new attacks, plus the one already learned. After the second tier things really get exciting. You can choose the final single saber style. However you can also decide whether you want to wield two lightsabers, using the famous anikan vs Dooku style, or wield the ultimate weapon: The dual lightsaber, made famous by Darth Maul. All lightsabers are customizable. This is an excellent game for a casual gamer, it does not require an impossible amount of skill, like some games (cough KOTR) and its done in the tomb raider third person style, or the doom first person. Choose your character. Choose your saber. Choose your style. Choose your destiny.
Extras!
If you do get the game, there are benefits no included with the game. I have discovered that several model designers have created famous star wars characters, some bad some good, which you can either duel or have play along with you. Some of these include:
Yoda
Anikan
General Grievous (two or four armed, lightsabers included)
Count Dooku
Way more than I can number
All of those are at Jedi Knight files, simply put Jedi Knight files into google and click the first thing that comes up. Jedi Academy is Jedi Knight 3, so scroll down to the models section, click star wars, and see what they have to offer.
This is an extremely enjoyable game, and its at the top of my jedi game recommendation list. Enjoy!
Story!
You start off as a force sensitive Jaden Korr, who has discovered how to make a lightsaber, with no force teaching beforehand. You are sent to Luke Skywalkers Jedi Academy on Yavin 4. You learn the ways of the force. Become a jedi, fight the dark side.
Character!
Pick your species, appearance, and clothing. Features some 27 different combos for each species.
Species included: Human, male or female, twilek female, male rodian, female zebrak(maul's species), male Kel Dor.
Clothing styles: 4 different upper torso garments, and 4 different lower torso garments per species.
Facial features: 3 per species
Lightsabers!
Then there is the lightsaber customization. Pick your hilt, pick your color. Red is not available without cheats, and I use that frequently lol. Yellow, orange, green, blue, purple, red.
I believe 8 different hilts, but you can download more.
Force!
Force powers are earned by completing missions. Your core powers go up levels by completing tiers, where as the light and dark side powers o up through selection.
Core Force Powers
Push, Pull, Speed, Sense, Jump, Saber Offense, Saber Defense, and Saber Throw
Light Force Powers
Protect (lowers attackers damage)
Absorb (absorbs enemy force attacks)
Heal
Mind Trick
Dark Force Powers
Drain(drains life from opponents)
Rage(enrages player, makes them invicible for an amount of seconds depending on force points, depletes health and force)
Grip(chokes victim)
Lightning(devastating attack)
Force powers can be 'learned' up to three points each, then you have learned that power fully and it will be of most value to you. All powers are learnable, but only a few can be learned to the highest level. Your selection of powers determines your orientation, light or dark, but does not influence your orientation directly.
Gameplay!
The game is based on tiers, three of them. A tier consists of 5 missions, and at the end you go on a special mission that follows the storyline. When you choose a mission, you get a briefing, you select your weapons, and you choose one force point. The idea is that with more mission experience you gain knowledge of the force. Some of the featured missions you see will be, hoth, mos eisley spaceport, Darth Vaders Castle, and many more. In game play is fascinating, you can pick first or third person, third person usually with lightsaber and first with other weapons. At the end of each tier you gain more experience in your core powers, and when you finish the first tier you receive another saber combat style, featring new attacks, plus the one already learned. After the second tier things really get exciting. You can choose the final single saber style. However you can also decide whether you want to wield two lightsabers, using the famous anikan vs Dooku style, or wield the ultimate weapon: The dual lightsaber, made famous by Darth Maul. All lightsabers are customizable. This is an excellent game for a casual gamer, it does not require an impossible amount of skill, like some games (cough KOTR) and its done in the tomb raider third person style, or the doom first person. Choose your character. Choose your saber. Choose your style. Choose your destiny.
Extras!
If you do get the game, there are benefits no included with the game. I have discovered that several model designers have created famous star wars characters, some bad some good, which you can either duel or have play along with you. Some of these include:
Yoda
Anikan
General Grievous (two or four armed, lightsabers included)
Count Dooku
Way more than I can number
All of those are at Jedi Knight files, simply put Jedi Knight files into google and click the first thing that comes up. Jedi Academy is Jedi Knight 3, so scroll down to the models section, click star wars, and see what they have to offer.
This is an extremely enjoyable game, and its at the top of my jedi game recommendation list. Enjoy!