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The player engaging a Dark Trooper. Dark Forces is a first-person shooter (FPS). The player controls Kyle Katarn from a first-person perspective, with a focus on combat against various creatures and characters from the Star Wars universe, although the game also includes environmental puzzles and hazards.
The first step towards modern games was done with 1995's Dark Forces, the first Star Wars first-person shooter video game. [13] A hybrid adventure game incorporating puzzles and strategy, [14] it featured new gameplay features and graphical elements not then common in other games, made possible by LucasArts' custom-designed game engine, called ...
Star Wars: Jedi Knight is a series of first- and third-person shooter video games set in the fictional Star Wars expanded universe.The series focuses primarily on Kyle Katarn, a former Imperial officer who becomes a mercenary working for the Rebel Alliance, and later a Jedi and instructor at Luke Skywalker's Jedi Academy.
Jedi Knight uses both 3D graphics and surround sound through the Sith game engine, replacing the Jedi game engine used in Star Wars: Dark Forces. [14] While the Jedi engine was a sector-based "2.5-D" engine similar to the Doom and Build engines, the Sith engine was a "true" 3D engine similar to the Quake and Unreal engines.
Mysteries of the Sith is primarily a first-person shooter, but offers the choice of a third-person view. [7] Unlike Dark Forces II, where the player's actions within the game dictate whether the story ends with the light side or the dark side ending, Mysteries of the Sith has a single, morally positive course. [8]
The planet Kothlis appears in later works such as the 2001 video game Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader [19] and an ASP droid makes an appearance in the novelization of Attack of the Clones (2002). Rendar is the subject of a short story printed in a 2011 issue of Star Wars Insider , [ 20 ] [ 21 ] and the Falleen appear in a variety of works.
The dark side of the Force; Star Wars: Dark Forces, a 1995 video game and novelization; Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II, the sequel to the 1995 video game and novelization; Dark Force, the Katana fleet, a fictional fleet in the Thrawn trilogy of Star Wars novels
[1] Its lifetime was short-lived, being used in two titles, Star Wars: Dark Forces and Outlaws. [6] The sequel to Dark Forces, Jedi Knight, used the Sith engine. There have been attempts of open source game engine recreations based on reverse engineering the original source code. [7]