For example, the second level of the game has you first going through some mountains. However, some areas such as the outside areas appear a bit rushed and non-detailed. Many hallways and directions you can take allow for you to become quite immersed while playing it. Environment and AtmosphereĪ lot of the areas in the game are quite detailed. This allows for easy transition between when you need to platform or jump across gaps, and when you need to shoot your weapon from behind some cover. You can also switch between first-person and third-person quite easily with the touch of a button. Abilities such as throwing your saber, blocking with it, and deflecting are very useful. Once you receive more melee-based weapons, such as a lightsaber, the game is a bit easier to control. Especially since most of the time you are infiltrating some Imperial base or outpost.
Since this game is more focused around being a shooter, and not an in-depth story-telling game, it is mostly fine that the enemies are repetitive. In terms of enemies, you often see stormtrooper after stormtrooper, and officer after officer, that you defeat over and over again. There is gyro-control aiming, which makes it a bit easier, but it still is very sensitive. As this game has a decent mix of combat and platforming/puzzle-solving, both these issues truly affected how the game played. When playing with a controller, it was found to be very sensitive when aiming and moving. Though, the big problem came from how tedious the first few hours were. Upon first look, the game’s graphics are clearly dated, as it was not remastered or rescaled in high definition at all.
If you are a newcomer to action-shooters and similar genres, it would be recommended to start off either in Padawan difficulty, or Jedi difficulty. While the hardest difficulty, Jedi Master, starts you with 50 health and 0 shield. The easiest difficulty, Padawan, starts you with 100 health and 100 shield. Some may classify it as Jedi Knight being the normal difficulty.Įach difficulty setting starts you off at each level with a set amount of health and shield. It is almost certain there will be a few deaths during gameplay on the ‘normal’ difficulty, which in this case would be either Jedi. Each difficulty getting gradually harder and harder. They are Padawan, Jedi, Jedi Knight, and Jedi Master. There are four levels of difficulty when starting a new game. Jedi Outcast holds itself at a challenging pace, but not so challenging as to ruin itself. The timeline of the game takes place almost 10 years after Return of the Jedi. You can unlock force abilities and different weapons which you can use as you prefer. Though, many events come into play which allows you to see the character of Kyle develop during his adventure. Throughout this story, you play as Kyle Katarn, a former Jedi, now cut off from the force. Jedi Outcast can last between 12 to 14 hours for the main story mode. There are many areas that are locked from one direction, but can eventually be unlocked and opened from another pathway, to allow for easier access to areas in the game.
You can reach secret areas by jumping onto ledges and up on top of boxes in rooms. There are many opportunities of platforming and puzzle-solving within the game. The gameplay of Jedi Outcast is mostly classified as an Action-Shooter, both first-person and third-person. The question is, does it hold up these days, and was it ported well over to the Nintendo Switch? Gameplay Style and Concept The game clearly did well upon its first release. At the time, the game received very positive reviews and ratings. A little more than 17 years ago, Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast was released for the first time.