Jedi Knight 2- Jedi Academy *BETA*

[fe_man2000]

Anyone played the Jedi Academy Beta yet ? I have heard its pretty much complete. I will post more when I play it.

cheers
Ironman

[Kalier]

I got it about a week ago. I would say its pretty complete, it looks and plays good.

Have done the first 5 missions. Have already met a few of the characters from the movies. The story is good and the actual game is less about puzzles (like previous Jedi knight games) and more focused on combat. Its pretty hard to get completley lost.

There are a lot of moves and about 3-4 fighting styles, but i havent got to the them yet as after i do the fifth mission its back to the acadamy I know you can choose to go either light or darkside and the powers are pretty good and easy to use (heal is a must along with the force sheild). When you make your character you pick the lightsaber hilt, i am not sure what effect this has to be honest - i went for defender - but there are about 6 if memory serves me right and of course you pick the blade colour

You select the weapons you wanna take before the mission starts but can pick up more along the way, but your lightsaber is your friend One thing i notices was when you throw your saber, there is a glitch that makes it look like its not in your hand for about a second, could just be my comp, but thats the only thing i can see wrong.

Havent even bothered trying out the multiplayer - for obvious reasons!

Its worth laying your hands on as is so far a nice little game - graphics are good too


Cheers

Martin

[fe_man2000]

yeah that pretty much what I heard also - one thing in the beta is that the tauntauns legs dont animate on the hoth level - o well what a shame never mind, shame about it still using the Quake 3 engine- makes the graphics look a bit dated but I really enjoyed the first one (after you get the light sabre anyway) so this should be right up my street, and having just finshed Knight of the old republic on Xbox I'm in a jedi mood. :]

Cheers
Ironman

[Kalier]

Not got to hoth yet.

Am getting lost in SW plot lines! Academy, Knights and Galaxies! All the excitment led to new pants!

[nuke_iraq]

its a top game.. and you get the chance to "fall" to the dark-side further into it

oh yeah.. and your chars voice goes all mad if you do choose to fall, which is nice.. though it does sound a bit like you're from the wwf/e/whatever. you know.. "raaar, i'm a badddd guuuy.. roar" hehe. replaying it now on the 2nd hardest setting - gonna be good this time tho.

nuke

[fe_man2000]

yeah this is Excellent - I jsut did the choose to fall or not bit - who does it effect the game if you go bad ? I didnt.

cheers
Ironman

[nuke_iraq]

when you go in to the final temple/tomb place you have to fight ALL the jedi/sith there if you fall to the dark side.. much cool lightsaber fighting - its almost worth it for that alone if you're a saber freak like me

nuke

[fe_man2000]

what light sabre do you favor ? personally I go for 2 green ones - I found the double sabre to be a problem as I like to throw one of them.

[nuke_iraq]

had a double one for dark side.. u lose the saber throw, but u get an awesome force-kick instead

using double blue sabers this time round tho - i think saber battles are tougher with two sabers compared to the double... i dont even want to think about trying to fight some of the proper sith's with just one blade !

nuke

[Novecento]

final is out - did anyone see any differences?

Is it worth getting or should I stick with the beta?

[Freaky]

i missed out on the beta, but am 2 files short for cd2 of the final, i cant feckin wait to play this, ive been playin the last one the last week in single and multi player.

oh and as last post IS there any differences with the final and the beta

oh how do you get the double sabres guys, i want one in each hand but only started off with one, do u get the other later in the game or wot.

[Anakin]

it does look cool, even though it still uses the outdated Quake 3 engine, I'll think I'll wait for the Xbox version.

Anyone got a release date for the Xbox version.

[Cam]

it does look cool, even though it still uses the outdated Quake 3 engine,

havent seen this game yet but ya cant call the quake 3 engine out dated maybe theres a better 1 out there but the games based on this are still strong.......(like quake 3)

now is there a demo out or this beta on there site?.......can some 1 point in in teh direction of this (unless i am being thick and its wearz)(then dont post illagle links i dont want to get you or me banned for that)