Dark Forces is LucasArts' first attempt to enter the 1st person shooter market. Instead of licensing the Doom engine, the company created its own which has more 3D elements than ID Software's, with the ability to look up and down, and to jump and crouch.

The game is set in the familiar Star Wars universe, and contains almost all of the Imperial stuff such as stormtroopers, officers, and droids.

There are 14 huge levels to complete in the original version. Several animated cutscenes appear between the missions to develop the story. There is no multiplayer mode.

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User Reviews

The first First Person Shooter I ever liked enough to finish	Alan Chan (3715)	unrated
A long time ago...	Chris Martin (1118)
Blaster bolts and hydro-spanners!	Clinton Webb (21)	unrated
The first game that stood away from Id's FPS crap	MAT (34845)
Doom-clones hyped up... not because of Doom	Boston Low (53)
The first and best experience in FPS action.	Jason Musgrave (75)	unrated
Cheap Spaceballs Knock-off!	Terrence Bosky (5239)
One of the longest-lasting games that I know of	Casey Neumiller (5)
Bad Graphics, but still a great FPS	ThE oNe (188)	unrated
Stop, Rebel scum!	Ashley Pomeroy (227)	unrated

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The Press Says

High Score	May, 1995	5 out of 5	100
Joystick	Mar, 1995	95 out of 100	95
PC Games (Germany)	Apr, 1995	94 out of 100	94
Coming Soon Magazine	Mar, 1995	94 out of 100	94
PC Gamer	May, 1995	92 out of 100	92
Just Games Retro	Oct 24, 2004	87 out of 100	87
PC Player (Germany)	Apr, 1995	84 out of 100	84
Power Unlimited	Apr, 1995	8 out of 10	80
GameSpot	May 01, 1996	7.6 out of 10	76

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Trivia

Originally, Denny Delk (the narrator) read the Star Wars scrolling text, but it was cut out. He actually read the lines. You can extract the sound files of these lines with one of the hacking programs out there. You can start looking for them at www.massassi.net.

Also, in the intro, there was a movie showing Kyle Katarn loading his weapons, but this was cut out too.

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This entry was contributed by Kabushi (43702), IJan (1980) and Grant McLellan (559)