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Star Wars: Dark Forces

Description

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.

Part of the Following Groups

• BPjS / BPjM indexed games
• Games featuring auto-mapping
• Games made into books
• Star Wars: Dark Forces series
• Star Wars universe

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User Reviews

A gem of its time, recreating the original Star Wars fun and adventure.	RussS (390)
The first First Person Shooter I ever liked enough to finish	Alan Chan (3712)	unrated
A long time ago...	Chris Martin (1116)
Blaster bolts and hydro-spanners!	Clinton Webb (21)	unrated
The first game that stood away from Id's FPS crap	MAT (35183)
Doom-clones hyped up... not because of Doom	Boston Low (54)
The first and best experience in FPS action.	Jason Musgrave (75)	unrated
Cheap Spaceballs Knock-off!	Terrence Bosky (5237)
One of the longest-lasting games that I know of	Casey Neumiller (5)
Bad Graphics, but still a great FPS	ThE oNe (188)	unrated

The Press Says

High Score	May, 1995	5 out of 5	100
Secret Service / New S Service	May, 1995	290 out of 300	97
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
Shooterplanet	Aug 06, 2007	82 out of 100	82
Power Unlimited	Apr, 1995	8 out of 10	80
GameSpot	May 01, 1996	7.6 out of 10	76

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Trivia

Dark Forces was voted #46 overall in PCGamer Magazine's Readers All-Time Top 50 Games Poll (April 2000 issue).