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.	DOS	RussS (393)
The first First Person Shooter I ever liked enough to finish	DOS	Alan Chan (3712)
A Good Port Of A PC Classic.	PlayStation	Guy Chapman (1722)
A long time ago...	DOS	Chris Martin (1116)
Blaster bolts and hydro-spanners!	DOS	Clinton Webb (21)
The first game that stood away from Id's FPS crap	DOS	MAT (35305)
Doom-clones hyped up... not because of Doom	DOS	Boston Low (58)
The first and best experience in FPS action.	DOS	Jason Musgrave (75)
Cheap Spaceballs Knock-off!	DOS	Terrence Bosky (5237)
One of the longest-lasting games that I know of	DOS	Casey Neumiller (5)

The Press Says

Secret Service / New S Service	DOS	May, 1995	290 out of 300	97
Joystick	DOS	Mar, 1995	95 out of 100	95
Coming Soon Magazine	DOS	Mar, 1995	94 out of 100	94
Just Games Retro	DOS	Oct 24, 2004	87 out of 100	87
Power Unlimited	DOS	Apr, 1995	8 out of 10	80
Gamezilla	PlayStation	1997	75 out of 100	75
Play Magazine	PlayStation	1997	75 out of 100	75
GameSpot	PlayStation	Dec 23, 1996	5.4 out of 10	54
Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM)	PlayStation	Feb, 1997	4.9 out of 10	49
The Video Game Critic	PlayStation	May 18, 2005	F	0

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Trivia

Kyle Katarn shares his name with a "katarn", a predator from Kashyyyk according to some Star Wars books and media.