Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Dark Forces II

The Good
I'm a big Star Wars fan, and the game has a very visible Star Wars atmosphere, that's a big plus for me. And the stunt of adding real life cutscenes is an admirable one (though the end result is sort of a mix of bad and good). The music is of course fantastic, they used the music from the films anyway. And the end cutscene if you end the game the "bad" way is fantastic.

That's where the good things end.

The Bad
The game's boring. As an FPS it's awful. You don't feel like you're moving a human being, run a bit to the left and you're suddenly already to the wall. You feel like you're sliding with incredible speed, it's just unrealistic and it ruins a great deal of the fun (not there was any to start with). The gameplay consists mainly of running like a madman around your dumb enemies and shoot them. The only challenge is the aiming, and there's no element of tactic or anything. It's just utterly boring.

On other sides, the game's got a very bad storyline, doesn't come close at all to Star Wars films, the graphics is simply ugly, and well, I could go on forever.

The Bottom Line
It's bad. Only buy it if you're hardcore Star Wars and want everything Star Wars. Do not buy it if you loved the prequel (Dark Forces), which had some flaws, but was at least very fun.