![]() You only need to complete four of the five missions in order to advance to the next ‘main plot mission’, which gives you an option to either do everything (and get an extra force allocation point) or move more quickly through the game.Īlso at the beginning of each mission you get to allocate one force ‘star’ to the Force Power of your choice. The game arranges missions in tiers, with five missions per tier and three tiers. You also get to choose your starting weapons for a mission, but since you have unlimited carry capacity – and you will use a lightsaber 90% of the time – it really doesn’t matter much.įrom the very start of the main game, you are assigned as a student of Kyle Katarn, and since he believes that the best for you is to learn by doing, you get to choose which mission to pursue. Once you complete the tutorial sections you get to see the two major items that are new compared to Jedi Knight II: mission selection and Force Power selection. Now I will tend to play both genders to fully explore the writing and other content. I pretty much always played male characters when given a choice until Jaden in Jedi Academy. She is an outstanding voice actor who really brings Jaden to life in an excellent way. But she is also Lady Aribeth from Neverwinter Nights, Fall-From-Grace in Planescape: Torment, Samus Aran from Metroid Prime, female Commander Shepard from the Mass Effect series, and a host of other characters in popular games, cartoons and other voice-over work. Many will recognize the name Jennifer Hale as Bastilla Shan from Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic. Therefore after my first time through I have only ever used a female Jaden. Tanzini is a fine voice actor, but between his version of Jaden and Rosh the opening sections and tutorial quickly becoming more annoying than fun. The male Jaden is voiced by Philip Tanzini, and the female by Jennifer Hale. ![]() The other thing is that your gender choice impacts the voice acting (obviously), and since there is loads of dialogue throughout the game, it actually does make a difference. Since the game starts you off as a fledgling Jedi student who is in possession of a lightsaber, there is little FPS gameplay, and therefore you actually get to see your character and his or her outfit / appearance / lightsaber throughout the game. The choice of gender is interesting in a couple of ways. Jaden meets another student – Rosh Penin – on the Academy shuttle, and we see Rosh as insecure, immature, and generally over-bearing. The name is generic, allowing the player to choose male or female characters, as well as some other customization details regarding your character’s appearance and clothing as well as lightsaber hilt and blade color. The story of Jedi Academy takes the focus away from Kyle Katarn and on to an incoming student to the Academy named Jaden Korr. By that time, most gamers would expect that from LucasArts. The thought that sending Kyle back to a low-level character yet again would seem contrived made sense, but the overall description and time-line made us wonder if this was really an expansion that was twisted around a bit so they could get more money by releasing it as a sequel. ![]() ![]() The game would use the same developer working with the same engine, but promised to advance the story and the technical aspects we already loved, as well as bring us back to many things we all missed about the original Jedi Knight. In fact – the first two images I used were concept art and a wallpaper released in the lead-up to the game, and you can see how the Rancor translated to an in-game presence in another screen later. Well, November came and went, but by January it was clear that something was coming, we just weren’t sure if it would be an expansion or a sequel.īy E3 of 2003 we were finally fully shown what was coming: a sequel to Jedi Knight II. This year I’ve replayed them all starting with Dark Forces, and now I move to the last game in the series! So let’s look at Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy.Ībout six months after the release of Jedi Knight II, there was much speculation of a possible expansion, fueled by rumors and folks with direct connections to Raven Software and LucasArts saying that ‘fans of Jedi Knight II will be very happy in November’. I have a continuing love affair with the Jedi Knight game series, and tend to replay them almost every year.
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