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Star wars dark forces
Star wars dark forces













star wars dark forces

One thing that hasn’t changed in shooters at all is the lame stories. This can make clearing the later levels in the game frustrating. The bad part about this is that when you run out of lives, you can only start over with one life.

star wars dark forces

When you die, you go back to a check point, and if you run out of lives you have to restart the entire level. In Dark Forces you have a Mario style life system. When you die in a modern shooter, you have to restart at a checkpoint. This isn’t really that awful, I would rather feel lost than to have a dude with a yellow pointer over his head lead me around.

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I found myself wandering around blindly until I got lucky. There is a mini-map, but there are no markers on it showing you where you need to go. It’s not always clear what you need to do, or where you need to go. There are some flaws, or course, and what’s funny is that it’s still things that shooters get wrong today. Once you can play it like a normal modern shooter, you’ll find that the level design still holds up pretty well. Thankfully, a group of modders have taken care of this by allowing higher resolutions and adding mouse look. What doesn’t hold up well at all is the way the actual game looks and controls. The visuals are gloriously dated, but they are still highly amusing to look at. You ears will be filled with the sounds of 16-bit music trying its hardest to sound like a symphony orchestra. The cinematic cutscenes in Dark Forces remind me a lot of old Cinemaware games like Defender of the Crown or Rocket Ranger. Dark Forces is one of the first shooters that let you look up and down, which is something that we just assume that every shooter has always done. Star Wars: Dark Forces, is an Doom era shooter in which you play as Kyle Katarn, a mercenary turned rebel, who is trying to stop the Empire from building an army of Dark Troopers.















Star wars dark forces