Instead the game designers adroitly avoid any tenuous contrivances and invite you to create a new character from scratch albeit one who goes by the fixed name of Jaden Korr. In this outing Kyle Katarn (who made his first appearance in the legendary Dark Forces) is no longer the principal protagonist and acts as mentor alongside Luke Skywalker. Where would a Star Wars adventure be without the familiar underscores of John Williams’ familiar (if overused) leitmotifs? No longer used in their original cinematic context, here his orchestrations inform your journey to become a Jedi. I lamented being unable to savour the delights of a 5.1 mix, however.
My review sessions were monitored using JBL Creature speakers, which rendered an involving and detailed three-dimensional sound stage replete with the familiar sounds of a galaxy far, far away. The sound design is unquestionably of a pedigree deserving of the title’s roots. Close combat has not witnessed such balletic battles since Darth Maul cartwheeled onto celluloid in The Phantom Menace. The sumptuous visuals belie the Quake III game engine’s four-year age! Rain super heats as it falls onto a striking lightsaber and the character animation is suitably smooth and fluid even on modest hardware (this review was conducted on an 800MHz iMac G4 with 512MB RAM).
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The graphics are augmented by Raven Software’s code enhancements. The most pertinent question on many gamers’ minds is: will it suffer from trilogy exhaustion? The speed of the game’s port, to the Macintosh platform, is indicative of the timely talent of Aspyr Studio and the insatiable appetite of Mac gamers for original and licensed product. Jedi Academy is the second sequel to Jedi Knight and rapidly follows in the wake of Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast. However, video games remain the fondest forum since the early Atari coin-ops.
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The film in question was Star Wars and, like fellow members of Generation X, I've followed the series in its multitude of media incarnations from books to toys.
In January 1978, at the age of five, my world was changed forever by an inaugural encounter with the cinematic realm. This is the first in an occasional series of retro reviews, which will cover film, television and video games, published online and in magazines before I began blogging.
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