This is very early code remember, and as such all the debugging shit is still in there, and it's slowing everything down massively. Of course, such graphical lushness comes at a price, and although the levels we saw had all the elements in place, things were chugging along in only a half-screen window on a Pentium 120, although this was largely down to the sound cutting in and slowing everything down - a problem that LucasArts are confident they can easily fix when everything's finally been pulled together.

This is the beginning of a new era for us.' It's this technology that will keep LucasArts at the forefront of game design. We can create massive levels for the player to explore and build, with multiple levels, slopes and wide open spaces - it's just awesome. 'This engine can pretty much do anything we want it to. Even as someone who's not played much of the original Dark Forces 2, the video showcasing the remake's version of its first level-Double-Cross on Nar Shaddaa(opens in new tab)-is tickling memory centres of my brain that haven't activated since I was six years old.'We wanted to be able to say to the level designers, this is your world, go and create the best levels you can,' maintains project leader Justin Chin.

Oh, and a 3D model viewer, in case you want to sit and marvel at the poly count for a while. On top of that, there's four wave-based survival levels(opens in new tab), and a sandbox mode. The fan remake comes from a developer named Ruppertle, who mostly tinkers with Arma mods when they aren't remaking '90s PC classics from scratch, and you can currently play through two levels from the original game in it. Thankfully, someone's decided to remake the whole thing in Unreal Engine 4. But there's no getting around it, Dark Forces 2 is an ugly game by today's standards, which you'll only notice if you actually manage to get the thing running on modern machines.

It's so good, in fact, that we were still singing its praises(opens in new tab) as recently as 2020, praising its lightsaber-swinging and movement. It might be 26 years old, but Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2 is still a banger.

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