Star Wars: Jedi Knight series arrives on Steam in force

by Randy Nelson on Sep 17th 2009 12:00AM

A short time ago, on a website as close as your keyboard, LucasArts launched its latest retro revival on Steam. While previously the publisher had brought several of its classic adventure games to the service, this time it's all Star Wars -- the entire Jedi Knight series, to be specific.

The five games are being offered as a set for $19.99, though, should you find yourself short on ~~credits~~ cash and/or just want a particular installment, these are the prices you're looking for: Star Wars: Dark Forces and Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II at $4.99 apiece; Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast and Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy for $9.99 each; and Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith at $2.99. May the bandwidth be with you.

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God yes! Thank you! Excellent! I need it to be next month so I have more money now!

I grew up on JK: DF2. It is probably the most influential game of my life. I played it for hours upon hours on MSN Zone.

MSN ZONE? OMG, you're takin me back

DF2 ftw

This was one of the first games I played online, where I met all the worst hackers I've ever met in a game. I was in one game where a fellow was playing as a TIE fighter, shooting missiles that looked like mines and that stopped and floated in midair. Of course, touching one meant death. But standing still also meant death to that dark side ultra power vision.

Goddammit.

Ahh the zone. Good times. I used to play as MERC_Callaway

MERC, DH, IRN, JaG, EoS, Atomic, JCS, Jihad (tools), KDD (more tools), Element (all those tourneys Element_God put together), TaX, TWC, DsB, WD, JE (hahaha, those guys were hilarious with their "yes sir" crap).

I miss playing Oasis. =*(

Same here. I just recently installed it to bring back the memories.

Damn...all those old school Week of War tournaments held by BSC for DF2 and JKO....shit that was fun.

That was the first online game i ever played :) I remember waiting months for that game to come out..

Now come on! X-Wing! TIE Fighter! :D

I want a new blue milk run please!

I've really only played Dark Forces but it was a great game as I recall.

Just bought Jedi Academy for the Xbox today...paid alot more than that.

Ive only played Jedi Outcast, and I've really really been wanting to play the first ones and Jedi Academy. I can't find the first ones anywhere and JA costs way too much, so this is really awesome. I think I'm going to buy this collection.

I highly recommend Jedi Academy to anyone remotely interested in Star Wars and online play. The mod Moviebattles (moviebattles.com) GREATLY improves the online and is still a bit active (like 20ish servers).

Dark Forces was the first FPS i ever played, and even though i never got past the first level i always loved it

Now's your chance to see what wonders level 2 holds!

Jedi Outcast consumed so many hours of my life.

It consumed 6 years of mine. =|

Listen here, Nuke. Lightsaber Comics blows.

***FYI so I don't get flamed, I know Nuke from back in those JKO days. :P***

I might pick some of these up. Jedi Outcast and Academy were all I played for a while

Can anyone explain why the old Xbox had SO MANY Star Wars games, most of which were good, but no love for the current platforms?

I mean, we had KotOR 1 and 2, Battlefront 1 and 2, Republic Commando, Jedi Academy, Jedi Outcast,. Jedi Starfighter, Clone Wars, Episode III. Current platforms have TFU...

Probably because back when the original Xbox was out, Episodes II and III were being released/made.

That and because it was basically a PC made it easy and dirtcheap to port over the PC games made in the past few years.

I felt like the Force Unleashed could have been really good if the camera wasn't so useless.

And if the lightsabers were not glowing rubber sticks.

Niiiiiice.. but I have them all already. :)

Now PLEASE port these over to XBLA (and PSN, don't wanna leave anyone out)!

Picked this up right when it came out. I was enjoying some Dark Forces earlier. Can't wait to get to part two...bring on the lightsabers!

Wrong, the Superman theme is now playing in my head...though I have no idea why.

You are now breathing manually.

Note that DF, JK, and MotS are just the same versions as their CD releases but with minor configuration tweaks and LA-sanctioned no-CD cracks. JK/MotS in particular have big problems with newer systems and graphics cards. DF has DOSBox so everything is great except there's no Steam option for launching the external config program to remap keys and such... and they already remapped the keys to WASD so if you want to use the arrow keys like the classic game you gotta figure out how to use DOSBox to launch the config tool (I fortunately am a DOSBox and command prompt master).

The lack of fixes can probably be attributed to the lack of source code (LA lost the source to JK a while back).

JO and JA appear to simply have been recompiled to remove CD checks, no problems there I'm guessing.

Oh yeah JK and MotS don't have music since they used CD audio tracks. No source code, no changing that!

I'm sad to hear that. I hope I don't run into too many problems with Jedi Knight! Thanks for preparing me though...at least I'm ready for it now. I think they should be honest if there are problems, I checked to see that it worked with Vista and that was it. Guess I should have done my homework!

That was stupid of me...the bottom of the description pages for JK/MOTS say there may be issues with modern hardware. I was just so excited to pick these up I missed it!

That stinks, those games had an amazing soundtrack.

Total bullshit. I can't believe they're being so stupid.

I was going to support them, thinking foolishly that they were making these modern friendly. I hope steam gets clustered fucked for supporting this bait and switch crap. Rebuild the damn games if you lost your source code. Weak excuses.

Burn in company hell Lucasarts...

TIE Fighter please. It's a big headache getting the original TIE Fighter to run, iMuse intact and all.

JEDI KNIGHT 2 IS AMAZING

EVERYONE GO PLAY MULTIPLAYER :D

20 bucks is quite the deal. Ive only played some of dark forces but i own JA and JO. great games at the time. When i procure the funds ill be sure to get this.

Oh god I can't breathe. Autopilot ftw..... *gasp*

And just like that money flies out of my wallet. I think its some force powers that lucas arts has.

As if they have some dark force choke on my wallet.

I used to like playing Jedi Outcast multiplayer on that level with the two walkways over a pit, I think it was in the Death Star/Generic Space station. All you had to do was power up your force push and knock everyone off the map for easy kills.

#Memories, Like the corners of my mind....#

I've only ever played Jedi Knight 2 and Jedi Academy, a few months I wanted to go back and play the older ones but just couldn't get a hold of them, so this is perfect.

I'll definitely be getting this, when my wallet recovers from the Beatles Rockband.

Jedi Knight and Mysteries of the Sith are two of the best FPS games ever. period.
I'd have picked them up again if they'd fixed the issues about them not running on modern systems... looks like there isn't a point at the moment.

Dark Forces was also awesome, thogh the newer ones were distinctly average (as with almost all recent star wars games).

These are some of my favourite games, will definitely buy these. Again.

God, I've played through Jedi Academy way too many times. It wasn't quite as good as Outcast but the character customization, short varied levels and choices in force powers made it an absolute blast to replay over and over.

What I wouldn't give for a new Jedi Knight game with proper physics. So sad that TFU turned out to be garbage.

Yeah, a new JK game would be great so long as it's another Kyle based one.

Can I Jedi Mind Trick myself into buying these?

Otherwise I'll forget and be really mad at myself for doing so.

Nothing beats Force Throwing people off of cliffs in multiplayer.

Okay, well, pulling their weapons out of their hands and killing them with their own gun does.

Any chance for another Jedi Knight game? Maybe set during the Yuuzahn Vong invasion?

Oh really, I was so happy to get Jedi Knight Dark Forces II to be able to play it on my Vista lappy... It doesn't even launch... Argh! Guess I'll continue to play the CD version on my 10 years old PC that falls in pieces... Well it doesn't fall in pieces but the motherboard fails a lot so I hardly get to boot it and maintain it on longer than 30 minutes. If I start a PC game though it seems to maintain my PC stable ironicaly.

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