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Dark Forces

Overall, the game is a standard first-person shooter. The majority of enemies are humanoid (mainly Imperial troops and aliens such as Grans) who are easily killed, although the game also features some tougher opponents (such as the Dark Troopers and Boba Fett) who appear relatively infrequently. Dark Forces was not designed to be a gory game, and does not feature any blood.

Dark Forces introduces capabilities such as looking up and down, jumping and crouching, and a headlamp and IR goggles which illuminate dark areas. In contrast to earlier games, the player takes damage from large falls. The game also features liquid surfaces, in the form of rivers and pools, in which the player partially submerges. Levels are generally far more dynamic than in Doom, including such items as moving platforms, conveyor belts, flowing rivers, and rotating fans. These various aspects allowed for more realistic and challenging environments.

Unlike many other FPS games of its era, Dark Forces was constructed around a strong plot. The missions followed a reasonably detailed storyline, sometimes interrupted by cutscenes to progress the tale. Each mission had its own briefing and specific objectives, such as retrieving items or planting explosives, instead of simply killing enemies and reaching the exit. The levels were intentionally designed to present a cognitive as well as physical challenge, and thus included numerous puzzles. The player found himself in numerous and varied environments such as bases, mines, cities, and other known places from the Star Wars universe such as Star Destroyer interiors, Jabba the Hutt's space yacht and Coruscant.

Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II (often abbreviated JK or DF2) is a first person shooter computer game released on October 9, 1997, by LucasArts based on the Star Wars franchise. It is both the first game in the Dark Forces series to include multiplayer capabilities over the Internet or a Local Area Network, and the first game to allow players to take control of a Jedi character using the Force and a lightsaber. Jedi Knight uses live-action cutscenes. Jedi Knight is the sequel to Star Wars: Dark Forces (1995) and was followed by Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast (2002). An expansion, Star Wars Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith, was released on January 31, 1998. A novelization of the game was also published in three parts, Dark Forces: Soldier For The Empire, Dark Forces: Rebel Agent and Dark Forces: Jedi Knight.

Jedi Knight made use of a significantly more powerful game engine than its predecessor, providing fully 3D environments and objects. It was one of the first games to ship with support for hardware 3D acceleration, through Direct3D 5.0, although it can also be played in a software-rendered mode. The game includes support for 3D sound effects through DirectSound and A3D 1.0 and uses CD audio for music.