Star Wars: Dark Forces II

This is almost going to be a repeat of last weeks post.

As part of the Star Wars humble bundle, I also got Dark Forces II.  After giving up on Dark Forces, I decided to try out Dark Forces II to see what that was like.  However, unlike Dark Forces, I have never played Dark Forces II before.

The first thing which hit me when I loaded up DF2 was how old the game looks.  Specifically, this came out during the period when CD-ROMs first started to gain popularity in the PC gaming market.  In particular, during the period when every game came out with filmed cutscenes with bad actors and cheap sets.  And boy oh boy, does this apply to DF2!

Here - check out the opening cutscene for yourself!



In terms of the game itself, I didn't get very far.  Unfortunately, it suffers from many of the same problems as Dark Forces in terms of the mechanics feeling very old and dated.  With that said, even from the little I played, I can see how it evolved the formula from the original Dark Forces.