Steam Jedi Knight bundle unveiled

By Robert Purchese Published 17 September, 2009

Wallet damage on the light side.

The Star Wars Jedi Knight Collection is now available to download on Steam for £14.99.

Included are five games: Dark Forces I & II, Mysteries of the Sith, Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy.

Each can be bought separately, too. Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy cost £6.99, Dark Forces II and Dark Forces cost £3.49 and Mysteries of the Sith costs £1.99.

The full pack, however, saves you £7.69.

Coinciding with the Star Wars Jedi Knight Collection is the release of a LucasArts Adventure Pack on Steam.

This contains The Dig, Loom, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade plus Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. Together they are £6.99, but separately they cost £2.99.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (23) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • penhalion #1 2 years ago

    Good deals......my trap sense is tingling.....perhaps Lucas Arts put a huge rolling bolder behind the games, so that as soon as you get them you are crushed to death under 1000 tonnes of rock......yea that's got to be it....

  • Gaol #2 2 years ago

    Are these playable on modern PCs?

    It's tempting to buy but I worry these are so old they fall into 'more effort than it's worth' getting them to run at a decent resolution.

  • Genome #3 2 years ago

    Both of these are fantastic deals, considering that they contain some of the best games ever released for PC. If you haven't played them, you owe it to yourself to try these games out.

    (You can skip Jedi Academy though, it doesn't really reach the same heights as the other four.)
    Edited by 1 at 17/09/09 @ 09:17

  • StooMonster #4 2 years ago

    Look you bastards, I have already got a huge pile of "to play" games ... I really don't need the games that turned me into a PC gamer creating a second pile of "to replay" games.

    Wibble.

  • bad09 #5 2 years ago

    £15 for the lot?

    Bastards....

    / adds to the HUGE pile of "to play"

    Oh LA, seeing as I'm buying quite a few of your games twice can you do me a small, tiny favour...HURRY THE F**K UP WITH BF3!!!!!!!!!!!
    Edited by 1 at 17/09/09 @ 09:26

  • PearOfAnguish #6 2 years ago

    "Are these playable on modern PCs?"

    DF2 Jedi Knight is the original game, unmodified to work on modern systems, so there's no music and the menus and videos display in a window.

    Basically LucasArts has just ripped the CDs and uploaded them to Steam. Zero effort.

  • FooAtari #7 2 years ago

    @Pear

    That's the difference between Steam and GoG I guess. quite disappointing that they don't attempt to make games run better on modern systems. I nearly bought this last night, but now I'm not sure I'll bother... although to be fair to Valve perhaps it's not their fault, I guess Steam is just a distribution platform and it's up to devs in what state the game is released.

  • the_dudefather #8 2 years ago

    I got jedi outcast last night, no problems so far (it's a quake 3 engine game so none were expected), it even has pretty high resolutions available, just no widescreen

  • systems #9 2 years ago

    "Are these playable on modern PCs? "

    Yes they're fine. They aren't just rips of the CDs despite what people who haven't purchased them say. The older ones are all set up in DOSbox for you so just run them as normal. No fiddling is needed unless you are a DOSbox-er and like to edit the config files yourself.

    As far as you the punter are concerned, you're running a game from Steam and it works. In the background it's firing up DOSbox and then runs it fullscreen for you. DOSbox games work fine for me on Vista 64-bit.

  • Demiath #10 2 years ago

    I have bought the bundle and while Dark Forces (which is the only DosBox game in the package) and the id Tech 3-based Jedi Outcast & Academy should work fine on the vast majority of modern systems, Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II can be a complete mess as it's not particularly well-suited for use with modern 3D cards. Some people report very few issues and others can barely play it all. Personally I get frequent crashes and one big fat graphics glitch that forces me to play the game in software rendering mode.

    I still like the 4 games for 19€ deal and would recommend it to anyone who liked the games or haven't played them before - just don't go in expecting JK1 to have received a much-needed compatibility upgrade...
    Edited by 2 at 17/09/09 @ 13:30

  • Malek86 #11 2 years ago

    @the_dudefather: you can get the game to widescreen by tampering around with the ini files... but I don't know if the Steam version would allow that?

    Anyway, if it does, go to WSGF for details on how to do it.

  • Perjoss #12 2 years ago

    I've been trying this theory out recently where i keep physically adding more and more games to my pile of 'to play' in an attempt to somehow magically make some free time appear in my life, sadly this does not work :(

  • FooAtari #13 2 years ago

    There may be a source port of the engine used for Jedi Knight...

    Also dark forces probably looks absolutely awful on a large LCD, and is probably also stretched (may depend on graphics card settings etc)

  • FooAtari #14 2 years ago

    This might help people have issues running Jedi Knight

  • septimus #15 2 years ago

    All good apart from Jedi Knight. Utterly broken on ATI card unless you disable 3D accel and play in a window.

  • FooAtari #16 2 years ago

    Bollocks, I have an ATI card...

  • ph101 #17 2 years ago

    The dig works fine for me. Shame about the irritating Myst fest "puzzles".

  • Sharzam #18 2 years ago

    To those saying about widescreen, any game running on quake 3 engine can be changed to widescreen and custom resoultions pretty easily. Can either just the console or edit the config file. In fact many many older games can be fiddled with ah the joy of pc gaming.

    http://ww w.widescreengamingforum.com/wik...
    Edited by 1 at 17/09/09 @ 18:55

  • FooAtari #19 2 years ago

    As I suspected Dark Forces is a bit painful on the eyes on a high res LCD's

    However changing the scaler on Dosbox helps a little.

    I found the following setting to be pretty good;

    [render]
    scaler=hq2x

  • Alkeno #20 2 years ago

    WARNING: The guys at Ars Technica are pretty sure that there are some serious issues with the bundle...

    Check: http://ar stechnica.com/gaming/news/2009/...

  • FooAtari #21 2 years ago

    @Alkeno,

    Did you read the comments above? This is already pretty common knowledge.

    The Dark Forces frame rate issue is easily fixed with some tweaks to the Dosbox.conf

    However the Jedi Knight and Sith issues are a bit of a problem. If you are going to sell games on a modern digital distribution system in which a high proportion of customer will be using modern OS such as XP and Vista you should really make some efforts to make sure the game works on these systems.

  • Shinetop #22 2 years ago

    Would it kill you to also list the prices in euros, supposedly Europe-focused gaming website?

  • YourMessageHere #23 2 years ago

    I don't feel like giving Lucas much money, given what he's done with/to something I used to be very fond of, but these games were all superb. So I bought Jedi Academy, as I liked that best after Dark Forces, which I already own, and only borrowed it to play at first. Kind of tempted by Mysteries of the Sith too, it's the only one I never played, but in the absence of a reliable engine I'll pass for now.