Steam Jedi Knight bundle unveiled News
PC News by Robert Purchese
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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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.)
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StooMonster
17/09/09 @ 08:22
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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.
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PearOfAnguish
17/09/09 @ 08:46
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"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. |
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@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. |
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the_dudefather
17/09/09 @ 10:18
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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
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"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. |
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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...
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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://www.widescreengamingforum.com/wik...
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WARNING: The guys at Ars Technica are pretty sure that there are some serious issues with the bundle...
Check: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2009/... |
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@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. |
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YourMessageHere
19/09/09 @ 02:03
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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.
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