I've played all the Jedi Knight games and am an avowed Doom-lover, so buying this felt inevitable. Was delighted to discover early on that the game was obviously asset-stripped to make the following year's Shadows of the Empire - everything from sound effects to switches got taken forward - but was less impressed with everything else.

Somewhat painful to try and play via DOSBOX. When moving at speed through the headier action setpieces, the game becomes a painful whirl of pixels and jagged frames that I'm not willing to sit through in my old age. The sewer level was the icing on the cake - don't make me squint at brown and don't make me squint at a 320x200 map that I have to page through with arrow keys.

Might come back to this once the source port is ready, depending on what the developers can do to make it GZDoom-y. Godspeed to the rebels who stole the plans from the evil empire.

Reviewed on May 01, 2021


3 Comments


3 years ago

have you tried DarkXL? i think that was the port I used, it was extremely playable!

3 years ago

holy crap, that looks like it'll solve my exact issue with the game! hilarious that 90s steam purchases are now just "buy the data files for a fan's code"

3 years ago

lol yeah, love to play Quake 1 in stark silence