STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™

Has the best lightsaber mechanics of all Star Wars games. Don’t forget to install Movie Battles II

For me personally this is the best Star Wars game ever created based on sword fighting and overall nostalgic feel to it. I have played it atleast 15 times and it never gets old ! Would recommend 10/10

Still hands down the best implementation of lightsaber combat, no game has come close to topping it. Story is okay, nothing to write home about, but a fun journey nonetheless.

2.5-3.5/5 Jedi Academy exists primarily as a vehicle for a fantasy that had no real competition in 2003 — being a Jedi. As a power fantasy delivery mechanism it occasionally succeeds, and the mission structure giving you some degree of choice in progression is appreciated. Everything else ranges from mediocre to broken. The lightsaber combat is the game's centerpiece and its greatest failure. One-shots fly in both directions with no readable logic distinguishing them from exchanges that somehow take minutes to resolve. Hit detection, blade contact points, and animation state damage multipliers operate entirely beneath the surface with zero legible feedback. In practice it is indistinguishable from randomness. KOTOR's semi-turn-based system, routinely dismissed as dated, communicates more mechanical information in a single exchange than Jedi Academy's real-time combat ever manages. Force powers, your secondary toolkit, become largely useless against lightsaber-wielding opponents — which constitute the majority of late-game content. The game's solution is to throw dozens of enemies simultaneously in the final levels, substituting quantity for design. The Steam release compounds these problems with persistent bugs. Academy cutscenes hang or require skipping entirely, stripping out the game's own narrative content. A softlock on the second level's opening door requires either a menu reload or full desktop restart to clear. You are frequently playing around the game rather than playing it. Nostalgia is working overtime here. Strip the IP and what remains is an inconsistent action game buried under technical failures, coasting entirely on Star Wars goodwill.

Quite possibly the best Lightsaber combat experience you will ever have in a star wars game. Its dated and is incredibly difficult to learn but has an incredibly passionate community, willing to teach and help new people. Once you learn the in depth mechanics and what this game really has to offer, Stand alone, modded, Movie duels, Movie battles, you name it. Its incredible. A great game that rewards those who put time into it. Hopefully one day its lightsaber combat is adapted and improved!

This game has a nice coc..lightsaber! Even now, after all this years, it is really fun to play with it! Absolutely recommend it!

English version : A really cool game, where you can customize your character and train to become a Jedi in Luke Skywalker's new Jedi Academy after Return of the Jedi. It has the same nice combat system as Jedi Outcast with 3 stances, Light and Dark Force powers, but with more features and customization. The story is okay, the music is from Star Wars so of course it's good, the graphics have aged quite a bit though. The game can get somehow challenging during some parts, but it's generally okay. However, another thing this game has is mods, and really good ones at that like Movie Duels and Movie Battles that I strongly recommend checking out. If you played Jedi Outcast, you will definitely like this game, but I totally enjoyed it without having played it so don't feel like you shouldn't play Jedi Academy if you haven't done Outcast first. Version Française : Un jeu vraiment sympa où on créé son propre personnage allant s'entrainer dans la nouvelle académie de Jedi de Luke Skywalker after l'épisode VI. Il reprend le même système de combat de Jedi Outcast, toujours aussi bien fichu, avec 3 postures différentes et des pouvoirs du côté lumineux et du côté obscur avec quelques options de personnalisation en plus. L'histoire est sympa, la musique est celle de Star Wars donc elle est évidemment incroyable, par contre les graphismes ont pas mal vieilli. Le jeu peut être un peu difficile par moment, mais rien d'insurmontable. Par contre, une autre chose que ce jeu a pour lui, c'est les mods, de très bons mods comme Movie Duels et Movie Battles que je recommande. Si vous avez aimez Jedi Outcast, vous aimerez ce jeu, mais ne vous sentez pas obligés d'y avoir joué pour apprécié Jedi Academy. J'ai personnellement commencé avec ce jeu et ça ne m'a absolument pas bloqué sur quoi que ce soit

This is in the hall of greats for Star Wars games. A classic. The game itself is not very long. However, I remember playing the split screen versus modes constantly as a kid. The character customization is extremely crude compared to modern games, however for the time it was a more novel concept. You get to create your character, and choose your lightsaber colors, and what style of lightsaber you want to carry. As the game progresses you get to upgrade certain force powers as well, and focus your energy onto certain ones that suit you most. And you can alter your lightsaber as well. The gameplay is solid; it's identical to Jedi Outcast. The story isn't super complex; in fact, it's very cut & dry. I do have a few nitpicks; Many of the enemies in this game are mostly recycled from Jedi Outcast. Obviously, there's some new enemies and designs, but they are mostly just reused from the previous game. Also, the gameplay is a little repetitious, however it's not long at all, so it's not a big deal. Another nitpick I have is the game is stuck in what appears to be a permanent stretched widescreen format. The resolution looks like crap, even at the best settings.

I spent a lot of time playing this game. It has a great story and fun gameplay. It also has the best lightsaber combat system of any Star Wars game. You can develop your own fighting style, and no two skilled players fight exactly the same. There used to be amazing community projects like XJedi and UA Galaxy, with incredible servers and roleplay content. I don't know what the community is like today, but it's always nice to install the TaystJK patch, join an FFA server, and relive the old days.

The myth of omni-potent development was not busted when i played this