Dark Forces: Jedi Knight 2 (1 Viewer)

[Jeff Kleist]

The full title is Jedi Knight 2:Jedi Outcast. Dark forces has been dropped. Frankly, I can't see WHY you would want ot play in first person, especially for the lightsaber duels. How can you see what you're doing?

I heard they're aiming for a 500MHz minimum. I'm sure my Athlon 800/Voodoo3 will handle the game fine

 

[Lou Sytsma]

I hear you Kelley and I bought the XBox to stop doing the upgrade madness.

 

[Iain Lambert]

Really? I bought a Playstation to avoid it myself. Worked so well, too...

 

[Lou Sytsma]

Touche, Iain, touche.

 

[Kelley_B]

Frankly, I can't see WHY you would want ot play in first person, especially for the lightsaber duels. How can you see what you're doing?

Actually when you go to use the lightsaber it forces you out to a 3rd person view. So its only first person when using the guns, third person for the lightsaber.

 

[BrianShort]

I didnt realize they had upped the polygon output... from the screenshots I've seen, it looks pretty simple (but GOOD! ) If my current machine can run Medal of Honor, I think it will run JK2.
Re: 3rd person view... I like how they have it set up... 3rd person for guns would suck, and the 1st person view for the light saber would suck. So I'm glad it's the other way around
Brian

 

[Anthony Lopez]

Lucasarts finally posted the system requirements on their site.

 

[Paul_D]

 

[Lou Sytsma]

Wow - based on the specs my outdated PII450 might be able to do a serviceable job with this!

 

[Dave F]

Anyone know any details about the Collector's Edition? It says it comes with full versions of Dark Forces I & II, but doesn't say if that includes the Mysteries of the Sith add-on (which was later packaged with DFII).

-Dave

 

[Josh_Hill]

Man, that Box Cover looks like the friggin Holy Grail! which is cool!
Mine will certainly play this game....and very well I might add.

 

[Kelley_B]

Thank god Raven is making this game and not LucasArts internal as they haven't turned out a good Star Wars game since Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight.

 

[Jeff Kleist]

I posted this in computers, probably should have done so here. Here are the official sysreqs for JK2

Operating System: Windows 95 OSR2/98/ME/2000/XP

Computer: 100% DirectX compatible computer required.

CPU: Pentium II or Athlon class 350 MHz or faster CPU required.

Memory: 64MB required. 128 MB RAM required for Windows 2000 and XP.

Graphics Card:16 MB OpenGL compatible PCI or AGP 3D Hardware Accelerator required.

Sound Card: 16-bit DirectX 8.x compatible sound card required.

CD-ROM: Quad Speed IDE or SCSI CD-ROM drive required.

Input Device: Keyboard or mouse required. Joystick supported.

DirectX: Microsoft DirectX 8.0a

NOTE: Your system may require the "latest" drivers for your particular hardware.

Installation: 665 MB of free hard drive space required.

Additional free space required after game installation for Windows swap file and save games.

Multiplayer Support

Pentium II or Athlon class 400 MHz or faster recommended for Multiplayer.

Local Area Network Play: Supports up to 32 players via Local Area Network.

Internet Play: Supports up to 32 players via 56Kbps or faster connection to the Internet.

Dedicated Server: DSL/Cable Modem required for Internet hosting.

3D Accelerator Card Required

A 100% OpenGL compatible 3D Accelerator is required. Supported chipsets at time of release.

ATI Radeon

ATI Radeon 7500/8500

ATI Rage 128

ATI Rage 128 Pro

Matrox G400

Matrox G450

Matrox G550

NVIDIA GeForce 256 family

NVIDIA GeForce 2 family

NVIDIA GeForce 3 family

NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 family

PowerVR Kyro

PowerVR Kyro II

 

[JohnE]

Cool, if they have the sys requirements locked, they must be getting close!

 

[BrianB]

Let's be clear - those are probably the /minimum/ requirements, right? Not the /reccomended/?

 

[Kelley_B]

Yes those are minimum, meaning they will just start the game and run it, more than likely in slide show mode

 

[Dave F]

Lucasarts just lists "requirements". I'm going to assume they are actually "minimum requirements"...
http://www.lucasarts.com/products/ou...ml/system.html
-Dave

 

[Rob Varto]

EBgames.com has this pre-order for $49.99 and free 2-day shipping - no taxes either. Of course, Circuit City will have this thing for $35.00 now that I pre-ordered mine.