Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster brings a classic 90s shooter back with smoother performance, updated visuals, and modern controls while staying true to its original design.
Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster
Nightdive Studios · Feb 29, 2024
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Star Wars™: Dark Forces Remaster has been brought to life by the team at Nightdive Studios, fully remastered through its proprietary KEX engine. New and returning players will enjoy Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster’s upgraded gameplay, high-resolution textures, enhanced lighting and rendering, and support for gamepads.
The original 1995 Star Wars: Dark Forces raised the bar for FPS games, offering players a significant degree of movement and interactivity, a large selection of items and power-ups, and engaging environments.
In the first Star Wars FPS video game, players assume the role of Kyle Katarn, a defector of the Galactic Empire turned mercenary for hire. Katarn joins the Rebel Alliance’s covert operations division tasked with infiltrating the Galactic Empire, where he discovers the secret Dark Trooper Project. The development of this powerful new series of Imperial battle droids and power-armored stormtroopers stands to strengthen the Empire’s grip on the galaxy unless Katarn and the Rebel Alliance intervene.
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- Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster is a fantastic remaster of an all-time classic FPS, but I think mileage will vary. I find games like this to be fascinating time capsules of a foundational era of the industry. While there is a good amount of content in this package, and the classic visuals have been preserved beautifully, the price is also pretty steep.
- 8.0Nonetheless, I'm pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed returning to Dark Forces. I've long hoped LucasArts' first FPS would one day receive a remake, as I thought the original was just a bit too creaky to fly in the modern age. Now I've played this remaster, I'm no longer sure it needs one. Nightdive's makeover reveals an exciting, smartly designed shooter that superbly encapsulates Star Wars' more roguish side. Few Star Wars games can escape the gravitational pull of the Jedi, but Dark Forces remains one of the best examples that does.
- Reaffirming the fact that Star Wars: Dark Forces has long earned its place in the pantheon of first-person shooters, this remaster from those wizards at Nightdive Studios not only provides the LucasArts shooter in its very best light with a swathe of modern bells and whistles, but most crucially it allows current audiences to enjoy not just one of the best shooters of the 1990s, but also one of the best Star Wars games ever made.
- 7.0One of the most impressive remasters ever seen, with almost every element of the original retuned and souped up, giving new life to a seminal first person shooter that is still very playable today.
- 6.5Star Wars: Dark Forces Remastered is a remaster done right. Its main issue is the game it is remastering doesn’t hold up to modern titles well enough. If you have that itch to dive back in and the $30 price isn’t too much then it is well worth the price. If you don’t have those feelings though, it’s tough to recommend.
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