But the gameplay in Jedi Knight is very similar to Dark Forces and borrows heavily from console games. The game is longer (though it still feels a bit on the short side), you can save your game at any point and not just in predetermined areas, and LucasArts has corrected the single most criticized aspect of Dark Forces by adding multiplayer options to the sequel. Jedi Knight dispenses with many of the negative traits of its predecessor, Dark Forces. The designers have done a commendable job of creating an immersive environment and have come up with what is arguably the best single-player first-person shooter since Doom.
Jedi Knight falls squarely into the former category, and is LucasArts' first truly great Star Wars game since TIE Fighter. This formula has been both successful (as with X-Wing, TIE Fighter, and Dark Forces) and not so successful (see Yoda Stories or Shadows of the Empire). The look and sounds of the game - from the Imperial gray of walls, to the elephantine squeal of a TIE Fighter engine, to the squeaky "pew, pew" of a blaster shot - are already set in stone, so designers just need to think of a genre and use the existing elements to build a game. Designing a game set in the Star Wars universe seems like a no-brainer.
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