Contents Opening crawlDARK FORCESThe New Order of the Empire stretchesits evil clutches across the galaxy,consuming planets with devastatingresults. Through many struggles, theRebel Alliance has learned of a newImperial battle station, the DEATHSTAR, with enough power to destroyan entire planet.Unable to acquire the plans to thedeadly space station, the Rebels haveemployed the skills of Kyle Katarn.Known to most as a mercenary forhire, Katarn is a rogue figure who hasa partial alliance with the Rebels.Armed only with a blaster pistol andan intimate knowledge of Imperialmethods, Kyle prepares to infiltratethe Imperial base where the plans arekeptSynopsisIntroducing.infiltrates an Imperial base on the planet, in order to steal the.
Sadly however, the project no-longer appears to be in active development, and the most-recent alpha version has some unresolved issues such as missing cutscenes, no music during cutscenes, a float/noclip function bound to the F key that cannot be rebound, and other issues that require workarounds to correct. Description: Files required to play the Dark Forces Mod Demo. The Dark Forces Mod aims to recreate the levels and playing experience of the LucasArts game 'Dark Forces' using the modern 3D engine found in the game Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy. This demo contains the first 6 levels of the game.
The results in Rebel possession of the plans that would later be given to and the destruction of the.After the, Kyle is again contacted by to investigate an Imperial assault on the of, using a type of Imperial trooper never encountered previously. After the Kyle infiltrates the ruins of the base and discovers a prototype dark trooper weapon. The initials 'M.R.' Are discovered on it, which are found to stand for, an infamous Imperial weapons engineer.
This investigation reveals the project, led by, and this leads Katarn to, where he finds the Moff hiding in the sewage system of.During interrogation, Moff Rebus reveals the location of a testing facility for the mineral, used in the construction of dark troopers, on the planet. After obtaining a sample of this mineral, Kyle is led to the, where phrik is mined and the phase-I dark troopers are manufactured. After the destruction of this facility, is found to have been captured by the Empire and sent to an Imperial detention center on. Once Kyle has rescued Madine, he provides Kyle with critical information regarding the dark trooper project.Kyle travels to the docking port on, which is used for Imperial runs to the frozen planet of, where the second phase of dark trooper construction was completed.
After smuggling himself aboard an Imperial ship, Kyle reaches Anteevy and destroys the facility. He is afterwards led to, where a. At this point in the scenario, the Empire has placed a large bounty on his head, and as he pulls out of Nar Shaddaa, the is captured by in the.Kyle Katarn in.Here, Kyle is stripped of his weapons and has to with a. After obtaining his weapons, he and Jan Ors to, the only place where Kyle can insert the Nava Card into a decoder to reveal data chips used for additional information. On his way to his ship, Kyle finds the Crow missing and (hired by Mohc) waiting for him. He defeats Fett after a hard fight and then travels to the Imperial, where he sneaks onto the.
From here, he smuggles himself aboard the, where the third and final phase of the dark troopers is being overseen.Finally, Kyle faces, spearhead of the operation (who is using the only phase-III dark trooper exoskeleton in existence), and defeats him. Kyle proceeds to blow up the Arc Hammer and escape. Watching from the, comments that this 'is an unfortunate setback' and somewhat prophetically notes that 'the Force is strong with.'
For his actions and bravery in the face of defeat, Mon Mothma awards Kyle the.LevelsUnlike many other -based games, Dark Forces attempts a realistic approach: The missions follow a certain storyline, sometimes interrupted by videos to progress the tale. Each mission has its own briefing and objective. The levels were designed to represent actual bases, mines, facilities, and other known places from the Star Wars universe, like interiors, ship, etc.DevelopmentDark Forces was released during the hype started with a year earlier. Often labeled a ' Doom clone' like other games following that trend, Dark Forces may have been created to counter the many unofficial Star Wars–themed for Doom. LucasArts is rumored to have reverse-engineered the Doom engine to find out how to build their own. The ' was more advanced than that of Doom.
It allowed designers to construct overlapping sectors ('room-over-room') to create multistory buildings, bridges, and similar structures; most earlier first-person shooter engines, such as Doom, do not support this ability. The Jedi Engine does not support perspective correction when looking up and down.Doom had shared textures for all levels, one solid objective (which was simply to move from entry to exit), and maps which were designed often very abstractly, with the architecture often somewhat unrealistic. The levels of Dark Forces each had their own unique texture sets that were rarely reused, their own briefings and objectives which often varied, and maps which were designed to represent actual bases, mines, facilities, and other known places from the Star Wars universe, like interiors, ship, etc.Several cinematics reused images from earlier games, such as (Vader's talking animation with Mohc and awarding cutscene) and (Vader's closeup in the final cutscene).
Like TIE Fighter, several space scenes in Dark Forces were 3D-rendered. Not until did LucasArts began using original filming with actors and stunts.Lead artist and author stated that weapons like the and were named after his personal favorites, such as composer Gavin Bryars and 1950s Packard automobiles, respectively.A character named Ruu San was meant to appear in the game, and was briefly described as an antagonist of in the article in.
However, she did not appear in the final release of the game.All Dark Forces cheat codes start with LA- (LucasArts), paralleling the cheat codes of titles, which always began with ID.ReleasePlaystation coverappeared on CNN's Future Watch show and demonstrated/promoted the game. Lucas and also promoted it in Disneyland when they traveled there for the opening of the Indiana Jones train.The first mission was released independently as a demo of the game. The intro of the demo is different from the published product in that it contains a Rambo-ish cutscene showing Kyle preparing his gear for the mission. This was omitted from the final game. The reason for this is not clear since the files of that sequence already exist in the CD. However, it's possible to reinsert the missing scene into the game.The game was originally published with a which contained additional backstory text. On April 29, 2015, the game was released on, and made available to play on both and.ReceptionDark Forces was the 11th best selling computer game of the period to, with an estimated 952,000 copies sold.
The game was followed by novelizations and a sequel,. Jedi Knight spawned an entire series of games which includes the expansion,. This series, with the exception of Jedi Academy, focuses on the continuing exploits of, many of which take place after the events of.The game was criticized at the time for lacking a multiplayer mode; however, given the growing complexity of games as the 21st century approached, developers had to decide whether to trade off online play for the single-player storyline missions. It also did not have mid-level saves, instead having extra lives like Doom's predecessor Wolfenstein 3D. While Doom 's gameplay placed an emphasis on fast-paced action and combat, Dark Forces was considerably slower paced. Dark Forces also included numerous puzzles that the player had to solve to advance.
While difficult for the casual player and often frustrating, this gave Dark Forces much appeal among hardcore gamers and critics. The 'omission' of the was frequently questioned on forums by casual fans who were not satisfied with having the fist as the only melee weapon.
However, those familiar with Star Wars noted that only could effectively wield such a weapon. This controversy no doubt influenced the direction of.Many of the key data files in Dark Forces were actually plain-text files, allowing fans to decipher the formats and write tools to edit them. These have been used to create a wide variety of new levels for the game. Many of the same fans have gone on to create tools and editors for the later games in the series; and at least two, Yves Borckmans and Don Sielke, joined LucasArts to work on Dark Forces II. In 2002, a team of fans began the Dark Forces Mod project, planning to remake the game utilizing the Quake III engine used in the latest sequel, (later adapted to when it was released).
Later, they announced that they would be ending the project, and posted a final release containing full remakes of the first six levels of the game. However, an effort to remake the remaining levels was still underway as of January 2009.
(DirectX 10+) Use dgVoodoo wrapper. Download the latest. Extract dgVoodooCpl.exe, MSD3DImm.dll and MSDDraw.dll to your game folder (all three to the root).
Run dgVoodooCpl.exe from your game folder. Click on the. Button in the upper right corner of the dgVoodoo Control Panel to set the config folder to the game folder.
Click on the DirectX tab and disable dgVoodoo Watermark near the bottom. (Optional) For the best image quality, also set Filtering to Force anisotropic 16x and Antialiasing (MSAA) to 8x. Make sure the game works before trying these. Music doesn't play (after exiting the bar) or loop or the volume can't be adjusted.Fixbox description=Add/replace music wrapper ref= citation needed fix=. Download this. Extract the.dll files to the installation folder, overwriting any that are already there.
Delete winmm.dll and rename winmmalternate.dll to winmm.dll. If you don't have a MUSIC subfolder in the installation folder, create one and download the tracks to it. Alternately, if you have an original CD, you can rip the tracks to.ogg files named Track12.ogg to Track32.ogg, yourself.