[Review] Star Wars: Dark Forces. Better than Kylo Ren!

Once upon a time, in one distant, distant galaxy … We all watched how the small forces of the rebels are overcoming ourselves, hoping for our courage and courage, opposed the dark forces of the empire. Many light years have passed since then, but the story of Luke, Khan and Leia is not forgotten by anyone. And finally, Dark Forces, published in 95, served as the beginning of a new story in the Star Wars universe.

The history of the game originates before the events shown in the “New Hope” and continues after the end of the film. A new protagonist – Kyle Katarn – a former imperial officer, and now a free mercenary, is under the player’s management.

In the first mission, the rebels hire Kyle to carry out a deadly operation to abduct the plans of the death star from the planet Danuta and their transfer to Princess Lea, to the ship Tantiv IV (Tantive IV).

After the successful completion of the assignment, the events of the film will be chronologically starting. Princess Ley is captured, plans randomly fall to Luke Skywalker, and ends with the battle of Yavin-4 (Yavin 4) and the destruction of the first star of death.

The film ends on this, but the second mission of the game begins. In revenge for the destruction of the death stars, the empire organizes an attack on the rebel base located in the city so (TAK) on the planet Talay. According to the double agent of the rebels of Crix Madine, the attack was the hand of the hands of the Dark Troopens detachment (The Dark Troopers) – the secret weapons of the empire. Investigation of the cases of dark attack aircraft and their elimination is entrusted to Kyle.

Throughout all 14 missions of the One Red Casino game, we will visit different planets with him, from Red Mine Gromas (Gromas) and to Fest glaciers (Fest). We will visit military bases, factories, sewers, prisons and spaceport. We will look for clues spilling light on The Dark Troopers project. Meet me with many well -known and new heroes. And, of course, we will destroy entire armstate armies from aliens to droids

Gameplay, the game is a first -person shooter, originally conceived as a clone of the most popular at that time, the original doom, but with its findings. So, Lucastarts focused on the narrative and wrote, expanding the boundaries of the cinematic, a truly exciting plot, which is really interesting to follow.

In 1995, when the game only reached MS-DOS among the people, they called the plot clone doom, which, however, was not so far from the truth. But not the plot of one, as they say, the game paved the way to the hearts of the players. In addition to a strong script, Lucastarts was not too lazy and filled the levels of three -dimensional surroundings, which increased the degree of immersion of the player in the world of the game, the graphics began to look more realistic.

In addition, the developers perfectly implemented the standard shooter program of that time. Shooting in the game is pleasant, move in space conveniently. And the intra -game dynamics, with all the external similarity to the brainchild of ID Software, is actually so different from it.

The game is quite fast, but dying in it is much easier than in doom. To successfully move on, you have to constantly invent a variety of tactical maneuvers and choose weapons to match the situation. Fortunately, the arsenal of Kyle is quite rich: a gun, a machine gun, a shotgun, grenades, fists, missiles, energy rifles, grenade launchers, all these and other types of weapons, besides the main one, also have an alternative firing regime. Believe me, there is something to shoot from. There are a lot of cartridges, there are not few first -aid kits and shields, and at least the opponents are. And the higher the level of complexity you put, and there are three of them in the game, the more people will attack you.

In addition to combat stages at the levels, the player will have to solve small puzzles by interacting with an interactive environment. And, of course, look for numerous secrets, of which quite a lot is hidden at the levels.

For the first time, for the jokes of that time, the player’s goals at the level were subjected to plot. For the first time, we didn’t just have to find a set of keys and pull the lever at the end of the level. The player had to fulfill various useful goals: to find secret plans, steal secret equipment, penetrate the plant and destroy it, make your way to the ship, etc.p. So that the player does not confuse in the variety of diversity, Kyle was provided with a pocket PDA, in which you can see the level of the level of the level, the types of weapons that he have, check the inventory with the objects necessary for the level of goals, and also re -read the briefing of the mission to always remember that we have led here.

I also cannot but note the music, which accompanies the player throughout the game. There are a lot of it, some of the paths migrated to the game straight from the original movie trilogy, part was written directly for the game. Everything, from the sounds of shots to musical accompaniment of levels made in the spirit of the series. It is worth hearing a shot from a blaster or a shout of the attack aircraft once to instantly feel the atmosphere of stellar wars, which, you see, an important aspect of the license game game.

Initially, the game came out only on the discs, but soon it was already re -released in the line of the first games recorded on CD discs. The version on CD was distinguished by improved graphics and advanced sound quality. Later, in 1996, the game was ported to the PlayStation 1 home console. However, like many ports from computers of that time, the game suffered from uncomfortable management. The quality of execution has also fallen. Due to the restrictions on the capacities of consoles and TVs, the quality of graphics and sound became noticeably weaker. Nevertheless, even such a version of the game has its own circle of fans. Now get and play Star Wars: Dark Forces by purchasing it in Steam and GOG digital distribution stores for a fairly small price.

In general, despite the fact that Star Wars: Dark Forces was a clone of another game, in many things it became the first. The first star wars shooter, the first cinematographic, plotly justified shooter, the first shooter in which the 3D models were used, the first game plot expanding the cinematic union. It is interesting to play it, it is interesting to watch it, and most importantly it is interesting to replay it. Therefore, yes, in spite of everything, Star Wars: Dark Forces can be called a reference game of star wars and an excellent game in general.