Sometimes hits don’t connect, or combos don’t string together as intended.

There are few animations, and the ones that are there aren't very smooth and are a bit glitchy. However, its combat system is quite outdated. The multiplayer is truly magnificent - you CAN customize you character here, and adding extra skins and levels was as simple as just putting them in the data folder. Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy arguably has a fan-favorite combat system with the different saber styles.

This complaint was remedied in the next game, Jedi Academy. My only tiny complaint is that you can't customize Kyle's Force power selection in any way, like you could in the previous game and expansion I understand why they did it this way - like Deus Ex, your skill/Force power selection would dictate what you could reach (especially how much you invested in Force Jump). The FPS is well executed, the lightsaber combat has no equal in any other Star Wars game, the Force powers are extremely fun to play with, and the levels are (for the most part) well designed and evocative of the Star Wars universe. This tutorial attempts to explain in detail the console commands used to enable a realistic lightsaber combat simulation in your Jedi Academy game. Personally, I feel this is the quintessential Star Wars game.

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