Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy

Amazon.com Review

Video games and books such as the popular New Jedi Order series have continued the storyline of Star Wars past the events in Return of the Jedi. According to this “extended universe”, Imperial loyalists have been pushed back to a small number of worlds and are now known as the Imperial Remnant, and meanwhile Luke Skywalker has started a training academy to rebuild the once glorious Jedi Order. Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy casts players in the ongoing Star Wars epic as Jaden Corr, a new character in the Star Wars universe who has enrolled at Luke’s Jedi Academy. The Imperial Remnant and a group of dark-side Force users have been up to something shady, and it’s your job as Jaden to uncover and stop their nefarious plans. The game is a mix of first-person shooting and third-person lightsaber combat, with a heavy focus of the latter over the former. Players are allowed to customize the basic look of their character by choosing from a list of heads, torsos (more…)