Star Wars: A New Opening Crawl
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Star Wars: Dark Forces is a first-person shooter developed and published by LucasArts. It was released in 1995 for MS-DOS and Macintosh, and in 1996 for the PlayStation. The storyline is set in the Star Wars fictional universe and follows the character Kyle Katarn, a mercenary working on behalf of the Rebel Alliance. He discovers the Empire's "Dark Trooper Project", which involves the development of a series of powerful new battle droids and power-armoured stormtroopers.
Dark Forces uses the Jedi game engine, which was developed specifically for the game. The engine adds gameplay features to the first-person shooter genre which were uncommon at the time of release, including level designs with multiple floors and the ability to look up and down.
Critics gave very favourable reviews to the MS-DOS and Macintosh version, which were praised for the level design and technological advances. The PlayStation version was criticized for having poor graphics and slow frame rates, reducing playability. A sequel to Dark Forces, Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II, followed in 1997.
This playthrough of the game makes use of the DarkXL, a hardware-accelerated remake of Star Wars: Dark Forces. It offers features such as newer control methods like mouse look, high resolutions and better colour depth, as well as improved mod support..
DarkXL requires the original game data, and will fully support the original game – with cutscenes, briefings and other features. It can be downloaded here: https://goo.gl/dXXYUA