Jedi Order . With the the issue of Order 6. Emperor Palpatine - - in reality, Darth Sidious himself - - named every Jedi an enemy of the Republic and eradicated the Order. Anakin Skywalker, once believed to be the Chosen One, turned to the dark side and helped the Empire destroy the Jedi. While the Sith had gained control of the galaxy, there was hope.
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Yoda and Obi- Wan Kenobi, both Jedi Masters, survived the purge. They waited in exile until the time was right to train Luke Skywalker, son of Anakin, who could destroy Sidious and restore freedom.
Judge me by my size, do you? And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. He was renowned within the Order for his wisdom, powers of the Force, and lightsaber combat, and he lived for nearly 9. His time during the last days of the Jedi Order and beyond made him a consequential figure in galactichistory. During the Invasion of Naboo, Master Qui- Gon Jinn presented a young slave boy, Anakin Skywalker. Qui- Gon professed his belief that Skywalker was the Chosen One who would bring balance to the Force.
At the same time, it was discovered that the Sith, the age- old enemies of the Jedi, had not gone extinct as the Jedi believed they had. Against Yoda's advice, the Jedi Council agreed that Obi- Wan Kenobi, who became a Jedi Knight after the death of his master, Jinn, could train Skywalker as a Jedi. Ten years later, Yoda presided over the Jedi Order as the Republic found itself on the road to war with the Confederacy of Independent Systems, led by Yoda's former apprentice, the fallen Jedi Count. Dooku. Yoda led a clone army that had been secretly built for the Republic to Geonosis to save Kenobi, Skywalker, and Senator. Padm. He personally fought in some engagements in the war, including a battle with the Sith acolyte Asajj Ventress and her Separatist forces on Rugosa, but mostly commanded troops from afar. Towards the end of the war, Yoda was contacted by the spirit of the long- dead Qui- Gon Jinn, who told him that, contrary to Jedi teaching, it was possible to maintain one's consciousness after death.
Yoda went on a spiritual journey where he underwent a series of trials, put forward by a group of mysterious Force Priestesses, to determine whether he was worthy to learn the secrets of immortality. This journey brought him to the world powerful with the Force, as well as Moraband, the ancient homeworld of the Sith. Yoda was deemed worthy, and Jinn began to teach him how to unlock this ancient and forgotten power. When Yoda was commanding troops during the Battle of Kashyyyk, members of the Jedi Council attempted to arrest the chancellor, but Sidious struck them down and seduced Skywalker, now Darth Vader, to the dark side of the Force.
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This sparked the fall of the Jedi Order, with clone troopers across the galaxy given the command to kill their Jedi Generals. Yoda survived the attempted execution and escaped from Kashyyyk. Along with Kenobi, he became one of the few survivors of the fall of the Jedi Order, and he witnessed Sidious transform the Republic into the Galactic Empire. Yoda attempted to confront and defeat the Emperor, but Yoda was forced to retreat. After the secret birth of Vader's twins, Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa, Yoda helped arrange for the children to be hidden from their father and then went into exile on Dagobah. During his exile, he watched from afar as other Jedi survivors continued to operate throughout the galaxy, giving guidance to Jedi such as Kanan Jarrus and his Padawan, Ezra Bridger. During the Galactic Civil War, Luke Skywalker came to Dagobah at the urging of Kenobi, who had been struck down by Vader but used the secrets also given to him by Qui- Gon Jinn to retain his consciousness.
Yoda was reluctant to train the boy, but he began to instruct him in the ways of the Jedi. Luke left Dagobah in order to save his friends on Cloud City, but he returned many months later to complete his training. By that time, Yoda had fallen ill and was near- death, but he lived long enough to confirm a truth that Luke had learned on Cloud City: Darth Vader was his father. Yoda uttered his final words, that there was another Skywalker—Leia—and slipped away into the Force.
He appeared as a spirit, alongside the spirits of Kenobi and a redeemed Anakin Skywalker, after the Alliance to Restore the Republic defeated the Emperor and emerged victorious in the Battle of Endor. Luke's attempt to restore the Jedi Order failed, however, when his nephew, Ben, fell to the dark side and destroyed the new generation of Jedi. Luke went into exile, but a young Force- sensitivescavenger named Rey later found herself on a quest to find the legendary Jedi Master and bring him back into the fight against the dark side. During her quest, she had a vision of the past and heard Yoda's voice in it, saying that the Force was a powerful energy that surrounded all life in the galaxy. After undergoing the ritual known as the Gathering, he received his kyber crystal, and Professor. Huyang helped him construct his first lightsaber aboard the Crucible.
During their time together, Yoda's Jedi Master told him the tale of K'ungfu and Chuang, two great Jedi of the past. Having attained the rank of Master, he would spend the next eight centuries training and tutoring generations of Jedi. This earned him the ancient title of .
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There is no try. Although Jinn believed Skywalker to be the Chosen One, prophesized to bring balance to the Force, Yoda and the other Council members did not share his opinion, sensing an uncertain future and a high amount of fear in the boy, and refused to grant permission. The Federation's droid army was eventually deactivated after the accidental destruction of its command ship by Anakin Skywalker. During the battle, however, Jinn and Kenobi dueled a dark side Force user. Yoda, along with other members of the Council, was present at the Naboo victory parade and Jinn's earlier funeral, sharing his thoughts on the apparent reemergence of the Sith with fellow Master of the Order Mace Windu and pointing out. Unbeknownst to the two Jedi, the remaining Sith was Sheev Palpatine, the Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic, having been sworn in after a Vote of No Confidence forced his predecessor Valorum to resign.
Reluctantly, Yoda permitted him to take the boy as his Padawan. The dark side clouds everything. Impossible to see, the future is. After Jedi Knight Obi- Wan Kenobi and his Padawan Anakin Skywalker cornered the assassin, the killer was in turn killed by a mysterious person who escaped using his jetpack. The events prompted the Council, which included Yoda, to appoint Kenobi to track him down. Interrupting a training session with the Bear Clan, Yoda helped Kenobi pinpoint the world's exact location through meditation, allowing the latter to travel there. He discussed the vision with fellow Master Mace Windu afterwards.
After a brief encounter with Fett, Kenobi followed him to the planet Geonosis, where he found that Dooku's Separatists ordered the assassination attempt on Amidala and had constructed a droid army. After relaying the information to the Jedi Council, Kenobi was captured and scheduled for execution, later joined by Amidala and Anakin Skywalker. Begun, the Clone War has. As the strike team interrupted the execution of Kenobi and his associates, suffering casualties at the hands of the numerically superior Confederate battle droid forces, Yoda led the clones into battle, thus beginning a galaxywide conflict that would become known as the Clone Wars.
The diminutive Jedi Master repelled Dooku's telekinetic assault and Force lightning, and bested him in lightsaber combat, but could not prevent the Sith from fleeing, as the latter brought the hangar ceiling down to force Yoda to protect his unconscious comrades, buying him time to escape. Although the battle on Geonosis ended in the Republic's favor, Yoda was concerned about the growing influence of the dark side of the Force and the outcome of the Clone Wars. He believed that by becoming a teacher, Skywalker would develop emotionally and that when the time came for Tano to go off on her own, he would understand that his excessive bonding to those he cared about was unnecessary. Simultaneously, the Confederacy dispatched Asajj Ventress.
The Jedi then successfully made contact with the Toydarian delegation, prompting Ventress, who was at the king's location, to challenge Yoda: if he could defeat her droid units, Toydaria would join the Republic, but a defeat would result in the planet pledging its allegiance to the Confederacy. The Jedi accepted, and Katuunko requested that he be given a fair fight, which Ventress did not intend to honor. The Jedi covered their escape by deflecting the droids' blaster fire at a nearby rock formation that collapsed and crushed them, after which he and the clones retreated to a nearby cave to rest. In the cave, Yoda relaxed into his natural role as a teacher. Calling each clone by name, he raised their morale by lecturing them on their individuality in the Force. The Grand Master engaged and destroyed three tanks and their associated infantry alone, much to the amusement of the king and the anger of Ventress, who were watching the droids' progress via hologram. Breaking the terms of the competition, the assassin sent in droidekas to take out Yoda, which the clones prevented by launching their final rocket that caused the enemy to be buried under a rock slide.
Although Koon and some clones survived in an escape pod, Yoda, alongside fellow Jedi Mace Windu and Obi- Wan Kenobi, forbade Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano to search the system for survivors, citing the threat posed by the Malevolence. Skywalker and Tano, however, disregarded his warnings and successfully rescued Koon. Unduli and Tano subsequently reported the loss of Gunray to Anakin Skywalker and Yoda. Yoda then ordered Anakin Skywalker and his Padawan Ahsoka Tano to return from Cato Neimoidia to help investigate, refusing to trust anyone who was in the temple during the bombing.
Yoda's judgement was clouded, but he still guided the Jedi as the leader of the Council. In prison, she requested Tano speak with her, saying Tano was the only one she could trust. When Turmond was strangled to death via the Force, and several clones were murdered by a lightsaber, Wilhuff Tarkin, who was serving as an admiral in the Republic Army, accused Tano of being the mastermind responsible for the attack. When Tano escaped the prison, desperate to prove her innocence, Tarkin ordered her captured.
Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast. Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast. Cover art. Developer(s)Raven Software(Windows)Vicarious Visions(Xbox & Game. Cube)Publisher(s)Director(s)Steve Raffel. Kevin Schilder. Designer(s)Chris Foster. Programmer(s)James Monroe. Artist(s)Les Dorscheid.
Writer(s)Michael Stemmle. Series. Star Wars: Jedi Knight. Engineid Tech 3. Platform(s)Microsoft Windows, OS X, Game. Cube, Xbox. Release. March 2. 6, 2. 00. Windows. The Microsoft Windows and OS X versions were developed by Raven Software, and the Xbox and Game.
Cube versions by Vicarious Visions. The PC version was published by Lucas. Arts in North America and Europe, and by Cyber. Front in Japan. The Xbox and Game. Cube versions were published by Lucas. Arts in North America, and Activision in Europe.
The OS X version was published by Aspyr. Powered by the id Tech 3game engine, the game primarily revolves around ranged and melee combat, with the player capable of wielding classic Star Wars weapons such as blasters, lightsabers and Force powers. The story- driven single- player campaign is set in the Star Wars expanded universe two years after the events of Mysteries of the Sith. The plot follows Kyle Katarn as he fights against the Dark Jedi. Desann and his followers. The player can choose whether to use first or third- person perspective for each weapon, including the lightsaber. Combat is standard for the shooter genre, offering players an array of energy and projectile weapons, plus a variety of explosives.
Players have health and shield meters, each of which is replenished separately. Jedi Outcast places a strong emphasis on lightsaber combat.
As in the films, lightsabers can be used to deflect shots from blasters. The game offers three lightsaber styles; fast, medium and strong, with each style differing from the others in terms of the speed of attacks and damage dealt. There are also a number of combos, many of which are unique to the selected saber style.
Force powers (such as Push, Jump, and Lightning) are available in both single- player and multiplayer modes, but more powers can be used in the latter. The use of powers is restricted by a . Each side has access to both shared . There are also numerous powers unique to both Light and Dark sides. As in the previous games, Light Side powers are mainly focused around protection and healing, while Dark Side powers are openly aggressive. Unlike previous games, however, Kyle does not exclusively select Light or Dark powers in the single- player, instead receiving a selection of both.
Single- player. Friendly NPCs will occasionally assist the player in combat. In addition to combat, the campaign features a variety of puzzles. When the game starts, Kyle has forsaken The Force after the events of the previous game, and as such, the player has no access to a lightsaber or any Force powers. However, after the first two missions, Kyle regains his Force abilities.
As the game progresses the number of powers available, and their strength, increase. Progression of Force abilities is fixed, and cannot be customized. Having previously fallen to the Dark Side, Kyle has access to both Light Side powers (such as Force Heal and Jedi Mind Trick) and Dark Side powers (such as Force Lightning and Force Grip), along with neutral ones (such as Force Speed, Force Jump, Force Pull and Force Push). Multiplayer. In the PC and Macintosh versions, these can be played over a LAN or the Internet, but combat is limited to two players on the console versions. He or she can choose the player model (with access to nearly every character in the game, as well as some characters from the films not seen in the single- player mode) and lightsaber color. Before a match, the server specifies the game rules, including .
Players then customize their powers for the match. The server can also choose to disable normal weapons so as to create lightsaber- only matches. Setting and characters. As with Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II, the player controls Kyle Katarn (voiced by Jeff Bennett. At the start of the game he is a mercenary working for the New Republic.
Three of the most prominent are Jan Ors (Vanessa Marshall. The player also receives help from other Jedi and New Republic soldiers. Other enemies include Imperial stormtroopers, numerous thugs and soldiers infused with the Force (known as the . However, when they arrive, they find the base crawling with Imperial forces. They fight their way through the base, discovering a research center studying crystals similar to those used to power lightsabers. Katarn thwarts the Imperial operations, but not before Jan is captured by the Dark Jedi Desann and his apprentice Tavion.
There, he learns of Desann's origins from Luke Skywalker. Kyle completes the trials easily, so easily that Luke quickly deduces Kyle has returned to the Valley. Sensing Kyle's anger about the death of Jan, Luke warns Kyle that the path he is walking is a dangerous one, but he nevertheless gives Kyle the information he seeks, linking Desann to Reelo Baruk, a Rodian crime lord on Nar Shaddaa.
From Lando, Kyle learns that Desann is a part of a huge operation smuggling cortosis, a lightsaber- resistant material, through Cloud City. Escaping from Reelo, Kyle and Lando then head for Bespin. Lando drops Kyle off at the bottom of Cloud City, and as he works his way up the structure he has his first encounter with a Reborn.
Kyle defeats Tavion and threatens to kill her, but Tavion pleads for her life, telling Kyle that Jan is alive and on board the Doomgiver. In exchange for her life, Tavion lets Kyle use her ship to travel to the Star Destroyer.
From Luke, Kyle learns that Desann has found the Valley of the Jedi, and used its energy to empower an army of Reborn which could number in the thousands. After battling several Reborn together, they part ways. Kyle then sneaks across the Cairn base and finds out it is also a large assault ship construction facility, which is preparing for a full- scale planetary assault. Kyle confronts more Reborn, including .
Kyle manages to sneak into the Doomgiver before the ship leaves Cairn, but Luke is left behind. After the Doomgiver completes its jump to hyperspace, Kyle uses the ship's communications array to contact Rogue Squadron. He finds Jan in the detention block, but then learns that Desann was not specifically interested in the Valley of the Jedi - instead his goal all along was to invade the Jedi Academy. Kyle destroys the Doomgiver's shield reactor, and kills Galak Fyyar. Narrowly escaping the ship's destruction, Kyle and Jan use an escape pod to land on Yavin IV. Kyle soon finds the academy overrun with Imperial forces, but with the help of the New Republic troops, he fends them off.
Together with Jedi Academy students, he engages in a fight against Reborn warriors and Shadowtroopers. After crossing underground tunnels, Kyle finally confronts Desann.
He reveals the Doomgiver's destruction and the defeat of the Imperial forces, but Desann rejects Kyle's offer to rejoin the Jedi and they engage in a lightsaber battle. Kyle prevails and kills Desann. Some plot details were given, such as the locations visited in the game; Cloud City, Yavin IV, Smuggler's Moon and some planets original to the game. Technical details were also revealed: the game would use id Software's Quake III Arena engine, and the GHOUL 2 animation system, seen in Raven's Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix.
The polygon capacity of the engine had also been doubled. Lucas. Arts announced that the game would feature multiplayer, although due to being early in development little information was revealed. Whitehouse moved on to tackle the entirety of the game's multiplayer codebase, and was subsequently credited as the game's sole multiplayer programmer.
An FAQ, screenshots, concept art, images of player models and downloadable wallpapers were also available. A new trailer was also released.
This included a level editor, map compiler, model viewer, and shader editor and viewer. It was released during the 2. Source. Forge later explained to media outlet Kotaku that Raven Software had requested its removal. Kotaku speculated this was due to the presence of licensed code, such as for the Bink Video format from Rad Game Tools, that was not intended to be made public. Daily builds for Windows and early Linux builds are already available. He praised how authentically 'Star Wars' the game felt, as well as the lightsaber interface, writing .
Reviewer Steve Butts lauded the . Reviewer Amer Ajami echoed IGN's criticisms of the . They criticized the slow start, the lightsaber interface and the AI.
However, they did commend the atmosphere and some of the level design. They concluded that . The guns are derivative and rarely used once you get hold of your lightsaber, the melee combat clumsy and chaotic, the AI poor and some of the locations derivative and poorly designed. Reviewer Aaron Boudling praised how the controls had been mapped onto the Xbox Controller, but was highly critical of the game's lack of support for Xbox Live, and the absence of an online multiplayer mode. He also felt the graphics in the cutscenes were significantly weaker than the PC version. In fact, the game's complicated control scheme is better served on an Xbox controller than it is in the PC's typical mouse and keyboard setup.
Reviewer Kristan Reed found a lot of the problems with the game to be inherent to the original, not problems with the port - a slow beginning, poor AI, bad level design, repetitive puzzles. Reed called the lack of Xbox Live support . Given that it's also not Live (or even LAN) enabled, Xbox owners don't even have that crumb of comfort to elevate its status. As with the Xbox version, Ajami was critical of the cutscene graphics, but concluded that . Reviewer Scott Steinberg was critical of the game's slow start and the nature of some of the puzzles.
Of the port, he wrote . But from the perspective of a Game.