Kyle Katarn is my favourite character from the Star Wars Expanded Universe. Obviously you’re not playing a villain, but you’re playing as a real, flawed human being in a universe of impossible superheroes. Kyle’s not an optimistic goody two shoes like Luke he’s seen what the Dark Side can do. He’s motivated by revenge more often than not and now we see him brought back into this fight against his will. We’ve already seen in the previous games that Kyle wasn’t ever really a good guy. What I love about Kyle Katarn is that he isn’t your clean-cut Jedi Knight hero. That’s a pretty cool edge to a central Star Wars character. Kyle is motivated to get his Force powers back and he spends the rest of the game tracking down Desann with the intention of killing him. I’m trying not to give away too much but Kyle is soundly beaten and is given a lot of motivation for revenge. Kyle eventually runs into the Dark Jedi, Desann and boy is he outmatched. The Imperial Remnant are trying to artificially infuse the Force into people using magic crystals, to make an army of Dark Jedi which they call the Reborn. After taking on what looks like a pretty standard job, Kyle and Jan uncover some mysterious goings-on. Jedi Knight 2’s story is pretty solid and follows the usual template for games of this type. Cutting off his connection to the Force, he leaves it all behind and goes back to mercenary work with his old trusty pilot, Jan Ors. He’s already lost too much to the Dark Side and he doesn’t want to involve himself in that fight. Because of that he’s completely turned his back on the Force. Kyle Katarn has fought the Empire, the Dark Troopers in Jedi Knight he found out he was Force-sensitive and he nearly fell to the Dark Side TWICE. The story is set two years after the last game. Now, I haven’t played this for a few years and I can say without any nostalgia that Jedi Knight 2 is actually better than I remember. Unlike Dark Forces and Jedi Knight, which I either hadn’t played or hadn’t played much of I’ve played Jedi Knight 2 a few times before. And probably in my top 10 PC games ever for that matter.
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