Some screenshots for the recently announced Jedi Knight sequel, Jedi Academy, have been released - check them out right here on AusGamers. The official site has also been opened for business.

Looks pretty boring in my opinion...


Hack and slash covered up by by pretty, bright colours and some glow sticks..


Looks like a rave party.

:D

haha the rancor thing looks more realistic than in the movie

Did some say "Rave Party"...... Reverend Evil will loveeee this game. 8-)

Does it say anywhere that it actually uses the Q3 engine? Everyone seems to be assuming it does, but I haven't seen any reports that it does and its not mentioned in the press release at all...

interview

GD: You're using the Jedi Knight II game engine. What enhancements have you given to the engine for the new game?

JZ: We've enhanced GHOUL 2, which is our modelling and animation system, to allow for the character creation system, color choices and options. We ported over the Arioche terrain system from Soldier of Fortune 2, which allows for expansive terrain environments. We've done an update in ICARUS, which is our in-house scripting system. It allows us to do just a little bit more than we did in the past. The saber system is enhanced; it's basically the same as the Jedi Knight 2 engine, but we've added new moves and enhancements. We've tried to make a lot of the game friendlier to the mod community.
The first thing people did when JK2 came out was create their own sabers and their own characters. It was a lot easier to do that in multiplayer than single-player, so now we've made it easier for single-player. Now you can just drag it into a folder or update a file and you'll be good to go.

GD: Were you surprised by the modding community's reaction to Jedi Knight 2?

JZ: I don't think we were surprised; it's a Quake engine game, so people know what they're doing. People are familiar with modding that game.

same engine? bah :(
was hoping they could come up with a new one :/

characters look better. basically the same engine really. probably same saber physics. hopefully they bring bs back in. and now you dont have to cheat to get double sabers :D it's probably got a few things in there from jedi plus mod. i wouldnt be suprized at all.. another thing im hoping it will have it model scaling (yoda - tiny, desan = huge) things like that..... because in jk2 everyone was the same size, kind of dumb really..

dumb to look at maybe...
Until you think that in multiplayer everyone would use yoda because he is tiny.

To me, this seems cool. The singleplayer premise seems alot better. Design your own character, start at the academy etc. Just a straight story, no wierd s***.

3 way?

Did some say "Rave Party"...... Reverend Evil will loveeee this game. 8-)
Hehe

Speaking of glowsticks, check out the front page of today's Courier Mail. The navy chick on the front has one in her shoulder pocket.

WooT!

speaking of glowsticks I downloaded a very interesting porno on kazaa. Let's hope those things don't leak cos that rave chick was being rough.

thinking of the new jedi knight game i had to install the old one for one last whirl but when i try to start up single player I get this message:
"GLW_StartOpenGL() - could not load OpenGL subsystem"
anyone know what it means?
im running xp with sp1 installed any help would be muchly appreciated