#Dark Forces

Jedi Academy 23 Years Later: The Lightsaber Masterpiece No One Forgot

Released in 2003, Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy remains one of the rare licensed games that achieved what dozens of attempts failed to do: make lightsaber combat viscerally satisfying. Twenty-three years later, the Dark Forces lineage deserves recognition, flaws and all. Between catastrophic AI and inspired level design, Raven Software's game holds a place that nothing has truly filled since.