Star Wars: Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast (2002)
Raven Software, Vicarious Visions, Westlake Interactive
Mac · Nintendo GameCube · Nintendo Switch · PC (Microsoft Windows) · PlayStation 4 · Xbox
3.96 from 1115 ratings
4174 members have it in their collection · 39 playing now · 1958 backlogged · 256 wish listed
How long? Main story 16h · with extras 17h · 100% 42h (from 13 logged playthroughs)
In the tradition of the highly acclaimed Star Wars: Jedi Knight series, Star Wars: Jedi Knight 2, Jedi Outcast features rebel agent Kyle Katarn in exhilarating first-person action. Several years have passed since Kyle avenged his father's death and saved the Valley of the Jedi from Jerec and his band of Dark Jedi. Allowing his Force powers to languish for …
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In the tradition of the highly acclaimed Star Wars: Jedi Knight series, Star Wars: Jedi Knight 2, Jedi Outcast features rebel agent Kyle Katarn in exhilarating first-person action. Several years have passed since Kyle avenged his father's death and saved the Valley of the Jedi from Jerec and his band of Dark Jedi. Allowing his Force powers to languish for fear of falling to the dark side, Kyle entrusted his lightsaber to Luke Skywalker, vowing never to use it again. But when a new and menacing threat to the galaxy emerges, Kyle knows he must reclaim his past in order to save his future.
Explore breathtaking Star Wars locales such as Cloud City, the Jedi Academy on Yavin 4, Nar Shaddaa, and the smugglers' moon. Multiplayer options include deathmatch, saber-only deathmatch, and team capture the flag.
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Details
- Developers
- Raven Software, Vicarious Visions, Westlake Interactive
- Publishers
- Activision, Aspyr Media, CyberFront, LucasArts
- Genres
- Adventure, Shooter
- Themes
- Action, Science fiction
- Franchises
- Star Wars
- Series
- Star Wars: Jedi Knight
- Event
- Limited Run Games E3 2019 Showcase
- Steam
- View on Steam
Release dates
- Mar 26, 2002 (Europe) PC (Microsoft Windows)
- Mar 26, 2002 (North_America) PC (Microsoft Windows)
- Jun 27, 2002 (Japan) PC (Microsoft Windows)
- Nov 05, 2002 (North_America) Mac
- Nov 19, 2002 (North_America) Nintendo GameCube, Xbox
- Nov 22, 2002 (Europe) Nintendo GameCube, Xbox
- May 22, 2003 (Europe) Mac
- Sep 16, 2009 (Worldwide) PC (Microsoft Windows)
- May 15, 2012 (Worldwide) Mac
- Sep 24, 2019 (Worldwide) Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4
Related
Bundled in
- Star Wars: The Best of PC (Nov 2006) · PC
- Star Wars Collection (Nov 2010) · PC
- Star Wars: Jedi Knight Collection (Nov 2021) · NSW, PS4
- Star Wars: Heritage Pack (Apr 2022) · NSW, PS4
- Star Wars: Heritage Pack (Apr 2023) · NSW
- Star Wars: Grand Collection (Apr 2025) · NSW
- Star Wars: The Best of PC (Nov 2006) · PC
- Star Wars Collection (Nov 2010) · PC
- Star Wars: Jedi Knight Collection (Nov 2021) · NSW, PS4
- Star Wars: Heritage Pack (Apr 2022) · NSW, PS4
- Star Wars: Heritage Pack (Apr 2023) · NSW
- Star Wars: Grand Collection (Apr 2025) · NSW
- Star Wars Jedi Outcast/Jedi Academy
Featured in lists
Rating distribution
5 stars
332
4 stars
480
3 stars
246
2 stars
41
1 star
15
Community All Reviews Statuses
Review DJLittleNemo 1/5 · Oct 2, 2023
Too old for this
Frankly, This is too old... I could enjoy a good old FPS but it has so many things in the first minutes that has not given me the force to continue the game. I might be missing somlething, but...
Status Nachonskiplays Jul 7, 2021
Tercera entrega de la linea "Dark Forces", este juego fue una grata sorpresa, teniendo un buen nivel de dificultad y de puzzles. El control del sable laser ha sido de lo mejor que he visto en juegos de Star Wars. Las peleas con otros portadores de sable laser derrepente se me hacia un poco extraño pero nada terrible, es un …
Read moreTercera entrega de la linea "Dark Forces", este juego fue una grata sorpresa, teniendo un buen nivel de dificultad y de puzzles. El control del sable laser ha sido de lo mejor que he visto en juegos de Star Wars. Las peleas con otros portadores de sable laser derrepente se me hacia un poco extraño pero nada terrible, es un juego altamente recomendable.
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Review Usagi 1/5 · Jan 8, 2021
Hot Garbage
Easily one of the worst games I've ever played. Didn't play it back in the early 2000's when it came out, but doubt that would have changed my opinion much. Both the combat and platforming are god awful, and the story is mediocre at best. Can't see higher than 2 stars on this unless you're irredeemable star wars fan boy, …
Read moreEasily one of the worst games I've ever played. Didn't play it back in the early 2000's when it came out, but doubt that would have changed my opinion much. Both the combat and platforming are god awful, and the story is mediocre at best. Can't see higher than 2 stars on this unless you're irredeemable star wars fan boy, you're blinded by nostalgia, or you're just trolling.
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Status kingbk83 Jul 3, 2020
The beginning of the game is a huge slog, but once you past it, as painful as it is, you get to participate in some of the best light saber combat still available in video games. The beginning is a 2 out of 10, while the rest of the game is a 9 out of 10. 3 out of 5 …
Read moreThe beginning of the game is a huge slog, but once you past it, as painful as it is, you get to participate in some of the best light saber combat still available in video games. The beginning is a 2 out of 10, while the rest of the game is a 9 out of 10. 3 out of 5 total.
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Review WarpDogsVG 4/5 · Jan 22, 2020
Everyone else was right about it, you really do feel like a Jedi.
The lightsaber feels wonderful, the force powers are equally great, and the enemies are often the right mix of competent and vulnerable where you feel like a god mowing them down. There aren't a ton of lightsaber vs. lightsaber fights, but the encounters that are there are all wonderful - tense, chaotic, and super deadly.
There's a fairly robust FPS …
The lightsaber feels wonderful, the force powers are equally great, and the enemies are often the right mix of competent and vulnerable where you feel like a god mowing them down. There aren't a ton of lightsaber vs. lightsaber fights, but the encounters that are there are all wonderful - tense, chaotic, and super deadly.
There's a fairly robust FPS shooter here as well with tons of weapons, alternate firing modes, and so on, but I didn't engage with any of it after getting my lightsaber.
I also really enjoyed the suite of force powers. You get options from both sides of the force meaning you can heal, shoot lightning, choke people, and mind trick them. There are a few instances of using force powers to solve puzzles and while I appreciate their inclusion I didn't really find them all that clever... but at least they're fun in combat!
The difficulty is all over the place and feels especially uneven in the beginning and end. It's not even a per-level situation, there will just be rooms that are 100x harder than everything that came before it, while other rooms are complete snoozefests with no risk of death or even resource depletion. You'll want to quick save very, very frequently - sometimes in the middle of fights.
There's a similar situation going on with the level design - it's a mess. At least 25% of your playtime will be spent trying to interpret the specific series of actions the designers want you to perform. Maybe there's an out of place vent, maybe you need to use your powers in a way you haven't been asked to before, maybe you need to backtrack to trigger a cutscene for some reason. Whatever the case, far too much time is spent wandering blind than playing the game.
One last complaint - the story is bland as oatmeal. I saw a lot of praise for the story prior to playing it, but I can only assume this is because even a serviceable story in the Star Wars EU is a rarity. Do not play this game for the story.
Review anarchistica 1/5 · Oct 17, 2019
More like... auto-miss...
This game has the honour of having the worst auto-aim i've ever encountered. It actually makes it harder to hit stuff! And you can't disable it in the menu, you have to edit the config file. Ugh.
Clunky level design, weirdly inaccurate weapons, enemies that just walk up to you, low-resolution environments, this game is just awful. The doors constantly …
This game has the honour of having the worst auto-aim i've ever encountered. It actually makes it harder to hit stuff! And you can't disable it in the menu, you have to edit the config file. Ugh.
Clunky level design, weirdly inaccurate weapons, enemies that just walk up to you, low-resolution environments, this game is just awful. The doors constantly opening and closing loudly drove me mad. And what kind of game replays intro cinematics when loading a save?
And this came out halfway between Deus Ex and Half-Life 2? Aside from adding Jedi-stuff this is basically the same game as Dark Forces (1995). Except worse in far too many ways.
