His quest for justice reveals his own Jedi heritage, and the game soon becomes a classic Star Wars tale of the clash between light and dark. In Dark Forces II, Kyle Katarn discovers the identity of his father’s killer, the Dark Jedi Jerec. Jedi Knight continued the story of Kyle Katarn, a former Imperial officer and mercenary who stole the plans to the original Death Star and delivered them to the Rebel Alliance, before uncovering an Imperial plot to engineer an army of droid soldiers called Dark Troopers. Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II was released on 9 October 1997. In 1996, id Software once again revolutionised the first-person shooter genre with the fully 3D Quake, and other game developers were quick to follow suit, including LucasArts. The X-Wing series (in particular the second game, TIE Fighter) are still considered benchmark titles in the spacesim genre, and Star Wars: Dark Forces was a extemely polished take on the “ Doom clone” genre, as shooters were known. I was, like so many other computer game nerds, a massive Star Wars fan, and in the 1990s, games based on the Star Wars franchise had a fairly good reputation. Jedi Knight’s instantly recognisable blocky stormtroopers.
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