Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast was first launched in 2002. It was, and stays to today, top-of-the-line Star Wars video games ever made, a near-perfect mix of the unique Darkish Forces’ FPS fight with third-person lightsaber fight that even fashionable video games may take notes from.
When you went and performed the sport as nature meant in 2023, it could be nice! However this standalone port/model, offered you’ve obtained the {hardware}, seems like an enormous—and decidedly extra fashionable—enchancment. It takes the unique Jedi Outcast and provides the participant full VR assist, together with the flexibility to wield your lightsaber through movement controls and use power powers through hand gestures.
I have to be clear when saying the unique was an excellent online game in each respect. However individuals’s lingering reminiscences of it, particularly within the wake of Fallen Order’s all-ages fight, was the best way you could possibly completely go to city on Stormtroopers along with your lightsaber, one thing this trailer could be very conscious of:
It’s known as JK-XR, and was created by followers as a “standalone VR port” of the unique, which suggests this can be a full transforming of Jedi Outcast’s engine with an all-new obtain (although you’ll nonetheless want a replica of the unique for the whole lot else). That explains why the workforce have been in a position to cater this so particularly to VR, all the way down to the brand new weapon and power energy menus.
You possibly can obtain it right here for those who’ve obtained the {hardware} (Pico 4 and Quest 2/Professional) on PC and need to strive it out. The obtainable demo may be performed by itself, no further obtain required, however like I simply stated if you wish to play the total recreation you’ll want a authorized copy of the unique, which continues to be obtainable on all main PC digital shopfronts.