Kotaku: "In the wake of Lucasarts' closure today, Raven - the developers of the thoroughly excellent Jedi Outcast - have decided to release the source code for the game. Oh, and the code for its sequel, Jedi Academy, as well."
Star Wars Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast Review (Nintendo Switch) - At long last, there's finally a Star Wars game on the Nintendo Switch.
Nintendo announced an impressive number of surprises during today’s Nintendo Direct event, but one of the most unexpected was a Nintendo Switch re-release of Star Wars Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast. Or at least the single-player portion of the game.
The game will be released on Sept. 24, and there’s not much else to add outside of the fact that this is one of the best Star Wars action games ever created, and it’s certainly not a title you’d expect to randomly get a new life on Switch.
Jedi Outcast lets you play with a variety of guns from the Star Wars canon, but the real star of the show is the lightsaber combat and force powers, which give an impressive feeling of power and versatility for a game originally released in 2002. It’s a shame none of the multiplayer modes will be included in this version of the game, but even the single-player campaign is worth revisiting if you haven’t played in a while, or want to experience for th
Well thats a buy... ill buy this series over and over. Curious why xbox was left out is it bc already?
The first one is. I bought it on there about a year ago. They never added the sequel though.
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Hmmmm, considering getting this... Might be a fun learning experience in programming. Is this legal though?
I loved dark forces 3: jedi knight 2: jedi outcast. Put in the code saberrealisticcombat and then you could chop the enemies to pieces with the light saber. That was one of the coolest things ever.
It was awesome to fight one of those dark jedi and then get a hit in and watch his torso get chopped in half or head go flying in slow motion
I guess being fired wasn't enough. Wow.
They are sticking it to the mouse.
I glanced at the code. The most interesting thing to me is that it appears to contain code stolen from GPL licensed open source projects (e.g. FreeAmp).
Taking GPL licensed code to put in a closed source project is a direct violation of the GPL licence, and prevention of such use is one of the major factors in why free software developers choose the GPL licence in the first place, which makes it very unlikely that the author of the code gave permission for such use in the game.
The company could have been sued over this, had it been known to the author of the GPL code.