Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy returns as an Original Xbox Backwards Compatible title bringing with it an incredible Xbox One X enhancement that holds well making the world look sharp for force users.
The Dark Forces / Jedi Knight series was a pivotal moment in the Star Wars gaming franchise. Released between 1995 and 2003, the games brought new stories and characters to the Star Wars universe, all while revolutionizing the first-person shooter genre.
These games are crazy nostalgic for me… those FMVs… I can almost smell the computer room in my house growing up.
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is a 2003 action video game set in the Star Wars universe, featuring customizable Jedi characters and a variety of gameplay options including single-player campaign and multiplayer modes.
What's bitterly disappointing about the Switch version is you can play against Bots or people, but can't do both!
Me and my son wanted to play in the same game, against Bots on our Switches, but can't.
Star Wars has a fantastic history of PC games. These are just 10 of the best Star Wars experiences you can play today.
All this retro support on X1X is nice to see for someone like myself, not gonna lie. However, I wish it was more of an OS/Firmware feature that was at the lowest level of operation, rather than this "download" system which will expire someday.
Xbox One will not be tied to, or supported by, Xbox Live forever. Nor will Xbox Live be around forever in the way it is today. It could be fundamentally altered at some point in the near future, or, even entirely shutdown someday, putting an expiration date on this function's support.
Hopefully next PS/Xbox will have built in emulation for backwards compatibility of the X360/PS3 and older eras, from day one. X1 and PS4 games will be far easier for native backwards compatibility on next consoles, assuming Sony and MS stick with the x64 architecture. So that shouldn't be a huge problem.
Still, for the current time, this is far, FAR superior to Sony's lame PSNow trash. So I'll give MS kudos on this at least.