Thirty years of Star Wars Jedi lore has told us that creating a lightsaber is a culmination of the training designed to help a Force-sensitive individual learn to harness and control the flow of the Force energy around and through them. The ‘opening crawl’ tells us that Jaden “is en route to the Academy after achieving the impossible: creating a lightsaber without any formal Jedi training…” Even the most ardent of Jedi Knight fans are likely uttering an ‘errm … what ?’ at that phrase. Jaden meets another student – Rosh Penin – on the Academy shuttle, and we see Rosh as insecure, immature, and generally over-bearing. The name is generic, allowing the player to choose male or female characters, as well as some other customization details regarding your character’s appearance and clothing as well as lightsaber hilt and blade color. The story of Jedi Academy takes the focus away from Kyle Katarn and on to an incoming student to the Academy named Jaden Korr. By that time, most gamers would expect that from LucasArts.
The thought that sending Kyle back to a low-level character yet again would seem contrived made sense, but the overall description and time-line made us wonder if this was really an expansion that was twisted around a bit so they could get more money by releasing it as a sequel. The game would use the same developer working with the same engine, but promised to advance the story and the technical aspects we already loved, as well as bring us back to many things we all missed about the original Jedi Knight. In fact – the first two images I used were concept art and a wallpaper released in the lead-up to the game, and you can see how the Rancor translated to an in-game presence in another screen later. Well, November came and went, but by January it was clear that something was coming, we just weren’t sure if it would be an expansion or a sequel.īy E3 of 2003 we were finally fully shown what was coming: a sequel to Jedi Knight II. About six months after the release of Jedi Knight II, there was much speculation of a possible expansion, fueled by rumors and folks with direct connections to Raven Software and LucasArts saying that ‘fans of Jedi Knight II will be very happy in November’.
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