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Star Wars: Dark Forces

The Empire stretches its evil clutches across the galaxy, consuming planets with devastating results. Through many struggles, the Rebel Alliance has learned of a new Imperial battle station, the Death Star, with enough power to destroy an entire planet. The evil Empire is secretly building a massive army to complete their arsenal of domination and render their reign of terror unstoppable. Kyle Katarn, a formal Imperial Stormtrooper must join the Rebel Alliance's covert operations division, and re-take the Empire from the inside, one battle at a time. Unlike many other Doom-based games, Star Wars: Dark Forces attempted a realistic approach: the missions followed a specific storyline, sometimes cut up by scenes to progress the narrative. Each mission had its own briefing and objective. The levels were designed to represent actual bases, mines, facilities, and other known places from the Star Wars universe, like Star Destroyer interiors, Jabba's ship, Coruscant, etc.

• Shooter
• 1995

Released

28 February 1995

Developer

LucasArts

Publisher

Bullet-Proof Software

Engine

Jedi

Perspective

First person

Age rating

ESRB T · USK 18

Steam recommendations

2,399

Platforms

PlayStation 3 · PC (Microsoft Windows) · Mac · DOS · PlayStation · PlayStation Portable

Genres

Shooter

Also known as

Dark Forces · Dark Forces 1 · Star Wars: Dark Forces (Classic)

Estimated owners

200,000–500,000 (est.)