Amid a layoff wave at the end of February, EA canceled a Star Wars first-person shooter that was in development at Apex Legends developer Respawn Entertainment.
Considering this is a genre that Star Wars once dominated, as well as Respawn’s mastery with games like Titanfall 2, the news especially stung, even if it’s small potatoes next to all the jobs lost in EA’s layoffs. If you’re yearning for a Star Wars FPS and don’t want to wait for the Star Wars: Battlefront remaster launching later this month, you’re in luck.
Rebel scum Star Wars: Dark Forces follows Katarn as he pulls off a series of missions for the Rebel Alliance and attempts to stop the creation of ultrapowerful Dark Troopers that could eradicate any of the Empire’s enemies. Although its story isn’t that deep, for the time it was released, Dark Forces contained a surprising amount of cutscenes and well-voiced dialogue.
Related It just so happens that it’s dropping at a sadly perfect time. According to Insider Gaming, Respawn’s canceled Star Wars game would have followed a Mandalorian bounty hunter as he traveled from planet to planet chasing down targets in an Empire-controlled galaxy. That sounded promising, and it’s a shame that space bounty hunter games like it and Prey 2 will not see the light of day.
Its mission design often has Katarn completing an objective — killing plenty of stormtroopers, droids, and other foes along the way — before extracting. It feels old school, but also in line with what Respawn was reportedly going for. Thankfully, Dark Forces is still a ton of fun to play nowadays, especially now that “boomer shooters” are more popular. Nightdive also worked out any kinks to make the game feel good on a controller.
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