Star Wars: Jedi Knight 1 - Story (all Cutscenes)

[@GameCinematics]

I had to remove parts of the music because of copyright issues.

[@daver12591]

shit

[@rocketpsyence]

I remember when I was a kid and I played this game the cutscenes blew my mind and now watching them feels like watching an episode of Aquabats XD

[@jjrj8568]

Happens a lot with PS1/N64 games...

[@psychowilson]

Although the acting wasn’t good (because it was for a game..) This is one of the best Star Wars stories outside the original 6. Wish the new movies were more like this.

[@gary.420]

@Невада большевик Kyle might’ve been a gary stu, but at least he’s charismatic and likeable, rey is just a cardboard cutout in comparison.

[@zacharyjochumsen9677]

@Пыль глотаю fun fact dud you know the guy 2ho viced maw here was asl the Hungarian guy in the usual supects

[@zacharyjochumsen9677]

@Пыль глотаю yeh its guybwgio bed voiced mzwcaslo voiced the gungsrinnguy innthe usual suspects

[@zacharyjochumsen9677]

@Пыль глотаю and aslo did yo know this gsme was first star wars Alice scthion anything gondeture yelow and purple lightsabers

[@Mikemic2218]

@user-lk7cv8vg7r except AFTER jedi knight he gave up being a jedi after nearly falling to the dark side, went back to mercenary work for the new republic, got his ASS handed to him by a dark jedi, WENT to luke skywalker to relearn how to use the force again, so basically he was a gary stu, then became an actual developed character who had an arc, unlike rey.

[@OutsiderVisions]

Remember, this was the first live action scenes after return of the Jedi 😉🙂

[@benjaminward2805]

Still better than Disney's Trilogy

[@THENEVERDEADIV]

Rebel Assault 1 and 2 then this.. but rebel assault as a game sucked in my opinion..

[@tbone9474]

As was said, no it's not, rebel assault 1 and 2 came first :)

[@jilliebean6312]

Starwars Christmas special: am i a joke to you???

[@jilliebean6312]

@@tbone9474 your wrong as well

[@Boston2George]

People have to understand that this was before Episode 1 in a time where Star Wars was almost non existent and these cutscenes and the ones for Rebel Assault 2 were the first official real film sequences since Return of the Jedi from 1983!!!

[@woodrowelias9985]

star wars was better before Episode 1 come on?? what u talking of star wars was more star wars before that time i hate the star wars after the 80's

[@VegetaLF7]

@@woodrowelias9985 What he means is that this and the footage for Rebel Assault 2 were the first live action Star Wars content officially made since Return of the Jedi, predating Phantom Menace by years. That was a big deal back then, it wasn't just an animated panel or a comic or animatic like that but actual people in costume on a set live action Star Wars.

[@KosMik_Skul]

oh god man i fucking love it! i remember this time. i was a kid, I'm 36 now so i was very young when i got into it around the time of the 1st special edition. this was an amazing time to look back on. I'm having so much nostalgia feels right now. this was such a big deal. i even tried to make my own comic book version of this story with my brother using crayola markers! lol damn

[@markgcarroll]

@Boston2George That's not true to say Star Wars was almost non-existent: the remastered Special Editions had hit cinemas between January and March 1997, causing an explosion of renewed Star Wars interest. For many like me, it gave a second chance to see the films at the cinema, while for many others, it was their first chance to see on the big screen what they'd only seen on TV or VHS. It was a happy time, before anyone had heard of the Trade Federation :) This game was then released in October, when the buzz was still raging.

[@lordnmaster2]

Jerec’s acting alone makes this comedy gold.

[@starkdilemma4916]

Dude looks like Jack Nicholson

[@gretzkyan]

Shoulda won an Oscar tbh

[@Wi11i4mJM]

I thought he was one of the better ones haha

[@alucard624]

Good ole Christopher Neame. The guy hams it up in just about every part Ive seen him in and knew exactly how to play the part of Jerec ie larger than life.

[@MetaCinemaYT]

I played Dark Forces on PS1 as a kid (this was maybe 2001-2002. I was 4 or 5) and it scared the hell out of me. Mostly because aiming was kinda hard and I got lost a lot. I didn't know there was a whole list of sequels until just a few years ago. I picked up Jedi Academy in 2016 and loved it. Haven't played all of them but seeing the FPS elements in Jedi Knight brings me back to my Dark Forces days. Storm Troopers were terrifying back then.

[@RyanKarolak]

I played Dark Forces as a kid for DOS. What scared me in that game was the sewer level with the sewer monsters popping up to bite you. I also found the Dark Troopers scary.

[@MetaCinemaYT]

@@RyanKarolak YES THE SEWERS. They scared the shit out of me

[@ledumpsterfire6474]

Outcast is very worth playing, but feel free to go ahead and miss this one. I've played all of them, and am going through another replay of all of them now.. except this one, for good reason. There's a reason I'm watching a recap instead of playing it. Presuming you can get it to run on modern hardware, not to mention run in a tolerable resolution, it's still by far the worst out of all of them. They tried, they really did, and I appreciate what they were trying to do, but even compared to other games of its time, this one was just.. bad.

[@mattharrell4]

@@MetaCinemaYT Hey there fellas, also part of the “sewers level scared the hell out of me” club. I grew up with this game and love it so much I’ve beaten it on every setting and still play it every couple years. Never got past the sewers until I was in my teens 😂 before that I used the “laskip” cheat

[@jeffreyaguilar8028]

Wow these graphics are so good it looks like it’s live action.

[@justincummings8557]

Bruhhhh

[@pavelpaviljvskyi9187]

bruh

[@marianxendor3974]

Bruh

[@shyguyguyx3886]

This IS the RIDE!

[@TheFrantic5]

I know you're being funny, but I also see the universe where you're dead serious and it is causing me great mental anguish.

[@finncustomtile]

This was the best Star Wars game of its time by far. Haven’t watched these cutscenes in damn near 20 years.

[@tichyrelease8165]

played this a million times felt like real star wars i was 25 and just loved this this is the era of lucasarts and lucas film before they lost it all

[@dboygamer8184]

The closest we ever got to a "Expanded Universe" film

[@Chris_Thorndyke]

It’s depressing to know that Disney will never be a fraction of how good this was.

[@Batou3]

@@Chris_Thorndykewhat’s worse? Everyone knows canon sucks and tell us deal with it

[@zacharyjochumsen9677]

​@@Chris_Thorndykea d th first tim th yellow lightsaber was ever shown onscreen inanimate Liv acthion star wars

[@zacharyjochumsen9677]

​@Batou3 yeh this lik frst tim anyon wver got to yell9w lightsabed in star wars closes on befr tht in spacebalks why yah yellow schartz blade

[@jackharrison3132]

Still better than the sequels tbf 😂

[@d3athperception828]

Fr

[@jjrj8568]

The story of Luke's Academy at Yavin4 + Kyle Katarn as a lone ranger= x1000 times better than the ST

[@mickjaegar2379]

Shot and chaser

[@pp4151]

Definitely. There is no such thing as sequels for a true Star Wars fan) Well, except Book of Boba Fett, Bad Batch, spin-off series etc.

[@KosMik_Skul]

the sequels are alright, could've been way better. i would've much rather had Luke's new Jedi order on Yavin 4, parts of Dark Empire & Thrawn's trilogy Heir to the Empire. they could've mixed in Kyle Katarn's story as well. that was all my SW universe. plus Mara Jade and Mysteries of the Sith. i absolutely love all those books comics n video games.

[@francolive5718]

The legend that was Boc

[@VegetaLF7]

One of the first people to use purple lightsabers and the first to dual wield sabers.

[@storba3860]

Dark Side: Killing the man who killed your father via execution. Light Side: Deliberately arming the man who killed your father so you can kill him in self defense. Pretty sure they produce the same result.

[@Junuman1]

I mean…. 😄 if he doesn’t pick it up he lives 🙂

[@VegetaLF7]

More like letting him have the chance to defend himself rather than just outright executing him.

[@storba3860]

@@VegetaLF7 Wouldn't the Light Side choice have been to arrest him?

[@VegetaLF7]

@@storba3860 If Kyle were taking prisoners, which he was not. He was too dangerous to be taken in alive, was still in command of an entire Imperial presence within the Valley of the Jedi, now knew where the Valley was and had just managed to absorb the power the Valley possessed. He was defeated here and allowed to die fighting as a warrior rather than be cut down on his knees as a prisoner, but there was absolutely no way Kyle could risk bringing him in. First off, how could he? They're at the bottom of the Valley, again surrounded by an established Imperial army that is probably not too pleased with Kyle for shooting his way through the facility already and with Jerec's Super Star Destroyer still sitting, intact and fully crewed in orbit, not to mention the other Star Destroyers in his flotilla. If allowed to recover while on the way out of the Valley, Jerec would certainly try to escape at the first opportunity and is, again, super powered up because of his exposure to the Valley's core and his absorption of the power located there. Plus there is the matter of trying to protect Jan who was also present and the risk that he'd just kill her to get back at Kyle on the way out. They also need to find a ride off the planet since Light Side Kyle crashed the Moldy Crow, something Dark Side Kyle didn't do. Trying to drag a prisoner along while searching for a ship would be a pain. Finally where would they take him? This is 1 year post Endor, the fledgling New Republic, only barely out of their Rebel Alliance days, is in no position to be taking a Force User of Jerec's power prisoner yet, especially one who, if once again, allowed to rest and recover from this battle and regain his full strength, would be godlike. Rahn, the Jedi whose spirit mentors Kyle, flat out tells Kyle how dangerous Jerec would be if he gets the Valley of the Jedi's power. He says, and I quote, "If Jerec captures this power, he will be a creature such as the universe has never seen. A supernova of stars in a fleeting thought. The eradication of life from a star system in a whisper will be within his power." There is no way to take Jerec in, no where to put him, and the risk of his escaping and unleashing his wrath upon the galaxy is far too great. Jerec *CANNOT* be permitted to leave the Valley alive. Like I said, the light side choice was letting him die on his feet rather than on his knees, a warrior's death rather than a prisoner's execution.

[@maloneyboloney9377]

@@storba3860 he knew what happened to Mace when he tried to arrest chancellor Palpatine.

[@CandyChaos7]

I love the story of Kyle Katarn, struggling his path to choose between Light and Dark. *Remember, abilities are not inherently GOOD or EVIL, It's how you used them*

[@1jidion]

like how luke used force crush (a dark side ability) on the dark trooper in the mandolorian

[@shenhurst]

Well, except in this game, where except for four neutral abilities they are inherently good or evil.

[@CandyChaos7]

@@shenhurst I never played the game despite owning one because of the FMV cut-scenes rending my computer useless. 🥲Good to know though.

[@CandyChaos7]

@@1jidion That is the Disney version of telling the story. Star Wars: Dark Forces 2 Jedi Knight came way before Darth Mickey took over Lucasarts.

[@alucard624]

@@1jidion And used force choke on the Gamorrean guard in Return of the Jedi.

[@jjrj8568]

While not the most famous mainstream game of that era (even non-gaming people know of or have heard about FF7, Super Mario 3D, or Resident Evil, etc), this game was easily (in a now dated way) the apex of its era 96-97: blocky but detailed graphics, crude CGI+cheesy real action+greenscreen cutscenes + cinematic soundtrack (actually the music of John Williams from the movies)

[@alucard624]

I would love to see Nightdive remaster this game and the expansion Mysteries of the Sith just like they did recently with Dark Forces.

[@seeker01]

I don't remember Jan being that hot

[@echobase6372]

I always had a huge crush on her. She's definitely a babe

[@paulguthrie4857]

She wasn't, not to me....

[@jjrj8568]

Hot asiancalifornian babe

[@AlexisTheDragon]

I do. Also that's cause u were a kid.

[@lh2281]

I remember as a very young kid I always thought she was super hot

[@elestromusicgamesfun1101]

Golden age of PC-gaming

[@jjrj8568]

Probably 2000-2008

[@alucard624]

@@jjrj8568 More like mid 90s.

[@jjrj8568]

@@alucard624 Personally, if I'm being honest and fair, I'd say 1996-2012; for some reason, things started to go slowly downhill in 2013...(graphics over gameplay, DLC fully established, etc). And, before 1996, sorry, things look too primitive for me; for example, I can't bear how dated and limiting Doom I and II look compared to Quake I and II...

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

The overacting by all of the performers made the entire game all the more fun. The Katarn character was a ton of fun to follow over the JK series. JKO and JKA were legendary jumps forward, too. I'll never forget playing those in 2003 or whatever it was. :)

[@Silencersix]

As someone who started with Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy, seeing Kyle Katarn in live action makes me incredibly uncomfortable.

[@reynacamacho7839]

So this is Jedi Knight i, outcast is ii, and academy is iii right? And is there Jedi Knight iv?

[@GameCinematics]

well Jedi Knight 1 is in fact Dark Forces 2 :) Here is the complete series: www.mobygames.com/game-group/star-wars-dark-forces-jedi-knight-series

[@Longder09]

@@GameCinematics There were also dark forces 1 but it was just shooter game in sw universe, but still damn good one as Kyle.

[@SavageFreddy33]

I think it's cool.

[@VegetaLF7]

@@reynacamacho7839 This series has the misfortune of being renamed every time a new game comes out. First it is Dark Forces, with the sequel (this game) being Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight. It then had an expansion come out, Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith. It was then followed up by Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast, before wrapping up with Jedi Academy. It's a joke among fans of the series that the last game should technically be called Dark Forces IV: Jedi Knight III, Jedi Outcast II: Jedi Academy.

[@mattgerrish908]

16:01 From this moment on in the rest of the game this music will play. When I played the game when I was nine and it got to this specific part in the composition, I would always think of this scene in question and reenact it my head!

[@the_lichemaster]

All those moaning about effects. This was the mid 90's cutting edge at the time, especially for a PC game.

[@lordenkidu1876]

5:11 is perfect.

[@leastmilk6298]

I really just watched that entire thing

[@thalljoben3551]

The Iron Throne aint got sh*t on that Dark Side ending scene

[@VegetaLF7]

Want to see something kind of interesting? Compare the Imperial Palace shown in the Dark Side Ending and tell me that the ending of Attack of the Clones isn't a direct copy of it, the building Dooku meets Palpatine in at the end.

[@HolyknightVader999]

6:36 LEAVING SO SOON?

[@sferris33]

Quite amazing that games like this put Star Wars movies to shame

[@BetaCuckAlpha]

Jan Ors has an incredible voice.

[@campjacky1940]

Basically a tech test for the prequel trilogy ha

[@pp4151]

By the way, this game is actually first in the trilogy of Jedi Knight games - Jedi Knight I: Dark Forces 2. The second is Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast, and third is Jedi Knight III: Jedi Academy. They better off made the sequels based on the plot of this Jedi Knight trilogy. It would have been 200% better. And I'm sure all Star Wars fans would eagerly wait each part of such trilogy based on 3 Jedi Knight video games. But it's not the first time Disney makes it worse. Take Prince of Persia, for example. The made first movie Sands of Time, but they didn't make the most interesting and badass parts of the story - Warrior Within and the Two Thrones.

[@Wi11i4mJM]

Don't forget Dark Forces 1

[@Chris_Thorndyke]

Disney ruins everything they touch.

[@pp4151]

@@Chris_Thorndyke They should just make cartoons just like good ol' days, and touch nothing else. Especially - SW.

[@Chris_Thorndyke]

@@pp4151 Agreed.

[@raulmachuca9047]

The dark side had at least one more scene when Kyle kills Jan.

[@mntwins28]

Jan was cute

[@ExistentHope]

Looks like a fan film.

[@hogne]

I hope these actors had day jobs...

[@guisebour]

Better than the last trilogy

[@joshmanchester5873]

Honestly I would love see a live action series about kyle katarn now but who would be the perfect actor to play the character

[@arturbaluyev2873]

He's Cassian Andor now

[@psychowilson]

Hugh jackman deffo

[@gretzkyan]

Ryan Gosling

[@pavelpaviljvskyi9187]

Oke das Intro is einfach mal so wie: "Was hat Episode 4 nochmal gesagt?" "Pah, meiner is 10mal so gross."

[@markula_4040]

4:59 That robot sounds like Kitt from Knight Rider.

[@katarn0329]

Kyle Katarn is The Home Boy.

[@ashoe2show]

I forgot ming the merciless was in this game..

[@satyagrahaa]

I love how ridiculously campy and cheesy the acting is. It’s just part of the charm of it all…

[@dkz00]

were these characters already on comics or they were first created in this game? cuz i see a lot of references for the last movies.

[@GameCinematics]

The game was first: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Katarn

[@MCSPARTAN501]

Looks like they barely built any sets, aside from a green screen.

[@v1deo.hunter.d317]

Classic game

[@DarkSlayer010]

These cutscenes should be part of some of the recent remaster mods going around. I recently installed the remaster mod for this game. It looks very good. Unfortunately the cutscenes have their original, horrible resolution. This would complete the package.

[@chrism3198]

So cheesy. Throws me back to my childhood.

[@ZuluRomeo]

27:00 you can really smell the cheese 😜

[@Palmerrip]

Anyone know what that ship is at 4:22? The one with the red engines? Is that a MC-30?

[@VegetaLF7]

Pretty much. MC30c Mon Calamari frigate.

[@Palmerrip]

@@VegetaLF7 That's my second favorite mon cal ship. I didn't know it had appeared this early.

[@Bms010]

Is it cheesy yes, would I rather watch this over The Last Jedi also yes.

[@thtkidfrmvab]

Kyle turned me gay with that dad bod in the 90s 🥵🥵

[@marcusmeins1839]

Still better than the rey trilogy XD

[@thesleekgreek]

Gunna watch this to cleanse my pallet from Ashoka

[@Chris_Thorndyke]

Gonna watch this to cleanse my pallet from everything Disney Star Wars related.

[@thesleekgreek]

@@Chris_Thorndyke true that

[@KosMik_Skul]

didn't this game have choices with different cut scenes? like the first Dark Jedi u fight if u choose to kill him?

[@GameCinematics]

Yes but this is only the good version. For the different endings I uploaded an extra video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hHXIenxuab-mic0

[@KosMik_Skul]

@@GameCinematics oh cool! thanks! yeah i want she cause it's probably been around 20 years since i played these games. do you know if there's anyway u can play them now still?

[@GameCinematics]

@@KosMik_Skul they are available on Steam and GoG.

[@ProdMisguided]

Better than Acolyte

[@creepythecritter]

Used to have this game as a kid thought the cutscenes were so awesome. Now that I look back at them they are CRINGE 😂😂

[@TheMonkeygoneape]

that's part of the charm of them lol

[@jeffreyaguilar8028]

What do you mean the graphics are so good it’s practically live action.

[@justincummings8557]

@@jeffreyaguilar8028 bruhhhhh

[@ledumpsterfire6474]

They were decent in their time, for video game cutscenes. They're crap now because expectations are above and beyond what they were then.

[@KosMik_Skul]

idc not as cringe as some of the live action films. every star wars trilogy had crying moments, the prequels probably most of all. the cringe from the sequels comes from thinking about how much they missed n couldn't done better. but anyway i love this shit!

[@dariansmith337]

Black people never die first 😂😂

[@veronicaporras9246]

1:59

[@keunken]

스타워즈789가 이렇게 나올줄 알았다.

[@kkll2550]

Just make new star wars film like this not gay disney disappointment ...

[@laszlocsaplaros6889]

you see the mandalorian? the season 2 last episode i crying , come back my childhood

[@duvanclto97]

Los gráficos se lo perdono, pero las actuaciones...que malas

[@jackmoscow9290]

This is NO different than the Disney+ shows

[@satyagrahaa]

Can we talk about how the Ashoka series literally just stole major plot elements from this badly acted video game?

[@pavelpaviljvskyi9187]

horrible:D

[@havika9691]

When you realize this is an old game:🤯

[@Soulfly415]

CRINGE!

[@mr.spider6859]

Yeah, this is one pretty cringe comment.

[@Soulfly415]

@@mr.spider6859 If you honestly think these cutscenes are good, then you're a blind, biased fanboy! I love classic Star Wars to death (not the Disney trash), but what is bad - it's bad! Unlike you, i'm not blind and delusional to see the facts! The rest of the game is great though...

[@mr.spider6859]

@@Soulfly415 tl;dr lol

[@ledumpsterfire6474]

Based on your gen A vocabulary, I'm going to guess you've never seen a game that was made before Fortnite. This was decent for video game cutscenes in their time. You should have seen some of the other live action based games from around that era, they were atrocious even back then.

[@Soulfly415]

@@ledumpsterfire6474 Keep guessing, but actually i don't even like most modern games (especially Fortnite), and i love 90's FPS games. I've played everything from Wolfenstein 3D and Doom to stuff like Doom 3 and Prey, which is the period the genre kind of dies off for me, because the boom of boring military simulators, cover shooters, and simplification for the console market. I've also played a lot of not so popular titles like the Marathon Trilogy, SiN, Kingpin: Life of Crime, the Red Faction Games, Soldier of Fortune 1 and 2, the original XIII, Clive Barker's Undying, Chaser, Star Trek Elite Force 1 and 2, the first Call of Duty (the best one) and much more. Yes, i've played the Kyle Katarn games too, starting with Dark Forces, where Kyle is not even a Jedi yet, just a regular Han Solo-type merc. I've played this one too (missed on the expansion, unfortunately), as well as Outcast and Academy. But these cutscenes, even if you think are good for the gaming scene at the time, are still bad for a Star Wars production - that's what i meant. As a Star Wars fan myself, i cannot take them serious, they're god awful, period! You want to talk good live action cutscenes in games? Wing Commander 3 did it right, not this Dark Forces 2... they had great actors, direction and star power. This here is not worthy of a Star Wars game. So... do you still want to call me a kid, because i don't like bad cutscenes in a video game, Mr. Wiseman?

[@Daft-SFM]

Thank god this isn’t canon anymore

[@Junuman1]

🤨

[@TheDylandProductions]

Better than the new garbage.

[@ExistentHope]

This is more interesting than the Disney continuity

[@jjrj8568]

@@ExistentHope the only interesting thing about the ST is Kylo Ren, which is of course based on the fall of Anakin Solo, of the EU