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…
Star Wars: Dark Forces is a shooter developed by LucasArts, released 28 February 1995 on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation and DOS. The main story takes about 7.5 hrs to finish.
What Star Wars: Dark Forces is
Star Wars: Dark Forces is a shooter game developed by LucasArts and released in 1995. It was published by Bullet-Proof Software. It is available on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation, DOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Jedi.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Behind a veil of secrecy the evil Empire is creating a doomsday army - one that, if finished, will become the final cog in the Empire's arsenal of terror and domination. Your Mission? Join the Rebel Alliance's covert operations division, infiltrate the Empire, then battle every man and machine the Imperial Forces can muster. Search a vast galaxy for clues, attack enemy bases-all in a desperate attempt to stop the activation of this fearsome new weapon.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Star Wars series
Star Wars: Dark Forces is the 33rd of 334 entries we hold in the Star Wars series. The next entry was Star Wars: TIE Fighter - Collector's CD-ROM in 1995. Its critic score of 66 is 5 points below the series average of 71. The highest-rated entry is Angry Birds Star Wars II at 100.
How it was received
Star Wars: Dark Forces holds a critic score of 66 out of 100. That places it above 31% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1995 averaged 66, so it scored about average for its year. Players rate it 72, 6 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 7.5 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 486 or higher, 16 MB of RAM and DirectX. At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.
What it launched against
Star Wars: Dark Forces launched on 28 February 1995, within three weeks of Chrono Trigger, Descent, Discworld and Front Mission. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Chrono Trigger, Descent, Discworld, Front Mission.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Star Wars: Dark Forces yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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Screenshots
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