

Among those included were a map of a standard Star Destroyer level (the "nose" of the Star Destroyer is very identifiable), an undisclosed Imperial base/Death Star/Star Destroyer level (with a very steep vertical drop), and an abused urban setting (that appeared to have an unfinished, bland sky overhead). In an issue of Lucasarts' old magazine "The Adventurer" (that came with games of the era), Dark Forces was previewed with screenshots that did not appear in the final game. You can extract the sound files of these lines with one of the modding programs, available at The original idea was that Denny Delk (the narrator) would read the Star Wars scrolling text, but it was cut out. The Imperial Blaster Rifle sprite was used in Star Wars: Rebel Assault II - The Hidden Empire on the second CD. Coincidentally, both Max and Kyle Katarn are voiced by the same actor: Nick Jameson.Įwoks also make appearances in the form of a few that are chained up who make fun of you (and you can shoot them if you're one of those Ewok hating Star Wars fans) and the 'Ewoks suck' graffiti you'll find in the some of the darker corners of the Imperial facilities. You'll notice on the map one structure that looks very similar to the infamous rabbit.

Max from Steve Purcell's duo of Sam and Max (who star in their own LucasArts game, Sam & Max Hit the Road) makes a most unusual cameo appearance in Dark Forces.On the ice level, keep your map up during your investigations of its perimeter. the close-up of Vader's face at the epilogue, is taken from TIE fighter.īoth the US and the German version were banned in Germany (German: 20.10.95, US: 30.09.95) A similar animation is seen in a game over cutscene when your pilot is captured and Vader interrogates you. The animation of Darth Vader when he speaks to Mohc is 'borrowed' from the X-wing game. The other was General Mohc (the final boss) in his specially modified Phase III Dark Trooper battle suit.

One was the main character Kyle Katarn (whose image was lifted from the game, but they added a beard so he'd look more like the Jedi Knight version of him). Two Star Wars action figures were actually released based on characters from this game.
