Back on May 4th I started my post by saying I had two candidates from the franchise to play in honour of ‘Star Wars Day’ and ultimately chose ‘Rogue Squadron’ on the N64 because the other option required installation. This was that ‘other’ game; ‘Star Wars: Dark Forces’.
If memory serves me correctly this was part of a whole bundle of Star Wars games I bought from GOG a couple of years ago. At the time I asked around the internet to check if it was a good option for a non-Star Wars fan and the consensus seemed to be positive, and Dark Forces was one of the reasons why.
As a PC game released in 1992,this is not something that comes with Xbox One controller support as standard and, as I don’t believe in playing with keyboard and mouse, I had a little fun setting up joy-to-key before I could get stuck in, and then tweaking my assumptions during the first mission.
Fun fact: The XB1 controller has exactly one too few buttons to assign every command you’d like in Dark Forces, but luckily I haven’t found a reason for the dedicated map screen as the overlaid version is so useful.
Also, I know there are plenty available, but other than joy-to-key I didn’t use any other mods or tweaks.
If memory serves me correctly this was part of a whole bundle of Star Wars games I bought from GOG a couple of years ago. At the time I asked around the internet to check if it was a good option for a non-Star Wars fan and the consensus seemed to be positive, and Dark Forces was one of the reasons why.
As a PC game released in 1992,this is not something that comes with Xbox One controller support as standard and, as I don’t believe in playing with keyboard and mouse, I had a little fun setting up joy-to-key before I could get stuck in, and then tweaking my assumptions during the first mission.
Fun fact: The XB1 controller has exactly one too few buttons to assign every command you’d like in Dark Forces, but luckily I haven’t found a reason for the dedicated map screen as the overlaid version is so useful.
Also, I know there are plenty available, but other than joy-to-key I didn’t use any other mods or tweaks.
