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Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster is another Nightdive triumph


John Linneman's analysis of the Nightdive Studios remaster of Star Wars Dark Forces, based on the game on PC, Switch, X…

Star Wars: Dark Forces is one such game, created in a genre completely different to nearly every other product developer LucasArts would release, but it nonetheless became one of the most interesting and inspired Doom-adjacent shooters of its day. Now, thanks to Nightdive Studios, Dark Forces has emerged from its DOS prison with a new remastered version for all modern platforms, complete with new high-res assets and a host of other improvements. When Dark Forces was released in early 1995, it occupied an unusual place in LucasArts lineup - having mostly focused its efforts on point and click adventures, action games were still a rare breed for the company.

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