STAR WARS™: Dark Forces Remaster The Original Star Wars Shooter Returns

You are Kyle Katarn, a former Imperial who now takes Rebel jobs. The Empire is building something in secret, and your work takes you through fourteen levels: military bases, factories, sewers, Star Destroyers and other worlds and capital ships. Each mission starts with a briefing, and the story unfolds through cutscenes between levels, a proper plot for a 1995 shooter and one that still carries the game. Along the way you uncover the Dark Trooper Project, a new line of Imperial battle droids and armored stormtroopers that will tighten the Empire's grip unless you stop it. The levels hide plenty of secrets, so it pays to poke at walls and take the long way round.

This is a fast first-person shooter in the old style: you run quickly, aim freely and fight ten weapons against twenty enemy types, from stormtroopers and officers to the Dark Troopers themselves. Fists, blasters, landmines and thermal detonators all have their place. Movement is the fun part: you jump, duck and crawl, and levels use it, sending you over pits and through mazes and environmental puzzles. Your in-game Personal Digital Assistant keeps the map, inventory and mission briefings at hand. Power-ups for health, shields, weapons and ammunition keep you alive when a corridor turns nasty. The remaster adds a weapon wheel, rumble and gyro aiming on a gamepad, and you can toggle the classic presentation if you want the 1995 look back.