While there has been a notable uptick in Star Wars games in recent times, none of them offer the online spectacle of lightsaber duelling that the old Star Wars: Jedi Knight games provides. Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order comes closest, but its duels are few and far between and play more like a poor imitation of Sekiro than Jedi Knight's pioneering mouse-based combat.
With Fallen Order so clearly occupying the same niche and the last Jedi Knight game gathering cobwebs back in 2003, it's all but certain that we won't get another - at least, not from an established development studio. But that's all the incentive fans and modders need to get creative. Vertex is one such project that aims to recreate the freeform melee combat that so many people spent years honing in duels against each other online.
"The original inspiration was that I was a huge fan of the combat in Jedi Outcast," the project's lead Chris, who wishes to remain on first name terms, tells us. "I played that game religiously for a few years after it came out and it was great fun online. As the years went by nobody seemed to want to make games with a similar style of combat, which was very strange to me. So I decided to try it myself."
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