Movie Duels II

Movie Duels II
Author(s)	WectorX
Link(s)	Movie Duels II
Release date	2009
Game(s)	Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
Mode(s)	Single player

Movie Duels II is version 2 of Movie Duels created by WectorX. The mod provides a full campaign of famous duels from the prequel trilogy and some "Rise of the Empire" missions, which encompass the time period between Episodes III and IV. This single player mod is one of the few saga-based mods ever created for Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy and is extremely popular.

Backgound

In 2008, WectorX finished work on the first Movie Duels. This preliminary release caught the attention of the modding community, many of which had been disappointed by the lack of saga mods, and, most notably, the scam of KOTF. While the scope of Movie Duels was rather large, Movie Duels II was quite a feat to complete. With over twenty missions to create, WectorX had his work cut out for him. Plasma assisted WectorX with the daunting task of rebuilding the iconic film locations, while many modders made exclusive models or let WectorX use their content in his mod. WectorX created new effects, animations (some characters had unique saber styles), and complete cinematic events.

Screenshot of the "Battle of the Heroes" mission

A player controls Count Dooku in the "Battle of Geonosis" mission

Official Releases

After large amounts of work, the mod was released to the ecstatic community on October 1, 2009, delivering both a PC and a MAC version. Several addons followed this release.

Missions

Movie Duels II contains a fairly extensive list of duels and missions. Here is the official list of missions:

" The Phantom Menace Short Negotiations (Qui-Gon & Obi-Wan Vs CIS) Outskirts Of Tatooine (Qui-Gon Vs Maul) Duel Of The Fates (Qui-gon & Obi-Wan Vs Maul) Attack Of The Clones Engage Jango Fett (Obi-Wan Vs Jango Fett) Tusken Camp (Anakin Vs Tuskens) Geonosis Arena (Windu Vs Jango Fett) Battle Of Geonosis (Republic Vs Separatists) Confrontation With Dooku (Jedi Vs Dooku) Revenge Of The Sith Rescue Over Coruscant (Anakin & Obi-Wan Vs count Dooku) Engage General Grievous (Obi-Wan Vs Grievous) Arrest The Chancellor (Mace Vs Sidious) Attack On The Jedi Temple (Vader Vs Jedis) Retaking The Jedi Temple (Yoda & Obi-Wan Vs Clones) Assassination On Mustafar (Vader Vs The Separatist) Masters Of The Force (Yoda Vs Sidious) Battle Of Heroes (Anakin Vs Obi-Wan) Rise Of The Empire Darth Vader's Redemption (Vader Vs Anakin) An Old Enemy (Obi-Wan Vs Darth Maul) A New Hope (Starkiller Vs Vader) " - https://www.moddb.com/mods/star-wars-movie-duels

Snapshot of the Episode I mission, "Short Negotiations"

Features

WectorX also added new menus that allowed the player to easily change his or her appearence and toggle invincibility. Also, WectorX added an extras option, allowing the player to fight against npcs and play various bonus missions. Another thing added was a challenge ladder, pitting the player's skills against that of iconic prequel characters.

Reception

Reception

The Jedi Knight community was very happy with this mod. Moddb users have rated the mod at an average of 9.3/10, and still remains one of the most popular JKA mods hosted by the site. Over 420 Moddb members tracked the mod and the mod has been downloaded more than 73,000 times (data only takes into account the full PC version of the mod hosted through Moddb). Most reviews were positive and praised the team's hard work, but many users experienced issues with getting the mod to work. Movie Duels II was also featured in an article of the German magazine Gamestar. While the mod came with a difficulty selector, many users felt that the mod was overall to difficult to complete without cheats.

External Links

• Official Site
• [1] - The Moddb page for Movie Duels II