What's your personal favourite thing about Jedi Academy, and why choose that?

Fuchs: I think my favourite thing is the way in which you can combine your acrobatic moves and saber attacks. I've had fights in the game that look like they were straight out of the movies, and dare I say, some that looked even better. For example, when fighting a dark Jedi, he may push me to the ground and try to stab me before I get up, but I can backflip up to a standing position and jump over him while swinging my saber downward to kill him while his saber is still stuck in the ground trying to stab where I was.

The game winds up being sort of a "Jedi simulator". It's just a ton of fun.

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Kengo: I was just about to ask about them. Can you first tell us anything about the new SP levels you are thinking of creating for version 2.0?

Clu: It's so hard to predict how much time I will have to spend on them, but ideally they will expand a level or two before Gluteus finds himself in the basement prison, and maybe an extension of the existing level that elaborates on his escape from the arena. The earlier levels will focus on his occupation as a thief, and they will rob and plagiarize extensively from the "Thief" games. Just kidding. But I would like to have more of a stealth feel with a bit more exploration. Roman sewers, the Forum, bath houses and just the merchant-filled streets of Rome are all possible settings. I'm also really looking forward to authoring it for Jedi Academy. The combat system seems so much more flexible and advanced, and there may be the possibility for integration of vehicles and various beasts. Lions! Tigers! GRRRRRRRR!!!....ahem...excuse me.

Kengo: Man, I am so not editing that out [grins]"

LucasArts has announced that Raven Software has finished development on Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy and that the game has gone gold.

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