Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast has reached Beta status," wrote Westlake. "The [development] team was able to get higher-quality versions of the in-game cutscenes from LucasArts, so the Mac version should have much nicer looking versions of those. On the whole, JK2 is starting to come together really nicely." Beta is a development milestone that marks the point where Westlake has converted all of the game's code to the Macintosh ( news - web sites), and all features of the game have been implemented. At this point, Westlake is tracking and fixing bugs and has actively solicited a private! team of testers to play the game to help shake down any problems that remain. When it's finally released, the game will run natively in Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X ( news - web sites), and it will support multiplayer gaming between PC and Mac versions as well. The game is a first-person shooter (with an option to view in third-person mode) based on the Quake III Arena engine set in the Star Wars universe, a few years after the events that conclude the third movie in the original Star Wars trilogy, "Return of the Jedi."

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Calling all Mappers, Modellers, and Hilt makers. The Style Over Substance mod is nearing It's first release, and with this first release we'd like to include as much media from the JK2 editing community as possible. Basically we're asking that all of the aforementioned artists who would like their work included in our first release to please stop by our site and visit our forums, where you can submit your images or links to your work for our forum users to vote on. These do not have to be new works made specifically for our mod, but can be existing work that may already be available for download and the creator would like to release their art to a wider audience. We plan on including as much as we possibly can, however we will have to set a reasonable limit as not to make the download too large. Everyone whose work gets included will receive credit for their work in both the released version of the mod, as well as on our web site. We appreciate all entries and look forward to seeing what the extremely talented JK2 community has to offer.