Yeah lordjedi, I don't know what you are talking about. Dark Forces predated the online multiplayer, while Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight had multiplayer from the get go. You could fight any character with any character, with lightsaber, force powers or even just blasters. It was a lot of fun actually. And yeah, there were a lot of mods for it, so you could have a lot of fun with it. Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast also had multiplayer right from the start. As did Jedi Academy.

My goodness, that is one messed up series of games!!! We go from Dark Forces to Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight, then with the third game instead of Dark Forces III they decide to continue it from the previous games subtitle as Jedi Knight II (so Dark Forces III: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast??? hehe), then instead of calling the next one Jedi Knight III, they just outright rename it to Jedi Academy (I guess Dark Forces IV: Jedi Knight III: Jedi Outcast II: Jedi Academy would have been kind of hard to print on the CD). But with all that said, I for one am glade that they dropped the name Dark Forces from the title and renamed the series, since Jedi Knight had very little in common with DF gameplay wise. Kind of sets Dark Forces away from all the extra baggage the later installments brought to the series.

Hmm, I just noticed another minor similiarity between DF and SOTE, the N64 cartridge of SOTE features a StormTrooper, very much like the cover of the original DF box art.