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                          Alert Rebel Forces!
                   Dark Forces Have Besieged The Web!
 
                       By Doug Reed (Jedi Master)

        So, young Rebel, did you think you had defeated the Dark Troopers?
Did you complete the fourteen levels and defeat General Rom Mohc and Boba
Fett? Did you think that was all there was? Guess again, young arrogant
 fool!
        Dark Forces is the hit from LucasArts that puts the player into the
Star Wars universe in a Doom-style game. The original game (available only
on CD-ROM) came with fourteen levels. Although these levels were longer,
tougher, and better thought out than those in Doom or other first-person
shooters, many have complained that the game was too short. If you are one
of these people, the answer to your prayers is here.
        One of the big reasons that Doom was such a hit was the multitude of
'home-brew' levels that were made by gamers and that can be found posted all
over the net. Fans of Dark Forces are trying to follow in this tradition.
They have already founded a newsgroup (alt.games.darkforces), a FAQ,  and
several new web sites which have popped up on the Web. And some of these
sites contained - you guessed it - home-brew levels that can be run with Dark
Forces! This article will give you a brief rundown of the levels available
and where to find them.
 
The New Levels:
1) Jabba's Ship (revenge.zip). Investigate Jabba's ship, looking for
advanced Imperial weapons technology.
 
2) ESCAPE FROM HOTH (escape.zip). Rescue Marcus Alliance, and kill
everything that moves -- if you can on the planet Hoth
 
3) ESCAPE FROM SECBASE II (dons_df1.zip). You have been captured. Your
mission: find the key that will get your ship back.
 
4) OPERATION DETHSTAR (don-df22.zip). Escape from the Detention Center and
retrieve the Death Star Plans.
 
5) TIE DEFENDER BASE (paullev.zip). Infiltrate the Tie Defender factory.
 
6) SECBASE REVISITED (secrev01.zip). Redone mission to retrieve the Death
Star plans.
 
7) STAR BASE (starbase.exe). Escape from a star base under attack by the
 Empire.
 
8) Terminate (terminat.zip). Penetrate Boba Fett's lair and terminate him.
Adds a lightsabre to your weapons arsenal. Most of these home-brew levels
come with *.bat files that load dark forces for you with the new levels.

           Where to find the FAQ and the home-brew levels:
           http://deepthought.armory.com/~tdalton/Dark Forces
      http://www.princeton.edu/`pjcreathx/df.html (for Mac Users)
      ftp://ftp.wpi.edu/starwars/Computer_Games/Dark_Forces/Levels
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