The game contains fourteen levels spanning a story set in 10 ABY, five years after the events of the original Jedi Knight game. One of the most attractive attributes of the game for fans was the opportunity to play as Mara Jade, one of the most popular Star Wars Expanded Universe characters. A collection of all the ingame cutscenes from the Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith, expansion pack for the first-person shooter Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II released on January 31, 1998.