I think so. It has a better feel to the controls and fighting. In academy when you fight with lightsabres its like your sabres is hollow, in outcast it feels like its more heavy and the clashing feels awesome
The only thing I prefer on academy is the other sabres, melee, more character, vehicles, well, basicly everything except the gameplay

I agree. I've only seen a bit of academy combat, but it seemed more like they were whacking each other with thin sticks than slicing them with lightsabers. The running seemed too robotic as well, it was smoother on JK2.

Academy has the exact same combat system. No changes, save for the addition of saber stances due to being able to hold two sabers, or the saber-staff. It's just that Academy just sucks, plotwise in general, so people tend to lean toward JK3, which actually resembled the damned Star Wars universe.