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IGN's Review:
Closing Comments
Knights of the Old Republic is an outstanding game because it covers every single angle in terms of audience expectations. It's got enough Star Wars to satisfy the fans and enough pure fun to draw in people who normally wouldn't get into role-playing games. You'll see this on several Game of the Year nomination lists if not at the very top soon enough.
Put this up there with Halo, Splinter Cell and any other Xbox game that kept you up way too late or caused you to neglect your loved ones. It grabs you early on by giving your character some cool toys to play with and some familiar Star Wars critters to welcome you back and next thing you know you've got a space ship, a light saber, a wookie and a droid. With Knights of the Old Republic, the galaxy is yours, get out there and get some.
10.0 Presentation
There's more real Star Warsedness in this game than in the last two movies combined. Great menu system has the best use of triggers we've seen in a while.
9.0 Graphics
A hiccup or two here or there, but for the most part, this is one of the prettiest Star Wars games on any system in any genre.
10.0 Sound
The sound effects are given but the voice-acting was so amazing, we think the standard has just been raised.
9.0 Gameplay
It moves like an action game, plays like nothing you've played before and makes role--playing exciting again.
10.0 Lasting Appeal
This will probably be the deepest single player experience available on Xbox when all is said and done. Wait there's going to be downloadable content too?
OVERALL: 9.5
(out of 10 / not an average)
More to come as they are posted.
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Jonbo298
07-15-2003, 10:15 AM
This is probably a dumb question, but is it online? Not just download new things to do, but full online. Maybe my friend will get the game because its Star Wars and its an RPG.
Crono
07-15-2003, 10:52 AM
Jonbo, it has downloadable content.
And I must say... this game does sound pretty sweet. With KoToR, Fable, BC, Halo 2, and a bunch of others, looks like I'll have to pick up an Xbox when I get the cash.
Yeah, it only has downloadable content. If you want an online Star Wars game go look at Galaxies.
And I must say, the Xbox is starting to get a lot of quality RPGs.
Stonecutter
07-15-2003, 03:58 PM
9.5!
HOLY SCHNIKES!
I was predicting 9.2 from IGN and I never thought it would hit that.
DarkMaster
07-15-2003, 04:44 PM
I want...
Yeah, that's a really good score. :) This will be the best non-Halo Xbox game to date.
Ginkasa
07-15-2003, 08:07 PM
I can't get it until Thursday... *sniff*
:baby:
*shrugs and walks away*
Gamespot's Review:
It's apparent from playing Knights of the Old Republic that a remarkable amount of effort, work, and talent went into this game. It's one of the only Star Wars games to truly make you feel at times as though you're a key player in and a part of this unique and beloved sci-fi setting. You'll get to do all the sorts of stuff that you've seen and enjoyed in the Star Wars movies, and you'll get to emulate any of your favorite characters' personalities and actions over the course of the game. You'll also experience a much more morally complex version of Star Wars than what you get from the movies. Along the way, you'll find a few aspects of the game that you'll wish were better, but that's mostly because the vast majority of Knights of the Old Republic is so exceptionally good. You don't need to be a fan of Star Wars or of RPGs to appreciate all the impressive qualities of this game--but if you are, all the better.
Overall: 9.1
http://www.gamespot.com/xbox/rpg/starwarsknightsoftor/review.html
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CamronKosciozko
07-15-2003, 11:34 PM
Ive never been a star wars fan but this game has been gettin great reviews all around. i might check it out
Joeiss
07-15-2003, 11:39 PM
Man.. I wish I had an Xbox! I love Star Wars... have ever since I was a little kid. This game sounds really good... I want i want i want!!
Jason1
07-16-2003, 11:49 AM
I was soooo close to picking up galexies a few days ago...until I saw the fuggun monthly fee...I hate those things.
Ginkasa
07-16-2003, 02:09 PM
Good, now you can spend the money on KotOR...
*shrugs and walks away*
BlueFire
07-16-2003, 02:55 PM
Even though I hate Star Wars, this game interests me. I saw commercials for this game. Looks great.
GameKinG
07-16-2003, 03:07 PM
They should not have replaced the old guy that use to say "no power greater than x". The one in the KOTOR commercial sucks...
Just my little rant.
bobcat
07-16-2003, 06:05 PM
where does this fit into star wars? like which episode and stuff?
Review looks good, it's an rpg, i'll buy it as soon as it hits Aussie shores in 2050
Stonecutter
07-16-2003, 06:32 PM
where does this fit into star wars? like which episode and stuff?
Review looks good, it's an rpg, i'll buy it as soon as it hits Aussie shores in 2050
4000 years before the movies.
Woot! I just got the game, going to play now...
Man.. I wish I had an Xbox! I love Star Wars... have ever since I was a little kid. This game sounds really good... I want i want i want!!
Thought you had a decent computer??
I was soooo close to picking up galexies a few days ago...until I saw the fuggun monthly fee...I hate those things.
find a private server and play for free. :p
DarkMaster
07-16-2003, 09:33 PM
Woot! I just got the game, going to play now...
Impressions! Impressions I say!
This game could make me purchase an Xbox.
Professor S
07-16-2003, 10:02 PM
Woot! I just got the game, going to play now...
How did you get it??? I thought it wasn't coming out til tomorrow!!!
...
BASTARD!!!
Software ETC (Gamestop, whatever) got it at 7 PM tonight. I think that I got one of the last copies too, there was quite a long line. Anyway, it's pretty good so far. The combat system is simple and easy to use. The voice acting is awesome. The controls are good. The graphics are pretty good, although I did think they would be a little bit better, I can't complain. The cut scenes are awesome. It's really a great game so far.
It's pretty cool though how you can pick your own replies in conversations. I suppose I "insulted" one of the aliens, I really didn't think much of it at the time. But when I went back to the area where we was he brought his buddy and attacked me. Luckily I kicked his ass. :)
Ginkasa
07-16-2003, 10:36 PM
Can you pick replies in almost any conversation, like with just random extras, or is it only in certain places for the story or just a few people or what?
*shrugs and walks away*
You can pick replies in almost any conversations. There are a wide variety of replies also. Some favor the dark side, others favor the light side. You can also sometimes try to persuade people into thinking something, sometimes people persuade you into doing or thinking something. There are so many options I couldn't explain them all. It's awesome though that you actually have the choice to decide what you say rather than be a 3rd party in most RPGs. Some of the decisions are really hard to make.
Joeiss
07-16-2003, 11:46 PM
Thought you had a decent computer??
I am not too fond on computer games.. But I might have to give this one a try!
exactly the same as Console games. except more upgradable, better looking (if you have a system to handle it) better fps (same thing) and they never end because of countless addons and maps and mods.
Plus you can use any Console controller on them to play the game.
but yea. computer games arent too great. ;)
Joeiss
07-17-2003, 02:31 PM
When does it come out on PC? Or was it a simultaneous release?
.. well gamespot says 10/14
but often they forget to update. so it might be out ....or then again they could be right and theres a couple things needed to be done on the pc version.
i prefer multiplayer so i never paid much attention to when this one is out
bobcat
07-17-2003, 06:09 PM
.. well gamespot says 10/14
but often they forget to update. so it might be out ....or then again they could be right and theres a couple things needed to be done on the pc version.
i prefer multiplayer so i never paid much attention to when this one is out
Oh it's coming out on Pc is it?
*waits for Pc version*
Why would you wait for the PC version?
It's great on Xbox if you ask me, and by the time it comes out for the PC I'll be done with it on Xbox. :)
By the way, lightsabers own.
personally. imo. i'd rather wait and get any game on PC over any console version. get much more for your money.
wish i waited and got GTA Vice City for PC. game looks a lot better, and theres downloads like new cars, weaps. stuff like that.
Shadow_Link
07-17-2003, 09:19 PM
My copy should be coming in a week or so. I can't wait to play this game!
Does anyone have any idea how long the game is? I've been hearing it's around as long as SoA:L (80 hours).
It's probably about 40-80 hours, depending on what you do. You have a lot more choices than in SoA:L.
Ginkasa
07-18-2003, 12:05 AM
Got mine a few hours ago. I love it!
*POSSIBLE MINOR GAMEPLAY SPOILERS...LIKE...WHAT NOT TO DO OR...SOMETHING :hmm:*
I'm up to the part in the sewers, with the Gamorreans. I just died in a battle with a bunch of them :unsure:
I've decided to go through with the Light side this first time. So far I think I've done pretty good. The only parts where I think I faltered are:
1) I was going through an apartment complex, found a locked door, spliced the door, went inside, dug through the fooot lockers, and found out I just broke in and robbed from some family >_<
2) I walked into an open apartment and some chick told to me to get out or she'd shoot me. I didn't. We fought. I killed her.
It didn't say anything about Dark points or anything so I don't know if those count or not :unsure:
Anyway, I'm the sewers and short on Medpacs. I'm thinking about going back up and see if I can't buy any somewhere.
*shrugs and walks away*
***possible spoilers***
While I'm gone if you guys possibly get stuck on Rancor, you can just go solo mode and run past him or frag him with grenades to death.
***possible spoilers***
Ginkasa
07-18-2003, 10:48 AM
*BETTER SPOILERS THAN BOND'S*
Or you can use Mission's stealth mode and go up to the bones in the middle of the room. Than hit A like you're going to loot it. But instead of taking the items, hit X to go to the leave items mode. Leave the stink you got from the arm outside the door to the Rancor room. When that's done, the Rancor will eat the grenade which will explode and kill him instantly. No deaths, no wasted grenades (besides the one that was already there), and plenty of experience for you (lack of) effort.
*ITS OKAY. THEY'RE DONE NOW... BUT ITS NOT LIKE THERE'S GOING TO BE ANYTHING AFTER THE SPOILERS OTHER THAN MY NORMAL......*
.......*shrugs and walks away*
Perfect Stu
07-18-2003, 07:38 PM
I recently bought NCAA Football 2004 for PS2 and that game is completely owning me right now, so I'm gonna wait until payday next week before I purchase this gem. I've been working my ass off for 2 weeks, now...me want money
DeathsHand
07-18-2003, 08:30 PM
I knew this game would turn out great... C'mon, it's a Star Wars RPG being made by the folks who brought you Baldur's Gate... Unfortunately I don't have an Xbox... *sniffle*
I hope Fable lives up to it's potential too...
TheSlyMoogle
07-24-2003, 01:51 AM
Yeah I'm totally gonna wait for it come out on PC, I have no XBox... Hmm
It's a sad little system... Nothing on it interested me until this game and I'm only a tiny bit into Star Wars.
Yeah so it's like spend 270 some dollars to get the XBOX and KOTOR, or wait for PC version... I'm waiting for PC version. Now if something else is released for XBox that grabs my attention before 10/4, then I'll be all for buying an Xbox.
Stonecutter
07-24-2003, 03:09 AM
Yeah I'm totally gonna wait for it come out on PC, I have no XBox... Hmm
It's a sad little system... Nothing on it interested me until this game and I'm only a tiny bit into Star Wars.
Yeah so it's like spend 270 some dollars to get the XBOX and KOTOR, or wait for PC version... I'm waiting for PC version. Now if something else is released for XBox that grabs my attention before 10/4, then I'll be all for buying an Xbox.
Hmm, well. Let's see.
There's:
Halo , JSRF, Panzer Dragoon Orta, Project Gotham Racing, Rallisport Challange, Brute Force, GUNVALKYRIE, Deathrow, MechAssault, Phantom Crash, and Crimson Sea.
Not to mention the best version of 90% of mulitplatform games.
Koopa
07-24-2003, 03:36 AM
hey..this is koopa again....i havent been here in a loong time
uh well im pretty far into kotor, and ive gotta say its probably the best game ive played this year, if not one of the best of the last few years (yes, including Halo, Zelda:Wind Waker, Splinter Cell, Metroid Prime, Warcraft 3, and Battlefield 1942)
The combat is really very innovative..at first glance its very action-ish...but once you play it and look for the turn based engine "beneath the hood" its definitely noticable. you can queue up moves in real time, or pause, choose moves, fight, pause, choose more moves, unpause, etc....depending on your stats and using a dice-rolling system found in dungeons and dragons, the engine determines hits, misses, and counter-attacks and animates them so fluidly you'd swear they weren't turn based.
and thats not all...theres also the really cool dialogue system that actually affects things (unlike in zelda where they ask you to do something and you say no and they say "pleaseeee" until you agree)
most things have really nice, nice, neutral, bad, and reallly bad choices....and not all are as clear as you might think
for exampleeee...heres a VERY minor spoiler...theres a group of kids picking on an alien (some people are really racists..er ...alien-ist...prejudiced...) and so you can talk to them and either help the say "im not gonna get involved" or ask them to stop or tell the kids you'll murder them in cold blood if they dont stop, or help them beat up a poor old alien.
another minor spoiler invovels a a combat situation in which you can possibly redeem a dark jedi...i chose to keep fighting, and i found out later that she could have joined my party...in addition, her best friend got realllly mad at me for forsaking her and not trying to turn her back to the light....so about 20 horus later i find her in a sith base and she wants to kill me still.
graphics are okay...theyre great in combat, but in open areas they're just okay...although there are some nice money shots overlooking the sand dunes of tatooine, or having the sun behind yoru character in the tall grasses of dantooine.
uh the music...is great...very star-wars ish....a few tunes ripped from the trilogy, but mostly original stuff that has obvious influence from john williams (i wonder if he wrote the score) and any star wars fan will be in heaven hearing the cracks and hisses of lightsabers. oh yeah and, for a game, the voice acting is really great. i particularly love the slightly homocidal assasin droid HK-47...some of his lines made me laugh out loud :)
er...the story has loooots of nice influences from the trilogy...a fast ship, a wookie, a hint of some sort of dysfunctional romance, lots of bad guys in lots of armor that doesn't seem to work, and an evil empire with haughty, british accents. on an ironic note...and this is a minor spoiler................................when the sith are interrogating one of your party about where a jedi base is located, she lies says its on alderaan, when its really on dantooine....in the star wars trilogy, the imperials interrogate princess leia about the location of a hidden rebel base, which she lies about and says is on dantooine....but they imperials blow up alderaan...the star wars nerd inside me was grinning when i heard that. and theres an awesome plot twist that rivals the "Luke, I am your father." thing.
this game is so addictive, i swear...i'll tell myself im gonna play for 10 more minutes, and when i glance at the clock an hour has gone by.
games don't get much better than this...it might be a bit audacious to say this is the best rpg ever, but its certainly the best star wars rpg ever! :) (get it, cuz theres only two, and galaxies sucked... :) )
seriously.. buy this now...or if you must, wait for it on pc.
TheSlyMoogle
07-25-2003, 10:47 PM
Hmm, well. Let's see.
There's:
Halo , JSRF, Panzer Dragoon Orta, Project Gotham Racing, Rallisport Challange, Brute Force, GUNVALKYRIE, Deathrow, MechAssault, Phantom Crash, and Crimson Sea.
Not to mention the best version of 90% of mulitplatform games.
Like I said nothing else that really interests me. Well Panzer sorta does but not really enough. And as for better versions of the other games that are all multiplatform, it's just not worth it to spend another 200 dollars to get the XBox when I could spend that 200 on around 4 more games, around 7 more if they were all GBA games. Lol. And anyway about 60% of all those multi-platform games released are sports games! Blah!
Hero2
07-25-2003, 11:39 PM
Like I said nothing else that really interests me. Well Panzer sorta does but not really enough. And as for better versions of the other games that are all multiplatform, it's just not worth it to spend another 200 dollars to get the XBox when I could spend that 200 on around 4 more games, around 7 more if they were all GBA games. Lol. And anyway about 60% of all those multi-platform games released are sports games! Blah!
what but halo i would spend 200 just for halo in fact i did that and steel batllion but im just good at wasting my hard earned money
no u cant have any
TheSlyMoogle
07-26-2003, 02:12 AM
what but halo i would spend 200 just for halo in fact i did that and steel batllion but im just good at wasting my hard earned money
no u cant have any
Ahh I forgot about steel Bat. Ahhh! I really wanted that game forever there. But now that I have a job, I just don't know. Money is hard earned. Blah, I hate McDonalds! Anyway. Still that doesn't persuade me. It actually dissuades me. I know if I get an XBox I'll want Steel Battallion.
Hero2
07-27-2003, 04:39 PM
i worked to get mine at DQ fast food sux ive moved up since then
bobcat
07-27-2003, 06:00 PM
So KOTR has been released in the US?
TheSlyMoogle
07-28-2003, 02:52 AM
i worked to get mine at DQ fast food sux ive moved up since then
Yes, it sucks! The other day I had some crazy lady throw a McGriddle in my face. It actually hit me in the face. And just Saturday this guy cursed me out because I swept the floor around his table. That really peeved me off. Oh things I do for a laptop...! (and some video games and systems on the side) ;)
bobcat
07-28-2003, 04:17 AM
Yep.
Oh but I want it!
Stonecutter
08-07-2003, 03:41 PM
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Dylflon
08-08-2003, 01:10 PM
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