Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Reviews

[GameKinG]

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]

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]

Originally Posted by bobcat

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.

[Bond]

Woot! I just got the game, going to play now...

[DarkMaster]

Originally Posted by Bond

Woot! I just got the game, going to play now...

Impressions! Impressions I say!

This game could make me purchase an Xbox.

[Professor S]

Originally Posted by Bond

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!!!

[Bond]

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]

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*

[DeathsHand]

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]

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]

Originally Posted by TheSlyMoogle

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]

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.

[Stonecutter]

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[Dylflon]

[TheSlyMoogle]

Originally Posted by Stonecutter

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!