Star Wars - KOTOR Combats Sith

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday July 2, 2003 @02:38AM from the bioware-trains-young-paduan dept.

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to the IGN Xbox preview of Bioware's Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic, the Xbox RPG that's now a couple of weeks away from release (and has a PC version shipping in October.) The article suggests that "..serious pen-and-paper role playing fans will appreciate all of the stat-heavy terminology deep within the game's menu system but run-of-the-mill Star Wars fans will still get a kick out of all of the Greedos, wookies and laser blasts going on", and according to another preview at GamePro, this title from the renowned PC RPG creators has a "..battle system [which] is perhaps KOTOR's most singular achievement - it looks like it belongs in an action RPG, but it's actually turn-based and not far removed from the Baldur's Gate fight engine."

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Wait for the PC version... by LordYUK · 2003-07-02 02:53 · Score: 2, Informative

The PC version was pushed back because of SWG from what I remember... but it will have an additional planet, and probably some extra quests or something revolving around said planet.

Also, it will be more like BG than NWN, as the NWN campaign quite frankly stunk. Note, I think that the appeal of NWN is for the toolset, not the boxed campaign.

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Re:It's Rodians, doof! by paulcammish · 2003-07-02 04:11 · Score: 2, Informative

Two geek points to that man.
One for correcting the Rodian thing, and the other for insisting that he didnt shoot first!
Oh, and one for me for being about to post the whole Rodian thing myself.
This isn't our first 3D title by DaveCBio · 2003-07-02 06:03 · Score: 5, Informative

That was MDK2. Neverwinter Nights was also fully 3D, but from an isometric POV.