EGM/CGW Show Knights of the Old Republic 2 Details

An anonymous reader writes "The Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic official forums are buzzing with new details on the Obsidian Entertainment-developed Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords for Xbox/PC, as discussed in this month's new EGM and CGW magazines [not yet available online, sadly]. Apparently, 'you will not play the same character', although 'you pilot the Ebon Hawk.. [and] start out as a Jedi' - the game 'picks up 5 years after the end of the first KOTOR', and returning roles are also confirmed for 'R2-D2-esque droid T3-M4' and 'another bot that bears a suspicious resemblance to the original's irascible 'meatbag'-loathing HK-47'."

Comments

This is good news

[PeteyG]

Usually when a game is absolutely wonderful, it never sees a sequel because it is not popular.

With KOTOR, I am absolutely thrilled (but not in the least bit surprised) that there will be a sequel. The original game wasn't really groundbreaking, or even all that innovative. But it was an extremely polished game, with fantastic art and audio, a great storyline, and solid gameplay. It was also extremely long (took me almost 50 hours, and I didn't do nearly everything). All in all it made for some of the best gaming goodness I've had in years.

Probably the best thing about KOTOR is that it restored my faith in Star Wars. Episode I and II put a severe dent in my appreciation for Droids, Wookies, and blasters... but KOTOR made me feel GOOD about Star Wars again. It was (almost) like a religious experience.

*sniff*

Re:This is good news

[Strokke]

"The original game wasn't really groundbreaking, or even all that innovative"

I disagree with you on that point. The game brought mainstream aspects of the RPG which had previously only been appreciated by the hardcore. I can personally say this becuase I hooked 3 non-rpg fans on the game (people who despised the genré).

'You just spent 50 hours beating the game...now you are going to replay it with a slightly different character???' Although the game is fairly linear, the feeling of freedom was really groundbreaking in that it was appreciated by the, uh amateur RPG player. All 3 people after beating the game were drawn in by the story and all beat it again as the opposite (interestingly enough all were light the first time).

KOTOR was groundbreaking in its overall appeal to the non-RPG gamer, a feat not easily accomplished by true role playing games. By creating a more public interest in the game, Bioware has guaranteed us gamers a more corporate interest in RPGs

How will it start off?

[Anonymous Coward]

With the light or dark side ending or neither? And will being dark side mean more in the beginning than "I sense you're turning toward the dark side, don't do that!" or something to that effect?

Hawking magazines is news?

[GrnArmadillo]

I would love to read about this, but a cursory exam of the linked sites didn't appear to turn up the articles in question. I presume because the articles are in forthcoming print editions that the publishers aren't giving away for free so that people will buy the things. (If I'm wrong, some responder deserves an informative mod.) In which case, this "news post" says "if you want information, you can go buy this magazine". If that's news, are the editors going to start publishing "in this issue" blurbs for all the major gaming mags now?

Where is it?

[zors]

I second that, where the hell is the actual news thats being discussed?

Re:Which ending?

[ChodeMaster]

That is a fairly interesting way of doing it, but it could cause a fair few continuity issues (eg: If people don't answer these questions consistantly in the game, which of the possible endings will the game rely on?)

Also, it could result in the game having little to do with the previous games story line, because main events in the game will not be able to rely on events from the past game (unless the whole storyline of the game were to change based on the answers you give).

It will be interesting to see how they implement this.