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Star Wars: The Old Republic – The Review. Includes The Story, So Far.

Posted by on December 16, 2011 at 12:15 pm

Star Wars : The Old Republic / The Galactic Cold War

And this is where we are, now. 10 years into the galactic cold war, the events of Star Wars : The Old Republic begin to unfold. What happens from here is completely up to you, the player, to decide. We know that the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire are mean-mugging each other from different sides of the galactic dividing line and the situation threatens to break out into open warfare at any time.

Each side engages the other in small scale battles, both directly and by proxy and tensions continue to escalate as the eternal foes constantly strive for superior positioning – moving, posturing, threatening…

The Jedi were unable to stay on Coruscant due to overwhelming public mistrust of them after the Republic Senate blamed them for the loss of the war so they moved back to their home world, Tython, which was found intact by Satele Shan in the early years of the war.

On the other side of the coin, the Sith Emperor wanted total domination of the galaxy and handed control over to the Dark Council which was a group of 12 Sith Lords who were responsible for overseeing the daily operations of the Empire while he disappeared to parts unknown to work on secret projects.

Now, what will you do?

Will you play the part of a Jedi Knight, trying to uphold the values of peace, justice and the way of the light side of the force? Will you be a Republic trooper, fighting valiantly against the Sith and their Empire, hoping you can save lives and bring an end to the conflict?

If not, will you play the role of a Sith Inquisitor, bending the force to your will and laying a swathe of destruction in your path, destroying the enemies of the Empire, wherever they are to be found? Will you be an Imperial Agent using stealth, deception and trickery to manipulate those around you before finally revealing yourself and your true nature, just before ending their life?

What path you choose is yours to decide and whether you decide to follow the path of light or darkness, you’re sure to be in for one hell of a ride. Jump over to the next page for the official review.


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  • Anonymous

    Unless your a fan of Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic, this game is pretty much a waste right now.  The only thing good it has going for it is the main story.  Even though I have a decent computer, I have to set everything to low to be lag free.  The game looks horrible at these settings.  The UI is awful looking and hard to use coming from someone who has an highly modded WoW interface. 

    I hate that you can not customize your lightsaber correctly.  Everybody pretty much carry the same colors.  The awful looking Black-Yellow or Red.(Sith)  No individuality especially at higher levels when light side and dark side restrictions kick in.  I wish they would have let you choose which ever color you want, even if it means crappy stats.  I rather have a bad-stat purple than a good stat any-other-color.  The black-color and higher stats should have been rare, not the purple, cyan, and whatever normal colors to be more individual.  More choice in companions also would have been nice.

    Neutral items that are forbidden by lightside and darkside users should have been included in the game also.

    I’m going to wait a couple months until I either get a new PC and let them really get into polishing the game.

    • I’m not intending to flame you here but…

      You just told me you dislike the game for 3 reasons…

      1) Your pc can’t handle the graphics.
      2) Your highly modified wow UI looked better.
      3) You don’t like the color of your lightsaber.

      WoW misses you. Please go back.

      • TheBaldr

        Well you are a flame, you you are obviously a fanboy.  You should not be writing if you can’t handle criticism and attack your readers.  Then you threaten to blacklist them on facebook and delete comments just to save face.

      • ACMiller

        Geez, for a reviewer you sure are getting upset about other’s opposing views of the game. This guy just stated his opinion (which is exactly what you did in your review), and you want to tell him to go back to wow? Seems a bit harsh

        • lol, I’m not upset I. the slightest. I’m just saying that if he hates the game so much, why even bother to comment on a review. I’m sure he would be happier doing other things.

          • ACMiller

            Ah, well I’m new to the site, just seemed like a bit of a harsh reply to what seemed to be a fairly innocent post.

            Like I said, I didn’t hate the game, it just didn’t grab me.

          • Yeah, certainly some people won’t be gripped by it.  Nothing is loved by everyone.  I, however am absolutely loving it.  Enjoyed it beta, liking it even more now that I know I’m not going to get reset again :P

            And, like I said, it is certainly more fun with people to hang with.  Some of the heroics are a blast.

  • If you can stomach ancient mechanics, slow paced combat against multiple but horribly pathetic enemies, magic homing lasers, and writing which is just plain ok (its not uncharted series caliber story) And to top it all off force you to do simple standard mmo quests but force you to listen to the backstory of every single stupid squabble.  Then this is the game for you!

  • NoobNurta

    Your comments about queues not being that bad and the longest reported time is 15min is total BS!  I did the prelaunch guild thing and was placed on a server with all my friends and my queues have been 1hr+.  Are you kidding me in saying it’s blown out of proportion?  I just spent nearly 1hr in queue only to get disconnected and am now in queue again.  I liked your article about the story and was with you until you made comments saying people are over reacting about queues.  I don’t know what phase of beta you were in but until November I never endured a queue and I was in beta for MONTHs.  

    • I’m sorry if my statement was taken out of context. What I mean is that I, personally, know people who have reported 15 minute queues. I have heard rumors of queues being much longer.

      That being said however…welcome to an MMO launch. if you didn’t know there would be massive queues it just means this is your first…or you have a bad memory.

      Also, the final stress test weekend, when they let the third wave in…I had a queue but it wasn’t long.

  • ACMiller

    I played in the beta for the last month or two, and I was underwhelmed. Felt largely like a single player game for most of it.

    Not a bad game by any stretch, it just didn’t make me want to subscribe. I have a few friends playing though and if they enjoy it enough I may give it a shot since I didn’t know anyone in beta. Maybe with friends it’ll be more interesting.

    • It is definitely a lot more fun when you have people to group with and run the heroics, etc…

  • Berdugo

    Great review and introductory post for those not familiar with the lore. This was spot on with how I felt during launch and beyond. This is a well polished game, even my girlfriend is enjoying it (this is her first MMO). It doesn’t deviate much from the old MMORPG mold, but being able to outfit your companions and ship makes it feel like you’re developing multiple characters all at the same time. The story on some worlds can get uninteresting at times, even boring, but the scripted instances/conversations with NPCs are fun especially when done with other players. Haven’t reached endgame yet, but with this kind of quality at this point in time, the potential of this game to keep getting better is high.

    Bioware, don’t drop the ball on this one!