NEW Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Screens!

It\'s looking great!   GET!

This game looks awesome. I love star wars and i dont have an x box but this and a few more games might break me. Those screens are sweet and they set a nice atmosphere. I want to hear music. Meh. Ive been meaning to ask. Is there a change name option on these forums, because not to be rude or anything but everytime i see your log in name with x box gamers under it i feel the need to hurt ppl. really annoying

INDEEED!!!!

oh lordy.....must geat this, aaaaacchh (homer noise)

Here\'s some impressions. All I\'ll say is, I can\'t wait!    

The graphics are sure to be one of the big highlights of Knights with moving trees and grass, detailed textures and solid character design. Indeed, the scene on the alien beach where your ship in the game, the Ebon Hawke, has to stop for repairs, looks like something out of Dead or Alive: Xtreme Beach Volleyball (When we mentioned this to Muzyka, he said we were not the first to say this and joked that they might put in the DOAX girls on the beach somewhere as a secret bonus). In another section of the game we saw individual dust motes floating around in a building. In addition to their Odyssey 3D game engine, BioWare has also created over 20 minutes of CGI cut-scenes that progress the story.

Since this is an RPG, you have a chance to upgrade your skills, attributes and items in the game. You can select what kinds of lightsabers you can carry via different types of crystals and yes you can also use those double bladed sabers like Darth Maul used in The Phantom Menace. There are several different types of controllable characters that you can play in Knights and you can control up to three at any given time. We were shown how the game’s combat could be played either as an action-style real time endeavor or in a turn-based like pause and play mode, where you select what character to play, what attacks or force powers to use and what NPC enemies you wish to attack. This particular type of combat should appeal more to the strategy player in the game.

We also got to see a couple of Knights’ mini-games in our GDC demo, including a Millennium Falcon-style laser turret battle against attacking fighters as well as a pod-race on Tattooine (all Star Wars games have to visit Luke Skywalker’s homeworld and Muzyka said that among other things we will find out why Jawas always roam around in those big sand machines in the game) Although we didn’t get to see this played, we were told at GDC that you can actually play a card game in Knights that you can actually win credits to purchase items.


The game’s conversation system is now in place and with over 13,000 lines of spoken dialogue in the game there won’t be a lack of chatting with other characters and NPC in Knights (Your player character will not speak however, since BioWare felt that this would be distracting). The voice acting we got to listen to was top-notch and above what the usual standard is for a video or PC game.

Muzyka told us that the build we got to see was about 80 percent complete for the Xbox version and while development of both the Xbox and PC versions of the game had been running at the same time, the decision was made recently to put most of the resources into the Xbox version to release it by the scheduled June date.

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I don\'t know if this is true.

Sony decided to make their new MMORPG one character per server instead of the 4-10 MMORPG players are used to. They gave a list of reasons when they announced the decision, from hard drive space is expensive to it eliminates cheaters. One of the devs slipped and admitted it was all about squeezing money out of people who will buy 2+ accounts.

THE FORCE IS WITH US!!  

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