FRIDAY FUNDAY.....STAR WARS KNIGHTS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC.
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blog day boo yah. As you should know Fridays is random blog day were
we talk anything and everything and pretty much run with it. Today's
blog is on the Multi-console game Star Wars: Knights of the old
Republic.
Star Wars:
Knights of the Old Republic is a multi console RPG set 4000 years
before the rise of the Galactic empire. A former Jedi and Lord of
the Sith, Darth Malek has amassed an armada against the Republic.
Maleks aggression has left the Jedi scattered and Vulnerable as well
as many Jedi falling in battle or swearing allegiance to Malek. The
game opens up with your character on the ship The Endor Spire above
the planet of Taris. As your character passes through the game you
gain fellow characters Carth Onassi, Jedi's Bastala Shan, Juhanni and
Jolee Bindo, Mandalorian Canderous Ordo, Droids T3-M4 and HK-47,
Twilek Mission Vao and Wookie Zaalbar (Juhanni and HK-47 are optional
characters as in they don't have to be brought into the group, PLUS
Canderous Ordo, T3-M4, HK-47 and Carth Onassi -optional- reoccurring
characters in the second Kotor game). The main thread is your
character reaching the Star Forge and defeating Darth Malek after
following a galaxy wide scavenger hunt, the secondary thread is
finding out your character was once the Dark Lord Revan and the
flashbacks you see are your own memories.
The game
went into development after Bioware announced they would be working
with LucasArts to create the RPG for the PC and Next-Gen Consoles in
July 2000. The CEO Greg Zeschuk commented it was “The opportunity
to create a richly detailed new chapter in the star wars universe”
and “We are honoured to be working with the extremely talented
folks at LucasArts”. Setting it 4000 years before Phantom menace
gave the developers the freedom to develop a separate story in the
expanded universe without taking too much from the main story.
The game
was released on July 15th 2003 and became X—boxes
fastest ever seller at the time of its launch. The game received
universal acclaim according to review aggregator Metacritic and won
numerous awards including BAFTA Games Awards best x-box game of the
year, interactive achievement awards for best console RPG and best
computer RPG as well as Game Developers Choice Awards 2004, the game
received several other awards as well. Plot elements from the game
were referenced in an 2017 episode of Star Wars Rebels and at the
time of this blogs posting in 2019 Lucasfilm was looking into
developing movies or TV shows in the KoToR era.
Star wars
KoToR was originally going to have two squeals KoToR 2 (The Sith
Lords) followed your main character known as the exile as you try to
bring together the remaining Jedi to completely wipe out the Sith 5
years after the previous game. The third game was Cancelled in 2003
with elements of the game such as Rodia, a Mandalorian City, a
Coruscant vehicle and a new Character called Naresha being published
in the 2008 book Rouge Leaders: The Story of LucasArts.
I love
playing KoToR have done so since I stumbled across it not long after
leaving secondary school. Its great to play when you're wanting to
get an RPG fix going on. I happen to appreciate the dual story lines
going on, the main storyline at resiting the Dark side and Darth
Malek and on the other finding out you were once Darth Revan and
deciding you you would be your old self or your new self. On the
scale of 1-10 its an 8 the reason for not a full ten because the
graphics don't hold up very well over time. However I do recommend
playing it as and when you have time to do so.
Websites I
used for Info:
And there
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