I've spent most of my time adventuring by myself, but I've grouped with others for a few quests, some designed for groups, others where grouping is simply a convenience. I've been to four different planets, acquired three companions, a space ship, four lightsabers, and multiple force powers. Track down your nearest "Star Wars" lore-obsessive for the complete historical landscape, but the gist is that you get to play in a familiar-feeling Star Wars universe, and the developers are free from most narrative constraints tied to the feature films.įor my own experience with the game, I've taken my Jedi Guardian, a specialization of the Jedi Knight class, to level 20. Before those games, the pre-Episode I era also served as the backdrop for a series of "Star Wars" comic books from publisher Dark Horse. BioWare's popular single-player Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic PC and original Xbox role-playing games used the same setting. The game's setting, 4,000 years before the time period of the original films, has popped up before in "Star Wars"-licensed products. What I can say is that so far, Star Wars: The Old Republic feels as if it truly can become the World of Warcraft-killer of Electronic Arts' dreams.
While I can report on the first 30 or so hours of gameplay, that only touches on a fraction of the entire experience. Between the large volume of content, the inevitable early-day technical kinks, and the maturation period for the player economy and social structures, most MMOs need a bit of a burn-in period. Games in the MMO (massive multiplayer online) genre are notoriously hard to review in the days after launch. We've been playing the game in an early release phase, open to customers who preordered the game and others. Gamers and the "Star Wars" faithful, on the other hand, just hope the game is fun. The developers' hope is that the game will bring meaningful competition to the World of Warcraft-dominated online gaming market.
After at least three years and an estimated $155 million, Electronic Arts and BioWare open their new massive multiplayer game, Star Wars: The Old Republic to general audiences on December 20.
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