Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic MMO-Splosion -- "Biggest BioWare Game Ever Made"

Nathan Grayson — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:34:00 -0500

The wait is over. Today, LucasArts and BioWare finally force unleashed the first details on their joint MMO production, and it sounds like the best thing that could possibly come from Star Wars and gaming's unholy union aside from a Jar-Jar killing sim where you blast Jar-Jars with a Jar-Jar launcher*.

The game will take place a few hundred years after KOTOR 2 caught fire and skidded off a cliff to an eventual -- and undeniably painful -- halt, and will cast you as a jedi, sith, or something else that you probably won't bother with. As with any BioWare title, MMOTOR will focus on story foremost, spicing up the MMO genre with BioWare's top-notch storytelling prowess.

And oh will there be story content. According to BioWare president Greg Zeschuk and CEO Ray Muzyka, the game isn't KOTOR 3, "it's KOTOR 3, 4, 5, 6, etc. There's that much to it."

"It's a whole galaxy. It's a galaxy of Star Wars," they added.

In order to make such an ambitious story possible, The Old Republic will saddle you with single-player RPG-esque companion characters. You can change and manipulate them, and they can assist you throughout your adventures. As such, the game will "allow players to carve out their own epic stories," with your actions affecting the entire game world, as well as your characters' morality.

Even crazier, every class and faction configuration will have its own storyline. Lead writer on the project Daniel Ericson even claimed that his latest progeny could feasibly be played like a single-player RPG. There's that much story.

“If you’re a BioWare fan, you’re going to get everything you ever imagined from an extension of KOTOR,” he said.

We couldn't want this any more if it came with a ticket to beautiful women and infinite money island**. How about you?

*The alt fires are lightsabers and Hayden Christensen.

**Now if our copy came with the only ticket...

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Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic MMO-Splosion -- "Biggest BioWare Game Ever Made"