


It helped get Valve to the massive size and influence it is now, spawned some of the greatest franchises off it’s back like Team Fortress and Counter Strike, and changed the way players and developers thought about story in an FPS. So much is owed to the original Half Life. While we wait and see what the status of the remake is, now is the perfect time to see why Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remains so highly regarded. The turn-based, action-style combat is kind of clunky and exploitable in some places, and the Dungeons and Dragons-style equipment and stat calculations are tough to wrap your head around, but none of that detracts from how great the writing and characters are. To be fair, the gameplay is where the game’s age shows most. This freedom allowed them to make a game many consider the best Star Wars story ever told, or at least in contention for the title. Set thousands of years before the films, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic was a blank page for BioWare to craft their own unique story in the iconic universe without being beholden to any existing canon. This game packs in more choices, morality options, optional solutions, and character builds than basically any RPG the studio would make afterward. One of the small disappointments about the Mass Effect games was that the amount of actual role-playing kind of went down as the trilogy went on, and the same can be said about going from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic to Mass Effect. If you are a fan of the Mass Effect trilogy in particular but haven’t gone back to this BioWare classic, prepare to be amazed. RPG fans and Star Wars fans alike owe it to themselves to play Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic at least once in their lives.
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