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Star Wars - The Old Republic, the Force Is Strong in This One

Admittedly I’ve missed the boat on the Star Wars MMOs but I have played my fair share of Jedi Knight games and always appreciate the allure of a new title from LucasArt. The art on the side of the booth feautring a Darth Vader like Sith Lord was enough to lure me in and I wasn’t disappointed.

The actual experience of playing the game was prefaced with a series of three introductory movies totalling 45mins in all. These highlighted some of the main features of the game and best of all gave us a glimpse of one of the opening cinematics. I enjoyed this 10 minute snippet more than most of the prequel films (at least more than Episode I) and it looked amazingly real, telling the tale of a Sith invasion on a planet, which is saved when the Jedi’s come in lightsabers blazing.

It set the tone for the game really well which is all about light versus dark and the Jedi’s defending the galaxy during the time of the Old Republic. Star Wars fan as I am one of the intro videos featured the clip of Obi-Wan telling Luke about how the Jedi Knights defended the Old Republic from the Sith for thousands of years, I never figured that it might tie into the larger mythology.

The movies walked us through the opening level of the game, explained the controls and preparing us well for the short time we would actually get to play it. Straight into a mission it was clear that The Old Republic is going to be a special MMO, all the main characters are fully voiced and like in Mass Effect choosing different lines of dialogue can result in different outcomes in the game.

The game certainly had the feel of classic Jedi Knight titles with graphics that were easy on the eye and looked slightly on the cartoonish sides, but not The Clone Wars cartoonish. Navigation was easy and the maps were very well designed making it clear where you had to go and where your objective was. Combat was also highly enjoyable with choreographed lightsaber moves just like in the movies, one of many touches which makes this feel like it could be a classic Stars Wars movie-like adventure.

The game was very easy to pick up and I was disappointed to have to leave the uber Alienware laptop they had it set up on halfway through my mission. For Star Wars fans this will be one MMO definitely worth investing in though be warned, addiction levels could be through the roof.

It’s scheduled for release early 2011, and for gamers in the US the Beta is already underway, there’s no date currently planned for a European Beta (*makes Chewbacca screaming noise*).