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Star Wars: KOTOR II Preview

Joe "OuTkAsT-1" Topolnisky

2005-01-29 00:03:00.0


Another Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords preview has popped up over at PC.IGN this evening, taking a look at Obsidian Entertainment's upcoming RPG. Here's some lovin':

Conversations and situations challenge players early on to decide which path to travel. Morality issues play early, but don't show as strongly until NPCs begin playing a larger role. When people begin bringing problems to you after arriving on Telos (the second planet) decisions become more critical and personal beliefs begin trying to weasel their way into your decision making process. So far, though I'm not too far into the game, characters haven't been too annoying, so it's a little more difficult to be a jerk to everybody... which is a little upsetting considering I wanted to play the dark side. My natural want to do good (or some semblance of good at least) makes it hard for me to make evil decisions in a game that isn't even a very lifelike situation. I suppose that's a testament to the writing and ability of the development team to really think up creative situations that resemble real world situations one might come across.

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