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The Republic and the Jedi dealt the Sith a horrible blow when a young female Padawan named Bastila used her powerful battle meditation and allowed the Republic forces to kill Darth Revan. Malak and his master Revan were once proud Jedis - servants of the light side of the force, but after engaging in a war with the Mandalorians, they came back from the outer rim changed men - complete with a mighty Sith fleet at their disposal. The Sith are seeking to control the galaxy, only it’s not Darth Vader running the show this time, it’s Darth Malak - yet another great character in a long line of Star Wars antagonists. The story isn’t much different from the original trilogy.
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Players take control of a fully customizable character (you can pick a face, sex, class, etc.) and are thrust into a new adventure. Set 4,000 years prior to the time of the films, KOTOR tells an entirely new tale that manages to capture all of the elements that made the original trilogy so compelling. And while that may seem like I’m damning it with faint praise, believe me when I say it’s head and shoulders above any other Star Wars game ever released. No one has ever managed to tap into that magical element that makes Star Wars work and translate it into videogame form…until now.īioWare’s Xbox RPG Knights of the Old Republic is easily the greatest Star Wars game ever made.
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Part of this is attributable to the sheer number of games out there based on the license - we’ve been buried under an avalanche of games re-telling the tale of the original trilogy (I don’t know about the rest of you, but if I never have to fight the battle for Hoth again, I’ll die a happy man). However, even games that have sought to show what the major players in the galaxy were doing before the films (or while other events were occurring) have fallen flat. Perhaps because we all know the story so well, it’s impossible to mix in compelling gameplay with the core storyline. Unfortunately, like most game adaptations of popular films, something gets lost in the translation.
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Naturally, the property has been transported to the realm of videogames as well - with mixed results.
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From lunch boxes to action figures to beach towels, to a seemingly never-ending series of novels, the story lives on. Lucas’ mythos has transcended the mere act of being cinema and has become something more - a parable that speaks about the nature of good and evil, a philosophical treatise on religion, and most importantly of all - a cash machine. Star Wars was (and is, despite the fact that the second trilogy sucks) more than a film - it’s a piece of America’s collective consciousness. Sure, I bet he dreamed that it would be a hit and set him up in Hollywood for life, but I somehow doubt he ever imagined the oceans of money to be borne out of his reworking of Kurosawa’s Hidden Fortress. I sincerely doubt that George Lucas had even an inkling of an idea just how vast Star Wars would become when he released Episode IV back in the 1970s.