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[Kamikaze]

Star Wars: The Old Republic (ToR) is an upcoming massively multiplayer online role-playing game based in the Star Wars universe. Currently in development by BioWare Austin and a supplemental team at BioWare Edmonton, the game was first announced on October 21, 2008 at an invitation-only press event. The Old Republic will be released as a PC title.

GAMEPLAY:

Members of the two main factions – the Galactic Republic and Sith Empire – will have different moralities; the project's key focus is to differentiate between the player's faction and morality. Each faction will contain different classes, each with a distinct backstory and a branching storyline affected by players' moral choices. Classes will also be exclusive to one faction or the other.[8] Five classes have been confirmed: the Bounty Hunter and Sith for the Sith Empire, and the Jedi the Trooper and Smuggler for the Galactic Republic. Although each class will have a distinct storyline, they will be integrated with the game's overall arc.

Players' choices will permanently open or close storylines and affect players' non-player character companions. The game's developers believe that the game will provide more context for characters' missions and quests than other MMORPGs offer. Every NPC including the player character in game will feature full voice dialog to enhance gameplay, and interactions with those characters will feature a dialogue system similar to that used in the Mass Effect series. Players will be able to choose from a variety of NPCs, although spending time with a single companion will help more in developing story and content than dividing time among several. It is possible for players to "blow it big time" if they fail to meet NPCs' expectation. Players will also have access to dozens of planets, including Korriban, Ord Mantell, Nal Hutta, and Tython.

PLOT:

The story takes place in the Star Wars fictional universe shortly after the establishment of a tenuous peace between the re-emergent Sith Empire and the Galactic Republic, 300 years after the events of the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic games and more than 3,500 years before the events in the Star Wars films. The Jedi are held responsible for the success of the Sith and chose to relocate from Coruscant to Tython, where the Jedi order had been initially founded, to seek guidance from the force. The Sith control Korriban, where they re-established a Sith Academy. The game begins as new conflicts arise.

A collaborative effort between Bioware, Lucasarts and Dark Horse Comics has resulted in a webcomic entitled "Star Wars: The Old Republic: Threat of Peace", the purpose of which is to set up the story as the game opens.

TRAILER:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Qw4UQPxMFk

OFFiCIAL SITE:

http://www.swtor.com/

Me and my brother are soooooo gonna play this game, it's doesn't happen often that a MMORPG contains a very unique storyline for each class with choices that can change the end result of the game and that everyone get's fully voiced, even npc's.
Graphics aren't the best i've seen in a MMORPG but it's Star Wars!

It will be released in 2010 but I think it will be delayed.
Till then I'm gonna play Aion.

Tell me your thoughts about this game.

[Gray]

Whats Aion?

[Kamikaze]

Aion Tower of eternity is a korean MMORPG that's gonna be released in a month, stopped playing Lord of the Rings so I could play this baby.

Not gonna pay for two games at the same time eh

[Amnestria]

Ive seen a bit about this game, and to be entirely honest, I needed to change clothes after watching that E3 trailer they showed.

Either way, looks like it could possibly be the most awesome thing to have Star Wars printed on the side since KOTOR and SWBF in the days when we ruled.

[Obi-Wan Kenobi]

isnt there a third knight s of the old republic coming out also? it would be very cool to try to get us in a clan on here also