As someone who generally shies away from RPG's, and having only a casual interest in Star Wars, even I found the hype surrounding this game to be irresistible, and parted with my £40 on the day of its release. As a 'first timer' I kept my receipt safer than usual, in case the plethora of XP's, DC's, and HP's etc got too overpowering for my usually action-thirsty gaming taste. Fortunately, my faith in word of mouth proved to be deserved. It's superb. Quality and polish are evident from the intro, in the form of some stunning cinematic sequences. Although set millennia before Episodes I & III of the films, the official licence is used ...  Read the complete review

In 2003, I first greeted Star Wars:Knights of the Old Republic with half hearted disdain, as my childhood friend from school tried to shift what was clearly a game he did not care for, in exchange for a tenner. His hyped description was about how great it was to wield lightsabres, yet his apparent reason for selling it was that he couldn't acquire said lightsabre in his minimal gaming experience. Soon enough he wore me down and I had a new xbox game, an empty wallet and a sense of disgust that I had paid for something Star Wars related. Its not that I hated SW, it was more of a disinterest, the first 3 films were 'too old' for me, fresh into my teenage years and the 2 ...  Read the complete review

KOTOR was the first RPG i had properly played, and still remains one of my favourites now. Although the game is a 'on the rails' RPG, meaning that you must follow a set path, unlike other RPG's where you are free to do what you want, in any order. Despite this, the game still feels good, and has a decent amount of replay value, as you have the ability to play through the game, making different choices each time, there are different endings depending whether you are dark sided or light sided. I personally probably wouldn't play through the whole game again if i had already completed it, at least not for a while, but i know people who have completed it several times in a ..  Read the complete review

It's hard to imagine anyone realising just how big Star Wars was going to become with movies, merchandise, games etc. after the release of the first movie in the 1970's. Star Wars has literally been a world wide craze spanning four decades and still going. I loved the original Star Wars movies so wanted to try this game on the XBox and I'm glad I did as it's pretty good...For me this game is way above any others that have been released to date in my opinion. The videogame is set some 4,000 years prior to the time of the films, and this game tells an entirely new tale that captures all the elements that made the original movie trilogy so enthralling. You take ...  Read the complete review

For the longest time the Star Wars franchise suffered from a serious problem - try as they might, every time they released a video game it seemed to miss the mark. It's not that any of the games where particularly BAD - many were very passable efforts - it's just that none of them came close to realising the potential of George Lucas' epoch defining behemoth. Then, in 2003, the excellent BioWare released Knights of the Old Republic, and the curse was lifted. BioWare have always been masters of the RPG genre, from the Baldur's Gate series through to the more recent Mass Effect, and they brought all their ability to bear on ...  Read the complete review