All these choices have consequences and weigh on the player’s Light or Dark Side alignment, which can also have dire consequences in how certain party members view them. Or the player could simply kill them and collect the bounty. The player could be a hero and attempt to remove a bounty placed on someone by dealing with the bounty hunters or maybe offer credits so the targeted individual can pay off their debt to remove the bounty. The player is often asked to intervene various situations, and there’s no shortage of ways they can handle it. One of the aspects that made Knights of the Old Republic so engaging was the dialogue system and how choices the player makes impact the story. The story unfolds differently depending on which side the player aligns with, which does make it worth playing Knights of the Old Republic at least twice to experience both the Light and Dark Side paths. The player can ultimately decide whether to follow the righteous path of the Jedi or go the Dark Side. The Jedi are bound by so many rules and restrictions and sometimes not just being able to kill and steal your way through a situation and achieve things that benefit you moreso than anyone else can be inconvenient. This is all fine and good but there’s something tempting about the Dark Side. Of course, the objective laid out in the early stages of the game suggests that the player is a follower of the Light Side of the Force. After assembling a ragtag crew of party members that would be fitting most RPGs or Star Wars film, the crew sets off on their mission to find the Star Forge and defeat Dark Malak, ending a powerful Sith threat. This also leads to meeting other characters such as Mission Vao, Zaalbar and Canderous Ordo. The current objective is to find Bastila and a way to get off Taris, which gets the player involved in a gang war between the Hidden Beks and Black Vulkars. The player fights their way to an escape pod to the world of Taris, where they are taken care of Republic war hero Carth Onasi until they regain consciousness. The target of Malak’s attack is a Jedi Knight Bastila Shan. Knights of the Old Republic was a groundbreaking and influential game when it was released, but how well does it fare eighteen years later?Īfter the standard Star Wars opening crawl the player is on doomed spaceship Endar Spire under attack by Sith Lord Darth Malak. More importantly, it was so successful that it was clearly used a template for future BioWare games such as Jade Empire, Mass Effect and Dragon Age. It was a masterpiece of its gaming era, but sadly when it comes to anything tech related the passage of time is rarely kind. It was a choice-driven RPG that seemed inspired by the Star Wars tabletop role playing game as it uses the d20 system. Things were far from bad for Xbox but Knights of the Old Republic is generally agreed upon to be one of the best games for that platform. Things were looking grim for Xbox, but while on the verge of succumbing to the empire built by their console competitors, a new hope arose in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. Determined as they were, Microsoft’s forces simply lacked enough noteworthy exclusive titles to wage an effective war on two fronts against Nintendo and Sony. Sega had suffered massive losses under heavy assaults from Nintendo and Sony, and Microsoft seized this opportunity to battle the console empire established by the Japanese powerhouses. A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, Microsoft’s Xbox was struggling in trying to establish dominance as a newcomer in the decades long console wars.
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