[XBOX] Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.

January 17, 2003 - Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is going to be huge. Created to satiate Star Wars fans, RPG fans, and fans of great storylines, KOTOR comes out in just a few weeks for Xbox. Why do you need Knights of the Old Republic? Reader the first of our two-part developer diary, written by lead designer James Ohlen, and you'll have an idea of what makes this game so special. And keep an eye out for more KOTOR

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When we set out to create Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, we had one goal - to create the best role-playing game we have ever produced. While this was a lofty goal, we felt the experience gained from the award winning Baldur's Gate series would allow us to accomplish this. As Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic approaches its gold date, it has become increasingly evident that this game will be like no other before it. For this developer diary, I'm going to give you an overview of how the game is shaping up.
Graphically, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is astounding. When I was working on the Baldur's Gate series I was always impressed by the content that would come out of the art department. However, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic has taken everything to the next level. The character models and animations are incredibly detailed and realistic. We have lip-synching for speech, individually boned fingers and incredibly high detailed textures. Our characters look more alive than anything we've done before. As well, the sheer amount of unique background art makes Baldur's Gate 2's environments look limited in comparison.

In addition to the amazing models and backgrounds, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic also has more movies than all of our previous games put together! The movies range from enormous 'Return of the Jedi' style space battles, to intimate romantic interludes. One of the reasons we have so many movies is to cover all of the different quests and paths that the player might come across. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is as non-linear as the Baldur's Gate series, so you'll probably have to play the game three or four times before you see every movie that's in the game. The sheer amount of things to do in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is overwhelming. We have space battles, lightsaber duels, hundreds of enemies and monsters, swoop races, card games, romances, bounty hunters and smuggling runs. We've tried to crunch in everything that a Star Wars fan has ever dreamed of doing into a single game.

Story and dialogue has always been one of our top priorities, and with Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic we have sculpted one of the best story experiences available in a role-playing game. Our designers include the top writers from Baldur's Gate 2, as well as a published fantasy author. The multitude of quests and sub-plots are all a far cry from the average fetch and retrieve tasks sometimes found in RPGs. In Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic you can infiltrate the most evil organization in the galaxy and learn their dark powers. You can purchase a murderous droid interpreter to help uncover the secret history of Tatooine, or descend into the depths of the galaxy's deepest ocean to uncover something so terrible that it has driven all of the previous explorers insane. There are more than one hundred unique quests in the game, with professional actors in Hollywood providing all of the voices. There are over 250 000 words of recorded dialogue in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, but when you include the item, force and skill descriptions the word count balloons past half a million.

Combat isn't lacking in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, either. There are so many ways to dispatch the bad guys that it's simply staggering. Use your vibrosword, wookiee warblade or lightsaber to chop your enemy to ribbons. Blow them apart with blaster pistols, disruptor cannons or my favorite, the heavy repeating blaster. Use grenades and thermal detonators to send your enemies scurrying. And I haven't even mentioned the Force powers. With more than 50 Force powers, your Jedi is able to do everything you've seen in the movies and much, much more.

There are many other features in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic that I'd love to discuss in this article, but then I wouldn't be spending my time working on the damn thing. So I'll leave you with this promise. Not only is Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic going to be one of the best games of its type, we will try to set the standard by which all future RPGs (including our own) will be judged.

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Op zondag 19 januari 2003 14:17 schreef Dr.Daggla het volgende:
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IGN is laaiend enthousiast. . Dat wordt een topgame!!

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Concept Art

KotOR dan he

ik bedoel er zijn ook wat mindere games

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Op zaterdag 8 februari 2003 14:46 schreef Dr.Daggla het volgende:
Hier een screenshot van Dantooine..Een van de werelden in SW:KOTOR. (De release is eind April las ik)
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Heilige poep..DIt is mooi. .

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Plus: De site is vernieuwd!

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Op maandag 24 maart 2003 21:11 schreef Dr.Daggla het volgende:

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Die zitten er ook tussen hoor. .

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