As for the action, it takes place a few thousand years before any of the movies’ timelines, so there’s no worrying about where Obi-Wan or Luke might fit in. Yes, I said one thousand six hundred hours. It’s like playing through a number of different movies, with lots of multiple-camera-angle dialogue sequences spread out over some 1,600 hours of leveling, grinding, questing and looting. In fact, unlike most MMOs, the tales here feel filled with actual characters you can grow to care about. I say story lines because each of the eight different classes that gamers can create their character from-The Republic’s Jedi Knight, Jedi Consular, Trooper and Smuggler, or the Empire’s Sith Warrior, Sith Inquisitor, Bounty Hunter and Imperial Agent-has its own branching plot to play out. But it’s the rich storylines that show where Lucas and Co. It’s smile-worthy when you recognize the buzzing drone of a well-swung lightsaber.
It’s furious fun to run across a wicked and blobby Hutt in your travels. It’s immediately cool to hear that iconic theme and see your story scrolling into the starry distance. So he and the gamemakers at BioWare took the fight right to their WoW competitors with what the Los Angeles Times described as potentially “the largest entertainment production in history.” Reportedly more than 800 people on four continents spent six years and nearly $200 million creating Star Wars: The Old Republic. While George Lucas may be a lot of things, he’s not crazy. That magic and battling game has been so dominant in the MMO field, in fact, that most game developers have been hesitant to spend the time and cash it would take to create anything even remotely competitive.īut when you have something in your hip pocket with as much curb appeal and fan-drawing clout as Star Wars has-cue the John Williams score-you could also argue that you’d be crazy not to try. When it comes to massively multiplayer online games, World of Warcraft has been the 800 lb gorilla for some time now.
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