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Tatooine will take you on an undercover mission to the home of the Tusken Raiders On Manaan, you’ll navigate the planet’s political scene as the amphibious species bend over backwards to try and stay neutral in the war, and on the Sith homeworld of Korriban (now known as Moraband in canon) you’ll go undercover as a new recruit in the Sith academy and learn all about the history of the Sith lords. On Kashyyyk, you can fight to liberate the Wookies from slaver oppression. After landing in Anchorhead on Tatooine, you’ll learn about the history of the Sand People and fight a krayt dragon. The game’s story sends you to many classic and intriguing locations from Star Wars lore, each with their own side story for you to explore and investigate. You learn the ways of the Force, become a Jedi and set out to defeat Darth Malak and the Sith Empire. Along the way, you discover that you are in fact force sensitive, and after escaping the planet with Bastila you travel to the Jedi Council on Dantooine. Darth Malak had an awesome design, with his metal jaw that made him look and sound like a badassįrom there, you work with Carth on a means of escaping the planet, which is currently under Sith control, and rescuing Bastila, who has been captured by the criminal underworld. The ship is attacked by Sith and you’re forced to board an escape pod with Republic commander Carth Onasi, crash landing on the surface of the city planet Taris. You play a character serving in the Republic military, staying in a ship transporting the talented Jedi padawan Bastila Shan. KOTOR sees the Jedi and the Republic at war with the Sith Empire, led by Darth Malak, a former Jedi padawan turned Sith Lord. There’s even a big twist that’s up there with ‘I am your father’ for shock value. Thankfully, Bioware’s story tellers managed to craft a narrative that still feels like classic Star Wars even today, with one character rising up from nothing to defeat the evil empire against all odds. There were no connections to the films to risk upsetting fans, who were eager to see what the galaxy looked like four centuries before Anakin Skywalker was born. It also had the benefit of being set 4,000 years before The Phantom Menace further back than even the upcoming High Republic book and comic series, which is only delving back 200 years before the events of Episode I. The sum of those decisions would give the player either a light side ending (good), or a dark side ending (bad). KOTOR did something no Star Wars game had ever done before it put the player in charge of the narrative and gave them the chance to make their own decisions that would influence the larger story.

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Developed by Bioware, the studio who went on to create classic RPG series Mass Effect and Dragon Age, the game was praised by fans and critics alike as one of the best RPGs out there. Released in 2003, this game was the first Star Wars Role Playing Game (RPG) we’d ever had on console. Some high quality Star Wars games came out within the space of a few years, and Knights of the Old Republic (KOTOR) was one of them.

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The prequel trilogy was in full swing, there were plenty of Expanded Universe novels to absorb, and it was a bit of a golden age for Star Wars gaming. The early noughties was an exciting time to be a Star Wars fan.

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