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Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is a 2003 role-playing game developed by Bioware. The video game's setting is thousands of years before the Star Wars movie prequels, the Old Republic comes into conflict with a Sith Empire. A secret Jedi mission is created to investigate how the Sith Empire became so powerful.
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is an excellent game. The first and foremost advantage that this game has is its story. The story is presented masterfully over the course of a roughly 16 hour adventure. The characters that the player encounters are all memorable. In addition, the game feels like a Star Wars story. Despite being thousands of years in the past before the events of the Star Wars prequel trilogy, the video game has that distinct Star Wars feeling. The conflict between the Sith and the Jedi is palpable and easily understood.
The gameplay of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic can be found lacking. This gameplay is relatively simplistic. It is based off of D20 role-playing games. The actual combat that the player will do is a matter of using attacks or special attacks until the enemy is defeated. There is not much strategy to this game's combat. The combat is the worst part of this game. The dialogue options in this game are a welcome change and is where more of the gameplay went to. The dialogue is all voiced and voice acted well. I do not think there is any flaw in the game's sound from voices to effects. The graphics are dated but serviceable.
The story is the centerpiece of this game and there are many side quests that the players can embark on. The side quests have had a lot of effort put into them that some of them are similar to the main quest in quality. There are many options for how each of the quests can go that it makes replaying this game with different choices more appealing.
The main story is one of the best Star Wars stories. This story with the introduction continuing until the end held my interest. The story is one of the best paced stories that paced out its reveals and exposition. There are moments where the story slows down but this is more of the player's choice to explore rather than the main story being slow.
I highly recommend "Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic".
Grade: A.