Star Wars: The Old Republic
#TalkNerdyToMeLover's @maniacalmorgan
DUDE! This game looks like sex. I'm sorry, let me explain.
Those AMAZING people over at Bioware are developing this fantastic new Star Wars MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role playing game). Star Wars: The Old Republic is shaking things up and is doing things no other MMO has done. For instance, fully choreographed fighting. Flipping, twirling, and all the crazy things you'd expect in a Star Wars movie. Not to mention when you fight, you interact with the person you are fighting. You move your lightsaber to block incoming attacks making it fully interactive. In other MMOs like World of Warcraft, every character acts independently, so swords and shields never actually clash.
SWTOR is also going to be the first MMO to be FULLY VOICED! Every character is going to be voiced, not just the NPCs that give key quests. This is a huge deal and Bioware has spent a lot of time and money adding this into this game. It's going allow players to submerge themselves into the universe and actually become their characters.
It was announced at Comic Con that they will include space combat. Not only will you be able to fly around and blast other ships out of the sky, you will do so in your own customized ship. Here was the official post after Comic Con:
First, thank you to all of you who participated in our Comic-Con Reveal mission! While we didn't quite make the numbers, we definitely saw how excited the community is about this and how everyone came together. After all of that, there's no way we could hold back with our special reveal at Comic-Con!
If you’ve been following the news coming out of the Star Wars™: The Old Republic™ panel at Comic-Con International, you’ve heard the announcement that we will indeed have Space Combat as part of the TOR experience! But what does that mean? Space combat is an alternative gameplay experience to the primary game of storytelling, questing, and ground-based combat. In space combat, you fly your personal ship to various “hot spots” on your galaxy map. From there, you will blast your way through asteroid fields, enemy fighters, frigates, destroyers, and a variety of other obstacles that will evoke memories of some of the great Star Wars™ space battles.
To learn more, pick up the October 2010 edition of PC Gamer which hits newsstands starting August 17th for screenshots and an exclusive interview or check back with us in the weeks to come.
This game looks amazing. I've been signed up for the beta, so hopefully I'll get some hands on experience before this game launches next Spring. I'm going to leave you guys with the trailers launched at E3 09' and 10' respectively.