KOTOR 2

Now I have noticed that many people don’t understand the point of my blog so let me make it clear before I review my next game. With all these next gen systems out you will probably want to get the games you missed with the older systems. This blog RETROSPECT is meant to review these older games. So when you see me review older games please don’t be surprised. Hope you enjoy my next review.

I loved KOTOR. There is nothing that compares to the RPG. People who don’t like KOTOR are people who try to suck the fun out of gaming. The fact that you could finally train up your own Jedi in a brand new star wars world was incredible. So after I beat KOTOR 50 times I asked myself why part two is hardly mentioned. After playing part 2 I finally understand why people refuse to embrace it like the first one. The story wasn’t clear cut. In fact the story was so mindboggling confusing when you reach the middle that you end up giving up any attempts at comprehension and just looking forward to finishing the game. The fighting system in KOTOR2 is much improved and that in its self should be enough pull to bring anyone who loved the series initially to try out the second. For the first time I could make a pure force Jedi who didn’t die every five seconds. This adds so much more depth to the fighting system as you go along, but the major flaw of story ruins the game.

Is the story terrible? Nope. But it is intellectual. It is a story where it’s not the plot which is important, but the message contained in it. In the plot of KOTOR2 they bring up a new concept of the force dying. This concept had never been exemplified before in a game and in such is amazing in its own right. What they also do in the game is give you little tidbits on what happened after the ending of the old one which is more like cheap appetizers rather than a fair continuation. In the end your pissed because you have no idea what happened in your own story and you didn’t even find out what Revan was doing (and don’t give me the bullshit about how they tell you he left to uncharted space I want the details!). So should you buy it? If you ask me yes. But remember you’re talking to star wars fan #560607 who dressed as Obi- Wan for Halloween almost every year. What other answer do you think he would give you?