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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 W - O - W, Apr 23, 2023
This game is absolutely incredible. I'm a HUGE Neverwinter Nights fan, and this game is almost better than NWN (almost). The graphics are amazing, but even better than the graphics is the storyline, which, in my roommate's words, 'rocks my socks'. There are choppiness issues with the visuals, but it's easy to look past them. The game really lets you make your character into a huge presence in the Star Wars universe and lets you lose yourself in the characters and worlds. 1 word: AMAZING.
0 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
 Only slightly resembles Star Wars, Apr 12, 2023
I don't know what everyone else thinks about this, but the only thing that I see that even resembles the Star Wars universe is lightsabers and planet names. This game is definitely fun but I bought it because I like Star Wars. My suggestion to anyone who wants a game that feels like Star Wars is, go with Jedi Knight II, it has the feel, the atmosphere and the characters to equal even the movies. There are some good parts to the game, for instance, the graphics are amazing, my computer can barely run it but oh well, it's a work of art.
My conclusion though is skip this game over and buy Jedi Knight II and if possible, republic commandoes (which will hopefully come out on the mac).
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Fantastic, Mar 5, 2023
"Knights of the Old Republic" is a well crafted, and highly addictive, RPG, not just a great Star Wars game. I found that once I got on Dantooine, I couldn't stop playing. Everything about this game sucked me in, the gameplay, the characters, and best of all, the story.
I will note that the gameplay of KOTOR felt a little foreign the first time I played it. It's a turn based system, with hits and damage calculated by the various levels of strength and defense of the combatants. At first, this was a little tedious (expecially the terminology, like "Adds +4 to Fortitude") but after a while, I got into it. I found myself liking the fact that combat acts are performed by the computer without a lot of button-mashing. I hate games that make me input combos at rapid-fire speeds in order to perform really cool moves. With this game, it can all be done with one command.
Aside from that, the best thing that KOTOR has going for it is its attention to the story aspect of the game. The plot is great, possibly even good enough for a mini-series or a comic book. But what compliments the plot elements are the characters. I love the fact that these characters have histories and they are revealed slowly as time goes on. That makes the player feel like they're really getting to know these people. Carth and Bastella are probably the best-constructed characters in the game, but Jhuani comes in at a close 3rd. Also, Darth Malak is one bad assed villain. If a writer can create an engaging villain, he'll usually have my attention. Everything about Malak works, from the costume to the voice and dialogue. In essance, he's a Vader knockoff, but he carries his half of the story very well.
Now, for the flaws. The only things wrong here are technical, and that could be a Mac issue. I'm running KOTOR on a 12 inch Powerbook G4 with 786 RAM. I didn't alter any of the System Preferences for Graphics and I found that at times, such as in most of the Cantinas, the graphics become rather choppy. There were times where my character would freeze, I'd press "Forward," then a few seconds later, he's off and runnning across the screen like a bad cut-out cartoon, moving and frozen at the same time. But I was able to look past that in order to get to the rest of the game.
This is a must for Star Wars fans; it won't let you down. It might have a harder time pleasing someone whose not familiar with the mythology because it's so heavy in alien languages and myths about the Force and the Light/Dark relationship, but I recommend it for any RPG fan.
Now, about KOTOR II: Sith Lords for Mac...
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
 great game bad machine, Dec 27, 2022
Now I write this review without the expierence of smooth gameplay besides the fact my system meets and surpases most of the minimum requirements. Even with my low end 1.25 ghz eMac (with might I add a gig of ram and a brand new 120 gb hardrive) I expected it to at least run smoothly with the graphics turned down, I was wrong. I opened up the game and started a new game and immeditley it was choppy, I turned everything down, graphics, resolution, texture, everything and it was still a little choppy. I managed to get about 1/3 into the game when I finally cracked...HOW CAN I RUN WORLD OF WARCRAFT WITHOUT ANY CHOPPYNESS BUT NOT THIS GAME?!?!? Well the answer is WoW is better and unless u have a G5 stay away from KOTOR.
4 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
 Game of the year?? says who?, Nov 30, 2022
To me this game was a major disapointment! The game play is rediculously slow. It took me 5 minutes just to figure out how to make my character put on his clothes and open a door. Doing the simplest thing, like opening a door, or changing weapons is such a pain! In the "battles" you click on an icon to make your character fight ( or another icon telling him not to fight). You can't control his actions in the battle! That is soooo lame! Personally I like games with action, that you can actually take part in, such as unreal tournament, or jedi knight. this game bummed me out so much I had to write a review in hopes of stopping someone else from making the same mistake I did.
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