Star Wars: KOTOR 2: The Sith Lords is of course sequel to Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.
If you are a big RPG gamer you won’t be disappointed either. With about 30 hours of game play depending how fast you run through the levels, the story line and character development is extremely complex. At anytime you may speak with characters in your party, with certain conversations giving you experience and influence over them or items that they specialize in making. All of your companions join you as you travel from planet to planet and become immersed in a tale of the Force and the Jedi Civil War.
Yes, right from the beginning of the game you are constantly reminded that you are the last of the Jedi Order, survivor from the Jedi Civil Wars that destroyed the Jedi. All through the game you may learn about your past and the mysteries of what happen to the thousands of Jedi during the Mandalorien Wars and even more mysterious, Darth Revan. The main goal of the game however is to escape the Sith who are mercilessly hunting down all Jedi everywhere, the last of the known Sith Lords. Other game play features added since the first KOTOR is the item creation and upgrade system. Each and every item has a component and chemical value, so you may construct your own items by breaking down unneeded ones. Spare components can also be used to build any of the many upgrades, upgrades that seem infinitely more compared to the 9 basic ones in the first game. Force powers and feats were given a makeover too, with all new powers that can only be learned through certain events in the game and in general more feats and powers to choose from.
Fans of the first game will notice damage increases on weapons and hand to hand combat, as well as the character influence system as explained earlier. Some choices are not as blatantly good or evil as others, and even evil characters will not approve of evil actions if the reasoning behind it does no agree to their own. The same goes for ‘good’ characters, words seem to be more powerful then the sword in this game and a well thought out conversation can provide far more experience and powers then simply hacking and slashing through the game.
Players will be entertained for a long time with this game whether you go light side or dark, either way the cut scenes and dialogue is at times humorous, climatic, even sometimes emotional depending how deep you get into the story. Movies are also thrown in periodically and if careful fans will notice subtle references to characters from the first KOTOR. To completely beat the game most people have to run through it several times as choices really do completely change the outcome of the game. Fable fans, RPG gamers, and Sci-fi addicts will all treasure this addition to the Star Wars universe.