Star Wars the Return of Kotor
I started playing TOR during an early phase of beta and had high hopes. The game itself is very ambitious cuts new ground with its voiced quest lines. Everything about KOTOR that I loved can be found in TOR. So much so that I found myself feeling as thought I was playing a single player game with online support.
The graphic style reminds me very much of the way that WoW did when it came along a bit on the cartoonside. Which I did not care to much for but it does give the game its own feel and look. The game plays like Wow save for one diffrence.... there is no auto attack. Each attack must be achieved by hitting a key.
The story is great but I am sorry after so many months of being told its all about story I would have rather had a little less on story and more on game design. Its not that TOR does anything wrong in any one department. It just fails to do anything out of the box that has yet to be done save for voice dialogue.
Now I know this is Star Wars and that alone warrants high marks in my book but I have to say I was let down. It is a pitty that they stopped making Kotor's successors to make an mmo. The thought of no more Kotor depresses me. They say Kotor lives on in TOR but I say diffrent.... we lost KOTOR when they saw fit to make a single player rpg that should have stayed single player into a MMO wanna be. Do I hate TOR no. Would I recommend it to another yes. My over rating of 7.5 is due to the story content and game play.