Bean

Just started playing this for the Xbox last night and I'm loving it. I played and beat the first one and like it that much I plaed through it at least three more times. I was expecting this one to be sub par to the first, but so far, it's pretty much the same game. There are some tweaks here and there as far as gameplay mechanics and options, but other than that, it's the same thing as the first.

The only real difference is the story, which I haven't gotten far enough into to compare to the first, but I'm not as yet dissapointed. Anyone else play it yet?

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Deslok

No.

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Arik

I'll be there when it comes out on the DS.

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Brikar

I've never even heard of it.

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Bean

Star Wars: Knights of the old Republic 2

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Stag

Ever play SW: Battlefield?

I love it, I have been killing Gungans and Ewoks at a record pace.

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Brikar

Hehe, oh.

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Cymro

Anyone play Rome:Total War? Now that is an amazing game, and I can honesly say I've never played a game quite like it. Basically, you start off at 270BC, with a roman faction, and you have to take over 50 provinces including Rome to win the game, and you get to control each city's taxes, what public services are built, troop garrisons etc, and your people react to everything you do, and your royal family aquires traits based on what you do with them. Plus, because your campaign and battles are controled seperately your armies are trained in campagin mode, so in battles you just fight, and the armies are HUGE, you control armies of like 1500 troops, and each one of them looks better than on any other RTS that can't support more than 300 troops. It just rocks.

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Siroth

No, and I'm still hopping mad I have to wait for it to come out for the PC!

So no spoilers, if you please

Looking rather forward to it, since I loved the first one as well. Only problem with KOTOR1 was that it was such a huge advantage to be jedi that it was a real problem that you had to start as something else - my character really began kicking rear and taking numbers when I allowed him to take only five levels as a scout and then refused to level up until he became a jedi, but I hear that is fixed in the sequel, as you'll be jedi from the very beginning. I'm looking forward to it.

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Bean

I won't spoil it for you, but that problem is fixed in 2. You are a Jedi from the start, but you still have to go through some stuff to get your sabre and other things. You're character doesn't start out as an ass-kicking one, but that's the way an RPG should be anyways.

I had to give up playing after about 18 hours as the Xbox I had borrowed needed to go back. So I'm stuck waiting for the PC version as well. Last I heard, it had a Feb 15th release date on it.

The other thing that they changed is the actual RPG element to it. Now your choices of dialogue don't affect just your alignment, but the way you interact with other members of your group. So you can be really close with one member, while another will refuse to ay anything of any substance to you. I think this was a really good addition as it adds some depth to your party members instead of them just being your firepower and backup.

The thing that hasn't changed is the cutscenes, they are still magnificent! Also, they handle the question of how you beat the first game rather well, by asking you a variety of (kind of subtle) questions throughout the first few hours of the game. Stuff like wether Revan was a woman or a man, or the color of your sabre, stuff like that. Really ties it into the first game nicely.

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