As a kid I would pretend to create my own lightsaber out of wrapping paper rolls and this game was letting me customize my own. I was enamored and an instant fan. That personal connection for Kellogg and Treadwell has new meaning today. Aspyr — the Texas-based studio that has collaborated with Lucasfilm on various projects for over a decade, including a recent spate of well-received re-releases from the LucasArts era — is handling development, rebuilding the game from the ground-up. So to borrow a line from Darth Vader, the circle is now complete for Kellogg and Treadwell.
Fans have long requested a remake to bring the title, originally developed by BioWare and LucasArts, up to modern standards.
As it turns out, Lucasfilm has been listening. As hardware advances and as our game-making prowess advances and as storytelling [techniques] advance, what better time to allow players to re-experience this great story with all of those lessons learned, and bring it back to modern platforms using modern methods? Sony Interactive Entertainment SIE is a creative collaborator in the project, working closely on development with Aspyr and Lucasfilm Games, particularly on how to take full advantage of its newest, cutting-edge platform.
I am very excited for this game! Never played it. Better be as good as everyone has claimed it is. Thats what. IT is console-exclusive at launch. Only info we have is that its PS5 and PC. And it will come to Xbox a year after it launches. Will the storyline be separate or will it be part of the star wars canon? It will remain in the Legends continuity.
So stoked. Cmajorseven September 9, at pm PDT. Hell, would be nice to see Jedi Academy get the remake treatment too some day. Mess September 9, at pm PDT. Take my money. Foxhole07 September 9, at pm PDT. It is confirmed that remake is still Legends. Mess September 10, at pm PDT. No Sam Maggs. Or Switch, I guess. I remember playing it as a young kid on the original Xbox for hours and hours, over and over. Such a sick game. Agreed, I love turn-based combat in RPGs.
Im also hearing distressing things about who they are hiring to rewrite the script. So glad I bought a ps5 instead of Xbox. Sounds awesome! But Please remake Star Wars Galaxies!!! The best MMO ever made!!!!!
What a buzzkill. What a letdown. Glicyn September 11, at pm PDT. So looking forward to this!! Mess September 21, at am PDT. You and me both. Trending Stories. Sony PlayStation Logo. In his free time he can likely be found shuffling up Magic cards or trudging through an RPG. Email Twitter. Products In This Article. PlayStation 5, PC. More Info. Popular Content. Cover Reveal — Halo Infinite.
He refuses, and she flees from him to the Star Forge. Inside the space station, she uses her battle meditation to assist the Sith fleet while rendering the Republic forces less effective. Revan fights his way to her and they engage in a long duel.
Revan overpowers her several times and uses their bond and love for one another to turn her away from the dark side. She then uses her battle meditation against the Sith fleet and is awarded the Cross of Glory in the end for assisting the Republic Fleet. Carth Onasi is an intensely loyal Commander and expert pilot with the Republic at the time of his escape in an escape pod with one other soldier, the mind-wiped Revan, to Taris after the attack on the Endar Spire.
Thus begins Carth's involvement in the adventure that will ultimately become a quest for the Star Maps and the destruction of the Star Forge.
After escaping the attack on Taris aboard a stolen starship, the Ebon Hawk , Carth, Revan, Bastila and an ever growing number of companions, make their way to Dantooine, where Revan begins his training as a Jedi and Carth is officially assigned as pilot to the Ebon Hawk.
Throughout the journey, Carth slowly reveals to Revan his past and obsession with killing his former mentor, Saul Karath, who is one of the individuals he blames for the death of his wife during the bombing of Telos IV. He comes to view Revan as a friend and is devastated when the group is captured aboard the Leviathan and Saul reveals to him that Revan is in fact the former Dark Lord of the Sith, before exacting his revenge on Saul. Carth is forced to reexamine his views regarding himself and Revan and comes to the conclusion that neither one of them are the same man they used to be and vows to help save Revan from himself and destroy the Star Forge.
He finds no honor nor challenge in his work and as the Sith occupy Taris , Canderous is more than ready to leave. He forms an ingenious plan to steal Davik's flagship, the Ebon Hawk and approaches Revan for help, claiming that only Revan has the necessary skills to follow the plan through to completion.
Canderous travels with the group to Dantooine and decides that he will continue traveling with the Jedi, his former enemy, claiming that he will finally find worthy adversaries.
His blunt personality and firm belief in the Mandalorian code causes friction between him and the rest of the crew, most notably Carth Onasi and Bastila Shan. In searching for the Star Maps, Canderous's respect for Revan grows and he gradually reveals details of his life to him. On the planet of Tatooine , Canderous's integrity is challenged by Jagi , a former subordinate from the Mandalorian War and he is called out to a duel.
Revan's intervention is the deciding factor in the duel, for which he is grateful, yet compels him to rethink his Mandalorian beliefs. The revelation of Revan's past, after their escape from the Leviathan only serves to further cement Canderous's loyalty to Revan. He doesn't bother with distinctions between light and dark. To Canderous, there is only conviction that there is nothing more honorable than to fight for whom he considers to be the greatest warrior of their time. His involvement during the battle to destroy the Star Forge earns him the Cross of Glory.
Mission Vao is a young, wise-cracking, Twi'lek street urchin from the Lower City of Taris, who had been brought there as a very young child, and later abandoned by her shifty older brother Griff.
She is originally recruited by Revan to use her less-than-reputable skills to gain entrance to the Black Vulkar base as part of a plan to rescue Bastila, but quickly becomes a permanent companion after her best friend, the Wookiee Zaalbar , pledges a life debt to Revan.
She escapes the destruction of Taris and travels to Dantooine along with the other companions aboard the Ebon Hawk. At the Jedi Enclave she is recognized by her brother's former girlfriend, Lena , and learns that her brother was last seen on Tatooine.
She tells Revan that she would very much like to find her brother and Revan agrees, finding it difficult to deny the cheerful girl. Despite her difficult childhood filled with lies and betrayals, Mission is bubbly and optimistic, often seeing the good in people, especially while tracking down her ne'er-do-well brother. Her independent and sometimes mischievous nature at times created some friction with Carth and Bastila, but they both cared for her and acknowledged the usefulness of her skills.
Mission is one of the companions that is least disturbed by the revelation of Revan's past, claiming that he isn't the Dark Lord anymore, and she would stick by him for everything that he had done for her.
Zaalbar is the son of Wookiee Chieftain Freyyr and was born on the planet of Kashyyyk. He had been banished from his clan and labeled a madclaw for dishonorably using his claws to attack, before coming to Taris. He met Mission when she berated Black Vulkar gang members who were harassing him in the Lower City of Taris and the two became inseparable, with Zaalbar taking on the role of the young Twi'lek's protector. Shortly before the orbital bombardment of Taris, he is captured by Gamorrean slavers in the Undercity sewers.
He is rescued by Revan, who had been persuaded to help by Mission. After overcoming his initial surprise at meeting another individual who speaks Shyriiwook , Zaalbar promptly pledges a life debt to Revan. The search for the Star Maps takes the companions to his homeworld of Kashyyyk, where Revan aids the Wookiees in expelling Czerka slavers and the restoration of Freyyr as Chieftain.
Zaalbar is once again accepted by his clan and is looked upon as the successor of Freyyr. Despite this, he once again reaffirms his life debt to Revan, vowing to return to Kashyyyk only after the destruction of the Star Forge, for which he is granted the Cross of Glory. Jolee Bindo is an aging Jedi who has spent the last twenty years in a self-imposed exile deep in the Shadowlands of Kashyyyk. Revan first encounters Jolee during his search for the Star Map on Kashyyyk, during which Jolee's help is necessary.
Cryptic and close-mouthed about his past, other than revealing that he had fought the Sith in the Great Sith War , Jolee announces his intention to travel with Revan claiming that he can see the swirl of destiny surrounding the Padawan and is curious to discover how it will end. Throughout the adventure, Jolee gradually reveals pieces of his past.
He tells Revan of his days as a smuggler and his reasons for leaving the Jedi Order, effectively labeling him as a Gray Jedi. His most startling revelation concerns his wife, Nayama and her fall to the dark side. Jolee is adamant in his conviction that love is important and advises Revan to remember that. The revelation of Revan's past is no surprise to him, since he had already come to that conclusion earlier.
He believes that the Force wants him to help Revan and that impression is reinforced at the Temple of the Ancients , at which he experiences a Force vision that prompts him and Juhani to accompany Revan into the temple. His participation in the destruction of the Star Forge earns him the Cross of Glory. Juhani is a volatile Cathar Jedi Knight who joins Revan and his companions in their quest to find the Star Maps after she is pulled back from the dark side during the amnesiac Revan's final test to become a Padawan on Dantooine.
As an infant, Juhani's parents had fled with her from their homeworld of Cathar , after the Battle of Cathar during the Mandalorian Wars, to Taris.
The death of her father forces her mother into taking loans from the Exchange and when her mother dies, Juhani is sold into slavery to pay off the debts. She is rescued from this fate by the Jedi who come to Taris during the Liberation of Taris.
Enamored by the charismatic leader of the Jedi, who she later finds out was Revan, Juhani vows to become one herself and makes her way to the Jedi Enclave at Dantooine. She is eventually taken on as a Padawan by Jedi Master Quatra , who recognizing the difficulty a Cathar has in reconciling their hot-tempered nature with the Jedi code, allows Juhani to believe she had been killed by her in an aggressive duel.
Distraught by her actions, Juhani falls to the dark side until her fateful meeting with Revan. After her redemption, Juhani learns that her master had not been killed and it was but a final test.
She realizes that she must let go of her anger and finally does so with Revan's help after sparing the life of the individual, Xor , who was responsible for her father's death and was to buy her as a slave. The revelation of Revan's past only serves to strengthen Juhani's resolve to not give into the dark side and she, along with Jolee , plays an important role in aiding Revan at the Temple of the Ancients on Lehon. Juhani is awarded the Cross of Glory for her role in the destruction of the Star Forge.
HK is a Hunter-Killer assassin droid that is built by Revan towards the end of the Mandalorian Wars and is used not only to dispatch his enemies, but also as a Jedi hunter during the Jedi Civil War.
Sometime before Revan's capture by the Jedi, HK is sent on an unknown assassination assignment and is lost. He eventually finds himself in the shop of Yuka Laka , an Ithorian who fitted HK with a restraining bolt. He sat in the shop's corner for a while swearing revenge against Yuka for the bolt and unwittingly claiming to have been built by Systech Corporation until an amnesiac Revan walked in the door during his search for the Star Forge.
Revan purchased HK from Yuka and noticed problems with his memory core , it was missing data. HK is bought by Revan for his knowledge of the Sand People dialect and is instrumental in brokering an end to the Sand People attacks on Anchorhead. Revan is eventually able to restore some of his skills and lost experiences.
It turned out that HK had been in the service of many important people such as a senator , a Hutt named Bochaba , and a low level Systech officer , they also learned that HK had personally killed most of his former masters.
After a certain point, Revan can no longer repair him and he stays a member of the party through the events aboard the Leviathan. After the amnesiac Revan learns of his former identity, more of HK's memory returned as it was programmed to do after he again knowingly meets his former master and true creator.
The revelation that Revan is in fact his original master is the stimulus needed to fully unlock his memory. He is pleased to be reunited with his master and accompanies Revan for the rest of the journey. T3-M4 is a T3-series utility droid who is built and customized by Janice Nall on Taris to be a master slicer. He is originally commissioned by Exchange crime lord Davik Kang to infiltrate the Sith military base as part of the plan to escape Sith martial law, but instead, he is bought by Revan at the suggestion of Canderous Ordo.
T3-M4's skills are highly appreciated by Revan and he becomes a permanent crew member of the Ebon Hawk. However, while the Tales of the Jedi series shows the galactic civilization to have an archaic retro-like aesthetic and technology semi-organic skeletal ships with wings and membranes, stone buildings, etc.
The redundancy of the hyperspace beacons in particular would have dramatically reshaped the astrographic and strategic realities for space travel in the galaxy. Additionally, the game provided a full history of Tatooine and also explained the origins of Kashyyyk's ecosystem. It also offers up an alternate theory as to the original home planet of Humans by having a Sand People historian remark on the player's similarity to the ancients of their people, kidnapped by the Rakata many years before, implying that Tatooine is in fact the planet on which Humans originated.
In order to emphasize its place in continuity, there are references and future events like a possible first contact with the Yuuzhan Vong. As the game is set during a period long before the familiar films, the creators modeled their 'universe' on many characters and details from the movies, as well as including mentions of conceptual ancestors for example, the Sith fighter is considered to be an ancestor of the later Sith Infiltrator but not always while Sith troopers seem to be based on the movie-era stormtroopers , it doesn't mean the clone troopers were historically based on them.
Other examples of this include the modeling of characters, such as Darth Malak, a towering Dark Lord of the Sith who speaks through a vocabulator due to an old injury, very similar to Darth Vader , and the inclusion of Wookiee and droid companions as part of the player's party.
Additionally, many scenes have direct analogues in the films, such as the capture of the main character's freighter smuggling vessel, the Ebon Hawk , by tractor beam , just as the Millennium Falcon was captured by the Death Star , followed by a prison break and loss of a character on board a vessel, which is very similar to the Death Star scene in the original film.
There are also errors in regard to previous events such as the formation of the Republic. Several characters refer to it as having been established 15, years prior, [12] as opposed to the canonical 21, [8] although facts in the load file does state the Republic as being more than 20, years old.
Knights of the Old Republic has the option to choose different paths at points in the story, such as the order of planets visited and whether Revan followed the light or dark side. Also depending on character alignment, some Force powers will cost more or less "Force points" if Revan corresponds or conflicts with each ones' individual alignment.
Core abilities, however, do not change cost. Several party members can be killed off by Revan, depending on the actions in dialogue the player takes. For example, it is possible to kill Juhani in one of two ways: provoke her to attack during the mission to remove the taint from Dantooine's fields, [14] or kill her, this time alongside Jolee Bindo , later on in the game while on Lehon.
The encounters with Darth Bandon and Calo Nord can happen on different planets depending on the order selected by the player. Calo appears on the first planet where a Star Map is successfully found and Bandon appears on the third. Both will have different people accompany them for every planet.
While the order in which the Star Map planets are visited can vary based on player preference, the numeric designations of the level modules [19] and cutscene video files [20] in the game itself are arranged in the order Tatooine — Kashyyyk — Manaan — Korriban. This order is also stated by Bastila Shan in a cutscene played during the Leviathan level, [21] and is the preferred order listed in the officially licensed strategy guide.
Because of the various paths the player can take, most importantly the choice of a male or female Revan, the dark side ending can vary from player to player. Assuming the player has chosen a male Revan, he fights his way up to the roof of the Lehon temple and encounters Bastila, who has been corrupted and turned to the dark side by Malak. To prove her worth as Malak's apprentice , she engages Revan in a duel, though the latter manages to fight her off. Bastila sees his potential as a Sith and seduces him with talk of power, regaining his place as Dark Lord, and a pledge to be his lover If the Bastila romance was completed.
Tempted, Revan agrees, earning his Sith eyes and hair, [23] and to prove his loyalty, he slays Juhani if she was spared earlier in the game and Jolee. Torn by the news, Carth runs into the forest, unwilling to believe that Revan could have done such a thing; the droids are programmed to follow Revan, regardless of his alignment; Canderous is overjoyed to be able to fight alongside such a leader and warrior; and Zaalbar has sworn a lifedebt to him, granting Revan his loyalty for as long as he lives.
Mission is shocked at the revelation of what has transpired and refuses to join the Sith in their conquest after seeing what happened to Taris. She refuses to believe that Revan would kill her in cold blood. Revan can either kill her himself, or use the Jedi mind trick and the leverage of Zaalbar's lifedebt to persuade the Wookiee into doing the deed.
Dark Jedi attack the hangar and Revan assists them in fending off the attackers, after they are victorious Revan decides that they are no longer useful to him and he kills the Jedi as well. The female version of the dark side ending is virtually the same as the male one, though Carth notices the dark change in Revan as the story progresses. He decides to confront her about her falling and promises to protect Revan from going down a path of self-destruction.
After she gives in to Bastila's offer to join her in killing Malak, she would tell the group the same thing as the male Revan would, though Carth's reaction varies slightly, saying that she is not the woman he fell in love with if the Carth romance was completed before running away. After Revan kills Malak she heads back to the hangar to find Carth. Carth tells her that the Republic fleet picked him up from the planet surface and that he informed them of her betrayal.
He also told them that he couldn't give up on her. He started to persuade her back to the light when Bastila entered the room and convinced Revan to stay on her current path. In a cut-scene that did not make it to the final game, Revan had a third option to kill Bastila and die aboard the Star Forge with Carth. It was not placed in the final version because the developers did not have enough time for finishing the game. However, these features can be returned to the game through modding.
If Revan was specified as a woman, the player and Carth would start flirting on the surface of Taris right away, [32] though they would verbally fight later over Carth's trust issues. The story in the middle is the same until they reach Lehon. After Revan returns from the temple, Carth and Revan admit their feelings for each other. A female Revan can also tease Carth throughout the story.
Nothing else is said between them about it for the rest of the game. Cut content features the planet Sleheyron and an alternate ending for a dark side female PC's romance with Carth, which the player could choose to kill Bastila and die on the Star Forge with Carth. Rakatan computer terminals the player encounters on Dantooine mention six types of planet environment, and five of them correspond to planets where the Star Maps are located: [38]. In an attempt to truly complete the game, Team Hutt from Holowan Laboratories has been attempting to restore Sleheyron.
Several sequences were also cut out of Tatooine. One of them was that the Star Map was originally supposed to be located in the maw of a Sarlacc pit and the character had to find a way to reach it without being eaten. Another was the character could become a messiah figure to the Sandpeople and would lead them against Czerka Corporation.
There was also cut content relative to the planet Taris, cut mostly due to pacing issues rather than time constraints. Initially, there was to be another level to the Vulkar base there, [40] containing a spice lab, staff housing, and the base's heating control system. The player had to retrieve the keycard that would access the garage elevator from a Vulkar who would trade said keycard in return for some spice. Another means of taking it from the gang member was by killing them. The level was accessed by an elevator that would have been the armory in the final version and was guarded by the same pair of droids.
Also included on the cut level was a female Twi'lek pazaak playing member who was left with a male voiceover in the data left by Bioware.
Additionally, there were two other confirmed sequences cut from the game. One takes place on Manaan if the player beats Bendak Starkiller in the dueling ring on Taris. Deadeye Duncan shows up in the docking area, telling how he escaped the destruction of Taris and asks if he can use the name Mysterious Stranger.
If Revan provoked Lashowe during their first meeting then Bastila would have interjected. Though not necessarily cut content, as it was left unsuppressed in the game files, Bastila was originally supposed to have a scene with Nemo , an elderly Jedi from the enclave. They'd known each other for a long time and he asked her if she'd gotten her anger problems under control, revealing that her master used to dump water over her head when she became frustrated.
This scene is impossible to view outside of modding as when Bastila rejoins the party so they can go to the mysterious ruins, Nemo has already gone there ahead of them and died. Some of this content, including the Deadeye Duncan encounter on Manaan, the alternate dark side ending, and the extra scene with Bastila can be restored in the form of community-created add-on modifications.
These are only available for the PC version. These include Rakata Prime , Taris , Malachor , terentateks , Manaan and the selkaths , Sphyrna -class Hammerhead corvette , and pazaak.
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is a role-playing game in the Star Wars universe and is set across different planets. The player's character and his party collect numerous items, armor, weapons, and learn many abilities along the way. Many different objects can be found by Revan scattered all through the game world in different containers such as in footlockers , baskets, and corpses.
What items can be taken from the containers are determined through random drops unless said item is required for story progression. Items can also be bought or sold in shops spread through the game through an exchange of credits, the game's monetary unit. All items are organized in an inventory which can be reached in the start menu at any point outside of a conversation. It has the ability to filter in a specific type of item, such as weapons, so that only that kind of item is shown.
It is organized into all items, utility items, usable items, equippable items, quest items, and new items, which are marked by a purple coloring. Utility items include stimulants which raise stats for a short amount of time, medical items such as medpacs or antidote kits used for regaining health or fixing status effects, multiple types of grenade that cause different damage types or status effects, many kinds of armable mines , armor, weapon, and lightsaber upgrades such as different crystals ; as well as spikes for hacking computers or bypassing security.
Quest items include items required for advancing the story, such as the Star Map data, or for completing many side-quests, such as datapads. Useable items also include medical items, stimulants, and equippable personal shields. Equippable items are collected throughout the game and are used to enhance the party. There are nine equipment slots per character: headgear, implants , armor, gloves, personal shields, right and left shoulders; a belt, and weapons; right and left hands.
Headgear includes anything worn upon the character's head, such as a helmet or visor , and normally are used for either protection or sensory enhancement. Implants are placed in the character's body to enhance certain statistics and sometimes grant Feats or Skills. Armor is worn on the body for protection and for modesty. Personal shields are worn upon a character's shoulders and they create a protective force around a person in order to protect that person from damage for a limited time.
Belts are worm around the character's waist and increase certain stats. Weapons are tools the character can use to kill enemies both organic and droid. They are carried with the character's hands and increase damage dealt by the character. Unarmed combat is also possible and skill with this style of fighting increases as the character gains levels. Weapons are items found throughout the game world, primarily in shops or in lockers.
They can be equipped to each character individually, held in the hand equip slots, and add to the amount of damage points a character can deal to opponents. Generally, one weapon can be placed in each hand but some, such as blaster rifles or bowcasters , must be held with both hands, forfeiting the second slot.
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