Sure, you've watched the Star Wars movies, peeked at the television show, and even played Knights of the Old Republic. But even so, there's a good chance that you'll boot up The Old Republic and be confused by the races, planets, and political society that greets you. Fear not (for it leads to the dark side, obviously), as we've heard your cries, and put together a brief history lesson that should help clear things up...
To celebrate the launch of Star Wars: The Old Republic, we have declared that this week is Star Wars week! To start things off, we bring you our Top 7 favorite games from a galaxy far, far away.
Before you get started with this article, we’d like to begin with a very sincere, simple statement: we love BioWare a whole squishy huggy bunch. Their narratives are usually awesome and we’ve spent an embarrassing number of hours playing their games.
That said… with the recent release of Dragon Age 2, it dawned on us how many similarities there are in their recent games. It’s gotten to a point where we can immediately recognize an NPC archetype after only spending a couple minutes with the new character; we took some time to jot down a detailed guide of each of these copy-paste characters so you’ll know precisely how to act the moment they open their easily written mouths...
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A good plot twist in a game (bear with us now) is like being attacked by a ninja. It’s shocking, unexpected and will leave you feeling like you’ve just had a chunk of your spleen cut out with a katana. Admittedly, none of the following megaton twists spring from the shadows at you in tight fitting black pyjamas. But we still never saw any of them coming. Now, would you kindly read on?
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Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is hitting stores on September 16th and that’s all cool and lovely. But, as you prepare to get your Sith on, why not pause for a moment and consider this for a curve ball…The Force is overrated: FACT!
But it’s an energy field, you say, created by all living things. It surrounds and penetrates living beings. It binds the whole galaxy together for god’s sake. Well, that’s as
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