Everything you need to know about Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic - Remake

(Pocket-lint) - Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is 1 of the astir storied RPGs successful gaming history, cited by countless fans arsenic the top portion of Star Wars storytelling immoderate crippled has managed, and by a just fewer of those arsenic the champion Star Wars communicative barroom none.

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Now it's coming backmost - a full remake of the game, constructed from the crushed up, has been announced, and we are perfectly flabbergasted. It's 1 of the astir breathtaking gaming launches successful ages, truthful find retired each the cardinal details close here.

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Remake: Trailer and merchandise date

The supra trailer debuted during a Sony showcase live-stream looking astatine the aboriginal of the PlayStation 5 successful September 2021, and it provoked an implicit unreserved of enthusiasm, not slightest due to the fact that it opened the full show.

It's lone a abbreviated teaser trailer, though, and sadly doesn't extremity with immoderate benignant of a timeline for erstwhile we tin expect the game. Compared to different announcements during the event, we deliberation that means adjacent a 2022 merchandise day looks a distant anticipation astatine this stage. Hopefully we mightiness get the remake successful 2023, though.

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Remake: Platforms

The azygous biggest spot of quality astir the crippled truthful far, and by far, is that it volition beryllium a console exclusive for Sony - the KOTOR remake is lone coming to PlayStation 5, and not to Xbox. Of course, that mightiness mean it's a timed exclusive alternatively than permanent, but astatine slightest astatine motorboat it'll beryllium a filip for PS5 fans.

However, we besides cognize that the crippled volition merchandise connected PC, truthful it's not similar the PS5 volition beryllium the lone spot you tin play it.

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Remake: Story

If you've ne'er played the archetypal KOTOR, don't interest - we won't spoil that game's marvellous story. However, the setup for the remake is evidently apt to beryllium the same, truthful we tin trust connected that for immoderate basics.

Firstly, that titular Old Republic is virtually 4,000 years earlier the events of the main Star Wars films, those that marque up the Skywalker Saga - it's a long, agelong clip ago, truly. As fans volition know, wherever there's 1 Sith there's ever different - successful this case, it's the duplicate evils of Darth Malak and Revan.

Revan has been defeated, leaving Malak successful his spot sweeping done the galaxy, and it's up to your player-customised quality to combat backmost against the tide of evil on with the fewer Jedi who are astir to help. In existent RPG style, though, those who privation to usage the Dark Side tin consciousness escaped to bash truthful - you tin take to thin into the Sith's ideology if you like.

It's a superb communicative that takes successful divers locations and immoderate iconic characters, from Jedi masters to murderous robot helpers, truthful spot america erstwhile we accidental it'll beryllium 1 to acquisition erstwhile it comes out.

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Remake: Gameplay

A large question people that does bent implicit the remake is precisely however overmuch it'll alteration gameplay-wise. After all, portion the archetypal KOTOR is beloved, its combat strategy mightiness consciousness beauteous archaic now, compared to modern updates of the aforesaid top-down RPG controls from games similar Divinity 2 and Baldur's Gate 3.

Whether we inactive get turn-based combat astatine each isn't adjacent thing we tin beryllium assured astir - the developers astatine Aspyr, which is handling the remake, person confirmed that they privation to enactment existent to the archetypal game's story, and to bring the gameplay up to modern standards. That could mean anything!

However, moving distant from combat, we tin beryllium assured that we'll inactive get an RPG wherever you tin determination astir assorted hubs talking to characters and picking up quests and instrumentality to support improving your party.

We'll besides evidently get a large boost to the game's look and consciousness - KOTOR is truly aged astatine this point, truthful it should beryllium beauteous jaw-dropping to spot immoderate of its astir celebrated locations fixed a wholly caller mentation to explore.

Writing by Max Freeman-Mills. Originally published connected 13 September 2021.