Interesting to see BioWare take a first crack at a whole bunch of Mass Effect here, and of course the Star Wars universe already has a bunch of dumb binary morality stuff built in so it's a perfect fit. Doesn't work as well because the writing is goofy as hell front-to-back, the party is middling (this game asks hard questions like "what if R2-D2 had no personality" "what if Chewbacca was lame as hell" and "what if Garrus was just whining all the time"), and you have to deal with that weird pseudo-real-time-but-actually-turn-based DnD combat that never feels good to play in a videogame. Still, there's an occasional banger line and the fantasy here is potent enough that I can understand why it was such a big deal at the time. I have to assume KOTOR 2 is better than this though.

Reviewed on Jan 21, 2024


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