P.C. Shannon

I played KOTOR for about 3 hours last night. I like it, for the most part. It does degenerate into a hack-n-slash adventure at times, which is really annoying when you’re trying to get thru a section and you keep getting killed in the same spot. What’s the fun of that? It’s very frustrating. Also, you can only walk forward, so if you want to retreat in a combat situation, you have to expose your back. WTF?!?! It also has this weird feature where you can basically teleport back to your base, and then return to your starting position. This is nice because it allows you to change your party make up as you please, and also heal completely. However, when you return to your starting position, all the creatures you killed are reincarnated (actually this happens whenever you leave the area and then re-enter — it doesn’t remember which beasts you’ve defeated — which makes you wonder why the Xbox has a hard drive). The teleport feature also allows you to bypass any security checkpoints in the way — you have to sneak past the first time, but after that, you just magically whoosh by them.

So in summary, the role-playing part is very cool, but the combat is kinda sucky. And the graphics could be better. Oh well. I’m not a Jedi yet, so I’m sure everything will be much cooler then.

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