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DOES NOT WORK ON MY GAMING LAPTOP!!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 39
Date: December 17, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If you intend running this on a laptop I suggest you first contact BioWare to make sure it will run. I've been looking forward to this for months. Its just arrived. I have just finished loading the bloody thing on my laptop and it DOES NOT WORK. Thankyou very much BioWare and LucasArts. Not only have you stolen my money but you bums have just totally ruined my Christmas as well. Now I'm gonna be bored to death over Christmas and will instead have to sit with my family watching hour after hour of mind vegetating Christmas TV. I wouldn't mind but I have a 2Ghz processor, more than enough memory and disk space and the latest goddamn ATI graphics card. And still the piece of crap wont run. First I get the LucasArts intro, then I get the BioWare intro, then the friggin thing just siezes up. A blue arrow appears on a totally black screen and I can hear a split second of audio constantly repeating over and over again. I cant even kill the bloody thing. I have to literally switch the damn machine off and then reboot. I have lowered the graphics resolution to 600x400 with low texture - AND STILL THE PIECE OF CRAP WONT RUN. Screw you BioWare. Thanks for nothing.

Don't buy it if you don't like twitch games

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 13
Date: January 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Knights of the Old Republic contains some unavoidable "mini-games". Two of these are essentially twitch games -- Swoop racing, and fighting other ships from your turret gun. What's worse, both of these twitch games are mandatory at various points in the game -- you cannot go on without performing adequately. The Swoop race while tedious is not too difficult, but the turret gunning is almost impossible for me -- and represents exactly the kind of gameplay I hate.

That's all and good if you expect it, but most folks buying this game will assume that as an RPG it does not require twitch skills. That is not the case, and you could end up being stuck with a game you can't finish.

Would have been, Should have been......

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 14
Date: January 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game could could have and should have been the best game of the year, as it stands it is one of the most bug filled crash prone games I have ever played. Knights has a great story line, very good graphics, and a decent combat system, but the massive number of bugs kill the game. I rarely get more than 5 minutes of crash-free playing time, even with the patch released shortly after release, but much worse is the area curruption bugs that were left in. 4 hours into the game I try to enter a plot required area and the game crashed to a frozen menu. Now every time I try to go into that area with that save I am kicked to the menu. I cannot progress the game when that happens which really kills the game. I have worked for a beta testing company, and I can tell you these kinds of bugs should never make it into release. I really would like to say this is a great game, and it could have been, but it is dead right now as I will not play a game where there is only a slight possibility that I will be able to progress the plot at any given point. This game should have been great, but as it is it is 50 bucks wasted. Maybe around march it will be good, but till then don't buy it.

Holy crap on a stick.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 12
Date: January 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Let me get this straight.... I really wanted to like this game, and did, for awhile at least. Stories great, great characters, blah blah blah. None of that matters, because, you're not going to be playing the game. This thing is so full of holes its unplayable, if not a first, eventually. I started out fine, wondering what all the bug complaints were about, but now, I can't even play. My games crash upon loading. Any bioware/lucasarts is no help... support for this game only exists in the form of others gamers just messing wiht their machines hoping somethign will work. Spend your money elsewhere, or wait a year till they fix this thing.

Too many bugs

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: January 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game would be a lot more fun if it did not have so many bugs. It crashes and locks badly. Maybe when a new patch comes out it will be playable.

Do not buy.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 18
Date: January 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game before Christmas and my word of warning. This is a BETA product. There are so many issues that the game will not even run, it crashes right in the beginning menus. My PC meets or exceeds every requirement. Supposedly, this is a very fun game on the XBOX, but I wouldn't know.

Don't send your money to Bioware. They should be sued for this disaster, they rushed an unfinished product before the holidays.

Caution: the PC version is buggy

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: November 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Be careful about buying the PC version of this game. There are lots of people having problems getting the graphics to work properly. Looks like they rushed this game out the door for the holiday rush. Go check the Bioware Forums and/or Gamespot if you don't believe me.

On the bright side, if you can get it to work, it's an awesome game.

But until they get it patched up, I just can't recommend it.

WARNING - Check your graphics card before you buy!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 18
Date: February 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

We bought this game from a national retailer without reading the (extremely) fine print on the bottom of the box. On loading, the game informed us that our computer "Failed the graphics card test." That's as far as we got. The store won't take back opened software.

The game requires a high-end ATI or NVIDIA card with OpenGL 1.4, DirectX 9.0, and Hardware Transform and Lighting compatibility. If you don't know what this means, or aren't sure if you have it, don't buy this game.

Horrible

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 20
Date: February 13, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I had high hopes for this game and was really looking forward to playing it. Unfortunately, from the moment I loaded it to the last cut scene (which I just viewed ten minutes ago), this game has been nothing but a disappointment.

From a technical perspective, it's simply horrible. I have a fairly high-end machine (Dell Inspiron running at 3+ ghz, 2 gigs RAM, 9800 Radeon video card, etc.) and I still experienced difficulties; there were lag issues, video did not play properly and CONSTANT crashes.

On the surface, the gameplay would seem to have potential: your affiliation and actions--light or dark--affects the storyline of the game. Unfortunately, it really doesn't. Only the most superficial story arcs are affected by what you do. Some powers and weapons are light-side or dark-side specific, but you rarely need to use them (if at all) so it really doesn't matter what side you choose. Related to that, the game is very linear and must be completed in a certain way in most instances.

Some miscellaneous rants:
(1) Your player is limited to running and looking in a single plane: no jumping, crouching, looking up, looking down.
(2) The weapons upgrade system is incomprehensible and it's impossible to tell what, if any, effect it has on your arsenal.
(3) Keeping track of your inventory (which can get huge--another goofy design choice) is cumbersome.
(4) The battle system is ridiculous: it's turn based and totally artificial.

Unfortunately, I could go on, but I think you get the picture. At $5.00 I might try it, but don't pay a penny more.

ug

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 39
Date: November 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

less fun than reading geneaological accounts in the old testament - that being said, it has a great title name & the picture on the box is groovy...I recommend you just go look at the box, the fun ends there

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