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Like the first game, with a few whistles

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

If you played and liked Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic, you'll love this game. If you haven't played Knights I, but love Star Wars, LucasArts, or Obsidian Entertainment, you'll love this game.

The original Knights, produced by BioWare, is still one of my favorite games ever, and this game is more or less the same. They've fine tuned some of the details, and added a few tweaks. Most notably is the addition of the "Influence" system. The characters aren't as deep (in my opinion) but they're not just one dimension, either. In your dialogues with your companions, you have the potential to gain or lose influence with them. Gaining influence adjusts them to your alignment (good or evil), and eventually *SPOILER* some of your characters can become your Jedi/Sith apprentices.

They've also added more combat behaviors and several Lightsaber Forms with different bonuses/costs. Plus, you start the game as a Jedi Class, with the option to become a Prestige Class based on your alignment later in the game.

Also, there is no need to play Knights 1 first. Early in the game, you will be asked to describe whether Revan was light/dark and male/female. This has some direct implications: i.e. return of some of the Knights 1 NPCs depending on whether Revan was light or dark. (Some NPCs will "forget" that Revan was a woman on occasion, and still call her "him".)

The only thing I can really complain about is that this game is slightly buggy on Vista. After the game *should* load, (i.e. you click GAME in the quicklaunch), Vista will announce that SWKotORII has stopped working... You just have to try again. And again. Eventually, it will launch, and it'll be good for hours upon hours of extended play (which was how the game was designed to be played).

Okay, I lied. The ending also sucks. LucasArts pressured Obsidian to push forward the release date, so after you defeat the final antagonist, you can ask them for an "eplilogue" about the characters, then you have a 30 second cutscene. That's it. There is no glorious ending of gratitude or conquest like in Knights I, but the rest of the game is well worth it.

I was mislead by negative reviews!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Earlier this year after playing the first KOTOR game, I had read so many bad reviews about KOTOR 2 that I decided to just avoid this game. However, when rumors started to really fly that a third installment was possibly coming, I decided that I must play through The Sith Lords to be "caught up" in the KOTOR saga. Boy am I glad I did!

To me, Kotor and Kotor 2 are one big story, just like how the Star Wars movies flow together. If you are going to play both, I highly recommend the original KOTOR first so the story flows smoothly and also so the characters in KOTOR won't feel watered down. The larger selection of powers in this second game really add to the fun, and playing time was much longer--much to the dismay of the chores I need to get done around the house. ;)

I didn't have any problems with unfinished tasks, unless I left them that way on purpose or I simply didn't catch on to the "trigger event" in time. The ending had a few choppy graphics, but the voice acting more than made up for it so I could simply listen to what happens in the end-game wrap up. If dialog got passed over quickly due to a glitch, I could simply go back and read it in the Messages tool.

I also liked that even though the final battle in KOTOR was tough, KOTOR 2 was tougher and very imaginative. What worked in the first game didn't always work so well in the second, and vice versa. This keeps the two titles distinct concerning tactics and strategy, and far from boring. KOTOR 2 also had a talent for lulling me into a habit concerning the use of force powers and combat, and then it would throw something at me that would force me to change my style quickly (and it actually got me killed a couple of times when I didn't adapt!)

I had no problem with how the character starts out, and I also didn't have any problems with the ending. I enjoyed creating new Jedi and seeing some familiar "faces" and locations from the first game.

If you like Knights of the Old Republic, go ahead and get The Sith Lords to add to your enjoyment of this era of Star Wars.

I woke up this morning with a deep seated desire to play KOTOR...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The second-generation of BioWare's wonderful rpgs (preceeded by the inovative KOTOR and followed by Mass Effect, which will change the face of rpgaming forever), KOTOR II: The Sith Lords suffers only from being the middle child in a family of brilliant games. Where KOTOR was the first of its kind, with the ability to choose your path and play your way, The Sith Lords brings little new to the game besides new story.

*SPOILERS* You are the nameless Jedi Exile (cannonically female, incontrast to the male Reven from KOTOR I), banished from the republic for your part in the Mandalorian War. But now you have returned, the last Jedi to remain. Charismatic to a fault, if you rise into the Light your companions will rise with you, if you fall into the Dark they will fall with you. Love, like in BioWare's other rpgs, ensues in the cold metal of the Ebon Hawk (misteriously now in the pocession of the Exile). If you are female, you have the tragically devoted love of the simpering Disciple. If male, the half-alien Handmaiden earns your love. They along with the rest of your organic companions can become Jedi to repopulate the republic (in a strictly Jedi sense of course). *END SPOILERS*

In short, if you loved KOTOR, get KOTOR II: The Sith Lords. If you're new to the series, you'll love this. If your not, you'll like this game better. Still play, just be warned its not he original, despite the better graphics.

Wonderful Game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 09, 2008
Author: Amazon User

As a preface to this review, let me say that there is a common problem with this game not having sound on Windows Vista,
this can usually be fixed by replacing a dll file which can be downloaded here:
files.filefront.com/Mss32dll/;6695046;/fileinfo.html
I did not know this however, so I played through the the entire game without sound because the game is that good.
After I found the solution to the sound problem, the game became even better, which is saying a lot.

Be warned though, this game is a mix of a lot of dialog sequences and battle sequences,
you have to like this genre to like all the dialog.
The story however (which is driven by the dialog sequences), is compelling, although somewhat incomplete,
but the incompleteness will be mostly fixed by a mod for this game that's 3+ years in the making,
just google "TSLRP"

Also, while the story of this game isn't dependent on having played the first game,
you will get more out of the story if you have played it.

I hope that you find this review helpful...

My Reviw Of KotOR 2 (Lightside and Male Character)

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

**WARNING** This Review Contains Some Spoilers!!

KotOR 2 The Sith Lords, Despite being one of the most sad games youll ever play, is extraordinarily great despite being rushed out the door.

It says that your character from the previous game went missing and its all depressing because instead of Thinking you lived happily ever after and had little revans with bastila, Your character is Presumed dead.

It also took to long and the opportunities to get influence were to spread out, and this proved to be very frustrating because when you get influence you can talk to your characters and especially Kreia, T3-M4 and HK-47 and find out what the freaking hell hapened to Your Character from kotor1.

Plus, all the major things that happen with your character happen at the end so, for example atton becomes a jedi 2 minutes before you go to malachor!

But the Story line is very Gripping and I sometimes get choked up towards the end when you watch whatever the heck the ship you fly away on fly off into the galaxy.

In other news, the only few bugs I have encountered are when in speech it zooms through the response to when you respond, and you have no idea what the npc just said.

There are also a few bugs with atris' academy on telos when you first go there.

This game is sweet, but It is a CRIME how the game developers rushed it out the door. This game... It coulve been great. =(
but if i had a choice id choose the first one over this one.

Lots of fun, not lots of SW

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 11, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is incredibly fun. It does everything the first did, but better and deeper. New everything, conversations are as great as ever. Story is debatably a tad worse, but that is definitely a matter of opinion not a matter of fact.

The place where it stumbles, however, is in its faithfulness to the lore. It gives it a brief friendly hug, but it doesn't embrace it the way it should. There are many parts that will leave you going "wtf?" and scrambling to try and find logic there. I'll give you a hint - it isn't there. This game has already been decanonized, thank God, so don't worry; you're not wrong, the game is. Again, however, it is a lot of fun, just don't take the lore aspect to seriously.

Deep, Interesting, Fun Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 15, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The biggest thing I did not like about this game was trying to play it the second time through. Much of what I did was an exact repeat of before, just because the plot must advance the way it does. It just seems like, with such a complex game, they could have made more variety in it. But that's not a big drawback - certainly the first KOTOR did not have nearly as much variety as this one. The second biggest thing was that there weren't as many puzzles as in the first KOTOR - but I'm a math major and I like puzzles, so not everyone would probably find this a bad thing.

But the game is AMAZING overall! The puzzles are replaced by deep thought-provoking questions: what is good? What is bad? Ultimately, many good deeds or deeds that were done with good intentions, lead to bad things in the long run. And the logic is amazingly twisted (no spoilers): not only does one think that the Jedi ultimately did a bad thing for the Empire by attacking the Mandalorians because then the Sith invasion came, but also the Jedi who sat by and did nothing did a bad thing ultimately. So really, the right thing to do was uncertain, and it seems only those with the clearest vision can make the right choices: Revan. Thus one of the biggest points of the game was to make the player think grander thoughts: not to move the small pieces randomly, but to have a grand plan always and do small things, whether good or bad, in order to accomplish one's bigger plan. Doing small bad things can lead to greater good in the future and vice versa.

But other than the deep philosophical stuff, there is lots of great action, great new powers that are really fun to use, many fun missions, and especially an extremely well-done last mission where the graphics are just awesome. There are lots of places to choose light or dark, and sometimes when you think something will be a good choice it is not really, and vice versa. I personally thought it was harder to just choose a side (light or dark) and stick by it. I think this game is more complex in almost every way, but it is also more fun in most ways. Definitely a worthy sequel!

Great RPG even if you're not a big RPG fan

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I've never been a big fan of RPG games before but since I was looking for something completely different, I figured this would work. Took a chance and it paid off. I didn't give it 5 stars because the graphics aren't that good and it's got some hard things that you need to do. If you're a first time playing this type of game it might be hard for you (as it is for me).

I rather enjoy the game, it's a bit more challanging for me since I don't normally play RPG games so I'm sure others whom have played them for years would have no problem playing this game. I never played the first one so I wouldn't know about how this one is really different. If you like Sims 2, I think you'll like this game because that's all I used to play before this one.

A decent sequel

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 08, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Not quite as good as the first KOTOR, but still worth buying especially at this price.

The game was ported directly from the xbox like the first game but where as the first one was tweaked to take advantage of the PC, this one is pretty much ported directly over with no changes made. Because of this there are some glitches (especially if your using Vista, I had to replace my Mss32.dll file to get the game to load. And I had some issues with the video cutting out during cut scenes, had to turn the monitor off and on again to get the video back)

As for the game itself, the story line is not as strong as the first KOTOR and there are some pretty big holes in it also. Game play and Combat is pretty much identical to the first game so you'll feel right at home if you have played the first KOTOR already.

almost perfect if only there wasent content cut

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: December 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is by far the best rpg game I have ever played in my life after playing kotor oblivion and mass effect kotor 2 is still the best if content was not cut from the game it would be perfect also a lack of romance or love in the story but never the less the game is very good i will have to see if the resteration mod for this game acuacly makes it complete but still even if it disapointes the game rocks sadly to not to many good rpgs are made nowadays but people will forget about this game because to many peole put it down but that is a discusion for aanother time any way best game ever

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