Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO to replace KotOR 3

by Shawn Schuster Oct 21st 2008 at 6:00PM

Filed under: Sci-fi, Video, Business models, Game mechanics, Interviews, MMO industry, New titles, Academic, Star Wars: The Old Republic

In a recent video interview with Gamespot, the folks at BioWare have made quite a few exciting announcements regarding the highly-anticipated Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO. Most notably, Tom Nichols, Executive Producer for LucasArts, revealed that this newly-announced MMO will replace the Knights of the Old Republic 3 project. "There's no reason to limit it to a single-player experience," Nichols says.

Much of this decision had to do with their partnership with BioWare, who has a bit of experience with MMOs and great storytelling themselves. According to BioWare's Creative Director, James Ohlen, the sheer amount of content in this MMO project could be comparable to "KotOR 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 plus." Check out the video embedded below the cut, and watch for our continued coverage of the excited developments with what is now dubbed SW:TOR.

Gallery: Star Wars: The Old Republic Screenshots

Bioware has finally unveiled Star Wars: The Old Republic, their new MMO! Massively's got you covered on all the details -- from liveblogging the announcement to screenshot galleries and more. Join us in the Galaxy far, far away!

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Misfit Toy said on 9:19AM 10-22-2008

Sweet! Loved KOTOR. Love Bioware. Am currently enjoying Lord of the Rings Online. Looking forward to Stargate Worlds. Oye! Where will I find the time for a third MMO!

Dianna said on 8:36AM 10-23-2008

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! GIVE ME BACK MY KOTOR 3! T.T

RAZIM said on 10:32PM 10-23-2008

Yea. They need to end the solo game before getting all crazy with the MMO's.

It's 300 years in the future from KOTOR 2 so we still wanna experience the story of Revan from a first hand experience.

I doubt they will start monkeying with time travel like in WoW.

Lucasarts and Bioware, we'd still like to see KOTOR 3. An MMO is not a replacement for a solid story-based RPG. I really hope this isn't the fad that every game company decides to take with their IP.

People still want solid single player games which they can invest their time in and finish the storyline in their mind.

Anyways.. Hopefully they change their mind and make KOTOR 3 as well.

Also, if the next Monkey Island gets made into a MMO...yiiikes! Give us some old school VGA adventure games :P

Dianna said on 8:51AM 10-27-2008

They will do anything to milk more money out of their franchise, and to hell with the single player. Or so it seems to me.

Why not give us a single player game with multi-player options? So those who want to flaunt there characters can and those who just want the single-player experience can get it without some idiot ruining the experience?

lemi said on 3:09PM 10-22-2008

& what about people (like me) who played kotor 1 and 2 and got hookedup with it, and can not play ( even if I want to) this monstrosity (that for shore needs to be killed) of the game they call swtor or something?
Feels like we are left out on the open, alone. Soooooo UNFAIR!

Thanx LA, thanx a lot.
Now I really hope this turns out as a the worst game they ever made, for real!!!!