SWTOR's Art Director weighs in on the Old Republic's look

by Michael Zenke Oct 27th 2008 at 2:30PM

Filed under: Sci-fi, New titles, Star Wars: The Old Republic

The announcement of Star Wars: The Old Republic raised more questions than it answered, but we've slowly gotten a better sense of the game's shape over the last week. Ten Ton Hammer adds to this picture with their own coverage from the event, chatting with the game's Art Director Jeff Dobson about how the SWTOR look has shaped up. Dobson's talk, like much over the information out of last week, deals primarily with the high-level concepts BioWare is dealing with in this stage of development.

Dobson reaffirms the company's commitment to making the game work - and look good - on as many PCs as possible. Said the Director, "It's much more important that I can play my MMO on my bad ass desktop machine and my old clunky machine and my laptop. I think that's really important, because gamers should be able to play on any of their computers." Check out the full interview at Tent Ton Hammer for more on that, plus character customization hints and background on those oversized lightsabers.

Gallery: Star Wars: The Old Republic Concept Art

Tags: art, bioware, lucasarts, star-wars-the-old-republic, swtor

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Coldbrand said on 2:43PM 10-27-2008

More like ten-ton lightsaber hilt.

Wjowski said on 7:25PM 10-27-2008

The art looks fine to me. This 'Waaaah it looks like WoW!' crap is way off base.

Kingshield said on 3:08AM 10-28-2008

Heads up Bioware, if you attempt to make a WOW clone, set in a Star Wars Universe, it will bomb!

Of course all the kiddies will want to play, because of the cartoon look as well as the spin-off factor from the recent Clone Wars movie, but with that you will loose older players that generate dense and friendly communities.

No one wants to hear kiddies running around typing in WOW Speak.

Oh well, at least there is still Eve-Online (A Real MMORPG)

Wjowski said on 3:49AM 10-28-2008

I love the unwarranted sense of self-importance the MMO playerbase has developed over the years.

Oh wait, no I dont, I find it obnoxious and grating.

Newsflash, you can puff up your hackles all you want but the fact is your fifteen bucks isn't worth any more to Bioware than that of the 'kiddies' your type so enjoys deriding.