Rediscovering Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords

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Rediscovering Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords

Added: 28.09.2014 9:00 | 9 views | 0 comments

Tom Hatfield revisits the game too smart to be Star Wars, too broken to be beautiful.
One of the first NPCs you encounter in Knights of the Old Republic 2 refers to the Jedi/Sith conflict from the first game as "the Jedi Civil War". It's a beautiful phrase that forces you to imagine events from another perspective. The average cantina patron has no idea what a Sith is or how the dark side works. All they see is a bunch of terrifying space wizards thumping one another with laser swords over a religious schism. That's what I love about KOTOR 2: it takes a universe of light and dark, and paints it in shades of grey.