Star Wars: The Old Republic

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  1. kofelovr
    Jan 20, 2012
    2
    Making a MMO out of a RPG was just the wrong decision. Another disappointment for KOTOR fans. Hopefully, EA will start listening to their customer base and tailoring their games to meet the desires of their customers. This was just a grab for quick cash using Bioware's long-standing good name.
  2. Kanye
    Jan 29, 2012
    2
    Released a bugged piece of **** as any EA game. Horribly optimized, I would drop below 30 fps in high settings on a machine that runs BF3 on ultra. Most features are a copy of WoW, although this isn't necessarily a bad thing in itself. But being a massive budget MMO, this is really a disappointment.
  3. fluffybunny
    Jan 20, 2012
    0
    Game getting more and more broken with each patch. Could've been a great game if they only knew how to code/hadn't used the Hero Engine. Currently seem to be playing fps lotto, as fps can magically change between logging in and out of game (back to same spot) for no reason at all (not changing settings my end). Running on an i7 2600K and 8gigs DDR3 RAM @1600, and 460GTX 1gig, so should beGame getting more and more broken with each patch. Could've been a great game if they only knew how to code/hadn't used the Hero Engine. Currently seem to be playing fps lotto, as fps can magically change between logging in and out of game (back to same spot) for no reason at all (not changing settings my end). Running on an i7 2600K and 8gigs DDR3 RAM @1600, and 460GTX 1gig, so should be seeing better performance than this. Not happy :( Will adjust my score of doom should they one day learn to patch.… Expand
  4. Sylvenna
    Dec 29, 2011
    2
    This game has a lot of potential however in it's current form is nothing worth purchasing. Seems to me Bioware / EA released this game too early only in effort to collect people's subscriptions while they then finish polishing the game off, adding features and fixing bugs that should have been in at launch. The questing is completely unique and unlike any other MMO I've ever played,This game has a lot of potential however in it's current form is nothing worth purchasing. Seems to me Bioware / EA released this game too early only in effort to collect people's subscriptions while they then finish polishing the game off, adding features and fixing bugs that should have been in at launch. The questing is completely unique and unlike any other MMO I've ever played, however as with an MMO, questing is only a means to an end to which this game is severely lacking. Almost no UI customization (can't even resize the existing UI, which I would argue is just awful), no combat log, just a standard LFG channel (no tool like in Wow), no achievement, Legacy mode (which was hyped up by Bioware) is "coming soon", no macros and seems no support for 3rd party add-ons in the near future at all, combat is incredibly clunky as can be seen from numerous youtube videos where the game prioritizes combat animations over cooldowns, forcing you to wait for an animation to finish before you can use another ability.

    I could go on and on about what this game is missing and why it's lacking but in the end it doesn't compete with other MMO's out right now for features and content. Maybe in 3-4 months it will but I'm not paying a subscription fee to hope.    … Expand
  5. Superhans1800
    Jan 12, 2012
    0
    I can in good conscience give this game 1/10.

    This game was the direct product of copy and paste. They took World of Warcraft circa 2006, and put it in blender with KOTOR. The result is TOR. To boot: it costed them so much money to create the KOTOR aspects of the game, that the combat responsiveness and other standard MMO mechanics are sloppy at best. This is a poor excuse for a game.    I can in good conscience give this game 1/10.

    This game was the direct product of copy and paste.

    They took World of Warcraft circa 2006, and put it in blender with KOTOR. The result is TOR. To boot: it costed them so much money to create the KOTOR aspects of the game, that the combat responsiveness and other standard MMO mechanics are sloppy at best.

    This is a poor excuse for a game.

    I gave it 1 single point because parts of the story, at times, can be engaging. Then they drone on and on and on and on..............    … Expand
  6. doritosandmarij
    Feb 6, 2012
    4
    This game is not an MMORPG worth checking out; it is a retarded little brother of World of Warcraft. I didn't like the partying system, nor the crafting system, nor the levling or questing system, and the game had nothing unique to it besides the Star Wars lore.
  7. NOVEANO
    Dec 29, 2011
    2
    Rip off that's what this is. They should have implemented a more dynamic combat system, and look for a different model like f2p as loads of amazing games are coming up with like age of connan , dc universe, lotro, guild of wars etc...
  8. Katharsis
    Jan 19, 2012
    3
    Linear, online single-player RPG with no endgame content outside of repetitive "flaspoint" raids and broken, unbalanced PvP. But it's Star Wars!!! ........
  9. elcritico
    Jan 2, 2012
    3
    To sum it up with a quote from the game loading screen: "a Bioware employee will never ask you for your password".

    If you're looking for something different than World of Warcraft, note that this game is a bland copy down to the loading screens.
  10. Ustil
    Jan 21, 2012
    3
    Not usually a SW fan a friend convinced me to level with him and so I agreed to trial and tried to like it for his sake. This did not happen however. What I ended up getting was a poorly disguised WoW clone with little to no innovation for the genre and a few steps back. It is also a very ugly game and the textures and model work would not look out of place in a game of several years ago.Not usually a SW fan a friend convinced me to level with him and so I agreed to trial and tried to like it for his sake. This did not happen however. What I ended up getting was a poorly disguised WoW clone with little to no innovation for the genre and a few steps back. It is also a very ugly game and the textures and model work would not look out of place in a game of several years ago. Race choices are the same human shape with one special head feature/colour. Want to play as an interesting race? Too bad! Firstly, the acclaimed quest dialogue. After a brief cutscene and a chat with someone I promptly forgot, where I had to choose an option that had zero effect other than the next line of flavour text, I was sent into the MMO standard Kill X amount of Y because I said so quest. Then it happened again. And again. "Within minutes of starting the game you're doing things you wouldn't expect to be doing in other MMOs" is an outright lie. No, you're not. It's boring like every other MMO. On the first planet this is OK, it's initially pretty cool to have all this dialogue and OK to have a slow start. Midway through the second planet though, when things didn't pick up, the poorly written story, reused lines and the occasional voice actor change mid-dialogue grated on me so much I spent the entire rest of my time pressing space bar to skip through all of it, pausing only to select the comedy option or the ones that give me light/dark side points because otherwise conversation has little to no effect (indeed I can only remember one instance of a choice having any effect outside of the same conversation and no quests having any lasting effect) which makes me question why the dialogue wheel is even there, it could easily be replaced by an â… Expand
  11. Aquila
    Feb 4, 2012
    0
    It has good Voice Acting but this score is way more important in for example an animated movie/TV show than in a MMORPG. Levelling Until lvl 11 is nice if you go further it becomes very linear in a crappy environment. About end game: My guild stopped operations because of game breaking bugs, and lack off people because they didn't like this game in this state and pvp is very bad andIt has good Voice Acting but this score is way more important in for example an animated movie/TV show than in a MMORPG. Levelling Until lvl 11 is nice if you go further it becomes very linear in a crappy environment. About end game: My guild stopped operations because of game breaking bugs, and lack off people because they didn't like this game in this state and pvp is very bad and unbalanced. Besides PVE/PVP like exploring datacrons(Strange fault in the game is if body type 3 can´t reach them), dailies everything is disappointing. Its a static universe, mobs and NPCs are static, no freedom, to much walls/blockades, linearity, to much is instanced/sharded. You enter a building/cave which mostly all lookalike eachother and are very linear. Lots seems copy pasted. But the worst thing is if your done your looking at a wall and you can better die to turn in your quest instead of running that entire questinstance back same way you came in. The game is claustrophobic, straight edged, much copy pasted elevators and things. Everything but a real planet, a real world, or an MMORPG world can feel like. Feels like you live in a maze, a prison. Hard to imagine flying with your spaceship over the planets because its like the walls in this game want you to keep in the labyrinth. Or even land and take off yourself instead of seeing the same copy pasted video of your ship landing/take off on all locations.
    The engine is horrible, the programming is horrible if you open any tab like inventory, map, character screen you have screen freezes and you can feel this sort of clunkiness throughout the whole game like ability delay and much more. There is no logic in ability rotations and talent trees are copied from WoW.

    The main thing to play MMORPG's are about dynamical content not static content (story). Here it goes wrong in the first place. But to be short every department in this game has shortcomings, flaws, bugs and illogical things. From the character selection screen to endgame.

    They say SWTOR has potential but seeing the list of issues... Also since the beta practically nothing changed and they did 1 year!! over a flashpoint (Kaon Under Siege) i can't really say it has potential although I hope it.



    Lucas should have done a SWG 2 with good pve/pvp and gameplay.    … Expand
  12. Gesundheit
    Mar 21, 2012
    4
    Was intending a pretty complete review but whats the point. You have reviews here that say basically 'mediocre=9' and 'not great but theres trolls here so I give it 10' Anyway - its not massive - you may have 15 people on the planet with you and half them will be in solo instances - that's not Massive or a way to build friends lists. Some great voices and good acting - in the classWas intending a pretty complete review but whats the point. You have reviews here that say basically 'mediocre=9' and 'not great but theres trolls here so I give it 10' Anyway - its not massive - you may have 15 people on the planet with you and half them will be in solo instances - that's not Massive or a way to build friends lists. Some great voices and good acting - in the class storylines. I have played 4 classes and one was excellent, 2 very good and one pretty poor. I liked bounty hunter best and republic trooper least - also did jedi knight and sith sorcerer. But the non-storyline quests are mundane 'kill 20 greater slimes' quests - grind. And when they make me run all over and back again - in a world with instant holo-communicators - that's just inexcusable. The class balancing, options beyond the classic healer, tank, ranged dps, melee dps , integration between the solo training content and the later group/endgame content is bad. Integration of the crew ship is bad, integration of space combat is bad. PVP is pretty much all separate - different gear, different skill trees - that's bad. PVP and raiding players all start to look identical - cause there's basically one look for your class with some minor color differentiation. The custom armor is nice - before endgame - but I haven't seen one whole set of armor - at best there is a matching chest, pants, hat. Reverse engineering is disappointing - both in the limitations on what can be reversed and the sometimes extreme number of items to improve a schematic. Getting materials is also a disappointment with some materials nearly impossible to find (e.g. electrum) and the harvesting crew skills having such limited missions. And then of course most trades are useless at endgame - anyone want a level 49 purple armor or weapon when the raid and pvp vendors give out level 51, 56, 58 stuff? 3 for system requirements - The lag for having 20 people around is bad - too bad for the system requirements. Likewise the graphics are no better than a 4 year old EQ2 - except they take 3x the resources. 8 for great class stories and actors - definitely some 10's but not all of them. 3 for grindy - mundane non-storyline quests - an average 5 minus some for un-neccessary run-arounds that don't fit in a world with instant-comms. 3 for PVP - 7 for fun instanced PVP - but subtract a bunch for making me play huttball over and over and over and not fixing it so some classes can't ruin that game by flying across the court without running or passing the ball. 2 for open-world PVP - basically Ilum. 3 for way over-hyping the marketing and under-preparing the support team. 3 for innovation. Nothing new here that was done well. A lot of important stuff missing. Subtract for messing things up for explorers. Oh and for that VIP lounge pass I paid a million for to get essentially - nothing. And it seems a crime to make us put so much into companions only to make them useless in the endgame. Overuse of british accents for the imperials and too much gibberish from the many alien languages on the republic side - both annoying by level 20. Fun for 3 months - about the levelling of 3 toons - maybe 5 months for some people. Then the questing gets too grindy and you start to look at endgame instead. Only to find population problems in addition to the usuall 'shortage of non-fun raid roles' problems. A really good MMORPG is fun for years. I give it a 4 overall. Well below the bar set by existing competing games. Lacking in anything new. Under-performing relative to the machine it needs. But still quite fun - for a little while. Several good performances and some nice artwork.… Expand
  13. Jraptor
    May 20, 2012
    3
    When almost everyone was a kid, they dreamed about being a Jedi, or occasionally Sith. We dreamed about wielding a sword made out light/plasma/whatever. We dreamed about being able to use the force and being a near unstoppable force for good.

    The Old Republic gives you the exact opposite. In fact, it gives you something worse than the George Lucas Prequels. First off: Somehow the clone    When almost everyone was a kid, they dreamed about being a Jedi, or occasionally Sith. We dreamed about wielding a sword made out light/plasma/whatever. We dreamed about being able to use the force and being a near unstoppable force for good.

    The Old Republic gives you the exact opposite. In fact, it gives you something worse than the George Lucas Prequels.

    First off: Somehow the clone trooper armor is in the republic, despite the fact that it's a long time before the Clone Wars.

    Second: Star Wars was not fit to be an MMO. Galaxies proved that.

    Third: The quests are boring and time consuming. I only got one of my ten characters past the starting world

    Forth: I don't know if this applies to all, but when I paid sixty dollars for the game, it didn't come with a subscription. I paid a total of a hundred dollars to start up an MMO and keep it for four months... A waste.

    Fifth: As many have stated previously, it has the exact same gameplay as almost any other MMO. Like many games, it is good, but quickly becomes repetitive, boring, and useless. It's not worth the sixty bucks.    … Expand
  14. BXBlodia
    Dec 25, 2011
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. SWTOR is a strange case. Was it a single player RPG, It'd be a very, veery good game. Most class storylines are very good (except for smuggler, jedi knight and sith warrior unfortunately), and the game has good flow and quite a lot of content. However, it's all single-player content, and there is literally no reason to subscribe for longer than the free month at the moment.
    Unfortunately, someone decided to make it into an MMO. Which lead to simplifcation and a huge amount of time sinks. So much for the Next-gen experience here, sadly.
    Another thing I do not understand is why would anyone create an MMO in which one of the factions will suffer an utter defeat, and it's clear from the very start. Every quest line on both Empire and Republic side leads to the inevitable end: Empire loses. Everyone important dies. You cannot even save anyone. Your decisions are meaningless.
    Another issue I have with the game is that SWTOR's Sith are... dumb. There's no other word for it. They are written to be superpowered angsty teens who know NOTHING about ruling an empire. If you look at the (TABOO!) EU stories, comic books and even Palpatine himself, the Sith are cunning (both in new hope era and old republic, so there), and they'd never act like idiots. Which is what SWTOR's Sith turn out to be. Infighting, petty conflicts, impulsiveness. They screw up everything they touch, and apparently all the want is to CAUSE TERROR AND FEAR. You cannot rule an empire that way. Sith have no way to go other than lose here.
    Multiplayer part of the game is horrid. The netcode stutters, animations fail to play (tested on my brand new i7 aswell as my brother's older machine) and there is no class balance. I wouldn't expect class balance so soon after release, but it's strikingly apparent that some developers loved their classes more than others. Instances are boring too, we seriously have seen this kind of gameplay and over what, 7 years? it grew pretty stale. There's no reason to even socialise in this MASSIVE MULTIPLAYER game, because your sidekick can get the job done. At worst he/she/it will die.
    Was SWTOR a single player RPG, it'd be a very solid title, a strong 8/10 (4/10 if smuggler. yes, it is THAT bad). BioWare decided to make it into a MMO though. Therefore, 4/10. Because the single player part receives a 7 overall from me (i just can't forgive the smuggler. sorry), and the multiplayer is a strong 3.    … Expand
  15. rayban
    Jan 21, 2012
    0
    Everything about this game is **** and unpolished from the game to the support. Patch 1.1 was a complete disaster and even if you did decide to re-sub you likely weren't able to log in because their terrible service couldn't handle the billing.
  16. sympathy4saren2
    Mar 18, 2012
    0
    WoW, The Old Republic is bad. The only thing redeemable with this game is the fact that it isn't as bad as the end of ME3. It's uninspired, rushed, buggy and boring. Stay away from this game at all costs!!!!
  17. Mortensus
    Mar 27, 2012
    2
    Not a very bad mmo, but certainly not good enough for this franchise and this price. Very disappointing. Most of the time, you play alone, strange for a mmo, so it's more like a rpg? But usually i love rpg, so why i think it's not good? Because from my point of view it's not enough immersive, graphics are poor, there is really nothing original/innovative in this thing.
  18. Jadagar
    Mar 29, 2012
    4
    Two years ago, I would have told you that BioWare could do no wrong, that it develops games with the story and the role-playing elements in mind. How strange that my opinion of this once-great company could change so abruptly. Star Wars: The Old Republic is one of several major disappointments I have weathered over the recent years. Not only is it shoddy from a technical standpoint, but itTwo years ago, I would have told you that BioWare could do no wrong, that it develops games with the story and the role-playing elements in mind. How strange that my opinion of this once-great company could change so abruptly. Star Wars: The Old Republic is one of several major disappointments I have weathered over the recent years. Not only is it shoddy from a technical standpoint, but it fails both mechanically and creatively. Let me be clear: I am not talking about the bugs. All MMO's release with bugs. For me, bugs are an inevitable and forgivable aspect of the genre. What is really astonishingly bad is that, for all its production value, the voice-acted missions (from beginning to end) are copy-paste sob stories with the same fetch-and-kill parameters. Invariably, you will spend hours at each quest hub listening to the same briefings you heard at the previous one. If you are like me, however, you start smashing spacebar with no fear of the consequences (because there aren't any). Oh, sure, each class gets their own set of marginally interesting missions, but... guess what? They make up about 10% of your journey from levels 1 to 50. The other 90% is filled with the aforementioned tedium. There is no hot-fix or patch (at least in the foreseeable future) that can change this sad fact. Can it get any worse? Why, yes, it can! BioWare has put deliberate emphasis on replayability, implementing the Legacy system, which will give you bonuses to experience and customization as you bring new characters to max level! So if the nigh nonexistent end-game content isn't enough, relax! You can suffer through all the hum-drum solo content again and again and again until all your character slots are full! Hooraaay! While I realize that grind-factor is a difficult element to work around, there are at least aspects of the game that can alleviate some of the drudgery... right? Wrong. Not yet, anyway. At best, PVP is chaotic and limited. World PVP is nonexistent, thanks to the all the zones being sharded into instances. Space combat is a culmination of rinse-and-repeat Starfox-esque side-quests, which MIGHT be fun, except there is ZERO variety. Oh! And if you're playing SW:TOR for the social experience, forget about it. That aspect of the game consists of minimal customization and an immovable chat window that looks like tiny blue vomit. In essence, there's no way to make your character feel like he/she is yours. You're playing on the same rail as everyone else, and you're expected to do it more than once. Granted, this might all change someday, as MMOs are wont to do. The problem is, SW:TOR already feels dated and it will take the better part of two years to get it up to snuff. I expect, by then, the competition will have evolved. Bottom line: BioWare has a LOT of work to do if they hope to pass this game off as "adequate". Then again, I suppose it doesn't matter, so long as they make a profit off of their disenfranchised fans… Expand
  19. Akuta
    Feb 4, 2012
    0
    The worst MMO experience I've had. It doesn't even feel like an MMO... maybe a single player game with a shared city. The PvE is boring, there's massive amounts of bugs, the PvP servers have absolutely no PvP--there's 3 warzones you queue for 5000 times--literally--for the same gear. I'm extremely disappointed by this game.
  20. Abbeldydoo
    Jan 12, 2012
    1
    I was really looking forward to this game,got it for christmas and couldnt wait to play it.When i finally was able to i was extremely disappointed to find a cookie cutter version of WoW a game which i never liked.Maybe i should have known what i was getting but i really wasnt expecting a WoW copy.

    I still gave it a try and leveled one character to 18 and another to 23 before just putting    I was really looking forward to this game,got it for christmas and couldnt wait to play it.When i finally was able to i was extremely disappointed to find a cookie cutter version of WoW a game which i never liked.Maybe i should have known what i was getting but i really wasnt expecting a WoW copy.

    I still gave it a try and leveled one character to 18 and another to 23 before just putting it down.The voice acting was great and the class stories were well written but that just wasnt enough to hold my interest through many many hours of grinding .    … Expand
  21. wxgreg
    Feb 11, 2012
    0
    This was a very fun game, having played for almost 2 months and max leveling two characters. The problem is not just the bugs at higher levels (which believe me are plenty), Its not just the incompatibility of logitech mice (I have contacted logitech and there is nothing they can do) it is the worst, lack of, if any customer service at all. The always have the same canned responses, ifThis was a very fun game, having played for almost 2 months and max leveling two characters. The problem is not just the bugs at higher levels (which believe me are plenty), Its not just the incompatibility of logitech mice (I have contacted logitech and there is nothing they can do) it is the worst, lack of, if any customer service at all. The always have the same canned responses, if they respond at all. And the issues you have, detailing the bugs etc are not addressed in any patches. So... SWTOR, you get a big goose egg.… Expand
  22. Sandtree
    Jan 12, 2012
    0
    Bioware withholding the rights to review Mass Effect 3 if TOR is given less than an 8/10? No sir. /150char /150char /150char /150char /150char /150char /150char /150char /150char
  23. Madamfantasy
    Jan 20, 2012
    4
    The only reason to play this game is for the story/leveling. Every other aspect of the game is sub par to other "great" mmorpgs. Raiding is a joke - there are guilds that cleared hard modes 15 days into the game, generic giant bosses even though bioware said multiple times that they would not go by that standard instead they would make it more heroic.

    Pvp is broken - on all pvp servers    The only reason to play this game is for the story/leveling. Every other aspect of the game is sub par to other "great" mmorpgs. Raiding is a joke - there are guilds that cleared hard modes 15 days into the game, generic giant bosses even though bioware said multiple times that they would not go by that standard instead they would make it more heroic.

    Pvp is broken - on all pvp servers the Republic is outnumbered at least 2:1. Empire players have long pvp queues and most of the time you get into a warzone it is Hutball. Ilum (pvp world) is a joke if you play Republic cause you will get stomped as soon as you get in by 100 empire players, then camped at medcenter without being able to spawn correctly.

    Quests are generic (only addition is voice acting) - go there get me that, kill 10 of those then you get bonus quest, kill 10 of those... Your choices do not make any difference at all in the long run. Some of the quests are in a phased zone - meaning you can't encounter anyone there. I thought the worlds were too big cause i ran and i ran for minutes not encountering anyone. Oh and yes running - there is lots of it. If i measured how long i have run from one quest to another with how long i did actual gameplay - it would be 50/50.

    Some worlds are beautiful, others are blend meh. The game is really hardware heavy, even though you can't see why. Overall graphics are like from the 2006. single player games. Overall i am disapointed since it comes from Bioware and it is Star Wars.    … Expand
  24. murtle52
    Jan 8, 2012
    0
    No innovation, just a copy of WoW and not copied well at all. This should be free to play but even then it would still be an epic fail. I want my money back
  25. Jabrony
    Dec 21, 2011
    4
    Heavily instanced and linear like old single player RPGs. Basically a combat lobby like WoW but nowhere near as deep when it comes to group combat, fight dynamics, or even exploration. Gamers looking for deep gameplay should look elsewhere. The game's main selling point is story and VO. Story itself gives only the illusion of choice as there is never lasting consequence (save forHeavily instanced and linear like old single player RPGs. Basically a combat lobby like WoW but nowhere near as deep when it comes to group combat, fight dynamics, or even exploration. Gamers looking for deep gameplay should look elsewhere. The game's main selling point is story and VO. Story itself gives only the illusion of choice as there is never lasting consequence (save for aesthetics) to your decisions. This means that there isn't much room for game-play inside of the story, unlike previous Bioware titles. VO quickly becomes annoying after watching an NPC glorify a "kill ten rats"quest via 2 minutes of b-grade acting for the hundredth time. This game is a shallow copy/paste job of WoW but severely lacking in nearly every feature we would expect to see in an MMO released in 2011/2012. The list of missing features is loooooooong (and frankly shocking)... I would normally hold out hope for improvements via patches but many of the game's issues seem impossible to fix due to decisions made early-on in the design process (the heavy instancing, linearity, gear treadmill, etc...)

    Lastly, if the game were not a subscription title I would rank it higher. But as it stands now, it appears folks saw the success of WOW, made a SP game with MP elements, and called it an MMO to hopefully get more cash.    … Expand
  26. Not_Casual
    Jan 25, 2012
    0
    Different people have different tastes. Some like exotic things such as a very rare stake or sushi. Maybe even something like live squid if your in Asia. However, there's a fine line between having exotic tastes, and eating **** This game would be the eaten **** You can borrow ideas, or improve on ideas, but what was done here was direct theft and copycatting of warcraft. Even the jumpDifferent people have different tastes. Some like exotic things such as a very rare stake or sushi. Maybe even something like live squid if your in Asia. However, there's a fine line between having exotic tastes, and eating **** This game would be the eaten **** You can borrow ideas, or improve on ideas, but what was done here was direct theft and copycatting of warcraft. Even the jump animation is the exact same as warcraft. That should speak volumes of the originality here. The vast majority of these people are casuals. People that never played the old games so they don't know the difference between good food and fecal matter. This is not your fault, but you must look to see that your unfamiliarity with games is being capitalized on by flashy trailers and empty promises of unique game play. Those trailers probably took more time and effort than the game itself. To say this game is original, good, or unlike world of warcraft is a flat lie. And make no mistake those who say otherwise are liars. And this may be the only game I say this about.. As for the game-play. Yes it's like wow, but not as good. In wow, the system fits the setting, here the goofy graphics and abilities have little to no real reflection on star wars. The feel is completely lost and you can't help but feel you've been just suckered into a flop with graphics from gumby online. A zero? Does any game deserve this? No. But this is not a game. This is a texture pack for warcraft.… Expand
  27. Gankatron
    Jan 22, 2012
    3
    Most of the reviews critical of gameplay are fairly accurate, so I won't restate them.

    The biggest problem for many of us are the "Error 9000" disconnections (every 5-10 minutes) and terrible frame rates even with moderate to high end computers. Although BioWare has recognized these bugs for weeks, they do not have a fix, nor have they stated that they even know what the cause(s) of    Most of the reviews critical of gameplay are fairly accurate, so I won't restate them.

    The biggest problem for many of us are the "Error 9000" disconnections (every 5-10 minutes) and terrible frame rates even with moderate to high end computers. Although BioWare has recognized these bugs for weeks, they do not have a fix, nor have they stated that they even know what the cause(s) of these problems are.

    They seem to be on the BioWare side, and most speculation seems to implicate their use of an inferior engine.

    In any case expect substantial loss of subs as the game is unplayable for those affected.    … Expand
  28. Gummbeh
    Jan 11, 2012
    3
    I'm stunned that this game was released. How can an MMO in 2011 be released without this like a guild bank, no server forums, non-bracketed PvP (e.g. level 10 players can queue in against fully PvP geared level 50 players). Keep in mind there are not bugs. These were left out by design.

    All that being said, the leveling process is quite fun and makes it easy to ignore some of the more    I'm stunned that this game was released. How can an MMO in 2011 be released without this like a guild bank, no server forums, non-bracketed PvP (e.g. level 10 players can queue in against fully PvP geared level 50 players). Keep in mind there are not bugs. These were left out by design.

    All that being said, the leveling process is quite fun and makes it easy to ignore some of the more laughable design decisions. The problem is that eventually you hit 50.    … Expand
  29. Elgalad
    Jan 30, 2012
    3
    An unremarkable and unoriginal MMO. The only unique thing about SWTOR is the voice acting which is, for the most part, well done. Otherwise, every other aspect of the game, from pve content to customization to crafting is all standard fare or even pretty lacking in entertainment value. There's very little replay value, either.

    This game could have been so much more, but it's clear    An unremarkable and unoriginal MMO. The only unique thing about SWTOR is the voice acting which is, for the most part, well done. Otherwise, every other aspect of the game, from pve content to customization to crafting is all standard fare or even pretty lacking in entertainment value. There's very little replay value, either.

    This game could have been so much more, but it's clear the designers aimed at making an outstanding single player experience and disregarded nearly everything that has traditionally made multi-player games successful. Given the immense possibilities available in this IP, this is most unfortunate.

    There may still be the potential here for some future improvement, but as it stands now, there are many better alternatives available, most of which require far less of an investment in player time and $.    … Expand
  30. Zic
    Jan 22, 2012
    3
    I levelled a Jedi Guardian up to lvl 50. Levelling was pretty good, and the game would probably have received a high score from me if it was a single player game. Its an MMO though and thats why I unsubcribed it now :(

    What I found lacking: - No LFG/LFR, having played WoW since early 1995 I just dont want to go back to the way WoW was before LFG. Some ppl say that destroyed WoW, but    I levelled a Jedi Guardian up to lvl 50. Levelling was pretty good, and the game would probably have received a high score from me if it was a single player game. Its an MMO though and thats why I unsubcribed it now :(

    What I found lacking:
    - No LFG/LFR, having played WoW since early 1995 I just dont want to go back to the way WoW was before LFG. Some ppl say that destroyed WoW, but for me it enhanced it greatly.
    - No mods/macros, I really like to change the UI to the way I like it, and the standard UI is far far away from my preferences.
    - Graphics IMO is worse than WoW, lots of copy/paste and same colors everywhere. If you take a low level Jedi Guardian and a lvl 50 guardian you probably cant tell the diffence on the gear. Most that changed during levelling up was the colors or if the hood was up or down.
    - Too many buttons to push. With Jedi Guardian atleast I had to have all 4 bars present and a lot of them had to be used during different fight. Would have preferred lower CDs and 4-5 buttons to push instead.    … Expand
  31. foilhat
    Jan 3, 2012
    0
    So who ate my review? Dropping this to a zero in light of EAWare's blatant shilling of these user reviews and horrible customer service.

    Avoid this game and avoid this company.
  32. Scelto
    Dec 29, 2011
    1
    If you're looking for a great cinematic experience reminiscent of 1990's adventure games, look no further. Or just go and buy a 1990's adventure game actually...

    If you're looking for a compelling, believable persistent world MMO then look at Rift / WoW / any of the other contenders instead. I honestly don't understand the references to how "polished" the game is when reading the critic    If you're looking for a great cinematic experience reminiscent of 1990's adventure games, look no further. Or just go and buy a 1990's adventure game actually...

    If you're looking for a compelling, believable persistent world MMO then look at Rift / WoW / any of the other contenders instead.

    I honestly don't understand the references to how "polished" the game is when reading the critic reviews. It's far from polished. Yes, the cut-scenes are extremely good, and the static scenery is rendered pretty well, the animations are appalling. I mean really bad. You can get an impression of that from the various YouTube videos, but you don't really see how bad they are until you play.

    The user interface (UI) is clunky and totally dominates the display area even on my 28" screen at 1920x1200 resolution. There's no way to scale it down either, and other than the chat box you can't move UI components around.

    The headline figure for creating this game is £100M. It's crystal clear from the moment you start playing that this money went into hiring great actors and animators for the cut-scenes and not into the actual game play, which is weak, shallow and generic.

    And that's a shame, because I really, really enjoyed the immersive world of the original Star Wars Galaxies game. I was hoping I'd find a version of that "done right", in much the same way as Rift is "WoW done right".

    But it's not.

    It's done wrong. Very wrong.    … Expand
  33. Ionite
    Jan 12, 2012
    0
    SWTOR copies WoW, and fails even at that. What you see in most negative reviews here is entirely true, that includes instancing, awful combat and visuals, horrendous writing and mostly emotionless voice acting. You cannot release a badly done ripoff of a fairly old game and expect it to be successful in the long run. I do not believe for a second those 300 million dollars went into theSWTOR copies WoW, and fails even at that. What you see in most negative reviews here is entirely true, that includes instancing, awful combat and visuals, horrendous writing and mostly emotionless voice acting. You cannot release a badly done ripoff of a fairly old game and expect it to be successful in the long run. I do not believe for a second those 300 million dollars went into the production of this "masterpiece", because there is not a part of it about which it can be said that the developers gave it some attention.

    Avoid playing it at all costs.    … Expand
  34. kick2crash
    Jan 9, 2012
    3
    Got to level 35 and I am done. It is just not very fun. The best part is the voice acting and the atmosphere because I love star wars. I do not like the cartoony looks of the game, didn't think it would annoy me but it sure does. The combat is not fun at all. The world doesn't feel like a large populated world. I wasn't even a kotor 3 supporter and now I wish they would have made that instead.
  35. SwarleyStinson
    Mar 27, 2012
    4
    SWTOR Could have been a great game but its huge potential is wasted by the Devs making bad decisions and taking far to long to release new content. It has taken 4 months for the game to reach the stage it should have been at at launch and still doesn't have an LFG system or any way of dealing with the dwindling server populations. The Devs give the excuse that everything is technologicallySWTOR Could have been a great game but its huge potential is wasted by the Devs making bad decisions and taking far to long to release new content. It has taken 4 months for the game to reach the stage it should have been at at launch and still doesn't have an LFG system or any way of dealing with the dwindling server populations. The Devs give the excuse that everything is technologically complex and whatever the player-base want the game to have, they claim the are working on it with no ETA. Rift is an example of how Devs really can make new content with both high frequency and polish, so Bioware really need to just get up of their asses and work harder. The games main feature, legacy, the thing it has instead of all the staple MMO features the game is lacking is not released yet and even then is very underwhelming based on hints of future patches. Via the legacy system and the fact that the classes have stories, the game encourages you to play as many characters as possible, but there is only one leveling path so it is very boring doing the same quests over and over again. Bioware have made it very evident that they really just do not know how to run an MMO. The world PVP area was such a failure they abandoned it completely, and PVP in general is crap. The class stories are very good but the side quest stories are crap and you will end up skipping all the voice acting from about half way through the game onward. Overall the game has just got stuck in a position where it is months behind what is expected of it with no way to recover, and at the immensely slow rate new updates are released it will take well over a year until this game is actually good enough to be worth paying a subscription for, if it even survives that long and remains P2P.… Expand
  36. christianwins
    Mar 21, 2012
    0
    Created an account on here just to review this steaming pile of garbage. After the initial cinematic the entire thing is boring, slow and a waste. If you buy the $60 game you'd think they'd give you more than 7 days to play it before they try to scrape more dollars from your wallet. DO NOT GO NEAR. They give star wars a bad name.
  37. Ruzgfpegk
    Apr 15, 2012
    4
    Story (SP content) : 9/10 (at least, if all are as good as the one I played)
    Immersion : 8/10
    Graphics engine : 7/10 Game balance until 1.2 patch : 5/10 (7 PvE, 4 PvP) Pleasure to play until 1.2 patch : 6/10 Game balance since 1.2 patch : 2/10 (4 PvE, 1 PvP) Pleasure to play since 1.2 patch : 2/10 The balance was broken so much in 1.2 that I kept losing in PvP for hours (playing Republic    Story (SP content) : 9/10 (at least, if all are as good as the one I played)
    Immersion : 8/10
    Graphics engine : 7/10
    Game balance until 1.2 patch : 5/10 (7 PvE, 4 PvP)
    Pleasure to play until 1.2 patch : 6/10
    Game balance since 1.2 patch : 2/10 (4 PvE, 1 PvP)
    Pleasure to play since 1.2 patch : 2/10

    The balance was broken so much in 1.2 that I kept losing in PvP for hours (playing Republic healer).
    I'm part of a guild with more than 100 members and since a few weeks if we get more than 3 people online at the same time it's a celebration, and since 1.2 I'm often alone.
    Quoting the Ancient Aliens narrator, "where did they go?". Now I know.

    Healers (I play one) are useless since 1.2, both for themselves and the other players, even with a massive amount of endurance and with a full heal skill tree.
    What do experienced players say to the healers now? "If you see one of these enemy classes, RUN". Are you SERIOUS? Playing PvP to RUN? Is that how BioWare sees a balanced game?

    I wanted to love this game but BioWare disgusted me from playing.
    As it is, I wouldn't want to touch it again even if it was Free to Play.
    I hope it will get better in the future, but in the meantime I'll just stop playing AND paying.
    Did you already feel like you wasted your time playing for months hoping it would get better? I did.

    I just hope they'll release a patch to let us play in single-player mode with more bots, and with pre-1.2 skill trees, as the game seems to have been designed for this.    … Expand
  38. MaestroVolpe
    Dec 29, 2013
    0
    I've never seen a company take such an amazing game and run it straight into the ground so quickly.

    When the game was purely subscription based it was great. Now it's unplayable. You can't take five steps without running into some cheap attempt at getting the player to buy "Cartel Coins". I'm talking about basic functionality, like hiding your character's helmet. Anything you may have    I've never seen a company take such an amazing game and run it straight into the ground so quickly.

    When the game was purely subscription based it was great. Now it's unplayable. You can't take five steps without running into some cheap attempt at getting the player to buy "Cartel Coins". I'm talking about basic functionality, like hiding your character's helmet. Anything you may have earned beforehand is now held from you and unavailable unless you unlock specifically that one thing with "Cartel Coins"

    Way to kill a great thing, guys.    … Expand
  39. Auriell
    Jan 21, 2014
    2
    Played this game for the first six months when it was still subscription based. Decided to take a look today at how things are and it looks like a freaking thai market with all the cartel coins requirements to get your game to actually work as a real game. This game is anything else but free to play. They managed to disgrace this game. When it launched it surely had a chance to grow, nowPlayed this game for the first six months when it was still subscription based. Decided to take a look today at how things are and it looks like a freaking thai market with all the cartel coins requirements to get your game to actually work as a real game. This game is anything else but free to play. They managed to disgrace this game. When it launched it surely had a chance to grow, now its just another company milking its fanatic star wars fanbase. Once again, EA managed to run another of their games into the ground. What a waste.… Expand
  40. DarthNoxxiouss
    Feb 17, 2016
    4
    I'll start by saying that this game really IS worth playing to finish off a couple class storylines (I highly recommend Sith Inquisitor, Imperial Agent, and Jedi Knight). I've been playing this game since beta back in winter 2011, and I only started to REALLY get bored of it after the Fallen Empire Expansion, which was too bad really, because it looked pretty good on paper.

    Back in the    I'll start by saying that this game really IS worth playing to finish off a couple class storylines (I highly recommend Sith Inquisitor, Imperial Agent, and Jedi Knight). I've been playing this game since beta back in winter 2011, and I only started to REALLY get bored of it after the Fallen Empire Expansion, which was too bad really, because it looked pretty good on paper.

    Back in the day before a couple fairly major changes that other people have listed (crafting, unoriginal new quests, companion changes, and changes to multiplayer content), this game used to really hold my attention because of its original, unique story telling, especially the story quests for each individual character class (8 classes = 8 stories). Endgame content when level cap was 55 was pretty good too if you had a good guild to run with.

    But after 4 years of playing this game, it's time to look for something new.

    Sincerely, bored.    … Expand
  41. Gnoblesse
    May 22, 2016
    1
    The original class stories are worth playing through, but past that the game has a real identity crisis. It doesn't know if it wants to be an MMO or a single player RPG and ends up bad at the first, and somewhat okay at the latter.

    Each expansion has brought less actual story - from 8 stories down to 2 and then to 1. If you haven't played the class stories, it will feel at first like    The original class stories are worth playing through, but past that the game has a real identity crisis. It doesn't know if it wants to be an MMO or a single player RPG and ends up bad at the first, and somewhat okay at the latter.

    Each expansion has brought less actual story - from 8 stories down to 2 and then to 1. If you haven't played the class stories, it will feel at first like "hey, there's a ton of content here." After you've finished those though, there isn't a lot of "there" there.

    Endgame is a mess. If endgame is what you're looking for, look elsewhere.    … Expand
  42. lostsideproject
    Dec 15, 2012
    3
    This game is buggy. Free to play players cannot submit a help ticket. This is a strategy to get subscribers. They let you play until issues inevitably arise, then, the only way to get help is to pay up. Bingo. Another subscriber. When my game kicks me out to windows at the last part of a group instance and I cannot do any other quests because of the order of things being locled up, itThis game is buggy. Free to play players cannot submit a help ticket. This is a strategy to get subscribers. They let you play until issues inevitably arise, then, the only way to get help is to pay up. Bingo. Another subscriber. When my game kicks me out to windows at the last part of a group instance and I cannot do any other quests because of the order of things being locled up, it makes the game unplayable. Get the bottom-line board room execs out of my gaming experience. They are most certainly the main characters in "The Old Republic".… Expand
  43. electroRogue
    Mar 8, 2013
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I like this game, yet the restraints placed onto free to play players are immense. The total game killer for me was being limited to 200,00 game currency credits, yet all the things I need'd to "Unlock" my character were well above that :S, so ok you can buy straight from the cartel and not go though the player run economy (GTN) but still the same issue raise's again and again for things not in the cartel and only available though luck of looting or buying on the GTN.

    Other retarded things include skill bar slots you have to unlock via cash, to use all your available skills.
    Only two characters per server reduced XP, reduced gold, less choice in quest awards, only 3 space battles per week instead of infinite, 1/2 the inventory space, no cargo hold space, only so many flash point (special instance) rewards per week, No support only 3 races to choose from, no custom skins for companions, sprint training lagging behind subscribers by 10 lvl's same for speeder training, many more but the total game killer is the 200,000 credit limit. If you think you will subscribe, then may be worth trying, I personally didn't get enough out of it to make it worth losing money every month for. As a dip into game and buy something occasionally direct from the Cartel, would be nice, but too many restrictions on that method.

    The story is a little one dimensional, though nicely scripted with only minor issues in enemies being immune at the wrong time ect, or kills or switch's not activating the next step in the quest. Reasonable voice acting really help set the mood, music is good yet sparse. Planets are confusing, especially Taris with a map from hell I was forever trying to work out 3 dimensions on a 2d mini-map, with no visual clue or arrow system to help point you in the right direction. No voice support for mic which is a bad call for a MMO with PvP.    … Expand
  44. supernaturality
    Mar 14, 2013
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. First of all, I have to congratulate Bioware for giving men very ample buttocks (unlike, for instance, Star Trek Online which doesn't have the ability to make a cute guy). Although sexy backsides are out of place on the uglier guys in the name (and there are plenty), there is plenty of NPC eye candy to go around. However, that brings me to a big problem. Running around massacring cute guys is not my idea of fun. For instance, there's a section of Coruscant where ordinary guys supposedly were given vigilante control. I can't remember the name of them, but it's a very thin plot idea, particularly with the way things are set up. We aren't talking about a small gang here, but a giant sprawling army, spread into little pockets everywhere. The army is equipped in some places with medical guys who are very cute, both in terms of face and body, and it's frankly very sad to be forced to shoot them. In fact, one of them looked exactly like my in-game husband (the Legacy system let me marry my other character), which was not only surreal but offensive. It also makes little sense from a Star Wars morality perspective. I'm supposedly a light side character and I get off on killing vast amounts of people like medical assistants because my character is a "scoundrel"? This isn't Star Wars at all. This is really Massacre Central. The only light and dark morality consists of lame dialogue and lamer plot options. I can't believe so much money was spent to make this game. Shoving big-breasted women at me, one after the other, with flirt options is heavy-handed, too. There is no man-to-man alternative unless you're talking about very limited ghetto options on pay-to-gay Makeb. The inability to run for free players is too punitive, as is the inability to have two function bars visible. It's also lame that you are awarded an item that lets you modify your companion's appearance but can't use it. What kind of game gives people items and says what you were given is completely useless? That's not a reward system. A game developer walks a very fine line between being patronizing to players and motivating them to spend money.

    People say they play the game for the story, but as a gay player, the only thing I'd be interested in at all is finding some romance, and there is none to be had. I got my fill of massacring bored groups of milling creatures and men right away. Plus, even if romance with my companion, Corso, were possible, something would have to be done about his face. Oh, that's right... can't use the customization item that I was rewarded with. It's ironic that the most memorable thing to happen to me in this game was feeling sad when looking down at the fetching body of a medical dude in that Coruscant section. I did not feel like a hero, only a butcher.    … Expand
  45. babaganush
    Apr 21, 2014
    4
    i liked the game and pre-ordered it like loads of people, i love the missions and quests and story along with each, it gets a 4 mainly for going free to play, for not having that great of PVP, for the houses and space combat being a joke, i like having my ship be my house but that limits me creating the space into something unique, star war galaxies, and rift i could/can buy something andi liked the game and pre-ordered it like loads of people, i love the missions and quests and story along with each, it gets a 4 mainly for going free to play, for not having that great of PVP, for the houses and space combat being a joke, i like having my ship be my house but that limits me creating the space into something unique, star war galaxies, and rift i could/can buy something and make the inside something no one else has, also flying freely through space would have been much better, no those arcade missions which were fun but no where near as fun and free space could have been, if they ever make enough money again and start adding those features, then i will start up my account again and probaly even pay for it again, since i was willing to do so in the 1st place and hate free to play stuff cuz everything is so limited, makes me think they will never add anything awesome to it again. forgot to add i had a level 50 sith sorcerer, so and made 6 other characters, next highest was 30-40 commando, so i played the game plenty before i judged it.… Expand
  46. Donotplayswtor
    Feb 26, 2015
    1
    Do not pay to play this game. Their customer service is horrible and unresponsive. I took a break from the game for a few months and when i returned I couldn't access my account. I called customer service and kept getting people from some kind of outsourcing... I could tell by the way they talked and by the fact that they couldn't even give me information on what was the issue. The firstDo not pay to play this game. Their customer service is horrible and unresponsive. I took a break from the game for a few months and when i returned I couldn't access my account. I called customer service and kept getting people from some kind of outsourcing... I could tell by the way they talked and by the fact that they couldn't even give me information on what was the issue. The first person I talked to even gave me the wrong email address to email about my issue. But after hanging up and recalling 4 times I got someone from the UK and they were at least able to tell me what was the problem and even opened a ticket so "my issue could get resolved sooner." I found out that my account had been banned for gold spamming, apparently someone had compromised my account and used it while I was taking a break. So I've sent them a few emails to 2 different email addresses asking for my account to be unbanned and I have yet to even receive an automated response. I was a regular subscriber for two years straight, and I was there when the game was first released, yet I cant even get a response from their customer care? Take my advice, find a different mmo... there are several out there where their customer service at least cares about their customers. I've had to deal with several MMO's customer services and only ToR has been this bad by far. Blizzard is excellent. The same thing happened to me there, my account got hacked then banned.... it took blizzard 2 days to get my email(they sent an automated reply when i first emailed them) and to unban my account. Not only that, the GM I spoke to actually gave me free game time to apologize for the inconvenience. Now THAT is customer service. DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME. Anyone who cares so little for their customers does not deserve to be paid by them. I hope this game is shut down like City of Heroes was.… Expand
  47. AiurDJS
    Jul 14, 2015
    4
    This game is empty. You don't want to play an an Empty MMO game... or EMMOG for short.

    I was playing it at launch, and I quit after finishing the main storyline for one character, because this game is just a pathetic copy from World of Warcraft but without any open world PvP. They created so many planets, and there is nothing to do on them. There are no people there. All you can do in    This game is empty. You don't want to play an an Empty MMO game... or EMMOG for short.

    I was playing it at launch, and I quit after finishing the main storyline for one character, because this game is just a pathetic copy from World of Warcraft but without any open world PvP. They created so many planets, and there is nothing to do on them. There are no people there. All you can do in this game is play the instanced content. This is just stupid, and a waste of time.    … Expand
  48. Fyn56
    Dec 21, 2011
    0
    It works, but you will not find anything new in this game. It's a silly clone with VO and light sabers. World seems very dead, not much to explore. Very poor char creation, almost no choices, I. The end you get everyone looking the same. Pop is very dull same type of combat and maps same scenarios nothing new and impressive.
  49. Redwyne
    Jan 21, 2012
    0
    Note: any "marketing" ingame screenshots from Bioware/EA have been using HIGH texture/game settings that have been DISABLED and UNAVAILABLE to users in the actual game. Below is the response from BW AFTER several weeks of the community hunting down why the graphics quality ingame have been so poor. Basically, it's "spin" and "excuses" and the idea that users are not smart enough to controlNote: any "marketing" ingame screenshots from Bioware/EA have been using HIGH texture/game settings that have been DISABLED and UNAVAILABLE to users in the actual game. Below is the response from BW AFTER several weeks of the community hunting down why the graphics quality ingame have been so poor. Basically, it's "spin" and "excuses" and the idea that users are not smart enough to control what experience their OWN machines can handle. FAIL… Expand
  50. Morring
    Jan 24, 2012
    0
    Plain awful. Skill trees copypasted from wow. Single threading, terrible graphics, and disgusting politics from the devs and publisher, including the misterious malfunctioning of the "unsubscribe" button a moment before the free month was over. I can't figure out why critics gave such high scores- Oh wait, I can. This game required an insane amount of money to be developed, and I can't seePlain awful. Skill trees copypasted from wow. Single threading, terrible graphics, and disgusting politics from the devs and publisher, including the misterious malfunctioning of the "unsubscribe" button a moment before the free month was over. I can't figure out why critics gave such high scores- Oh wait, I can. This game required an insane amount of money to be developed, and I can't see how they managed not to obtain ANY result. This is indeed a remarkable feat, the kind of talent I'd reward with a zero.… Expand
  51. AlpsStranger
    Jan 24, 2012
    0
    This game is nothing but a cheap, tacky WoW knockoff propped up by a popular IP.

    -Clunky combat
    -Blurry textures
    -No API for addons
    -Super-super-super casual difficulty
    -Single-player oriented -Hub and instance based to the point of feeling empty
    -Faction population balance is extraordinarily bad
    -Remaining subscribers take "fanboy" to a whole new level

    Save your money.
  52. darkcerb
    Feb 27, 2012
    2
    I can forgive the lack of content, it is after all a brand new game.

    What I can't forgive is a game engine that would be outdated 4-5 years ago that struggles desperatly and in vein on a decent rig, a complete lack of innovative features we've come to expect from the genre i.e a decent auction interface, decent grouping tool and cross server pvp. The full voiced questing system will WOW    I can forgive the lack of content, it is after all a brand new game.

    What I can't forgive is a game engine that would be outdated 4-5 years ago that struggles desperatly and in vein on a decent rig, a complete lack of innovative features we've come to expect from the genre i.e a decent auction interface, decent grouping tool and cross server pvp. The full voiced questing system will WOW you until you realize that there are only three quests, destroy objects, kill dudes, loot dudes no escorts bombing runs or vehicle sections to be seen and to top it all off your actions have no effect on the world whatsoever so all that wonderful fluff every npc vomits into your ears is wasted.

    To say the gameplay borrows from wow implies any work beyond cutting and pasting was involved right down to the trees of each class being re-written tooltips.

    If you want kotor 3 then this is your game, if you want a star wars mmo with a beautifully and handcrafted story for your class and easy to jump into group play then tough cookies because this isn't it.

    This will of course come across as harsh but to have my expectations raised so high only to be shattered into a thousand poorly copied world of warcraft pieces feels like a betrayal and a waste of my money.    … Expand
  53. LoneDutyer
    Apr 17, 2012
    0
    EA's customer service and management of this game has been spectacularly awful. In too many ways to go into here, this has been a disaster thus far, and it's no wonder EA is laying off employees and their stock is plummeting even more. Just google 'Tortanic'.
  54. tazzon22
    Jan 4, 2012
    3
    At lvl. 40, 20 levels past the time i turned off all movies and becan extremley board of this wanna be mmo , rpg. It actually fails at both, the combat is verry lame, just point and smash hot keys, no pesky tatics to worry about. It was suppose to be a great story, really? give me a freaking break..blue sun and justicar? hope you trekkies didnt play the vastly supperior game mass effect.At lvl. 40, 20 levels past the time i turned off all movies and becan extremley board of this wanna be mmo , rpg. It actually fails at both, the combat is verry lame, just point and smash hot keys, no pesky tatics to worry about. It was suppose to be a great story, really? give me a freaking break..blue sun and justicar? hope you trekkies didnt play the vastly supperior game mass effect. Me and me2 were great DAO is also stellar, but DA2 was god-awful and now with swtor is another failure , bioware has ben loosing alot of points latley, thankfully i have Skyrim to play untill a real mmo comes out ..GW2.… Expand
  55. Ouin
    Dec 21, 2011
    1
    Ever wanted to play an incomplete version of World of Warcraft, while taking breaks to play Star Fox? That's more or less what this game is. It's very linear, but is advertised as the opposite. I guess that's because you can choose a differant class storyline to play linearly. Sort of like reading a differant book in the same series. Only I enjoy reading books more than playing this game.Ever wanted to play an incomplete version of World of Warcraft, while taking breaks to play Star Fox? That's more or less what this game is. It's very linear, but is advertised as the opposite. I guess that's because you can choose a differant class storyline to play linearly. Sort of like reading a differant book in the same series. Only I enjoy reading books more than playing this game. At least those are interesting.
    If you played Star Wars Galaxies, you were probably disapointed with the updates that "ruined" the game. Well good news is, they won't need to do that here. It's like it was based around those game ruining updates along with a "how could we take this to a new level of what MMO fans don't want" attitude behind it. On the plus side... I don't know, I guess it's got some pretty colours. Good Job Lucas Arts, you got alot of fans to give you alot of money, then instantly regret it. Again.    … Expand
  56. Omnius
    Dec 23, 2011
    3
    I wanted to like this game. I really, really did. But in the end, instead of a true successor to the excellent Knights of the Old Republic series, I got a Star Wars game with medicore graphics, sluggish, repetitive gameplay, and hours upon hours of voice acting delivered by one of the most lukewarm casts of actors I've ever had the displeasure to be trapped in a digital room with.

    To    I wanted to like this game. I really, really did. But in the end, instead of a true successor to the excellent Knights of the Old Republic series, I got a Star Wars game with medicore graphics, sluggish, repetitive gameplay, and hours upon hours of voice acting delivered by one of the most lukewarm casts of actors I've ever had the displeasure to be trapped in a digital room with.

    To say that it is a WoW clone is a bit too derisive, but not all that far from the mark. For a game and IP with such potential, it is immensely disappointing to see a product that has taken absolutely no risks, has little innovation to speak of, and somehow manages to let down expectations at practically every turn. SWTOR brings absolutely nothing to the table that has not been done before, and better, by previous MMOs or single-player RPGs.

    In regards to story and dialogue which have, in the past, been a golden seal of Bioware craftsmanship, SWTOR is the perfect example of how far this previously illustrious developer has fallen. Excessive instancing, badly coimpressed sound files, and flat-out fanfiction-quality writing mar nearly every conversation from sidequest to "epic" class story.

    The worst part of it all, perhaps, is that it falls to the individual users to make these criticisms, while "official" reviewers are buried in threats of boycott from EA and out-and-out bribery for a high score. Not to mention the multiple, and documented, cases of Bioware employees posting their own reviews as supposedly impartial and unaffiliated users on these forums.

    In short, a perfect microcosm of so many of the problems that plague the modern gaming industry. A disappointment for Star Wars fans and MMO players alike, please do yourself a favor and don't be taken in by the hype. Spend your time playing other, better RPGs, and lament the loss of the KotOR 3 that could have been.    … Expand
  57. KETTLECORNASU
    Jan 6, 2012
    0
    This game is an abomination among MMOs. The asinine focus on telling cliched love stories, the broken PVP, the on-rails shooting all comes together as one big cluster of terrible mechanics. The story scenes are so poorly voice acted and animated I could swear they were created by a child using 'The Movies'. The actual stories themselves are so weak and tedious that I ponder their relevanceThis game is an abomination among MMOs. The asinine focus on telling cliched love stories, the broken PVP, the on-rails shooting all comes together as one big cluster of terrible mechanics. The story scenes are so poorly voice acted and animated I could swear they were created by a child using 'The Movies'. The actual stories themselves are so weak and tedious that I ponder their relevance in a WoW clone of all things. PVP - dancing cancels damage, 'nuff said. Now what would have been nice is an open world. Not only are the planets enclosed, but space consists of on-rail shooting sections that have absolutely no place in an MMO, just like the weak exposition. Add to that - the on-rails sections are really boring and repetitive. I hope TOR crashes and burns, it's a mess, it's a joke of an MMO, and it's horrendous.… Expand
  58. leather_belt
    Dec 21, 2011
    0
    Awful game, the witcher is much better. Awful game, the witcher is much better. Awful game, the witcher is much better. Awful game, the witcher is much better. Awful game, the witcher is much better. Awful game, the witcher is much better. Awful game, the witcher is much better. Awful game, the witcher is much better. Awful game, the witcher is much better. Awful game, the witcher is muchAwful game, the witcher is much better. Awful game, the witcher is much better. Awful game, the witcher is much better. Awful game, the witcher is much better. Awful game, the witcher is much better. Awful game, the witcher is much better. Awful game, the witcher is much better. Awful game, the witcher is much better. Awful game, the witcher is much better. Awful game, the witcher is much better. Awful game, the witcher is much better.… Expand
  59. lostkoss
    Mar 31, 2012
    0
    Disappointing. I wanted to love this game and I can't even force myself to log in. Worst MMO experience EVER !

    No player economy. No reason to play after seeing the story. Nothing but raid or die.
  60. PCforever
    Nov 25, 2012
    3
    I came across a post which pretty much sums up accurately what is wrong with this game that I couldn't put my finger on:

    - No being able to assist through the tank, like every other GOOD mmo out there allows you to do - No being able to heal through the mob, like every other GOOD mmo out there allows you to do - Full groups are forbidden to enjoy one of the most endearing aspects of    I came across a post which pretty much sums up accurately what is wrong with this game that I couldn't put my finger on:

    - No being able to assist through the tank, like every other GOOD mmo out there allows you to do - No being able to heal through the mob, like every other GOOD mmo out there allows you to do - Full groups are forbidden to enjoy one of the most endearing aspects of the game; your companions. That's right, play with your friends and we get punished by having our companions banished. - Not being able to take companions on Operations. If I want to fill my raid slots with gimped DPS and healing AI over real humans, that should be MY choice. - Groupmates being forbidden to watch certain class quest cutscenes. I am standing RIGHT next to my Mercenary friend, why can't I see the cutscene of him having a conversation with the other NPC standing right in front of me? Oh no, you have to stand there tapping your foot, not being able to enjoy your friends class quest cutscenes. What amateur did you hire off the street to design this illogical, immersion killing nonsene of being forbidden to see many of your friends class quest cutscenes WHEN I AM STANDING RIGHT NEXT TO THEM? ADD AN OPTION TO SOCIAL "Watch Class Quest Cutscenes instead of standing around being bored waiting for your friend." How's that for a SMART idea? The single player/story part of this game is amazing. The MMO/Grouping dynamics were designed to make you hate grouping and go solo. Don't care and won't be reading what other players think, this is my feedback to Bioware and hopefully they'll hire COMPETENT devs to fix these problems.    … Expand
  61. bluesnacks
    Feb 21, 2014
    3
    Uninteresting, your choices mean nothing. I was excited for this game to come out, but quickly realized what a mistake that was. A $15 sub fee for almost ZERO content or bug fixes, but lo and behold they're working on a robust nickel and dime F2P for even more money, and guess what comes out then? Everything. Everything they can nickel and dime you with is on the store, things they refusedUninteresting, your choices mean nothing. I was excited for this game to come out, but quickly realized what a mistake that was. A $15 sub fee for almost ZERO content or bug fixes, but lo and behold they're working on a robust nickel and dime F2P for even more money, and guess what comes out then? Everything. Everything they can nickel and dime you with is on the store, things they refused to put out or make when it was a P2P game.

    But more about the game: The PvP is horribly unbalanced, it always has been. The developers seem incompetent and unable to make proper fixes.

    The free to play is lacking: EVERYTHING COSTS MONEY, EVEN TO SUBSCRIBERS. THERE IS ALMOST NO POINT TO BEING A SUBSCRIBER BECAUSE IT STILL COSTS MONEY AFTER THE SUB. This is completely asinine to me.

    The story, well, the story. Any choice you make in the story has no consequence. Kill the guy or don't kill the guy. The jedi next to you will still be like: "cool, let's go." I mean, wtf. I just murdered this dude, there blood all over you. It's like this the whole game, no matter what you do, you just go to the same part of the quest as the other choices with the same dialogue. It sucks.    … Expand
  62. AmmoClip
    Jul 4, 2016
    0
    I paid for the Star Wars: The Old Republic Collector`s Edition few years ago what i disappointment not only did i waste 5 hrs trying to get it to work on windows 10 i never saw past the login screen i wish i never brought this pill of crap.
  63. Blackblade34
    May 11, 2017
    0
    Well what can i say BIOWARE and EA ? WORST combination EVER!! the game clearly wants to take your wallet and empty it like you didn't even work for that money, the game always FORCES you to subscribe(no pun intended) and pay a **** of money i mean you can't even send mails, F***ing MAILS which is something ESSENTIAL to exist in a MMO game but NO you have to pay even for the mail, eventWell what can i say BIOWARE and EA ? WORST combination EVER!! the game clearly wants to take your wallet and empty it like you didn't even work for that money, the game always FORCES you to subscribe(no pun intended) and pay a **** of money i mean you can't even send mails, F***ing MAILS which is something ESSENTIAL to exist in a MMO game but NO you have to pay even for the mail, event items are useless you have to pay for FREE ITEMS too, CLEARLY YOU CAN'T ENJOY THE GAME UNLESS YOU ARE A BILLIONAIRE.… Expand
  64. Harbyinger
    Aug 4, 2014
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. this game is absolutely atrocius,the gameplay is repetitive,it gets too long to level up you have to kill thousands of roaming dudes to have a single level up after level 30,,that doesn't get any part done well,except in very few parts of class storylines,the npcs are too aggressive and spawn in the same place over and over,without even changing positions ,otherwise the missions are bland,boring and shallow 'kill x dudes' 'destroy x things' 'kill boss y' turn in,the game gets a annoying freemium that blocks everything,you have to pay the ingame currency (which has to be bought),or be a subscriber,for an additional inventory line,you have to pay,to have an extra cargo hold slot guess what?you have to pay,to have normal XP gain after level 10?you have to pay or buy the xp boosters,the medical probes?you have to pay,to equip rare items you gained legitemely in the game?you have to purchase an 'authorization'
    but the worst part is that this game ruined the kotor series to be able to be 'alive' ,for a MMO that went F2P after a year
    those who knew Kotor know what i'm talking about.
    Revan and The Exile from Kotor 2
    i was there for 6 months since day 1,and they didn't nothing,just gave you a worthless title that cannot be used if you are preferred or F2P
    you are heavily limited even if you're preferred(ex-subber).they just try to throw at you worthless junk to make you subscribe
    a friendly advise,don't subscribe to this game
    EA and bioware really f*cked it up this time    … Expand
  65. drumsfield
    Mar 17, 2015
    0
    I quit this game because of the Cartel market. It killed crafting and basically made the game pay to win. Yea it puts more money in the coffers of EA and Bioware, but at what costs. It waters down the came removing the essential elements of crafting from the MMO. Basically the Cartel Market IS the defacto crafters. They provide everything from Armor, Weapons, Mounts, Color Crystals, Pets,I quit this game because of the Cartel market. It killed crafting and basically made the game pay to win. Yea it puts more money in the coffers of EA and Bioware, but at what costs. It waters down the came removing the essential elements of crafting from the MMO. Basically the Cartel Market IS the defacto crafters. They provide everything from Armor, Weapons, Mounts, Color Crystals, Pets, Furnishings, and Ships. There's nothing left for crafters to craft except a few meaningless trinkets and Augments and MK kits. If you are a MMO fan I suggest you look elsewhere. The only thing this game has going for it is the Star Wars name.… Expand
  66. johnjacobs23
    Jan 17, 2016
    1
    I'm going to lead with EA needs to just be shut down, they havent made a quality game in over a decade and wont. They never seem to fully complete projects and leave far to many bugs in the game. I cant go an hr without somehow getting stuck in the normal world of the game and the /stuck option picks me up and lands me back in the same stuck spot, i have to quick travel and walk or use aI'm going to lead with EA needs to just be shut down, they havent made a quality game in over a decade and wont. They never seem to fully complete projects and leave far to many bugs in the game. I cant go an hr without somehow getting stuck in the normal world of the game and the /stuck option picks me up and lands me back in the same stuck spot, i have to quick travel and walk or use a speeder to get back to the quest area i was at...extremely annoying and very poor quality design. I love the star wars lore and story behind the game. Only reason it got a 1 as it failed on every other aspect and let down the millions who wanted this to surpass WOW. Save your time and money this wasnt worth it when it came out and even with all the expansions...they still havent fixed hardly any of the original errors...again if Bethesda or well anyone else besides EA made this game it probably would have been so legit.… Expand
  67. ThePersonDude
    Apr 25, 2017
    1
    The Most Unsocial MMO experience. So this applies to anyone who is Free to Play the game restricts you in any and every aspect it can so you'll be more enticed to fork out the extra cash to be a subscribed member. Here are some things it does it restricts all chat to anyone under level 10 so basically if you're under level 10 you can't speak what so ever. On top of that when you reachThe Most Unsocial MMO experience. So this applies to anyone who is Free to Play the game restricts you in any and every aspect it can so you'll be more enticed to fork out the extra cash to be a subscribed member. Here are some things it does it restricts all chat to anyone under level 10 so basically if you're under level 10 you can't speak what so ever. On top of that when you reach level 10 you can only say something once per minute I believe I can't exactly say since I could only do say something once and got the you're restricted until level 10 despite being level 17 and have been unable to talk in any form of alternate chat or private message. I tried sending a ticket to customer support for help but only subscribed members can send tickets. Moving on they limit your inventory severely as well as giving you item rewards that you can't use because you aren't subscribed which wouldn't be that bad if they didn't give it to you and have it waste an inventory slot in the first place. There is just so much locked behind a paywall that it ruins the experience completely no matter how well voice acted or good the story is. The story is pretty okay and it's what all the people who pay flock to when someone complains about the **** the free to players have to go though. ''If I hear it wasn't F2P before and now that it is you're still complaining? don't like don't play'' one more time it'll be the death of me. The gameplay is cookie cutter WoW painted to look like Star Wars. I would not subscribe to play this game because it is so underhanded and low. A game should earn its subscription and Star Wars The Old Republic has definitely not. There are much better selections however if you don't mind being completely restricted and just want story then go ahead however I would recommend Star Wars the Force Unleashed or any other Star Wars game instead. If I could rate this game by service alone I would have to go into the negatives but gameplay I would say it is a 2 or a 3 but overall I would say a 0 or a 1 out of 10 and I would not feel guilty.… Expand
  68. panther4000
    Jun 7, 2012
    3
    When i saw the trailers for this game, i thought this might be the game of the year. But after playing it, found it to be like any other mmo. The main story seemed pretty good, but the way the xp is set up you can't do just the main quest, you have to do a lot of mondaine side quest that they try to give feeling but the quest being the way it is made any feeling turn into board-um. I gotWhen i saw the trailers for this game, i thought this might be the game of the year. But after playing it, found it to be like any other mmo. The main story seemed pretty good, but the way the xp is set up you can't do just the main quest, you have to do a lot of mondaine side quest that they try to give feeling but the quest being the way it is made any feeling turn into board-um. I got to level 20 and could not stand to play it anymore. Unless you are a huge fan of mmo's and star wars, don't buy this game.… Expand
  69. Svennyy
    Nov 24, 2017
    0
    Нету русского языка и вымогательсто денег на подписку. А так играть хороша но без подписки играть не приятно, а она стоит денег. Не советую игру пока пока не добавят языки помимо английского и не утихомирят свой пыл с подпиской.Нету русского языка и вымогательсто денег на подписку. А так играть хороша но без подписки играть не приятно, а она стоит денег. Не советую игру пока пока не добавят языки помимо английского и не утихомирят свой пыл с подпиской.
  70. caralho
    May 10, 2014
    3
    The only thing this game has going for itself is the class story questlines. Some of them are decent, while others are meh. Other than that, it's a waste of money. It's simply amazing how can devs keep a game like this alive by simply milking their unsuspecting fanbase of drones. There is so many wrongs in this game that I won't bother listing here because its pretty much everywhere. EAThe only thing this game has going for itself is the class story questlines. Some of them are decent, while others are meh. Other than that, it's a waste of money. It's simply amazing how can devs keep a game like this alive by simply milking their unsuspecting fanbase of drones. There is so many wrongs in this game that I won't bother listing here because its pretty much everywhere. EA should be ashamed to dump so much money (over 200-300 million dollars I think) on this pile of garbage. I think they are still trying to break even.… Expand
  71. Broyax
    Apr 17, 2017
    4
    J'attendais de Bioware un KOTOR 3... et voici... un KOTOR 3 à péage ! pourtant la partie solo est très bien développée avec ses dialogues (en excellente VF) à choix multiple typiques du savoir-faire Bioware et sa mise en scène à la Mass Effect. On prend vraiment plaisir à évoluer dans ce KOTOR (devenu TOR à cause de la cupidité effarante d'EA) les premières dizaines d'heures et l'ambianceJ'attendais de Bioware un KOTOR 3... et voici... un KOTOR 3 à péage ! pourtant la partie solo est très bien développée avec ses dialogues (en excellente VF) à choix multiple typiques du savoir-faire Bioware et sa mise en scène à la Mass Effect. On prend vraiment plaisir à évoluer dans ce KOTOR (devenu TOR à cause de la cupidité effarante d'EA) les premières dizaines d'heures et l'ambiance Star Wars (musique et effets sonores soignés par exemple) est un régal. Graphiquement ce n'est pas extraordinaire mais l'artistique rattrape le coup avec bonheur.

    Il faut évidemment s'habituer au système de combat qui donne l'impression désagréable de jouer à un RTS -on clique sur des petites icônes à tour de rôle (chacune selon leur bon vouloir)- mais aussi à un hack & slash avec un sabre laser. A ce titre, le jeu abuse jusqu'à la nausée des combats qui n'en finissent pas (mais il paraît que c'est ça le MMO...). On s'y fait à la longue, de même qu'à cette interface perfectible et quelques bugs plus ou moins gênants ici et là (mais pas rédhibitoires). Quant aux combats spatiaux, ils nous ramènent à une époque que l'on croyait révolue : celle des Rebel Assault... Affligeant !!

    Comme il s'agit d'un MMO qui croit qu'il va se remplir de millions de joueurs, les environnements sont conçus comme tels et tout simplement gigantesques, on perd un temps incroyable à les parcourir (en dézinguant tout ce qui passe...), écumant ainsi l'océan incommensurable de missions fedex dans lequelles on fait le larbin et gentil toutou de service. Car il est indispensable de "leveler" sinon vous n'aurez pas le niveau nécessaire pour poursuivre la quête principale (l"histoire de classe) dans de bonnes conditions.

    Autant dire qu'après une cinquantaine d'heures, l'entousiasme des débuts finit par retomber selon les scénarios des classes assez inégaux. On a donc intérêt à tous les essayer (ou tenter de le faire si on en a le courage), car certains sont très intéressants et contre toute attente, ceux du Guerrier Sith et de l'Agent Impérial se démarquent. Voilà donc ce MMO Bioware dont l'intéret réside dans sa partie solo (mais qui finit par lasser !) même si les instances à plusieurs (massacre de vilains et de boss à la chaîne) restent sympathiques pourvu qu'on laisse le cerveau au vestiaire... contrairement au PVP grotesque encore plus mauvais et confus que le multi des Battlefield : il fallait le faire !

    Pour finir, une remarque sur le comportement d'EA/Bioware qui exigent votre carte de crédit deux jours à peine après la sortie du jeu (que l'on a déjà payé le prix fort de 55 euros !!) pour vous faire prendre un abonnement minimum d'un mois supplémentaire facturé 13 euros !! j'ai payé pour un mois (55 euros), pourquoi ces gens-là veulent-ils déjà m'extorquer de l'argent alors qu'il me reste 28 jours de jeu !!! bien sûr on peut annuler juste après mais cette prise en otage de la CB des clients est pathétique et édifiante.    … Expand
  72. liabilityman
    Jan 13, 2015
    4
    TLDR: "I couldn't be the character I wanted to be....and this is a MMORPG!"

    Having loved SWTOR, this game excited me initially. After about a day of play, the gameplay for which was quite fun, all I wanted to do was tweak my characters appearance. Change hairstyle for example. When I eventually found out that the only way to do so is to spend real-life money, all my enthusiasm for this    TLDR: "I couldn't be the character I wanted to be....and this is a MMORPG!"

    Having loved SWTOR, this game excited me initially. After about a day of play, the gameplay for which was quite fun, all I wanted to do was tweak my characters appearance. Change hairstyle for example. When I eventually found out that the only way to do so is to spend real-life money, all my enthusiasm for this game disappeared. Yes it might be a minor reason, but to me it broke all immersion and attachment to the game. I couldn't be the character I wanted to be....and this is a MMORPG!

    I severely dislike the FTP model used in SWTOR, with free players having ridiculous restrictions.

    I have played other FTP games such as DCUO, which were a lot of fun, and ultimately let you play how you wanted. Paying for things was optional if you wanted the extra stuff. In SWTOR however, I feel like they only give you access to half the game.

    Very, very disappointed. Bioware/EA, whoever is responsible, needs to sort stuff out.

    I should know better with an EA game.    … Expand
  73. ousmokeit2
    Jan 25, 2015
    3
    they try to nickel and dime you to death want bigger bags buy coins want extra action bar buy coins. and the pvp stinks they put lvl 30-59 in the same war zone and all the lower people get raped by the higher lvls so very uneven playing field! gets old very fast! lag is bad! unless you are a huge fan of star wars find another game!
  74. Trent28
    Aug 25, 2015
    0
    Was about to subscribe again after playing at launch. I log in to find that my characters were on lightly populated servers. No problem because everyone gets a free character transfer, right?

    Log into the transfer webpage, initiate the transfer. It times out, failing to complete. I log in again to try restarting the transfer. Oh, it costs money now. How cute. I do some searching    Was about to subscribe again after playing at launch. I log in to find that my characters were on lightly populated servers. No problem because everyone gets a free character transfer, right?

    Log into the transfer webpage, initiate the transfer. It times out, failing to complete. I log in again to try restarting the transfer. Oh, it costs money now.

    How cute.

    I do some searching on their website for a support ticket system, but that's only for subscribers. The customer support forum? Only for subscribers. I guess coming back wasn't really worth it after all. At least I saved $15.    … Expand
  75. SirMarty
    Apr 16, 2014
    0
    Worst MMORPG in existence. I love Star Wars, but for the sake of your wallet do not buy this game. If you're a hardcore/competitive player – whether you PvP, PvE, or both – just do not buy this game. It's the worst.
  76. AnEwOkSeXsLaVe
    Feb 4, 2013
    1
    'Star Wars mask' to SELL TRASH. NO GOOD, GUYS. Talking about a WoW clone? Dude, they took the WORST aspects of WoW and cloned them. lol The retarded juiciness of the WoW art/story style at least made that game enjoyable. Let me tell you something, a basic quest chain in WoW had more story then this entire game. ALL OF MY BUDDIES and I played this game, every class. Empire are the'Star Wars mask' to SELL TRASH. NO GOOD, GUYS. Talking about a WoW clone? Dude, they took the WORST aspects of WoW and cloned them. lol The retarded juiciness of the WoW art/story style at least made that game enjoyable. Let me tell you something, a basic quest chain in WoW had more story then this entire game. ALL OF MY BUDDIES and I played this game, every class. Empire are the only enjoyable storylines (as far as the enjoyment goes...). Republic is BLAND. It is serious trash. It is BORING. 2 of 3 of us played Republic preferrably... could not stand any of the storylines. Consulars are notoriously craptastic and just painful to sit through. Nothing happens in that story. The game just follows the same pattern all the way through... generic and unoriginal. #1: IT'S NOT KOTOR PEOPLE. If you played Knights Of The Old Republic you most likely loved the sh@# out of it. Knights 2, sadly was rushed in development by corporate greed and had content chopped out and rushed to market (which explains a lot) they cut an entire planet for godsake. But still... decent and good game. This is nothing like those 2, at all. It is a sh#$ WoW clone, yet not fun. WoW was somewhat fun, this isn't fun at all. The dialogue/options and effects do not exist. 3 options all same result. No dynamics no change no effects. 0, I've played to 50, me and friends have palyed different classes. We've been subscribers. COMBAT IS TERRIBLE. Bland and so unimaginitive. You WILL BE BORED. Hit buttons for few more points of damage. Slowing skill. Ranged skill. The End. Tons of skills doing the same sh#&. No combos. You will see vendors everywhere, tons of gear, but that doesn't make a game. Who cares. Item customization? Modification? KOTOR2 had it for real. This game does not, it's yet again, a mask of something bland and terrible. Nuff said. Worst part of game: REPUBLIC AND EMPIRE ARE THE SAME THING. They mirror each other in classes and skils and skill-trees. SAME stuff, different names. The names and icons ar ethe difference. Period. The mark of horribleness. SPACE COMBAT? Rail shooter. You don't fly freely. Missions repeated. Shoot things poping in on screen. Character CUSTOM? Everythings human: Chiss: Blue Human Miraluka: Green Human Cyborg: Human with 1 additional custom option, (metalic crap on face). TwiLek: (almost exclusively Republic unless unlocked, only closest thing to an alien). Rhatataki: White Human etc. etc. No wookiees, no rodians, no trandoshans. Nothing. Companions, 1 at a time only. Trade professions, done almost all exclusively for credit-cost and by companions in backround of game. Same with crafting. 5 possible companions on each tpy eof class you pick (total): most all classes you pick, between 4 and 5 companions (all) are boring as hell. Flat personalities and wooden. Aliens add difference and can be fun, but almost none have personalities anyway. Vette was fun on my Sith Warrior. That was IT. Out of the other 15-20 companions on other classes I experienced, they're boring. You get a buncha dudes or you get what looks like underaged girls with poor voice acting (who all sound identical....) for romance options. Generic. Everyhting is mirrored in this game. COMPANION QUESTS? Terrible... mostly brief talking chains. My system is a few years dated... but still runs intense games well. This game... the WORST game for running on a system. Even with LOWEST GRAPHICS POSSIBLE this game lagged and glitched like Hell. Every time I naturally exit this game I get Windows Error Reports. Other times, my computer will hang on the desktop for literally 10 minutes.... NOT OTHER GAME DOES THESE THINGS. It's intoleralbe. My buddy has a max-performance system for gaming.... he gets stuttering all the same regardless. As most wil tell you too, with GRAPHICS, Highest and Lowest almost don't matter. My comp runs Highest settings amost exactly the same as the lowest.... program issues. Frankly the grpahics and LOOK of the game is awful and dated. The 'doo-dadds' to put in the world, like misc. objects like consols and trees... etc... few exist. You see Computer Consols stuck everywhere and htere's only 3 different types. There's computer consols on bridges for godsake... it's just a bunch of designer flunkees out of college rushing thorugh on a timeline with no care for quality. Push Product make reslease-date, charge-for or patch rest. 1 year passes, nothing changes either. Cartel Market. Real money/points store... there's not even anything in it. Different colors of same objects you get in-game. Or just junk like unlockable storage spaces.... you can unlock a playable Race for both sides for any class (yes, even if you subscribe, you are restricted as to the races to classes that you can play still). And that CARTAL DOLLAR SIGN IS RAMMED DOWN YOUR F#$#%NG THROAT. It's all over your windows and HUD.… Expand
  77. dougal83
    May 26, 2014
    0
    Summary... OK as an MMO. Diabolical support from staff that don't care. I pre ordered Collectors edition to support the game and still had to beg on twitter to get early access(that was advertised). Now everyone can get the "exclusive" in game items for £3. DO NOT BUY CARTEL COIN CURRENCY. I bought some cartel coins to support the game thinking I would not be shafted twice but I wasSummary... OK as an MMO. Diabolical support from staff that don't care. I pre ordered Collectors edition to support the game and still had to beg on twitter to get early access(that was advertised). Now everyone can get the "exclusive" in game items for £3. DO NOT BUY CARTEL COIN CURRENCY. I bought some cartel coins to support the game thinking I would not be shafted twice but I was wrong. Broken item was not refunded as expected and so I cancelled subscription. They just don't want my money and ignored me until my subscription expired. Currently unable to talk to them so will have to pay £8 for 30 days of being ignored or just go directly to my bank for refund. DO NOT SPEND ANY MONEY ON THIS GAME. I'm bitter so I will go around review sites repeating do not buy into the Free-To-Play model that destroyed a semi decent MMO.… Expand
  78. Tinyfangs
    Nov 20, 2015
    0
    Content great, stories are fantastic, but do not trust this company with your money. I have played many games, but never have I felt this down trodden as a customer paying wages of people who care nothing. Customer care none existing. Huge patch issues, can take ages to patch, patching can burn through huge amounts of allowance, and when you file a ticket, you will be ignored. The companyContent great, stories are fantastic, but do not trust this company with your money. I have played many games, but never have I felt this down trodden as a customer paying wages of people who care nothing. Customer care none existing. Huge patch issues, can take ages to patch, patching can burn through huge amounts of allowance, and when you file a ticket, you will be ignored. The company knows about problems, but does not fix them - a true shame, this game could be outstanding, but with a company in charge which treats their customers like dirt, it is not a place to carry one's wallet to.… Expand
  79. Tezoi
    Jul 6, 2018
    0
    Tried installing the game and it stuck on "installing", guess i'll just play a game that works.
  80. KaienShiba
    Sep 16, 2014
    0
    Play this game if you agitation in your life, for the most part your companions are only good to get them and you killed, because after almost 4 years your companion has a tendency to do a disappearing act which leaves you unable to heal them and there is no indication that this serious bug is going to be fixed, and forget about teaming up with only 35-40 players on a planet, you unlikelyPlay this game if you agitation in your life, for the most part your companions are only good to get them and you killed, because after almost 4 years your companion has a tendency to do a disappearing act which leaves you unable to heal them and there is no indication that this serious bug is going to be fixed, and forget about teaming up with only 35-40 players on a planet, you unlikely to get help which also means you are unlikely to be invited to join a guild. In short they seem to be adding content to a dying game instead of fixing the glitches and bugs to save it… Expand
  81. fox182
    Jul 25, 2014
    2
    This is the most boring, generic, static and lifeless roller coaster themepark rides I have ever tryed and it does not even look good. Basically it is a one way dead end kinda road with limited replayability or reasons to revisit old places. It is box inside boxes inside boxes. It offers very little new to the mmo"rpg" genre. It does not even have day/night cycles and you can not swimThis is the most boring, generic, static and lifeless roller coaster themepark rides I have ever tryed and it does not even look good. Basically it is a one way dead end kinda road with limited replayability or reasons to revisit old places. It is box inside boxes inside boxes. It offers very little new to the mmo"rpg" genre. It does not even have day/night cycles and you can not swim either. The only thing this game lacks is an auto play button so it can play it self because it is that boring. I fail to see how they can call it an rp game really. And it comes from the company that have made legendary rp games in the past. Seriously those that play it is hard core star wars fans that just have to be in a star wars game. Even the mobs are just spread out in the combat zones in what often seems random spots they been dropped down with limited to no movement at all. Just waiting for a hero to come and kill their lifeless virtual bodies. The only moment this game is mildly good is when you are in the storyline quest it feels good but when you are not then it feels like an empty shell! Sadly the good gets burried under the extensive amounts of meaningless and dull quests you have to do in between. You are a powerful sith badass but you are super dependant on a babysither to nurse you around. WHAT?!? Solo without companion is almost impossible so there goes the beeing a powerful sith immersion. Darth Vader is not angry he is disapointed.. I really cant express exactly how much I dispise this game and I was super exited about it. I even bought the col edition so the jokes on me. LOL Never have I been more disappointed with a game and I can not recommend anyone to try it at all. I wished I could give you 300 million reasons to like this game but I cant. Mediocre storyline is what it does best but there is alot of alternatives that are far better.. Now all this is my opinion of course if you think this is the **** then that is just fine. Good luck with that ! :D… Expand
  82. chris_1_s
    Sep 22, 2014
    3
    I was highly disappointed in this game, it didnt feel at at all like Knights of the old republic 1 or 2 in terms of story or pacing. This might seem harsh but it felt like a WOW knock off. For me it got old and repetitive real fast. Would have VERY much preferred Knights of the old republic 3.
  83. ZRated
    Dec 13, 2015
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. SWTOR is slowly approaching the inevitable brick wall that will crash it. When the game first came out it was quite exciting. The story lines were great and fun to interact with, it had a very "Star Wars" feel to it...But, you quickly find out that it is a "once through" game.

    No matter how many expansions or extra content they throw in, it is essentially nothing new at all to the game play. In order to advance through the new story content you must do the same thing you have done on everything else.... the same linear sequence of:
    1: Enter zone
    2: Follow the limited path through the map
    3: Kill the enemies placed directly in the path that are waiting for you
    4: Kill the easy boss at the end of the path
    5: Get the next quest in the story and repeat steps 1-4

    In other words, the game does not offer anything new. Instead of adding innovative content....the developers instead tend to "change" the existing mechanics a little (changing the class tree, changing the abilities by removing some to add another, all of which causing you to have to re-spec your characters). New gear is added for the new levels which makes your old gear you spent a lot of time earning completely obsolete and not good enough for whatever new Ops or FP that came with new content....

    The most recent expansion "The Fallen Empire" is a fun story to watch but just the same old mechanics... I was bored with it halfway through after spending 20mins per segment just killing things in the same fashion as I listed above.

    The new major changes to companions, zones, crafting, and Flashpoints were all a real shocker to me. Your companions no longer benefit from gear stats. They really hold no diversity now as they all can play any role (Tank, Heals, Damage). The gear is now for looks only. This takes away from the diversity of your player as a whole. This change was made because the developers felt they were too overpowered and players were too easily completing content.... THAT is a huge slap in the face to the players. It makes most of the crafting worthless now.... Considering you can get your good gear from flashpoints and ops... it really makes crafting only for the high end mods you might get as a drop.

    The game changes have forced the typical solo player into playing the boring daily quests and possibly a heroic 2 and solo flashpoint..... but the game has suddenly bottle-necked players into having to group to beat content. 2 players with their companions can't even attempt a hard mode flashpoint now without getting ripped to shreds...even with high end gear. Now you must find or wait for a 4 man group in order to play the content....

    All in all.... the other reviews list the other issues and failures of SWTOR. The game is free to play....and after all these years playing it...I no longer feel it is worth $15 a month for the few extras I get being a subber..

    All it will take is another MMO with potential to hit the market and I think this will kill SWTOR. Only the hardcore Star Wars fans will remain.... Players are ready for something else in a sense. Especially the PvP players....    … Expand
  84. aadms
    Jul 6, 2014
    4
    I was so excited to be able to play this game with my upgraded computer only to be highly disappointed in its presentation. It plays exactly like WoW, which, to me, is a boring and outdated game experience. The characters and their animations are laughable, as well as the graphics which look pre-2005. And it runs at horrible framerates with lagging and disappearing. If they are runningI was so excited to be able to play this game with my upgraded computer only to be highly disappointed in its presentation. It plays exactly like WoW, which, to me, is a boring and outdated game experience. The characters and their animations are laughable, as well as the graphics which look pre-2005. And it runs at horrible framerates with lagging and disappearing. If they are running this game at such low resolution, I don't understand why they're having this problem. Of all the MMOs out there, this one is the ugliest and plays the worse. This game looks and plays worse than the beloved KOTOR from 2004, so why is it being touted as a game today? Because EA wants to cash in on the MMO market, but like everything they touch, turns to dry dust. No excuse to make this bad of a Star Wars game. Why anyone would pay a subscription to play this is beyond me.… Expand
  85. JMEReviews
    Feb 22, 2015
    2
    The selling point of the game is the story, brilliantly written and executed... except for certain parts in which I utterly despise. In a Bioware game, you expect there to be same gender romances, but they were largely absent, except for extremely small additions in later expansions. As part of the LGBT community, I am appalled that Bioware had missed something SO IMPORTANT.

    That is the    The selling point of the game is the story, brilliantly written and executed... except for certain parts in which I utterly despise. In a Bioware game, you expect there to be same gender romances, but they were largely absent, except for extremely small additions in later expansions. As part of the LGBT community, I am appalled that Bioware had missed something SO IMPORTANT.

    That is the reason for such a low score.    … Expand
  86. Demonscream
    Jun 30, 2015
    3
    If you are looking for a story based PVE game this is a good one. Each of the 8 base classes (4 Republic and 4 Empire) have their own story. The 8 story’s alone make it a worthwhile game to play. Fully voice acted make it a blast for anyone looking for an immersive game.

    Do not play PVP in this game. Your skill has no effect on PVP, only the flavor-of-the-month class has any effect on    If you are looking for a story based PVE game this is a good one. Each of the 8 base classes (4 Republic and 4 Empire) have their own story. The 8 story’s alone make it a worthwhile game to play. Fully voice acted make it a blast for anyone looking for an immersive game.

    Do not play PVP in this game. Your skill has no effect on PVP, only the flavor-of-the-month class has any effect on PVP. PVP is an exercise in futility, with the team with the most fotm classes winning. Bioware has no concept of class balance, and over nerf and over buff constantly. They use their own metrics instead of listening to their player base or even playing their own game.

    PVE Score 7
    PVP Score 0

    Final Score: 3    … Expand
  87. Dextrous
    Sep 19, 2015
    4
    I agree with a lot of the others. It isn't a bad game. It has some strong points, but weak points pull the game down pretty hard. The gameplay is fun, but nothing special; the content is interesting, and the customization allows you to express yourself and feel unique from others of your same class/race.

    Pros: * It has excellent story missions and the coherence of that story runs    I agree with a lot of the others. It isn't a bad game. It has some strong points, but weak points pull the game down pretty hard. The gameplay is fun, but nothing special; the content is interesting, and the customization allows you to express yourself and feel unique from others of your same class/race.

    Pros:
    * It has excellent story missions and the coherence of that story runs well all the way through the game.
    * The voice acting runs from pretty good to amazing in some places.
    * It has a pretty decent item appearance customization system.
    * It has an _excellent_ item modification system which allows you to keep your old gear up to date with your level.
    * A lot of effort was put into making the social aspect of the game accommodating with things like: the RNG cutscenes, the ability to join in on others story missions, granting access to your stronghold to friends, guild strongholds, and the hologram system which lets distant party members participate in quests cutscenes.

    Cons:
    * The game used to be better in the past, they've unfortunately followed the World of Warcraft model of simplifying their talent and ability system, which makes the whole thing feel.. uninspiring.
    * The customer service is really awful, the response times are absolutely terrible, and they seem to only be capable of very basic assistance, not to mention that they exclude a huge amount of their player base from the forum support.
    * Microtransactions. The game is riddled to hell with microtransactions. I half expect them to soon limit players to 1,000,000 steps a day, with a 40cc purchasable item to grant another million for that day. Seriously, even as a subscriber you are terribly limited from what would seem like basic functionality, and while you do get some coins from the monthly stipend and class story mission progression, it just isn't enough to sustain you unless you refrain from things like changing your characters hair color or style.

    I honestly think that this would have been a highly enjoyable and popular game if the "Cartel Market" (in-game shop) were reigned in.    … Expand
  88. Buna
    Apr 3, 2021
    0
    Govno tesko bolje ubit se nego igrat ovo Florensia je za ovo bog i batina!
    Da je stuc glavu autoru spasija bi se
  89. Ordnik
    Aug 26, 2021
    0
    Money hungry company. .
  90. Grize
    Jun 22, 2022
    3
    The Game is good is fun and hard if you want it to be hard. The character customisation is ok armor is better. The Ops are fun in a group you can talk to recommend that you try the hard mode or nightmare but get the right group, Gear and numbers (us Starpass) before. The solo stories are good not all but most of them. Same with the dlcs. The only real problem is that sometimes the optionThe Game is good is fun and hard if you want it to be hard. The character customisation is ok armor is better. The Ops are fun in a group you can talk to recommend that you try the hard mode or nightmare but get the right group, Gear and numbers (us Starpass) before. The solo stories are good not all but most of them. Same with the dlcs. The only real problem is that sometimes the option you pick is not what you say or do. But here comes the problem. Annoying gearing, Market all over the place, Dead and toxic pvp rank (Whatever you do not try it, People will just call you bad for being a newbie and literally send hate and no one will help you get better except a guild that is not toxic. Or YT and guides) Gold spammers, Recruitment spammers, corrisant chat, easy solo difficulty and the worst Slow and not mutch or interesting updates. The game really has slowed down by this point and it is sad. I had lots of fun… Expand
  91. cuki3r7
    Feb 18, 2022
    0
    Legacy of the sith...bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bug
  92. macedonia4ever
    Mar 18, 2022
    0
    If you want to play a sci-fi game that's actually good and incorporates every genre of video gaming, then steer clear from this hefty monthly subscription of a game or Disney (yes you're playing a Disney game designed for your daughter who plays with The Little Mermaid). Instead of spending all this money every month on a game that barely has anything to offer, instead opt to play theIf you want to play a sci-fi game that's actually good and incorporates every genre of video gaming, then steer clear from this hefty monthly subscription of a game or Disney (yes you're playing a Disney game designed for your daughter who plays with The Little Mermaid). Instead of spending all this money every month on a game that barely has anything to offer, instead opt to play the Free-To-Play Star Trek Online game - basically this game, but on steroids and free!… Expand
  93. BWill9886
    Jan 17, 2023
    3
    This review score reflects the game as it sits today. The only reason it isn't lower is due to the base game's quest lines for the different classes. I enjoyed even the weakest ones and would still recommend people try them out. The reason it isn't higher is because of the Knights of the Eternal Throne expansion.

    KOTFE (as it's often referred to) made this game feel like a chore and    This review score reflects the game as it sits today. The only reason it isn't lower is due to the base game's quest lines for the different classes. I enjoyed even the weakest ones and would still recommend people try them out. The reason it isn't higher is because of the Knights of the Eternal Throne expansion.

    KOTFE (as it's often referred to) made this game feel like a chore and feels unapologetic in wasting your time. The storyline is incredibly lazy. One of the few things this game had going for it was some of the writing, so that really hurts it. The writers never met a deus ex machina they didn't like. The gameplay is often plagued with poor pacing and glitchy interactions. Trash mob spawning is absolutely maddening and unnecessary. Character dialogue and growth is sometimes fine, but for the most part only fit for bad fanfiction. You can forget about making any hard choices or the few choices you do make mattering at all.

    It's such a shame that so much Star Wars IP has been ruined by the desire for a quick buck. Add this to the list of wasted potential with The Last Jedi, Rise of Skywalker, etc.    … Expand
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#8 Most Discussed PC Game of 2011
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#9 Most Shared PC Game of 2011

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85

Generally favorable reviews - based on 73 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 68 out of 73
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 73
  3. Negative: 0 out of 73
  1. RPGamer
    Apr 23, 2012
    80
    LucasArts generally exercised greater quality control of Star Wars games than most licensed properties receive, though that didn't necessarily translate into titles that were actually good. I've played a few other Star Wars games in the past, and while the SNES platformers were pretty good, this one is even better. Knights of the Old Republic may just be the best game in the franchise, and succeeds at being a top-tier RPG even if one has no interest in Star Wars. BioWare did the license proud.
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  2. GameCritics
    Mar 31, 2012
    70
    I wound up bailing out on Star Wars: The Old Republic well before hitting the level cap, but not before digging into it more so than any other MMO I've played. Even if it is an unhappy marriage between two wildly different game types, the fact that it kept me hooked for so long at least counts for something.
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  3. NZGamer
    Mar 5, 2012
    83
    A good game. It pays excellent homage to the film series (even though it's set before the movies), and is a really solid MMO.
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