Star Wars: The Old Republic is a "WoW Clone with Star Wars Character Skins"

[Shawn Zipay]

Eurogamer and GameIndustry.biz brought back some hands-on impressions with the upcoming Bioware MMORPG, Star Wars: The Old Republic, and were left "unimpressed."

"We got hands-on time with the game, and were largely unimpressed.

"Despite promises from EA/Bioware that the title represents a major step forward in MMO design, what we saw was essentially a World of Warcraft clone with Star Wars character skins and the BioWare RPG nice/nasty dialogue tree mechanism bolted on for non-player character conversations."

Ouch. They also went on to describe the visuals as being "competent, but hardly breathtaking." Double ouch.

With some rather grim news like this and the fact that SWTOR is now going to be digitally exclusive to EA's Origin, are you still as interested in picking up the MMO as you may have once been?

[stilla-killa]

Re: Star Wars: The Old Republic is a "WoW Clone with Star Wars Character Skins"

Wow i am a bit disappointed to read that.

[jimykx]

Re: Star Wars: The Old Republic is a "WoW Clone with Star Wars Character Skins"

Also unimpressed. I'm just hoping that with the release of Swtor they make swg for free so i can play one of the best mmo's out there

[Stev0esque]

Re: Star Wars: The Old Republic is a "WoW Clone with Star Wars Character Skins"

Well we obviously know that "EALouse" wasnt talking S**t.

[DunkinSPE]

After seeing extended gameplay footage I came to a similar conclusion. I'll stick to my SWG.

[stilla-killa]

Re: Star Wars: The Old Republic is a "WoW Clone with Star Wars Character Skins"

Does anyone still play Star War Galaxies? I thought it was dead years ago?

[jimykx]

Re: Star Wars: The Old Republic is a "WoW Clone with Star Wars Character Skins"

To me it has one of the best space fighting and flying ever. I mean it's an RPG and many games that try to reproduce starwars space fights on purpose can't make it as good and customizable as swg. I have to say i love everything in that game, although sony could make something better for the game, like fixing some of the animation/damage problems, like when you use your lightsaber throw attack, the animation for throwing the lightsaber is still starting and the lightsaber hasn't even touched the enemy yet but you have already damaged him. Some aspects like these take away from the game, but still if it wasn't a monthly fee i would be playing it for sure.

[Infernalis]

Re: Star Wars: The Old Republic is a "WoW Clone with Star Wars Character Skins"

Maybe one day they will stop copying WoW... They still have some time before the new Blizzard MMO come.