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Interesting read on the Ensidia website.
Article below for those that cant be arsed to click link at the bottom of the page.
"Several articles have come out in the aftermath of E3 and the demo of EA and Bioware's new MMO, Star Wars: The Old Republic, and they don't seem too positive. The first, via gamesindustry.biz, is from analyst firm Cowen and Company who called the game "highly derivative" of WoW and even ragged on the game's visuals, calling them "competent". The firm also doubts the game is coming in 2011, basing this on EA's silence about the release date and a drop in its share price.
"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."
The other is a much more extensive preview on Kotaku, with a somewhat misleading title "The more they keep telling me Star Wars: The Old Republic isn't like WOrld of Warcraft, the less I want to play". It's a very subjective article, with the author stating his opinions and thoughts on not only the game itself, but also how much of a Star Wars feel it has for him. The man certainly knows his stuff, as you can clearly see from his comments on KOTOR: "I'm fairly certain that most fans of KOTOR 1 and 2—games that themselves took dozens of hours to complete—just want more KOTOR." He goes on to clarify the title itself, mentioning how much the game looks like WoW, and the more they kept telling him it doesn't, the sillyer they looked. The article really is a blast to read and you should check it out, but here are a few great quotes anyway:
"(And Lord does Bioware think players of massively multiplayer games care about story; they've bet what is rumored to be hundreds of millions of dollars on it.)
"Then the players ran further into the castle to give Baron Von Space a stern talking to. When he appeared on the screen—fully voice-acted, as are all the random characters in SW:TOR—he was wearing a cape and what looked like a metal marching band hat. He looked ridiculous. Space ridiculous.
"And while its gameplay may be different from World of Warcraft, it's clearly only different in ways that passionate MMO gamers will be able to discern. To the rest of us, it's going to be World of Warcraft wearing a brown robe and carrying a lightsaber. It could have been so much more."
The intro trailer they showed at E3 was also mildly bad, as we discussed in the forum thread, and you can also check out my own feelings about the game here."
Original article: http://manaflask.com/article/994/the-old-republic-wow-in-space
Edit: must admit after reading it all I had a good old chuckle at EA/Biowares failings, yet another WoW clone as predicted when the closed beta started.
Article below for those that cant be arsed to click link at the bottom of the page.
"Several articles have come out in the aftermath of E3 and the demo of EA and Bioware's new MMO, Star Wars: The Old Republic, and they don't seem too positive. The first, via gamesindustry.biz, is from analyst firm Cowen and Company who called the game "highly derivative" of WoW and even ragged on the game's visuals, calling them "competent". The firm also doubts the game is coming in 2011, basing this on EA's silence about the release date and a drop in its share price.
"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."
The other is a much more extensive preview on Kotaku, with a somewhat misleading title "The more they keep telling me Star Wars: The Old Republic isn't like WOrld of Warcraft, the less I want to play". It's a very subjective article, with the author stating his opinions and thoughts on not only the game itself, but also how much of a Star Wars feel it has for him. The man certainly knows his stuff, as you can clearly see from his comments on KOTOR: "I'm fairly certain that most fans of KOTOR 1 and 2—games that themselves took dozens of hours to complete—just want more KOTOR." He goes on to clarify the title itself, mentioning how much the game looks like WoW, and the more they kept telling him it doesn't, the sillyer they looked. The article really is a blast to read and you should check it out, but here are a few great quotes anyway:
"(And Lord does Bioware think players of massively multiplayer games care about story; they've bet what is rumored to be hundreds of millions of dollars on it.)
"Then the players ran further into the castle to give Baron Von Space a stern talking to. When he appeared on the screen—fully voice-acted, as are all the random characters in SW:TOR—he was wearing a cape and what looked like a metal marching band hat. He looked ridiculous. Space ridiculous.
"And while its gameplay may be different from World of Warcraft, it's clearly only different in ways that passionate MMO gamers will be able to discern. To the rest of us, it's going to be World of Warcraft wearing a brown robe and carrying a lightsaber. It could have been so much more."
The intro trailer they showed at E3 was also mildly bad, as we discussed in the forum thread, and you can also check out my own feelings about the game here."
Original article: http://manaflask.com/article/994/the-old-republic-wow-in-space
Edit: must admit after reading it all I had a good old chuckle at EA/Biowares failings, yet another WoW clone as predicted when the closed beta started.