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This game is a great combo of star wars and more traditional RPG gameplay. The story is fine, some of the quests have you linger around a bit, (which is the traditional RPG maneuvering). However, it's fun, with many choices to choose weapons, armor, health regen, and so forth. You can build a lightsaber for combat and use force powers as well. The copy I have I'm playing on xbox 360 instead of the original xbox. There have been many instances in which the game has really bad frame rate drops during combat or just rotating the camera. The frame rate issue is from the game's programing not the disc,(which is in like new condition). After playing for a while the frame rate clears up noticeably. It's a great game and worth playing.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
KotOR 2 is a great game and all, but it's not quite as good as its predeccesor. The graphics are nearly exactly the same as the first, which came out like 5 years ago. Lame. It's almost a requirement these days that game sequels have better graphics. If you enjoyed the first KotOR then you should get it, though the store price is too high. The main thing is that this game is too much like the first. The only 3 really noticable differences are: new story, your alignment and additude affects your allies, and the random items found. In the first game all of the monsters dropped the same things, and the boxes contained the same things. In this game most containers have totally random items in them, allowing you to get the most powerful stuff at the very beginning and also get nothing but garbage the entire game. Other than those 3 things the game is almost exactly the same. WARNING: Do NOT beat this game as a dark side jedi first because the ending is comepletely unexplained and it's totally pointless trying to beat it if you haven't beat the game as a light side jedi first (I won't give away the light side ending, but as a dark side jedi you see yourself, then the camera zooms out until all you can see the planet you are on, and that's it, that's the ending, there's NOTHING else at all). Over all it's a good game and is worth buying, but only if you enjoyed the first game and are hungry for more.Read full review
It's got everything the first one had, and more. You don't have to buy the first game to understand this one, but I recommend that you do. This time you start the game as a jedi known as the Exile. The game does have new elements, like the ability to influence some of your teammates to turn into jedi, but the look is almost exactly the same right down to the menu. That could be good though, for those of you who don't like change. But the look doesn't matter, what does is the gameplay and plot. Luckily they're both perfect. The music is a little weak, but the sound effects are good. Tons of weapons and plenty of side quests make this game a must buy for RPG fans as well as fans of the Star Wars series.
Unlike the first installment, I'm amazed at how easy it was this time around, save the last Boss battle (which is actually cake once you figure out the weakness). I'm happy to say that the characters are a little more diverse this time. If you read my last review on KotOR, you'd know that I had a problem with the rehashed character models. But that's not to say I didn't run into any of these clones, just less this time. And not to mention I could finally pick a Jedi with a beard! Speaking of easy, I couldn't believe how ridiculously easy the enemies like Dark Jedi, Elite Sith and Bounty Hunters were. And ironically enough, the Boss's were even bigger push overs. Take Darth Nihilus, you know him as that scary masked guy on the box art, well right from the start he's portrayed as this unstoppable planet killer who gobbles up Jedi like fresh popcorn. Not so, if I spent 90 seconds on him that was a lot. Another issue was the frame rate. It fluctuated more than the emotions of a pregnant woman in her 2nd trimester. This happend as more enemies cluttered the screen. On a number of occasions it got so bad my game literally turned into a slide show making it impossible to coordinate any attacks until some of the bad guys died off. This is a big "no-no" for console games, considering the hardware is built-in and not upgradeable like a PC. There were still a number of issues still not fully addressed from the previous game. One was the leveling up of light/dark force points, again if you fill the meter, that was pretty much it. There was no real incentive to keep on doing the good or bad you were doing, well there was a "light + con" bonus I got, but it was negligible. Another pet pieve was the gratuitously awkward menu screens. It was such a chore sifting through it all. For example when you try to upgrade your characters equipment on the workbench, you couldn't tell who had what and which would best fit them next, all it showed was if it was equipped or not. You'd have to exit the workbench and go back through the character menu's, with their 11 different slots (It stopped being fun when I had 10 party members to work with). It was unnecessary trial and error BS I never want to do again. Remember the dumb swoop bike races? Their back, only now with moving obstacles...that explode! Yippie. This time I chose not to even bother. They also left out that pointless Ebon Hawk gun turret mini-game *mouths the words*-"Thank God!" And you know what, I think I had a better gaming experience because of it. Lastly was the convoluted story integration from the previous KotOR. Through out the game your given scattered insight of our last character Revan which almost never fit the way we remembered him...uh...her. See, thats the problem. The developer couldn't make up their minds. At various points in the game Revan is referred to by many NPC's as a "she" and later again a "he". And if that wasn't bad enough, some NPC's commented on the things I never did on different worlds. Once I was told how Revan went into Adjunta Palls tomb on Korriban quelling the Jedi spirit for his sword. Thing is, I was never able to get into that Tomb for some reason, the door was always locked despite any of my characters security skills, I made many trips to Korriban right up til the end of the game trying to unlock it, no dice. Over all KotoR2 was a great game despite its flaws. As long as you're a fan of movie and game, you'll be happy.Read full review
Awesome game even all these years later. If you're playing the original xbox version on your 360 you will run into some audio spasms where the high pitched screeches will randomly happen but it's not really that bad. You get used to it. Besides that it's an awesome game. Exactly like the first kotor which isn't a bad thing. If your a Star Wars fan like me you're bound to like it.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
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