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‘Star Wars: The Old Republic’ launches
New video games this week:
“Star Wars: The Old Republic.” — This long-in-development game from BioWare Austin finally launches as the biggest title ever developed locally. It’s a massively multiplayer online role-playing game set thousands of years before the George Lucas films, but a few centuries after the well-received “Knights of the Old Republic” games. Players can choose to play as one of eight classes within the Galactic Republic or the Sith Empire. The game boasts more than 1,600 hours of voice-over dialogue that was cast and recorded by LucasArts and big plans for future expansions and new missions. The beta test of the game attracted good buzz and lots of players: about 750,000 people played. See austin360.com for an article about the game that ran in Saturday’s Life & Arts section. Rated T for Teen. $60-$150 for Standard, Digital Deluxe and Collector’s Editions, for Windows PCs.
Also out this week: “Trine 2” (downloadable for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3), “Satazius” (PC), “Heavy Fire: Afghanistan: The Chosen Few 3D” (Nintendo 3DS), “Soccer Up!” (Nintendo Wii).
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