So this is the first MMORPG I have ever actually bought, mainly becuase I play too many games to get involved with something so potentially addicting, so I might not be the best person to compare it to other games in the genre, I can however compare it to other Star Wars and Bioware games, and can say that so far it seems to do both the universe it's is set in and it's developer justice.
The game took around 2 hours to install, which quite frankly seems insane to me but maybe it's actually normal for this type of game I don't know. It also took a further 20 minutes to set up my account and by this point I was just thinking that it better be bloody good. Luckily it is.
Although its an online game and there are lots of people running around it does feel a lot like the other old republic games, it's very story focused and each class (there are 8 of them) has their own set of missions that advance their plot line. The voice acting and cut scenes are really well done and they are what you would expect from Bioware really, perhapse the dialogue trees aren't as varied as in their last few games but it uses something that looks and feels very similar to the system found in Mass Effect 2 whenever you speak to someone, and that's fine by me.
The combat is pretty satisfying, I don't think it does anything new within the genre but it does do it really well regardless, it's accessible without feeling overly simple. In fact the game plays really well in general and I don't really have many complaints so far, though I can't seem to find anywhere that it states how much more XP I need to level up which might seem like a little thing but it's annoying me all the same, though maybe its there and I am just missing it, I don't know.
The game runs really well on my humble i5 laptop, with a g force 520m graphics card, and 6gb of ram. I have everything set to maximum besides shadows, which are set to low, and it runs as smooth as anything (however having shadows on high causes it to slow down ALOT).
So yeah, so far it's great....I just hope I don't get too addicted.
The game took around 2 hours to install, which quite frankly seems insane to me but maybe it's actually normal for this type of game I don't know. It also took a further 20 minutes to set up my account and by this point I was just thinking that it better be bloody good. Luckily it is.
Although its an online game and there are lots of people running around it does feel a lot like the other old republic games, it's very story focused and each class (there are 8 of them) has their own set of missions that advance their plot line. The voice acting and cut scenes are really well done and they are what you would expect from Bioware really, perhapse the dialogue trees aren't as varied as in their last few games but it uses something that looks and feels very similar to the system found in Mass Effect 2 whenever you speak to someone, and that's fine by me.
The combat is pretty satisfying, I don't think it does anything new within the genre but it does do it really well regardless, it's accessible without feeling overly simple. In fact the game plays really well in general and I don't really have many complaints so far, though I can't seem to find anywhere that it states how much more XP I need to level up which might seem like a little thing but it's annoying me all the same, though maybe its there and I am just missing it, I don't know.
The game runs really well on my humble i5 laptop, with a g force 520m graphics card, and 6gb of ram. I have everything set to maximum besides shadows, which are set to low, and it runs as smooth as anything (however having shadows on high causes it to slow down ALOT).
So yeah, so far it's great....I just hope I don't get too addicted.
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