![]() But still, rejoice that we can all finally revisit a Star Wars game that's not ye annual rote shooter, or that has you doing laps in a merchandising-chummy pod racer, or shark-jumpingly wrenching Star Destroyers out of orbit with your mind. ![]() Sure, even the best Star Wars games are still a galaxy far, far away from the yarn-spinning chops of a Gene Wolfe or Neal Stephenson. Some fans would say that Knights of the Old Republic II is the best-told Star Wars tale to date. Want invisible headgear? Weapons hidden during cutscenes? The famed mod that professes to restore the features that Obsidian cut from the original? There's also Steam Workshop support-the ability to make and use mods. The restored Knights of the Old Republic II ending doesn’t completely reimagine the finale, but rather uses pieces of dialogue hidden within the game’s code to insert a few simple scenes that. Like: 37 gameplay achievements, Steam Cloud saves, widescreen, up to 5K resolution support, and the option to use gamepads (PlayStation 3 or 4 and Xbox 360 or One). ![]() More than a decade after its release in December 2004, developer Obsidian's science-fantasy roleplaying opus has finally been resuscitated on Mac, PC and Linux by port-monger Aspyr, and the forward path includes a few things I thought we'd never see. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II no longer lives under a rock that's been sitting in the backroom of used game stores that traffic in dusty original Xbox DVDs or forlorn Windows discs nestled inside physical boxes the size of library books.
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