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Old Republic Public Gameplay Demo coming soon

Hutchy — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 08:51:14 +0000

A few days ago I picked up on a post from Sean, one of the Community Managers at Bioware who mentioned they were going to showcase a playable demo to the crowds of Penny Arcade Expo and GamesCom.

TOR at GamesCom and Penny Arcade Expo
Star Wars: The Old Republic will be will be bringing the power of the Force to two more conventions this year, GamesCom (Cologne, Germany; August 19-24 ) and Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) (Seattle, Washington; September 4 – 6). During the conventions, the team we will be showcasing the first public gameplay demo

This could just be what we have seen already from the past gameplay post in playable or demo viewing form at the conventions, which would be slightly disappointing, however the same footage with a developer commentary behind it would explain and expand on a view features we saw tucked away into the preview.

As always, we will be awaiting the conventions and reporting all the news we hear and see back to you.

The Old Republic Gameplay and Quests with the Full Voice Overs

Hutchy — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 10:24:17 +0000

We have finally been blessed with one of the most revealing videos to come from Bioware so far.

The video snippet shows what seems to be an instanced quest with a party of 2. It starts by showing NPC interaction with a system thats VERY similar to Mass Effect dialogue where the player can select from a number of options to respond to the NPC with a dial.

Although the video is about this experience with a look into how they go about getting the voices into the game, the real juicy information is in the footage between it.

Real Gameplay moments are featured including the GUI and skill useage from what looks like the Sith class. If you look close enough you’ll notice his name is Darthevil with another player in his party.

The usual features can be seen in the UI including the Experience Bar, Mini Map, Skill bar with 5-6 skill icons listed, party frames and a chat window.
This is all followed by what looks like to be a channeled skill which the sith performs near the end of the film.

Seems that the UI captured from the World Design video was the real deal after all.

The Old Republic Gameplay Compilation

Hutchy — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 22:10:39 +0000

Over at Gametrailers.com, xxHIMxx, has put together a lot of information thats been seen from E3 and past events and created a feature gameplay movie. Admittely it’s not juicy gameplay footage, however it’s still one of the best Old republic videos I’ve seen so far (of actual ingame footage).

The video gives a great feel for the unique art style they seen to have given the game as well as the character models and animations. I wasn’t sure when I first saw the direction they were taking with the characters art style, but I think I’m starting to grow fond of it as I see more video footage.

Again, props to xxHIMxx for this contribution.