Star Wars: The Old Republic:- Final Thoughts

It’s been almost a month since the release of Star Wars: The Old Republic, and while we’ve still not played through half of the game, I finally feel that we’ve played enough to give you a definitive verdict. Before getting to that, however, I’m going to touch on several points I’ve yet to mention, though [...]

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Fri, January 27 2012 » PC/Mac, Reviews » No Comments

Star Wars: The Old Republic: Light and Dark Decisions, Space Combat and Flashpoints

Star Wars The Old Republic is a Massively Multiplayer Online RPG with an emphasis on the word MASSIVE. A lot of the time MMOs don’t take on a life of their own until long after their initial release, rendering early reviews redundant.  There there is the fact that there is so much content it would [...]

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Mon, January 9 2012 » PC/Mac, Reviews » 2 Comments

The Old Republic Breaks Record

In addition to it’s post-launch success The Old Republic can add a further commendation to it’s mantle… “Largest Entertainment Voice Over Project”. Yes, and it’s official, Guinness official. No, it’s not official “after a few pints”, it’s in the Guinness World Records 2012 Gamer’s Edition which helpfully re-prints the 200,000 lines of dialog voiced by [...]

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Sun, January 8 2012 » Gaming News » No Comments

First Impression: Star Wars: The Old Republic

And thus, after almost 4 years of known development, what is probably the year’s most anticipated game has finally been released. Star Wars: The Old Republic has launched on the 20th of this month, and newbreview.com is here to give you all our first impressions of the game. Why just some First Impressions? Well, you [...]

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Wed, December 21 2011 » PC/Mac, Reviews » 2 Comments

Retro Fix:- Knight of the Old Republic 2 “Restored”

As promised last week, I’ve played through the fan restored version of Kotor 2, to see if the fans were capable of fixing what was meant to be a truly epic game. I have to put one thing out of the way first though; this review is going to be spoilerific. The reason is that [...]

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Fri, October 7 2011 » Retrospectives » No Comments