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In 2003, BioWare and LucasArts released Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic on PC and Xbox, with the game earning widespread critical acclaim and quickly recognized as arguably the finest Star Wars game ever made. The next year, Obsidian Entertainment released a sequel that, while not quite as well-received as the first game, still earned rave reviews and strong sales. Since then, fans have been waiting patiently for Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 3, but the game has never been announced.

Considering the popularity of the first two Knights of the Old Republic games, some fans may be scratching their heads as to why Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 3 still has yet to be developed. Well, there's a few reasons why fans haven't seen KOTOR 3 yet, but even though they've been waiting well over a decade at this point, there's still hope that the game will one day materialize.

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Why Knights of the Old Republic 3 Hasn't Happened

After BioWare shipped Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, it started work on a number of other projects, including the martial arts-themed RPG Jade Empire, as well as Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood for the Nintendo DS and its blockbuster sci-fi franchise Mass Effect. Mass Effect, in fact, can be seen as somewhat of a successor to the Knights of the Old Republic, and may be partially to blame for KOTOR 3's continued absence.

Mass Effect was headed by Casey Hudson and writer Drew Karpyshyn, who previously collaborated on KOTOR. Mass Effect's sprawling sci-fi universe was likely inspired by the Star Wars franchise, as was the choice to make it an epic saga across a trilogy of games instead of a singular release. With Mass Effect, BioWare could capture the audience that it reached with Knights of the Old Republic, but do so with an original IP that would offer greater benefits for the studio in the grand scheme of things.

Simply put, Mass Effect's existence made Knights of the Old Republic 3 redundant. From its combat system to its basic features and mechanics, it's clear that Mass Effect was heavily inspired by BioWare's previous work on KOTOR, and it wouldn't have made sense for BioWare to move forward with Knights of the Old Republic 3 at that point in time.

With BioWare busy working on games like the Mass Effect trilogy and its new Dragon Age franchise, Knights of the Old Republic 3 never got off the ground. However, that didn't mean BioWare was done with Star Wars or the titular 'Old Republic' just yet.

Rumors and Remakes

In 2011, BioWare launched Star Wars: The Old Republic, an MMO set in the Star Wars universe. While not quite Knights of the Old Republic 3, The Old Republic is the closest thing fans have gotten to the long-awaited sequel so far. In recent years, the game has been supported by BioWare Austin, who has continued pumping out expansion packs as early as last year.

BioWare Austin, by the way, has been rumored to be working on KOTOR 3 in the past. In fact, industry insider Liam Robertson claimed as much earlier this year, only to later redact his statement. While it's possible Robertson misspoke, BioWare Austin's continued work on Star Wars: The Old Republic shows that it has experience with the Knights of the Old Republic setting, and with the main BioWare studio busy on a new sci-fi action RPG called Anthem, it would make sense for BioWare Austin to lead the charge on KOTOR 3's development.

If BioWare Austin isn't developing Knights of the Old Republic 3, maybe it is working on a full-fledged remake of the original game. After all, there was a rumor a couple of years back that a Knights of the Old Republic remake was in the works, though if such a project does exist, nothing has been announced.

With nothing but rumors and speculation to go by, many KOTOR fans have given up hope that they will ever see Knights of the Old Republic 3. However, new hope for the game came in 2012, when Disney shook the entertainment industry at large to its very core.

A New Hope

In 2012, Disney shocked the world by purchasing LucasArts from Star Wars creator George Lucas to the tune of $4.06 billion. The company immediately got to work on its plans to revitalize the franchise, beginning development on new film projects, video games, novels, TV shows, and more.

Then in 2013, Disney made the decision to step away from console and PC game development, entrusting the Star Wars IP to Electronic Arts. EA immediately started assigning Star Wars video game projects to its biggest studios, with DICE set to work on Star Wars Battlefront and Visceral given an ill-fated Star Wars single player game. With EA now in control of Star Wars video games, it means now is more likely than ever that BioWare could finally start development on Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 3.

There are a few other interesting developments that should give fans some hope that they will eventually see a KOTOR 3 announcement. For one, major BioWare talent that worked on the original game have returned to the studio. Knights of the Old Republic writer Drew Karpyshyn has come out of retirement to work on Anthem, and director Casey Hudson is back at the company as well, currently serving as its general manager.

With a couple of the most important people that worked on the original KOTOR back at BioWare under the EA umbrella, it stands to reason that the studio may be even more interested in making KOTOR 3 than ever before. However, some fans may be worried that Karpyshyn and Hudson returning to BioWare doesn't mean much since Disney restructured Star Wars canon, retroactively making almost all non-film and television Star Wars products non-canon, including KOTOR.

On the contrary, Disney seems to have some respect for KOTOR and as a result, The Old Republic saga in general may still be canon. There's some evidence that speaks to this, namely with Star Wars Rebels referencing the Mandalorian Wars. For the uninitiated, the Mandalorian Wars were a conflict that KOTOR's plot revolves around, and if that event is still canon, it seems as though everything in KOTOR is also canon.

And finally, there's one more reason why Knights of the Old Republic fans should have some hope that they will one day see Knights of the Old Republic 3. The first game in the series is now playable on Xbox One, thanks to the console's backward compatibility with original Xbox games. While that may not necessarily mean much, it does show that EA is interested in making the game more readily available to modern gamers, and if the game proves popular enough on the service, it could prove to the higher-ups that KOTOR 3 would be a profitable endeavor.

Will we ever get Knights of the Old Republic 3? Right now, it's hard to say one way or another. However, it's more likely now than it was five years ago. We don't want to get anyone's hopes up, but all the pieces are in place for a KOTOR comeback, and it wouldn't be all that surprising to see the game finally announced at a big gaming event like E3 within the next couple of years.

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 3 is not currently in known development for any platforms.

We're going on a little historical diversion in a second, so if you're just here for an opinion take this one and run. 'Knights of the Old Republic is the best Star Wars game since X-Wing and/or Tie Fighter, if not ever. Unless something entirely unbelievable descends from the heavens, it's the RPG of the year. If the remaining major players fumble even slightly, it's game of the year. Along with Halo, it's the reason to invite Bill Gates into your house'. Got that? Great.

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Star Wars is enough to drive any fair-minded observer of popular culture insane. I sit in horror, watching otherwise sane-minded individuals wander out of the latest cinematic monstrosity cursing George Lucas' name only to - a handful of months later - go out and buy the DVD anyway 'for the extras'. You scratch your head at the AintItFatFacedAmericansInTheirBasements somehow claiming the original trilogy were the high points of cinematic history, when only Empire stands up as anything more than campy high adventure and Jedi is covered in a frankly embarrassing Ewokitis. And you grit your teeth as reviewer after reviewer adds twenty percent to a game's score because it’s got Stormtroopers and the real Lightsabre sound effects.

In short: I hate Star Wars.

The irony is before LucasArts lost anyone with a designer's brain in the company, they made some frankly astonishing videogames (It's probably difficult to recall post-Force-Commander et al, but in that early nineties period literally no other developer/publisher put out as many genuine classic games). Because I love videogames, I love the great Star Wars games that came from this period, because they’re great videogames - not because they're from that Galaxy a Long, Long way away.

Loving Star Wars games is nothing new. However, Knights of the Old Republic goes further into entirely unprecedented terrain.

It's made me love Star Wars. I care about the Sith and the Jedi. I care about the fate of Tatooine. I care about the plight of the Sand People. I care about Wookiees who've submitted to their rage. I care about the Mandaloreans, the Twi'lek and the Mon Calamari, and can even tell the difference between their funny shaped bodies (And thanks to KOTOR, I even know what real Star Wars fans are going to nit-pick about in the previous sentence). I care about all those guys.

In short, Knights of the Old Republic takes something that's been merchandised, franchised and branded to death over the last twenty-five years and makes it magical again.

It feels more like Star Wars than anything else has in living memory, and does so by moving the focus back four thousand years. And - would you believe it - things are very much as they are in the 'contemporary' Star Wars universe. This gives the game the strength of familiarity of theme, a mythic arc as you realise you're rooting around in the prehistory of the world and due to distance from the actual films, freedom to create a plot as galaxy-spanning as anything that was committed to celluloid. Joy-bandits wishing to run off with your happiness to the hills to spend on moonshine may comment that the fact so little has changed in the period to be unbelievable. At which point, simply reply 'Well - it's Star Wars, idiot. It’s a Science Fantasy, not science fact and reliant on a world where technologies have been existent for long enough to gain a legendary quality. So yay-sucks-boo, big-nose.'

That'll send them packing. Man, I hate those joy-bandits.

In terms of experience, essentially Knights of the Old Republic is the first successful Western-style console Role-Playing Game of the modern age. There have been attempts at it (Morrowind sticks out as a recent example) but they've been very much afterthoughts, little more than a PC game with the controls mapped onto a joypad. KOTOR isn't like that at all. KOTOR takes the design beliefs of the Western RPG form and then works out how to present them best for playing whilst sprawled on a sofa in your living room.

Most important thing here: they don't assume console players are dumb and want less than their PC-equipped friends. They give everything that you'd expect in the original Baldur's Gate (not Dark Alliance) games on a big beige box, just do it in a more appropriate form. This means that rather than indirectly controlling your party with a mouse, you directly manipulate your avatar with the rest of your team-mates trotting behind you.

The westernised RPG model differs from the eastern, as seen in such things as Final Fantasy, in several definitive ways. Mainly, rather than following a relatively linear path, you're given a degree of freedom. Your character may have a destiny, but the details are very much your own to create. For example, depending on how you choose to progress - either being nice or nasty, essentially - you can lean towards the light or dark sides of the force. It actually does pose moral dilemmas. Some evil actions are deeply attractive. Some are just utilitarian. Some acts of good are intrinsically very stupid indeed. All this adds to a game where you feel your actions have a direct effect on your experience and the experience of the world.

While offering more options than the average eastern RPG (i.e. there are some), character generation is kept stripped down, with a choice of sex and three possible classes. However, in terms of specialisation and personalisation, much more takes place in the game proper, though with plentiful options for those who can't be bothered with fiddling with statistics to sidestep the whole process and let the Xbox make the decisions. By its close, your character will be very much a reflection of what you want to be. Oh - and a Jedi.

However, your character is just one in a highly defined cast. Nine team-mates join you as you progress, any two of which can actually be with you 'in the field' at any time. These vary wildly, from various strains of Jedi, to alien races to droids, thus offering a wide selection of abilities. However, that's just game mechanics - a hit aimed at the brains. Far more interesting is how these characters are turned into actual characters - an all the more powerful blow aimed at the heart. Beautifully written, carefully defined and memorable, this is a cast who engender sympathy and empathy. While actually talking to the characters to delve their nature is, wisely, optional, only the hardest-souled individual would avoid it. Everyone in the world will fall in love with Assassin/Translator droid HK-47 (In short: Imagine if CP-30 was a misanthrope who wanted to kill everyone), but you'll all find personal favourites. Ordo the towering Mandalore warrior's rambling tales of towering machismo makes him mine, and takes the unique prize of being the only videogame character to make me wish I was gay.

Away from the main cast, the rest of the universe is populated expertly with even the smallest characters being personalised enough to make exploring it a pleasure. Often minor characters are embroiled in plentiful subplots, which provide mini-adventures away from the main thrust of the plot. Equally, the geezer who is from the same species as Yoda proves something we've always suspected about the Jedi Master of the films. Since this other guy can talk properly, the esteemed ancient trainer in fact actually does suffer a severe speech problem, thus proving the Jedi admirably unprejudiced in their recruitment policies.

Combat is similar to the Baldur's Gate games, in that you give orders to your individual characters who will then carry them out in a pseudo-real time manner. That is, there's all manner of calculations behind the scene, but you don't have to be party to them. Equally, you have the option of pausing time at any point to alter your tactics and try something else. Thermic Detonators are always a good one.

KOTOR is, however, far from perfect. Luckily, its failings are all too forgivable in the context of its epic sweep. There's a handful of genuine bugs. The frame-rate occasionally drops, which is a minor problem since the game isn't dependent on being an action game. Towards the end, when you’re leading a team of Jedi, combat can become somewhat easy on all but the hardest difficulty levels. There's more dialogue than you're probably used to, but it's linked to your decisions rather than thrown at you in endless cut-scenes, is performed by quality voice-actors and is as much as part of its strength as its weakness.

Failings, sure. But you really won't care.

So where does that leave us? Oh yes.

Knights of the Old Republic is the best Star Wars game since X-Wing and/or Tie Fighter, if not ever. Unless something entirely unbelievable descends from the heavens, it’s the RPG of the year. If the remaining major players fumble even slightly, it’s game of the year. Along with Halo, it’s the reason to invite Bill Gates into your house.

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