The story takes place in the Star Wars fictional universe shortly after the establishment of a tenuous peace between the re-emergent Sith Empire and the Galactic Republic, 300 years after the events of the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic games and more than 3,500 years before the events in the Star Wars films.
Release Date: TBA 2011
Exclusively on: PC
RP-T+ for Rating Pending, Targeting a Rating of Teen or Above
Genre: Persistent Online RPG
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Developer/Co-Developer: BioWare Austin / BioWare
Release Date: TBA 2011
Exclusively on: PC
RP-T+ for Rating Pending, Targeting a Rating of Teen or Above
Genre: Persistent Online RPG
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Developer/Co-Developer: BioWare Austin / BioWare
Game Development:
The Old Republic marks BioWare's first entry into the MMORPG market, and it will be the second Star Wars MMORPG after Star Wars Galaxies. BioWare had long been interested in working on a MMORPG, but waited until they had "the right partners, the right team, and the right I.P." A major focus in the game is on developing characters' individual stories and, in October 2008, BioWare considered this game to have more story content than all of their other games combined. The writing team has been working on the project longer than any of the game's other development teams. An October, 2008 preview noted some of the 12 full-time writers had been working on the The Old Republic for more than two years at that point.
The game's first cinematic trailer, "Deceived", was shown at the Electronic Arts 2009 E3 Press Conference on June 1, 2009. A public live demo was shown for the first time at the Gamescom. On September 29, 2009, Bioware announced that they would be accepting applications for testers from the game community. Within minutes, the official website was down due to traffic, and Bioware announced shortly after that the site was being changed in order to accommodate the increase in visitors. A second cinematic trailer, "Hope", was released on June 14, 2010, that depicts another battle that happened before the game, the Battle of Alderaan. Game testing was officially announced to be underway on July 9, 2010, for testers from North American territories. As of September 2010, the official website has shown inclusion of the character Darth Revan and information of his reign in the gameplay. The budget is rumored to be roughly 300 million dollars by a company insider.
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