Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords

"What Happened?"

I read all the reviews there is to the game here and in many other sites, but I don't understand how the rating can be so high? 8+? Come on... it is simply not worth it. Although the reviews in most cases are very accurate showing the flaws of the game, they still manage to put the score that high, I just can't understand how.

Because of the high rating is the reason that I bought the game, and not to mention that I was a fan of the first one, Kotor1, what a great game! So you can imagine how disappointed I was when I started to play this game, and yes I ended it too.

Story: 5/10
Horrible, what can I say? Everything is wrong here, first of all the characters. Kreia might be the worse character I've ever seen in my entire life as a player. Let me put it like this, there is Matrix original film = Kotor1and the other two in where you don't understand a thing they are saying and nothing about the plot, well there is no plot...

The guy who created this character Kreia must be an acid user or any other pharmaceutical stuff, cause the guy tripped here, playing the game with Kreia was like watching the X Files, just kept talking and in the end nothing made sense. I just don't want to play a game that makes no sense, and here the story doesn't exist, and you have to play all the game with a voice inside your head, irritating voice by the way, till the end, where you realise that all the hours of gameplay were really bad spent by playing Kotor2.

The other characters like the Sith Lords, the one that is the master of Visas, just useless, he eat planets for dinner? come on... that's an insult. The other one that looks like a Zombie, the guy is so not there, have no presence in the game at all.

Why the story didn't go well? First, it's bad written. Second, it's important a high cool factor in the characters (jedi/Sith ones), here the characters have no personality, are irritating and make no sense, oh tried to make something different like not too bad siths and not too good jedis? This is not the way to do it, by just throwing away words that neither were relevant or made sense. Malak was great, Revan even better, the twists and shocking events in the Kotor1 were ripped away from the sequel.

Sound: 6/10
Didn't like the sound, specially the music, I read in other reviews that the music was great, but I totally disagree. When you get inside the bars there is this awful song that keeps repeating itself while the alien girls dance, I just wanted to get the hell out of there as soon as possible. Something is wrong when you start to analyse the sound of a game, that happens specially cause of characters and what they say, the quests everything, for someone that played the first game, we compare all the things all the times, and in each and every way this game is worse than the first one, this includes the song that is only fair.

Graphics: 7/10
Nothing wrong with it, but nothing great either. They promised that during the game the lightsaber skill would develop, like the main char would begin the game all clumsy and then he would be jumping around like Master Yoda, well they broke the promise here. The character just develops new skills for the lightsaber but the graphical effects are minimal or you can't notice any difference at all.

Overall: 6/10
Knights of the old republic II: Sith Lords just have the name the same as the original game, but it lacks on the most important factor for this type of game, the story. The first one was almost like a movie in a game, seriously written, fantastic characters, just a masterpiece in every way, I would score the game a 9 or even 10 easily. Kotor 2 are all they could do wrong in a game, no story once so ever, no characters, perhaps if they were irrelevant like the sith lords it would be better, but then there was Kreia inside your head, a character that made no sense from the beginning till the end, the type of persona that if you were to find in real life you would want to stay as far as you can, but here you can't she's inside your head!

Reviewer's Score: 6/10, Originally Posted: 03/07/05