Insider: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remake is very different from the original

Studio Aspyr media plans to heavily change the combat system in the remake Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic… Told about this with reference to his sources YouTube blogger MrMattyPlays, who announced at the beginning of 2023 that the project was being developed outside the walls of the publishing house EA. The rumor was later confirmed by a journalist. Bloomberg Jason Schreier, with whom MrMattyPlays collaborated.

In dilogy Knights of the old republic the character moved in real time, but the exchange of blows with the enemies took place in a step-by-step mode, and the player had to preset his characters with a sequence of actions. However, in the remake, the approach will be revised. According to MrMattyPlays, the new game will have a combat system more reminiscent of what players are used to seeing in standard Action RPGs.

The blogger also confirms the information that the remake will not be verbatim. Instead, players will be waiting for a hybrid of the Knights of the Old Republic and Knights of the Old Republic 2

It is possible that the new project will also be more closely related to Star Wars: The Old Republic, because the management of Aspyr Media has lured many ex-employees to itself BioWare Austinresponsible for the development of the MMO.

It is still unclear if the Knights of the Old Republic remake will be included in the new canon. “Star Wars“from Disney, because all three projects are from BioWare /Obsidian are considered part of the old canon, which is called “Star Wars: Legends“(Star Wars: Legends).

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