Introduction:

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is the first attempt to create a deep, story-driven role-playing game set in the epic Galaxy first introduced by George Lucas in it's blockbuster movie Star Wars: A New Hope. It will be both available for PC and Microsoft's Xbox console.

The game features:

• Immersive, action-packed Star Wars role-playing experience with customizable and evolving playable characters.

• Choose from nine customizable characters to build your party of three adventurers, including humans, droids, Twi'leks, and Wookiees.

• Journey spans seven different worlds including Tatooine, Sith world of Korriban, Jedi Academy on Dantooine and Wookiee homeworld of Kashyyyk.

• Build your party and upgrade your equipment in your own starship, the Ebon Hawk.

• Fast paced mini-games -- such as racing swoop bikes, or manning turret guns.

• The game is now available on the Xbox, and is scheduled for Fall 2003 on the PC.

What is TSL about?

This bit about the game’s story comes straight from the official site for the game:

"Engage in this saga set in the Golden Age of the Republic - over 4,000 years before the first Star Wars film, when both Jedi and Sith number in the thousands. With the Galaxy reeling from a recent conflict with the Mandalorianss, the ongoing battle between the Jedi and the Sith rages on. Your actions determine the outcome of this colossal galactic war - and your destiny as a Jedi."

During the game, you will step by step uncover both your future destiny and your mysterious past. Through your actions, you will also play a key role in shaping the Star Wars universe for generations to come.

The game's Opening Crawl reads this way:

A Long Time Ago In A Galaxy Far Far Away...

Four thousand years before the rise of the Galactic Empire, the Republic verges on a collapse. DARTH MALAK, last surviving apprentice of the Dark Lord Revan, has unleashed an invincible Sith armada upon an unsuspecting galaxy.

Crushing all resistance, Malak's war of conquest has left the Jedi Order scattered and vulnerable as countless Knights fall in battle, and many more swear allegiance to the new Sith Master.

In the skies above the Outer Rim world Taris, a Jedi battle fleet engages the forces of Malak in a desperate effort to halt the Sith's galactic domination.....

Credits:

Publisher: LucasArts
Developer: BioWare