Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic has been delayed indefinitely

Role-playing game developed by BioWare studio and published by LucasArts in 2003. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic It was a huge critical and commercial success, selling over 3 million copies.

The story takes place four millennia before the rise of the Galactic Empire, at a time when the Old Republic is in danger of collapse, an attack by the Armada Sith Lord Darth Malak. The game follows the journey of a group of adventurers in the service of the Republic and the Jedi Order who go in search of clues about the origins of the Sith threat.

One of the best Star Wars games ever

With a critically acclaimed gameplay system and a story that creates and utilizes a previously unknown part of the Star Wars Expanded Universe, it is considered one of the best video games based on the George Lucas franchise. Its success led to the development of this part of the Expanded Universe through other video games, as well as a series of comic books and novels.

In April 2021, the specialist journalist – and always very well informed – Jason Schreier, who now works for the business site Bloomberg, again mentioned in a podcast the rumors of a remake of this title, led by the development studio Aspyr Media.

This was confirmed in September 2021 at the Sony Playstation exhibition: the studio was actively working on a remake of the game, and not a “simple” remastered version. Nuance is important. This is the new version Star Wars: Knight of the Old RepublicA temporary exclusive on Sony’s PS5 console, it was supposed to be released on PC later.

Here is the announcement for September 2021..

KOTOR is suspended above the void

Why are you talking about it in the past tense? Jason Schreier at it again Now causes the game to be delayed indefinitely. More or less expected by the end of 2022, KOTOR wouldn’t come out of limbo until 2025, according to studio members who confided in the reporter.

What happened ? Apparently, the two masters of the project, art director Jason Minor and head of design, Brad Prince, were fired from the studio earlier this month. This is all the more problematic because they were working on the Star Wars license right around the time they were at BioWare; Further assurances for this remake to go in the right direction.

As a result, development of KOTOR was stopped, although it had been active for three years. All is not lost either. Saber Interactive is the studio we own the last one Evil Dead: The Game, would have stepped up in May of last year, and according to sources inside studio Aspyr, would now take the development of the game under his wing. This is still speculation; Aspir declined to comment on the matter.

If the history of video games is mostly paved with examples of titles that were developed for several years before being abandoned, it is still difficult to imagine, given the importance of this license and the interest that KOTOR causes (remember, we are talking about one of the best Star Wars games), let It should be completely abandoned. To be continued…