14 DAY TRIAL // When BioWare said that Star Wars: The Old Republic would add the pillar of story to the massively multiplayer online role-playing genre, it was clearly not lying. The creative director of the game, Daniel Erickson, has recently said that there will be a massive amount of content when it comes to the number of dialogue lines used in conversations. There will be more voice-over in Star Wars: The Old Republic than in 50 Star Wars novels put together, according to the BioWare developer.
“The game itself, when you talk about total number of conversations, is bigger than every other game we’ve ever done put together,” Erickson declared in an interview with VG247. “At one point, we realized that, just for voice-over content, we were larger than 50 Star Wars novels – which was kind of surprising. That kind of stuff is exciting and scary all at once.”
He continued to comment that, “When we talk about things like, ‘You can play through one faction, and then play all the way through another faction, and it’s totally different,’ that’s huge. Even if you’re in the same faction, you’ve got a whole class story that’s going to take you all the way through everything.” Star Wars: The Old Republic is BioWare's first attempt at an MMORPG. The game is set thousands of years before the Star Wars film trilogies and 300 years after the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. It will allow players to explore a galaxy in turmoil and experience a full-scale war between the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire.
The developer stated before that it was trying to incorporate the best MMO mechanics available in the project, while innovate where it deemed it necessary,ă like, for example, in the story department. Star Wars: The Old Republic is set to arrive sometime in the spring of 2011.