E3 2010 - Star Wars: The Old Republic

I've been looking forward to a new MMO for a while now. SW:TOR looks like it will be a big budget game with plenty of backing and high profile name. My hopes for the game being successful go beyond the Star Wars name and the huge backing from EA, BioWare and Lucas Arts, though. It's the fact that the gameplay looks so compelling and the classes look individualized enough that you might just find your perfect little niche in the game.

There are going to be standard MMO limitations, however. There will be tanks and healers, there will be various DPS, and there will be phat lewtz. The developers said that the game will be laid out in such a way that you will play you class "story" during the game. I'm not sure what that means or how that will change grouping, but it seems like it might be an interesting new take on the tired old questing system that we have now in MMO games. I hope very much that SW:TOR can break the mold of standard MMO games and go beyond with something that is both involving and fun. I want to play with other people, but I also want to be able to play alone. Good solo and group play will really make or break this game.

At E3 this year there has been a wealth of knowledge and a plethora of information given about SW:TOR. The game is scheduled to be released in Spring of 2011, hopefully this is the last time I have to see it at E3 without being able to play it. We have had interviews with developers and writers. We have seen countless new videos and treated to some hands-on play. Though they were not my hands, I am still glad that SOMEONE got to play the game. I can't tell you how excited this wealth of knowledge makes me, yet sad at the same time. I know that I won't get a good solid chunk of info for another month or more and I won't be able to play for almost another year. As we head into the summer of 2010 all I can do is prepare myself for the hours of my life that this game will steal away.