STAR WARS Knights of the Old Republic
Moderate overall intensityWhat's in it
The player can steal, extort, murder, and make villainous dark-side choices against civilians as part of the alignment system.
Round-based combat with lightsabers, blasters, and grenades against human, alien, and droid enemies; some blood but no gore or dismemberment.
Cantinas serve alcohol that characters drink, and the illegal drug spice is referenced and traded in the galaxy's underworld.
The story deals with slavery, betrayal, genocide (an entire city is bombed), and a corrupting dark side path with cruel choices.
The player character is interrogated and tortured in a captivity sequence, and cruelty toward captives is available on the dark-side path.
Optional minigames include the card game Pazaak and betting on swoop races.
Twi'lek cantina dancers and some slaves wear brief, revealing outfits.
A few tense areas feature diseased mutant rakghouls and ancient tombs, without graphic scares.
Standard creature combat against beasts like kath hounds and wraids as ordinary gameplay.
An optional romance subplot with a companion stays at the level of dialogue, attraction, and a kiss.
Occasional mild insults and sci-fi expletives in dialogue.
Who can reach your kid
What it is
Knights of the Old Republic is a single-player Star Wars role-playing game set thousands of years before the films, where you build a character and travel the galaxy to stop a Sith invasion. Gameplay centers on round-based combat with lightsabers, blasters, and Force powers against humans, aliens, droids, and wild creatures, with hits that are mostly bloodless. Along the way you move through a criminal underworld of gangs, bounties, cantinas serving alcohol, and card and racing gambling, and you make story choices that let you help others or take a cruel path of extortion, murder, and coercion. Themes include slavery, genocide, betrayal, and a captivity sequence in which your character is interrogated and tortured. There is a light optional romance and some revealing character outfits, and language stays mild.
How it's framed
The game is built around a light-side/dark-side morality system that explicitly tracks your choices, letting you play as a compassionate Jedi or pursue power through cruelty and crime, with the narrative treating the dark-side path as a genuine temptation and moral fall rather than presenting either choice without consequence.
Details
- Developer
- BioWare
- Publisher
- LucasArts
- Released
- Sep 5, 2009
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