“A reveal later this year has been planned,” 100% Star Wars then revealed, reinforcing previous claims that development under Saber has been progressing well. “Development on the game has not only been ramping up, but it’s been going extremely smoothly over the past three years since Saber started from scratch. They’ve been hiring some extremely high-end talent from across the industry and Saber is very much a unified front when it comes to the development of this game, with resources and talent being pulled from all over the company.” This all tallies with scraps of information we’ve heard about the KOTOR remake at Saber despite relative radio silence.
The original Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic game was released in 2003 by BioWare, and quickly established itself as one of the finest Star Wars games in an age and a stand-out RPG in its own right. BioWare wouldn’t go on to make a sequel, despite having some novel ideas for KOTOR 2, but instead those honours would go to Obsidian Entertainment. And although scruffier, KOTOR 2 has established a strong fan-favourite legacy of its own.
Hunger for a new Knights of the Old Republic game has remained strong ever since BioWare decided to hurl all of its creative effort into making a massively-multiplayer adaptation – Star Wars: The Old Republic – of the series rather than another single-player game. But former BioWare creators are starting to return to the promise of a Star Wars RPG, notably original KOTOR director Casey Hudson, who’s working on Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic – a spiritual successor of sorts. At this point, we have to wonder which game will arrive first. The Force, however, might be strong with both of them.
