During the 26th episode of their "Respec Radio" podcast, the editors at GameInformer cover "the first 20 levels of their Empire-side characters, including how close to World of Warcraft the combat is, why the companion system is awesome, and whether BioWare's promise of storytelling we'll actually care about seems to have been delivered." If that sounds like something you'd like to listen to, free up an hour's worth of time and dive in via their embedded player or a direct download of the original MP3.