Star Wars: KotOR II Review
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Moments of scene-stealing aside, there is in fact a sinister and unnerving atmosphere of distrust that runs through the game, forged in large part by a cast of new characters that are more ambiguous and complex than those of the first adventure. For all the tightly scripted dialogue and faultless delivery, the polygon personalities of KOTOR Episode I were easily labelled as good or bad. In Sith Lords, you have characters that (aside from a tiresome off-the-shelf rogue) from the very beginning portray ambivalence, hide secrets and display flashes of emotion and humour. Ultimately, while the plot twists are more obvious as the game nears its inevitable climax, the characters do a fine job of masking what small deficiencies there are in the story itself. Knights Of The Old Republic has effectively grown up... Or reached adolescence, at least.
