KOTOR Fans Celebrate 20th Anniversary With Resurfaced E3 2001
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic turns 20 today, and it's perhaps not the grand affair we would have expected a year ago. With the Remake reportedly in a rough place, the series is hitting this huge milestone without much fanfare on the official end of things. But thankfully, the folks over at Noclip have something to make up for it: footage of an early KOTOR build that you've almost definitely never seen before.
Over on its YouTube channel Noclip has shared a KOTOR presentation that would have been shown to the press at E3 2001, two years before the game launched. Given how E3 was a much less scripted, pre-planned affair back then too, it's a real behind-the-scenes look at how KOTOR played during production, with this early build featuring gameplay and story elements that never made it into the final release.
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The demo kicks off not with any pre-rendered cutscenes or celebrity cameos, but with a simple slideshow of character concept art. Here, we're introduced to early sketches of some of the possible main character designs, and even a look at Bastila before BioWare settled on her iconic Jedi design.
It seems that this presentation was put together when the devs had very different plans for the cast too. For example, the dev says we can expect to have an "exotic Twi'lek" follow us around during our journeys. This was presumably an adult Twi'lek, given the choice of wording here, not the 14-year-old Mission Vao we got in the final game.
After that, we get some animations - and they're a lot smoother than what we'd get in the final game. It is lovely hearing the dev gush about the fact that their character models have individual
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