Star Wars: The Old Republic Beginner's Breakdown
The Star Wars franchise has seen the release of many video games over the years alongside its prolific big and small screen output. While the games released under the Star Wars banner vary greatly in genre and style, Star Wars: The Old Republic stands alone as the only MMO in the franchise so far. Not only that, but it also takes place thousands of years before the majority of Star Wars stories. Both Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and Star Wars: The Old Republic let players explore parts of the galaxy that other games, films, TV shows, and comics rarely cover, which opens the door to some fascinating narrative avenues.
BioWare's Star Wars-themed MMORPG initially garnered a monumental amount of interest and a record-breaking number of players in its first few weeks. While this did tail off over the following months, The Old Republic has maintained a dedicated player base and still continues to get expansion packs and new content over a decade after its release. For any players that haven't yet given it a try, The Old Republic is still worth playing (despite some controversy surrounding its latest expansion), especially for Star Wars fans that want to experience a new side to the galaxy they're already familiar with and fully immerse themselves in the world.
How The Old Republic Brings Revan's Story to a Close
The Old Republic takes players to a brief moment of fragile peace between the Galactic Republic Empire and the re-emergent Sith. Set three hundred years after the events of Knights of the Old Republic and around three and a half thousand years before the adventures of Luke Skywalker and his various companions, The Old Republic shows gamers a unique period of Star Wars history. While the battle between light
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