

Instead, Jedi Academy built its narrative to a climactic moment in which your hero has the choice to kill a villain. However, with players able to wield both light and dark Force powers simultaneously in their arsenal, basing the outcome on upgrade selection simply wasn't possible. Predecessor Jedi Knight: Jedi Outcast ditched the multiple-ending approach, much to the chagrin of many series fans, so Jedi Academy aimed to inject some choice back into its campaign. These more aggressive options helped define your presence in the world and the way you interacted with others. Players who chose the Jedi profession in the game could opt to unlock skills on the dark side of the upgrade chart, which led to abilities like Remorseless Nature, Wracking Energy, and Force Choke. Shut down just days before The Old Republic went live in 2011, Sony Online Entertainment's Star Wars Galaxies was the first franchise MMORPG, and it successfully ran for more than eight years. Pick your side, fight to the death, and do it again and again. Online shootouts were the true highlight of the package, with the conquest-style team battles spanning a wide array of familiar locales.



As such, you can really play how you want to play, and there's a massive amount to enjoy within the excellent MMO, which now offers a free-to-play component.Ĭapturing the scale and intensity expected from the films' larger battles, Star Wars: Battlefront (and especially sequel Battlefront II) delivered sharp competitive multiplayer skirmishes where players could select between Rebel Alliance and Galactic Empire forces from the original trilogy, or Galactic Republic or Confederacy of Independent Systems soldiers from the prequel era. While your decisions still affect your morality placement between the light and dark side, you'll choose between the Galactic Republic and Sith Empire factions – these decisions are not mutually exclusive in nature. BioWare returned to the franchise recently for its first MMORPG experience, with a game that merged common genre elements with others like those seen in KOTOR and Mass Effect.
