STAR WARS™ Knights of the Old Republic™ II - The Sith Lords™
5 years after the events of the award winning original, the Sith are on the verge of crushing the Old Republic. As a lone Jedi, will you follow the light side or succumb to the dark?
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Release Date: 8 Feb, 2005

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Five years after the events from the award winning Star Wars® Knights of the Old Republic™, the Sith Lords have hunted the Jedi to the edge of extinction and are on the verge of crushing the Old Republic. With the Jedi Order in ruin, the Republic’s only hope is a lone Jedi struggling to reconnect with the Force. As this Jedi, you will be faced with the galaxy’s most dire decision: Follow the light side or succumb to the dark…

Key Features:

  • Follow up to the acclaimed and original Star Wars® Knights of the Old Republic™.
  • Choose from three different classes of Jedi, each with access to specific Jedi abilities.
  • Choose the light or the dark side of the Force as you progress through the story.
  • The choices you make will affect your character, those in your party and those who may join you in your quest.

System Requirements

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    • OS: Windows 7 or newer
    • Processor: Intel Core i3 (2 Cores), AMD A10
    • CPU Speed: 2.2 GHz
    • Memory: 4GB RAM
    • Hard Disk Space: 10 GB
    • Video Card (ATI): Radeon HD 5450
    • Video Card (NVidia): GeForce 260
    • Video Card (Intel): HD 4400
    • Video Memory (VRam): 256MB
    • Controller Support: Microsoft® Xbox® 360 Controller for Windows® (Wired), Microsoft® Xbox® 360 Games for Windows® Wireless Controller with Adapter, Microsoft® Xbox® One Controller (Wired), Razor Sabertooth – Gaming Controller for Xbox 360, Thrustmaster GPX, Logitech Gamepad F310, Logitech Wireless Gamepad F710

    Important Note: For users that prefer the original version of the game or for users on old hardware that can no longer run KOTOR II in its updated form, we have created a "legacy branch" that will allow users to access the original released content. Click on the support link and our team will walk you through the process.
    • OS: 10.9.5 (Mavericks), 10.10 (Yosemite)
    • Processor: Intel Core i3 (2 Cores)
    • CPU Speed: 2.2 GHz
    • Memory: 4GB RAM
    • Hard Disk Space: 10 GB
    • Video Card (ATI): Radeon HD 3870
    • Video Card (NVidia): GeForce 330M
    • Video Card (Intel): HD 3000
    • Video Memory (VRam): 256MB
    • Controller Support: Microsoft® Xbox® 360 Controller for Windows® (Wired), Microsoft® Xbox® One Controller (Wired), SONY® PS3 DUALSHOCK®3 wireless controller, SONY® PS4 DUALSHOCK®4 wireless controller, Logitech RumblePad™ 2, Logitech™ Dual Action™
    • OS: SteamOS, Ubuntu 14.04
    • Processor: Intel Core i3 (2 Cores), AMD A10
    • CPU Speed: 2.2 GHz
    • Memory: 4GB RAM
    • Hard Disk Space: 10 GB
    • Video Card (ATI): Radeon HD 5450
    • Video Card (NVidia): GeForce 440
    • Video Card (Intel): HD 4400
    • Video Memory (VRam): 256MB
    • Controller Support: Steam Controller, Microsoft® Xbox® 360 Controller for Windows® (Wired), Microsoft® Xbox® 360 Games for Windows® Wireless Controller with Adapter, SONY® PS3 DUALSHOCK®3 wireless controller (Wired), SONY® PS4 DUALSHOCK®4 wireless controller (Wired), Logitech Gamepad F310, Logitech Wireless Gamepad F710
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15 of 16 people (94%) found this review helpful
Recommended
74.2 hrs on record
Posted: 14 September
You know, this game catches a lot of flack in comparison to the first KOTOR, which is widely heralded as a masterpiece of gaming. Flack which is well deserved, yet easily rectified. The main quarrel most gamers hold to this particular game is that IT WASN'T RELEASED IN THE FULL AND COMPLETE FORM AND THAT THE STORY DOESN'T MAKE SENSE.
While there is some merit to this claim, you truly need to gaze deeper to fully understand this game. The game was fully intended to be just as perfect as its predecessor. However, Obsidian, the company in charge of the project was forced to play their hand before they were ready to release. The result was a patchwork project that can make a coherent game, and one that stands alone as one of my all time favorites. Was the game released in a complete form? Hell no. Can this be fixed? Now we're talking.

You see, others feel the same way as I do about this game. It *is* an excellent game and all it needs is a bit of dedication and elbow grease to get it to shine. A determined group of modders recovered files that were scraped from the final release of the game and constructed a mod that fitted these files into the game. Lost items, recorded dialogue, and even an entire planet were restored and reborn through the crucible of modding. This mod is compatible with the Steam version of this game and I highly recommend you install it (http://deadlystream.com/forum/files/file/398-tslrcm-183/), as well as the sister mod which restores the droid planet M4-78 (http://deadlystream.com/forum/files/file/399-m4-78ep-patched/). Outside of these two mods, there are multiple others I recommend you try as they improve the overall game experience. The mods are now available through the Steam workshop, but I'll just leave these links here anyway.

But about the game itself, unmodded, and purchased from Steam without the addition of a single modification. This game is spectacular. Don't let my measly hours of play depicted by Steam deceive you, I played this game extensively on the original X-Box when the game first came out and I still have the disk to this day (although, admittedly, it is a bit worse for the wear at this point). Despite the cries and whines of the gaming community, this game is entirely playable without the restoration of lost elements. It simply takes a bit of digging into the story. On the XBOX version and as a child, I was able to understand the entirety of the story of the game quite easily. You might have to play through multiple times and see each conversation from a different angle, but you can do it. It's not the jagged mess many make it out to be. Inferences and an active imagination may be required to fill the gaps, however. Get ready to think and make connections between different characters and events. Just use your noggin and you'll be fine.

Here's where I believe the true root of the problem is: people approach this game thinking that it will be a fun little game they can just jaunt through casually and there will be an exciting adventure story to accompany it. Spoilers: it's not. This game is exponentially darker than the original KOTOR, heck, three of the planets you explore are inhabited only by corpses by the time you arrive. This game was intended to have you question your morals, in fact, there are some parts where no matter which choice you make, dark or light, you are doing something terrible. It was intended to bring to light that in a conflict, there is no middle ground to take, but rather, by doing nothing you hurt one side and allow the other to gain a leg up and by doing something, no matter the action, the end result is the same. You are full of all the powers of the Force, and yet, you are powerless. And when you can finally change the outcomes of events, the freedom is glorious and all the more worthwhile.
Well, that was the intent, anyway.
Portions on missing, so patches of this beautiful quilt of morality are missing. But the game is still superb and well worth every hour I've logged. Go ahead, buy it, play with an open mind, mod it, and explore. And may the Force be with you.

(This was a review that I wrote a while ago that I deleted and reposted so that more people could view it with ease.)
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13 of 15 people (87%) found this review helpful
33 people found this review funny
Recommended
8.6 hrs on record
Posted: 18 September
Has more exploration possibilities than No Man's Sky. 10/10
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4 of 5 people (80%) found this review helpful
Recommended
0.2 hrs on record
Posted: 24 September
Extremely incomplete but very likely the best thing so far done with the Star Wars IP.


Kreia is a very interesting character indeed.
Play it!
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2 of 2 people (100%) found this review helpful
Recommended
37.9 hrs on record
Posted: 16 September
As the preceding game, KotOR II is one of those classics everyone who digs RPGs should play before they die. It was released ridden with bugs because of humanity's base Christmas instincts and I remember having to do a lot of 'hacking' to even get to see the main menu back in 2004. It's said the devs having to rush it resulted in a weirdly incomplete final planet and ending, but I've always been mildly disappointed with the drabness of the first one, Peragus, and it seems I'm not alone in this as there's even a 'skip Peragus' mod out there. One of the many glitches I actually like - infinite Hssiss ('dark side lizards') on Korriban - going to the Sith homeworld and returning incredibly powerful totally fits the roleplay going on in my brain.

KotOR 2 is generally exquisite though. It's a lot more complex and dark than the first episode. In KotOR I you were usually given the choice of being either a preachy goody-two-shoes Luke or a butthurt homicidal maniac. The Sith Lords offers shades of grey, even if not quite 50. All the accolades Kreia has received are deserved.Characters with motives alike hers are often the most intriguing in storytelling as a longing for the void is something us muggles can probably never quite wrap our heads around. Making the game truly revolve around you, the main character, helps immersion quite a bit. The influence system fits into the lore very well and I'm pretty sure it's the first game where you can twist your NPC companions quite as much. 'Best Star Wars game ever' rings true, I'd be hard pressed to name any other title that comes close.

Too bad we were deprived of KotOR III.
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2 of 2 people (100%) found this review helpful
Recommended
222.8 hrs on record
Posted: 17 September
Great update to one of the greatest RPGS of all time. LOVE the gamepad support and achievments!
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2 of 2 people (100%) found this review helpful
Recommended
72.9 hrs on record
Posted: 16 September
Other than some minor bugs that had me restart a level, this is a classic RPG, and the best star wars one that I have ever played.
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2 of 2 people (100%) found this review helpful
1 person found this review funny
Recommended
115.9 hrs on record
Posted: 28 September
my character has a nice ♥♥♥ (͡ ͡° ͜ つ ͡͡°) (the story is also good btw)
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1 of 1 people (100%) found this review helpful
Recommended
43.5 hrs on record
Posted: 22 September
This is the somewhat disappointing lead-up to the amazing first Kotor. It bears all the strengths of the first game. However, everything is kind of diluted and unfinished. The writing is great, but the plot less engaging; the characters are nice, but the dialogue is annoyingly open-ended; there are more powers and items, but the game mechanics are extremely broken; the game is longer, but there are idiotic gaps and missing content.

You can talk through the same stuff over and over again with the NPCs. You can go light side weapon master and still spam force storm a hundred times in a fight. You can get in serious trouble by going to Nar Shaddaa as your first planet. Or by playing even one of the side characters in the wrong way. You can miss important bits of information if you don't choose the exactly right dialogue options. And so forth.

I would still say it's worth playing through at least two times. Despite all its flaws and being in the shadow of its predecessor, it's still a great Star Wars RPG. It's not like we have that many of those around.
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1 of 1 people (100%) found this review helpful
Recommended
25.2 hrs on record
Posted: 15 September
Port Review
I want to focus on the PC/Mac/Linux port and, more importantly, the July 2015 update from Aspyr. I originally played through this game at the tail end of 2004 on the Xbox and had a pretty terrible time trying to run through the PC port several years later. The game did not originally have widescreen support, so you had to use third-party programs to properly adjust the resolution, but then the user interface and text were messed up, so you had to find another solution to a new problem. If you wanted to play the game on a bigger display with a controller, hopefully you had your old directinput Logitech controller laying around, or else it wasn't happening. The developers didn't have time to complete the game's story, much less fix lightsaber effect bugs. All said, if you wanted to play this game on a computer with a mouse and keyboard on a 4:3 display, you probably wouldn't have had many issues. By the time I got around to the PC version, modders had furiously worked together to piece cut content back together.

Then, in July 2015, out of the blue, Aspyr released an update for this game. Now it is playable with both Mac OS X and Linux operating systems. There's native widescreen support, in addition to resolution options up to 5k (5120x2880). Pretty much every controller under the sun is now supported, whether it be directinput or xinput. They added Steam Cloud save support and achievements. Maybe most importantly, however, is they added Steam Workshop support so you can easily add the cut content back into the game.

Nearly any computer that can run Windows 7 or newer should be able to play this game without issues. Any Mac that can (officially) run OS 10.9.5 or higher shouldn't have any issues, either. I'm assuming if you have Linux you've probably already beat this game twice and whatever Frankenstein you've put together will run it.

Thanks to both the modders and Aspyr for their support of this game over the past decade.
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1 of 1 people (100%) found this review helpful
Recommended
8.4 hrs on record
Posted: 18 September
If I could marry a game, it would be this one!
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apaltanea
64.9 hrs
Posted: 14 October
Good old-school RPG - I think the best SW RPG title. Storyline is very good.
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murfman
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makersley
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Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Far too long and slow and bloated compared to the original KOTOR. Where that game neatly captured the spirit of Star Wars and presented rollicking fun action and a fight between good and evil, this one suddenly takes a left turn into being Serious and Weighty and Shades of Grey. Except that's not what Star Wars is good at. Just go play the first game again, trust me. The only thing better here is the implementation of Pazaak.
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Sexy Spaniard
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Great game, perfect sequel to the first one. Great improvements across the board, literally the only two things I prefer about the first game, is firstly, the length, this game is far shorter, and the ending kinda gets boring so you start rushing through the final level. And secondely the nostalgia, though far more fun to play with, and have on a team, the characters from this game just arent as memorable as Bastilla and Carth.

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Harbringer
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Posted: 11 October
KOTOR 2 is a really good game. Yes, it has outdated graphics(still looks not that bad in comparison with 2012-2013 games), and it's script is a bit weaker than previous game's one was, but this game still amazing, just like the first time I played it. First time I saw The Sith lords, fall and restoration of Jedi order, this world, which looked so... inviting... It was beautiful.
Pros:
-Cool script(as i said, a bit weaker than previous game)
-Good character development system, both stats and affection of your party(which first game didnt have)
-Good damage mechanics which migrated from the first game and was a bit enhanced in this game
-Lots of characters that you will remember for a long time

Cons:
-Without TSLRCM game feels(and is) unfinished

11/10 would definitely buy and play remake of this game if it is going to release anytime.
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Armageddoñ
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