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It has been close to 13 years since Bioware launched Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and the series still remains popular today. So much so that a group of budding enthusiasts have got together to reboot the game in its entirety and bring it to the Unreal Engine 4.
Poem Studios has been working on Knights of the Old Republic: Apeiron for some time and already have a few of the game's playable areas built, including the Endar Spire, parts of Taris and Tatooine.
The team plans to add “new worlds, missions HUD, inventory system, items and companions” so it is a pretty huge project. Not only is it going to see Knights of the Old Republic rebuilt in a modern engine but new content will also be added.
Huge fan-led projects like this sometimes don't float well with companies that own the IP but Poem Studios is claiming that this is all legally sound since the game will be free. However, the studio also hasn't been in contact with anyone at Disney, EA or Bioware so they could have a different opinion.
If you want to see more, you can find all of the screenshots and currently available information about the project, HERE.
KitGuru Says: Knights of the Old Republic is my all-time favourite game so I would love to see it rebuilt. Unreal Engine 4 is a very graphically impressive engine too so it should all look quite nice. However, we are probably a long way off from getting anything playable for now.
inb4 copyright C&D
To be frank, a lot of teams are re-making a lot of games in UE4, including The Matrix Online. Lets see how it goes but I’m not getting my hopes up, hopefully they’ll release a build to the wild before they get a pile of cease and desists from EA.
‘this is all legally sound since the game will be free’
Jesus. Good luck with that.
shut up
Yassssssss!
Shut up for what? so you can live in your little fantasy world for a while before shit hits the fan? The game being free, while to some extent is good in the area of legalities, will mean almost nothing. Sure, the company behind the project won’t be making money off shit they don’t own but the fact still remains that they’re playing with intellectual property that’s not theirs. They could have Bioware on their ass for creating a game based off their series, Disney could go after them (and probably will) because they own the Star Wars franchise, and potentially even EA since they’re currently the ones officially licensed by Disney to create Star Wars games (They could even play the card that says this game will affect sales of Battlefront)
Disney will probably put a stop to this. They’re taking donations and using Disney’s IP, so basically violating copyright law. Shame, would be great. But then, KotOR was never great for its visuals alone and I’d rather that BioWare makes KotOR III.
Whaaaaa? Nothing has ever been so certain as a cease and desist for this project.
Though this would be amazingly bad ass.
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