STAR WARS™ Knights of the Old Republic™

THE GAME DOES NOT WORK. YOU WILL HAVE TO INSTALL 20+ MODS TO GET THE GAME TO RUN WITHOUT CRASHING. THOSE MODS DO NOT EXIST ON MACOS, EVEN USING CLAUDE CODE WITH FABLE 5 I COULD NOT GET THE GAME TO RUN WITHOUT CRASHING. Nothing works. After spending nearly an hour trying to get it to run at any resolution other than 1024x768, I gave up. I didn't make it past the first room without the game crashing. This game is NOT FUNCTIONAL. This is not a review of KOTOR, this is a review of the STEAM version of KOTOR, which is ♥♥♥♥*ng unplayable.

This game may have been a classic back in the day, but it has aged like milk. First of all, the levels were clearly designed around fitting on an old Xbox, so they are all small and uninteresting. Basically just a bunch of corridors with loading screens every five steps. Second, the combat is absolute trash. With NPCs who don't follow your orders and an extremely basic system of assigning support roles. Fights are of two kinds: one to three easily beaten cannon fodder (animals and bugs and such) and boss fights where you will get your ass handed to you in an insane difficulty spike. So watch out for those and make sure you have enough medpaks, because all you can do is watch your so called jedi miss constantly and take massive damage. I should also mention the lightsabers in this are of the "wiffle bat" variety. You can hit that dog or insect as hard as you want but nothing will slice off. You may as well be clubbing them with a stick. If you want to live out your jedi power fantasy, this is not the game for you. I dunno, maybe this was ground breaking back in the day, but these days it is absolutely nothing special. Even the lore has been retconned to hell so a lot of what is in this makes no sense to modern Star Wars audiences. Also, it crashes constantly on a Steam Deck and barely functions on Windows.