GS: We understand that the trooper, like all characters in The Old Republic, will have a backstory that will help endear characters to their players, like the protagonists of single-player games. The trooper class is there for everyone who loved all of the different types of stormtroopers in the original trilogy, the clone troopers in the newer movies and TV show, and war stories in general. As friction grew between the Jedi and the Senate in the days after the Republic signed the treaty of Coruscant, it became even more important for the military to have its own people to call on for the most difficult assignments. What is this profession?ĭaniel Erickson: The Republic trooper is part of an elite group of special-forces soldiers that rose to prominence during the war and in the years after. GameSpot: We understand that this week's reveal is the Republic trooper character class.
Have battle armor and blaster, will travel. Among other characters that you'll be able to play in the game, one will be the subject of this interview: the Republic trooper, described here by principal lead writer Daniel Erickson and lead combat designer Damion Schubert. That would sound almost too ambitious.except that BioWare itself has authored some of the most popular single-player role-playing games in recent years, including 2003's Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.
This new game, in development at BioWare's Austin, Texas studio, will attempt to combine the vast exploration and social networking of a massively multiplayer game with the in-depth, character-driven story of a single-player role-playing game. Although most massively multiplayer games offer gigantic worlds full of monsters to kill, treasures to find, monsters to kill, and even more monsters to kill, developer BioWare is going in a different direction with Star Wars: The Old Republic.
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