Product

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Universal Binary beta Patch 1.0.3d

Platform

MacOSX

Publisher

Aspyr

Rating

★★☆☆☆

Summary

Finally allows this excellent game to be playable on Intel Macs, but horribly glitchy sound and frequent crashes ruin the experience.

Review

Knights of the Old Republic is a superb RPG that is set in the Star Wars universe, long before the six films. Using a sped-up version of the pseudo real-time combat system in Neverwinter Nights, combat is both dynamic and tactical, and with multiple paths to almost all quests the game doesn’t skimp on the RP in the G.

The game was even ported MacOSX. The system requirements were pretty severe at the time, though. And then the Intel Macs came out. Although the new machines were far beyond the stated requirements, Knights of the Old Republic was unplayably slow. A Univeral Binary patch was promised, and after more than a year, the first betas came out.

This version works, for the most part. The sound glitches up a lot and the game crashes a lot, but with lots of saves, it’s playable. So long as it’s running it runs great.

If you already have a copy of Knights of the Old Republic for mac, and want to play it on a new mac, the patch is worthwhile. Otherwise the Windows and XBox versions are much better, if you’ve got the means to run ‘em.

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 1.0.3d

★★☆☆☆

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