I got to route out my old copy of Star Wars Knights of the old Republic II.
This was the older original CD edition. And according to the receipt that was tucked into the manual I bought it on the 19/02/2005 at 13:56, so 10 day's short of 11 years ago.
Thankfully the install was flawless and I ran both the patch A and B from my old save folder.
I did see a lot of mods but I'll stick with the original in all it's patched vanilla'ness.
The official patch's are still available online, but I think there is a bigger newer patch for the latest steam version of the game.
Once installed I decided to bin the launcher.exe shortcut on the desktop and replaced it with a shortcut to the main program .exe file. It all ran perfectly.
Graphics were scalable and worked well, I didnt' mind a lack of a wide screen option. So in that regard it does have a more "retro" feel.
It may not have a massive amount of options for character creation regarding looks but the statistic junkie will be in awe at the way the game works for your characters abilities and chosen stats.
There are really two things that stand out to me now. One good and one bad.
Bad news first is that the control of the character feels more awkward than I remembered. There was no proper strafe movement so it feels very robotic moving around. Using the mouse without the WASD keys is much better but you end up moving around holding both mouse butts down for free-look and moving forward. Which leads me onto the second thing.
The good news is the combat system, it's a semi real time, semi turn based combat mix, I really like the pause that gives you time to add new actionable commands that is a joy to work with, especially during lightsaber fights.
At some stage I think I'll have to setup a proper retro (offline?) gaming XP based PC but that's a longer term project....
IGN had a good review (from 2008 I think) on YouTube for Kotor 2 that will give a more in depth look at the game and is worth a look:
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