| If and when the game does come out, it will definately be on the Xbox 360 - Lucasarts will not be foolish enough to code for the Xbox and ignore what will potentially be the biggest and baddest gaming platform for the next three years.
As such, there is one massive issue to consider: engine development. The past two KOTOR games relied on Bioware's somethingorother game engine for graphics and while that was fine for the first Xbox, its limitations can be clearly seen when playing the games on the PC. Therefore, KOTOR III will have to use an engine that will be suitable for reuse in any number of RPGs for the coming four/five years: i.e. pretty damn nice. Now, those of us in the PC gaming world know how long it took Valve to bring Halflife 2 to the table as a result of them coding the game for every signel graphics configuration known to humankind: whilst Obsidian/Bioware won't have to bother with this (coding only for the 360 and whatever else), they still have to develop the engine and the more realistic it is, the more complicated it becomes. And the more time it takes.
I have no idea when the Xbox 360 will come out (I've heard Christmas this year... but I'm sure that was on the internet so it could be complete...), so I'm taking a guess that KOTOR III will be released as either a launch game (doubtful) or around six months afterwards. Either way, we're looking at six months to a year at least before KOTOR III surfaces.
However, I think there are some issues with your introduction to the story, bud, notably the fact that playing the game as the Exile or a fully capable Jedi will render the whole thing either very easy (for veteran KOTOR players who have access to all the powers/abilitys they had to crush Kreia first time around) or very boring (for those new to the game who don't really know how and when to use the huge amounts of Force toys/feats or even appreciate them because they were all there in the first place.
That's not knocking your intro as a whole - I think it is very well thought out as a continuation of KOTOR II but I don't think we're goign to be hearing much of the 'Chosen One,' either, by virtue of the prophecy's fulfillment with the birth of Anakin Skywalker four eons later.
What we probably will see is Visas or the Handmaiden discovering a very powerful individual during their efforts to reinstate the Jedi Order (swirling force, anybody? LOL!); this chap/chapette then goes off to find Revan/The Exile...
But in the end, it's all conjecture. We'll be going round in circles until the final story is complete and outlined by Lucasarts. Unfortunately. |