Star Wars: KotOR Preview

After spending a couple of hours with Star Wars: KotOR, the folks at Gamespy have written up a short preview of the game. Check it out:
Shooting? Melee hacking? It's all gelled together in an initially confusing but finally innovative combat engine that freezes the action momentarily, allowing you to flick through available targets, tell your cohorts which cool-armored Sith foot-soldier needs an Arkanian Rifle shot through the torso, and then starts in real-time. After this, you can stop the action again at any time, heal, equip different items, and the like. Then you can flick between intelligent CPU-controlled party members at any time if you'd like to control a badass Twi'lek instead of a walking-carpet Wookie.