Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic Comes To The Xbox One

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Today, Microsoft have added over a dozen classic Xbox games onto the Xbox One, through Backwards Compatibility including Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic.

This trailer shows how the new Xbox One’s will upgrade the graphics for Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic.

These original games will be look much better on the Xbox On with up to 4X the pixel count on Xbox One and Xbox One S, and up to 16X the pixel count on the new Xbox One X.  Players will be able to play these Original Xbox games on Xbox One through the disc you already own, or you can purchase the games digitally in the Microsoft Store for $9.99/£8.99.

Since these are original games and not remasters, Xbox Live services such as online multiplayer that were available on the original Xbox will not be available. However, offline multiplayer scenarios such as co-op and system-link are supported as they were originally. There will also be no Achievements for Original Xbox games because this functionality was also not originally available.

Other games from the original Xbox line up include :

  • BLACK
  • BloodRayne 2
  • Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge
  • Dead to Rights
  • Fuzion Frenzy
  • Grabbed by the Ghoulies
  • King of Fighters Neowave
  • Ninja Gaiden Black
  • Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
  • Psychonauts
  • Red Faction II
  • Sid Meier’s Pirates!
My Take: For some bizarre reason, even though I did have a original Xbox from launch, I never played the Knights of the Old Republic and have heard nothing but good things for years now, so this is a game I’ve very interested in playing, however I will need to remind myself while playing that it was released in 2003 and might not have held up when compared to newer titles.    It’s just a shame it launches in one of the most crowded periods of video games releases, with the likes of Star Wars Battlefront 2, Super Mario Odyssey, Call of Duty, Assassins Creed and others out in a space of a few weeks.
Will you be downloading Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic?

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