Nice guys can finish nice (we hope)

Knights of the Old Republic. Sounds good to me. I'm not really one for this kind of game - not got the patience you know. However, number one son is. So we agreed to share a copy. Star Wars games are usually horrid or wonderful, with not much in between. KOTOR (as people seem to want to call it) is wonderful.

It is very like being in a Star Wars movie. For once all the text has been spoken by proper actors, which slows things down a bit, but adds immensely to the gaming experience. They must have spent hours in their studio recording scripts, because there sure is a lot of spoken stuff in there. The characters interact with each other, and you with them. We have just escaped from one planet (which was blown up just after we left in a fit of Dark Side pique) and are being trained up as a Jedi. We are playing everything as "Mr Nice Guy" at the moment, but we are looking forward to doing the whole thing again in totally evil mode.

An excellent game, if you have an XBOX you should invest in a copy.