In our last look at the Star Wars The Old Republic, we theorized about how much things could have cost considering the sheer amount of work that must have gone into the audio. We’re talking hundreds of top quality voice actors recording hour upon hour of entertainment, thousands of hours mixing, recording and placing into the game.This is before we’ve even got onto actually creating any of the basic coding for the game....
The zombie craze might be starting to annoy those that buy game after game after game, but , for the more casual player, zombies are still absolutely tops when it comes to NPC enemies. Treyarch’s Call of Duty outings and Left 4 Dead cemented the walking dead this generation in terms of first person shooters, but there’s been one genre in which zombies have been specifically lacking, however, and that’s in the MMO.
Star Wars: The Old Republic is officially a record breaker - if you ever saw the TV show, feel free to start singing the theme song. It’s not in there as the world’s most awesome game like many of you would have liked and I’m not sure it’s beat the excellent start World of Warcraft had (it seems that’d be the sort of thing they’d be bragging about), but it does boast “the largest entertainment voice acting project ever,” which in itself is an impressible achievement. Some critics are claiming that this is game-changing; others are saying that it’s just a slightly updated version of the tried-and-true quest system we all know and begrudgingly love.
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