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Star wars: The old Republic. Virtual Worlds Social Media By: James Freel EDT 180. Contents. Overview Gameplay Online Community/ Social Media. OverVIEW. Star Wars: The Old Republic is a free to play online MMORPG Based in the Star Wars universe
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Star wars: The old Republic Virtual Worlds Social Media By: James Freel EDT 180
Contents • Overview • Gameplay • Online Community/ Social Media
OverVIEW • Star Wars: The Old Republic is a free to play online MMORPG • Based in the Star Wars universe • Developed by Bioware, EA Games and Lucasarts • Cost around $200 million to develop • Released in December of 2011
Gameplayplot • Choose your side/class • Story starts with the Sith attacking the Republic and starting a war with the Jedi • Recently reestablished a Sith academy on Korriban • Depending on the side and class you pick each story is different. For Jedi and Sith, the story starts with you arriving at the respective academies as a padawan. • More missions you do, the faster you level up and more abilities you gain. • Each character has a choice with most missions which will decide if you are more Dark Side aligned or “Light” Side aligned.
Online Community • On the website there is blogs and forums for people to chat, make friends and form groups to play in PVP (player vs player) games and worlds. • Friends can also help you in PVE games (player vs computer based opponents). • Can chat in games with other players via chat boxes and speech.
Citations • First image: http://cdn.fansided.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/281/files/2014/02/star-wars-the-old-republic-banner.jpg\ • Information given is from http://www.swtor.com/ and my own experiences in playing the game.