If you game on a Mac, or an iOS device, you’ve probably never played Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II. But that’s something that has now, quite miraculously, changed: After more than a decade, KOTOR 2 is finally available for Mac, and the game is (quite literally) better than it has ever been.
Developed by Obsidian Entertainment — the same team of ex-Black Isle developers who delivered the excellent throwback RPG Pillars of Eternity earlier this year, and were also responsible for the classic RPG Planescape: Torment —KOTOR2 was the most philosophically and intellectually challenging Star Wars game ever, albeit one pushed out the door half-finished … a tragedy that fans set to correct with an extensive mod that aimed to finish the roughly half of the game Obsidian had been forced to scrap.
With the aid of the Restored Content fan mod, PC gamers have been able to experience KOTOR 2 as it was meant to be experienced since earlier this year. But Apple users never got a port of KOTOR 2, despite the fact that the first game is available on both the Mac App Store and iPad.
Suffice to say, that’s finally been remedied. Although the original game was released in 2004, KOTOR 2 just got an update on Steam that not only adds Mac and Linux support but also adds support for the Restored Fan Content mod, ahead of its official launch on Steam workshop!
There are some other nice additions too.
New features include:
37 achievements to be earned through gameplay
Steam Cloud saves
Native widescreen resolution support
Resolution support up to 4K and 5K
Support for controllers, including Xbox 360, Xbox One, Playstation 3, and Playstation 4, along with several others (check the system requirements for details)
Steam Workshop support! We proudly worked with the Restored Content Mod Team to have their famous TSLRCM up on launch day
Oh… and we added a “Force Speed Effects” option in the menu ;)
With this release, KOTOR 2 immediately becomes one of the best RPGs available on the Mac, whether you love Star Wars or not. And it’s dirt cheap, too: you can buy it now on Steam for just $7.49
Source: Steam
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
7 responses to “Miraculously, the best Star Wars game just came to Mac”
KOTOR III. I. Want. KOTOR III!!!
Umm… the X-Wing series are the best Star Wars games
Nah. The KOTOR series was the best. Although KOTOR 1 was better than KOTOR 2
Very true, KOTOR 1 I played more then 10years ago, now probably every mac-user is willing to pay for old games;-) Played both very long time ago and KOTOR 1 is for sure the best game, KOTOR 2 is not from BIOWARE and it is quick made to make some extra coins.
The key point of this article is the restored content added back into KotOR 2. It’s worth a look through new eyes nowadays.
KOTOR 1 was definitely the good one. KOTOR 2 is borderline unfinished.
Time to dust off Kotor 2 again then. With the lost content re-added (and it’s been on the internet for a while now, though this article has it confirmed as an official patch), the game is rather fleshed out and certainly rivals KotOR 1 with its story, knocking it out of the park in terms of depth and the pseudo-philosophic concepts of Jedi, Sith, and the like. It is no longer “borderline unfinished” and deserves to be checked out again by those who felt slighted the first time around.