I picked this up on the cheap a few days back. It's interesting that Bioware/Obsidian are clearly better stewards for the Star Wars universe than George Lucas is. In their hands, it's a rich & interesting place with a lot of history. Lucas, on the other hand, treats it like the flat facades of a "town" in a Western. I know he wanted to get that Republic serial feel, but I mean, seriously. What up, dude?

So, yeah, I'm liking what I'm seeing a lot. It's also reminding me of how much I preferred the KOTOR combat system to the quasi-fighting game style of Jade Empire. I haven't much urge to go back to JE just because I always felt like I had a 50/50 chance of having to go back to a save game every time I got into a fight, and yet they didn't autosave for me before the fights. Bleah. It's too bad, because the story seemed pretty interesting.