In a move that nobody saw coming, Disney Interactive and Lucasfilm have released an update to the 10-year-old video game Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords on Steam.
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Here are the new features added in the update:
• 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 😉
It’s been years since KOTOR II‘s last update. Kotaku reached out to Aspyr Media, the team hired to handle the update for Disney and Lucasfilm, to see if they could shed some light on the reasons for the sudden update, but the company did not respond.
Obsidian Entertainment developed KOTOR II as a follow-up to BioWare’s original entry in the series. The game takes place approximately 4,000 years prior to the events of the original Star Wars film trilogy.
KOTOR II was criticized on first released for feeling incomplete, a result of Obsidian being pressured to rush the game to market before certain areas and parts of the story were finished, but the missing content was revived by fans in the indispensable Restored Content Mod. The game is now looked at as a unique entry in the Star Wars canon that was for exploring the gray area between the Light Side and the Dark Side in a way that most Star Wars stories tend to avoid.
