KOTOR 3 Confirmed?

[Devia Eleven]

"BioWare is working on a new Knights of the Old Republic game! Sweet justice, finally!" The Internet is aflame with what seems to be an obvious reading of EA CEO John Riccitiello's briefing document for EA's recent analyst day. On a page labeled "Best Creative Talent," EA's stable of studios are laid out by name and the properties they're sheparding. Pandemic, intriguingly, is on The Lord of the Rings. But the real gem is under the "titles" column for BioWare: Mass Effect, Dragon Age, "New MMO," and KOTOR.

 

Although we are still waiting on an official comment from BioWare, it's important to note that we see "The Lord of the Rings" mentioned under "Plans for Fiscal '09" (Pandemic is most likely picking up the pieces of The White Council Lord of the Rings project in order to get the title ready to go so quickly after the developer's acquisition last year). KOTOR is conspicuously absent from that page. But under the section of the document discussing EA's plans out to fiscal year 2011, one of the four "How Do We Get There" solutions is "increase segment shares in three under-represented categories." Those categories? "Action/Adventure - Pandemic"; "Family - Hasbro/MySims"; and "RPG - BioWare."

 

So we know that Pandemic's action/adventure push will be going full-bore by the end of fiscal '09 with Saboteur, Mercenaries 2 and The Lord of the Rings. We know that the RPG push will begin in fiscal '09 with Dragon Age, another of BioWare's new IPs. So while we do expect to see a new KOTOR from BioWare someday, whether that's before or after the next Mass Effect, its new MMO, or anything else up its sleeves is very much an open question.

 

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=92630

 

Source: http://www.gamespy.com/articles/851/851916p1.html

[Tynvar]

Wooot this is awesome news. And it's nice to know Bioware is the one working on it. I liked both games but the first one was the best. Great news indeed.

[Wizard]

This is up in air like Jade Empires 2. Which is either confirmed or it's not as well.

 

Mass Effect PC, Dragon Age, MMO, ???, Jade Empire 2/KOTOR3. But, since they got a hand in Obisidian, I wouldn't be surprised if Bioware suggested them to do KOTOR3 since they did a pretty badass job with NWN2+Mask of the Betrayer and Baldur's Gate 1 and 2.

[MasterPhW]

"BioWare is working on a new Knights of the Old Republic game! Sweet justice, finally!" The Internet is aflame with what seems to be an obvious reading of EA CEO John Riccitiello's briefing document for EA's recent analyst day. On a page labeled "Best Creative Talent," EA's stable of studios are laid out by name and the properties they're sheparding. Pandemic, intriguingly, is on The Lord of the Rings. But the real gem is under the "titles" column for BioWare: Mass Effect, Dragon Age, "New MMO," and KOTOR.

 

Although we are still waiting on an official comment from BioWare, it's important to note that we see "The Lord of the Rings" mentioned under "Plans for Fiscal '09" (Pandemic is most likely picking up the pieces of The White Council Lord of the Rings project in order to get the title ready to go so quickly after the developer's acquisition last year). KOTOR is conspicuously absent from that page. But under the section of the document discussing EA's plans out to fiscal year 2011, one of the four "How Do We Get There" solutions is "increase segment shares in three under-represented categories." Those categories? "Action/Adventure - Pandemic"; "Family - Hasbro/MySims"; and "RPG - BioWare."

 

So we know that Pandemic's action/adventure push will be going full-bore by the end of fiscal '09 with Saboteur, Mercenaries 2 and The Lord of the Rings. We know that the RPG push will begin in fiscal '09 with Dragon Age, another of BioWare's new IPs. So while we do expect to see a new KOTOR from BioWare someday, whether that's before or after the next Mass Effect, its new MMO, or anything else up its sleeves is very much an open question.

 

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=92630

 

Source: http://www.gamespy.com/articles/851/851916p1.html

I've heard, that it's a port of both games to the Wii... we'll see what will come.

But would be great to see a KOTOR 3 for PC.

[L.S.D]

If they do it like Mass Effect in term of storyline, I'm sold.

[Wishdokta]

I think there won't be a KoTOR 3 next months (whether at all). Seems like missunderstanding:

 

>> http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/51314

 

"The slide in John's presentation is titled 'Best Creative Talent'--it addresses future and past titles," EA told Shacknews. "KOTOR, Black, Boogie, Skate and some other titles on the slide speak to past portfolio releases and the pedigree of the studio but do not specifically address future sequels."

Edited February 14, 2008 by Wishdokta