To begin with, let me say that E3 has been both amazing and slightly disappointing when it comes to Star Wars: The Old Republic. The only disappointing part was today’s G4TV interview where almost nothing new was revealed. But, with some careful dissection, I was able to piece together at least a little speculation. But, we’ll get there. I wanted to do a quick wrap up of everything that went down today across all the different levels of media. So, without further ado…What happened today at E3, June 15, 2010.

The “Hope” Trailer

While this was, technically, yesterday, I figured I’d group it with today. This trailer was, by the far, better than last year’s trailer. Don’t get me wrong, Deceived was awesome. But, this was just…It was longer and it was just wonderfully done. I liked seeing the Trooper thrown in there. And we get some insight into what the Sith have for weaponry: that robot anyone? It’s definitely looking cool. There were a few parts that were odd for me such as the Trooper charging Darth Malgus, but hey, the trooper is a bad ass. We get that. Take a look at the video yourself and appreciate it.

What do you think? Pretty awesome, right?

Ships

So, we have it confirmed that we will be getting access to ships in the game. Each player will get to fly around the galaxy in their own ship. We will get to customize it so that my ship doesn’t look like yours. And since I can make minor customizations that you might not make, there’s a good chance that we will both truly have completely custom ships. In an interview on Massively, Rich Vogel said that they weren’t going to be talking much about space at E3 because they are working on it now. But, and in his own words, “That’s pretty much where we like to have it because we are actually working right now on some cool stuff for space, and we’d rather talk about it when we get it finalized.” That looks like to me that they are planning some pretty epic things. We’ll just have to wait and see.

PvP

Going hand in hand with the release of the information about ships is the fact that there is going to be some interesting PvP. There is going to be these things known as Battlezones where two factions–obviously the Republic and the Empire–fight each other. PvP isn’t mandatory, but you do get some special gear and things of that nature for participating, so it doesn’t hurt to get involved. But, because you are not forced to do anything, you can probably go the entire game without it. In that interview, Vogel was very quiet about the type of system, but he did say that there would be both open PvP play and instances, so it’s going to be very interested in my opinion. We’ll just have to wait and see.

As I will mentioned in the next section, during an interview, it was alluded to that there could be PvP on ships. He was talking about PvP and then talking about ships, so I did get a bit confused, but if that’s the case, it could mean some interesting features for space flight. Can anyone say boarding party?

G4TV Interview

As I mentioned above, I was a little disappointed with this. I was following someone on Twitter–and watching it for that matter–who was live blogging it. And we both had the same opinion. “Pretty much all information that we already did know.” Now, I can understand that this was necessary for the sake of new people wanting to get involved. But, for avid followers like me and other site owners–and you guys who read these sites–it wasn’t all that amazing. But, while I sat there with my notepad in hand, I was able to jot down a couple of notes that really were important in my opinion.

The big line that stood out for me when Dallas Dickinson was talking was when he said, “We have announced eight classes thus far.” Now, I don’t know about you, but unless eight is all that I have planned to release, thus far suggests there might be more. Is this a guarantee? Of course not. But, it just seems odd that he would even suggest throwing “thus far” in there unless he was making an uber-quiet hint. Does anyone have any opinion on this? Could BioWare be working on more classes? With space now mentioned, could a class be “captain” and your entire life be in space? That would be interesting.

The other thing that I liked was his explanation as to how a smuggler could beat a Sith. There are lots of Sith out there. And since there isn’t one TOP Sith other than the Emperor, there could be stronger ones. But in this game, you are the BEST smuggler since there aren’t many. So, it’s possible for you to beat a Sith. But, at the same time, he did say that rock does sometimes beat scissors when talking about a Sith vs. a Smuggler. Head on, the smuggler will lose. With tactics, though, the smuggler should win.

With a little other discussion about the Inquisitor–with some interesting game play that looks awesome–we got some bits and pieces of information that we already knew. The starting planets are supposed to be like boot camps. Epic game play that teaches you the history of your class and how to play the game. A tutorial without boring you to death.

For those that watched it, were you impressed with this interview or was it just meh for you as well?

Actual Game Play

Because I am not at E3, I can’t say that I had the pleasure of playing the game. However, the people over at Darth Hater were able to play and they have created an exceptional check list of the different aspects of game play. I won’t go into it because there’s is awesome, but it looks as if this game is going to be somewhat similar to WoW’s platform, only much better and more polished. That’s to be expected, though, because BioWare makes amazing games. The one thing that seemed different was the loot. Instead of a roll of the dice, everything is just divvied up and that’s that. It’s definitely interesting. But anyway, check out their check list and when I can get my hands on some game play, I’ll post my own review.

Some Extra Videos

What would a post be without a bunch of extra videos? I thought I’d post the videos that TheGalacticStruggle.com put together. They’re just some videos of the different classes–except for the Jedi Knight and Consular of course–in action. I know I loved checking them out, so I am sure you’ll love them too.

Bounty Hunter and Imperial Agent in Combat

Sith Warrior and Inquisitor Quest

Bounty Hunter and Imperial Agent in Combat

Bounty Hunter Armor Progression

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