So after the initial worries about the game using Origin after some bad Battlefield 3 experiences, I got to play 3 1/2 hours of SWTOR last night.
I went with the Republic to start with as it seems that they are short of numbers and I am nice to be nice kind of person (no lol's Oblong).
I um’ed and ah’ed about class choice for a while, I did not want to go for the obvious Jedi Knight and toyed with the idea of Jedi Consular as it seemed interesting but in the end I went with the Trooper.
After sorting out issue’s with my Asus Xonar sound card I finally got to see how the Star Wars world had changed since SWG. Initial impressions were good if a little cartoon like, if you have seen the clone wars film it’s a bit like that.
I very much liked the thrown into the deep end initial class mission even if I found the combat system a bit strange. The fact that one you have engaged a target there is no default attack, you have to keep selecting from the skills bar seemed bizarre at first. Once I got used to hitting the “1’s & 2’s” and got a few more skills it soon started to flow.
I soon got up to level 8 and bed time loomed with only a couple of deaths taking on mobs out of my league, there were a few occasions where I strayed to the dark side and could not resist the need to tell a NPC to go forth and multiply.
Hopefully tonight will bring advanced class choice and my first companion.