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The first character I made was a Trooper. There are speeders you can hop on at various locations to speed up your trip.
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I posted these first few images so you can see how different the environment is compared to the Sith home world in the following screenshots. The environments are outstanding as is the music and sound effects. My avatar looks skinny because I made her that way. Skinny, Medium, Tall and Fat are the choices.
The Trooper is a pretty straight forward heavy weapon, heavy armor class and I wanted to try out some of the force stuff so I switched to Sith Inquisitor.
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On some of your missions you communicate with the quest giver via holo thingy.
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Here's my Sith Inquisitor. You can see my settings to the right. I went human because the other races had too many bumps, horns, etc for my taste. In the end, I'm OK with the graphics except for the hair. This game has such great cut scenes that include your character as well as many many other NPCs. The only thing that distracts from the immersion is the hair. Wish they could have made it a little better but besides that, the characters look good, being a little on the toony side.
Character customization is not a strong suit of SWTOR but make sure you take some time to get a face you will be happy with because you're going to see it a lot in cut scenes.
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I immediately took off my clothes to check out the avatar. All is good except the hair. The character profile has a nice layout and there are more stats available via the drop down menus.
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Here's an example of if you do something bad/evil. The number of dark side points you gain pops up and you see the screen go red. I think on most of the discussion tree selections, it lets you know beforehand if it affects dark/light points and which is which.
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They did a very nice job with transportation. You can jump around using these taxi thingies which are a great way to check out the scenery during the ride.
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If there's a dark/light choice, typically you'll see the indication of which it is in the middle of the circle. Cut scenes aren't all just a close up of your face. They took the time to play out the scenes with body language and facial expressions.
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I played all day and am only level 8. You can level faster if you want but I'm impressed with the content and depth of the story for each of the classes. I'm not even out of the newbie area. I haven't gotten a companion or ship yet. I've gone through around 3+ armor changes over the first eight levels. Nothing drastic but they certainly know that people like to see some change as your character advances.
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Each class has a way to recoup their HPs and "mana". You don't have to sit down. You just need to be out of battle and you click the button and it begins to restore your health/mana as long as not attacked or move. For the Sith Inquisitor, you turn sort of reddish and glow a little as you recover. Each class is different and they're all pretty fast. No long down times.
Things I like:
Love the colored loot indicators on corpses. Yellowish beam if it contains a quest item, white if standard loot, and various colors if the corpse contains a high end item. Looting is quick and with these indicators, it makes it easy to skip over loot if in a hurry and just grab the special items or quest items.
Loot seems to be set just right. There's a lot of it but looting is easy and your inventory doesn't seem to fill up so fast to the point where you need to keep going to vendors to sell. You can make it until you typically need to head somewhere to turn in quests.
The voice acting is outstanding and EVERYTHING is voice acted as well as use or proper facial expressions and body language for emotions. It makes all the difference. On some MMORPGS you probably don't even know what the quest is half the time. You just keep clicking until you can go kill stuff. With SWTOR, every single quest seems a lot more interesting simply because it's delivered to you in a more interesting way.
Story Areas are parts inside a zone where only you can go as part of a Quest/Storyline. You'll see green and red force fields in doorways, etc to indicate if you can go in or not. It doesn't distract from the environment and when you go into a story area, there's no break/loading. You just keep going although only you/group members remain once you go through the barrier. It tells you how long the instance is expected to take as well. Very well done.
Quests are great. There's the Storyline quests and everything else separated on your log list. I haven't felt like I've been pushed along a rail at all. Quest opportunities pop up along the way as you do your Story and I mostly accepted the ones I saw and got sidetracked. Having done all that, I still need to gain another level to get back into the Story and finish the final Level 10 Quest.
Eventually playing all eight classes will be worth is to see the different Story Quests. Again, I'm only level 8 but these class stories continue through levels 30-40+.
I like combat. The animations are good and your character automatically turns and faces their opponent, deflecting attacks, etc.
All games have issues but SWTOR will give you your money's worth if you only end up lasting 30 days. For those that end up liking SWTOR, there will be enough content to keep players busy for several months and beyond.
I'm highly impressed and I haven't seen the best stuff yet.
Edit: fell asleep writing this last night, went back and did some minor grammar corrections, etc.