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There is something deeply Pavlovian in the smile that appears immediately on the lips when we see the black screen star, accompanied by strong notes of John Williams and on which the text appears in yellow, which flows from the bottom up. It does not matter whether the introduction of a science fiction film of the three most famous in film history (we prefer to continue to pretend that the second trilogy never existed), or as in this case, both the opening of Star Wars The Old Republic, the online role-playing game developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts.

Fascinated by the dark side of the Force, we decided to create a character belonging to the faction of the Empire. In a previous beta we play as an Imperial agent, a person skilled in gathering information for the Empire and the elimination of his enemies uncomfortable silence, but this time we decided to try one of the two classes that use the powers of Force, the Sith Inquisitor. This class can use lightsabers and can manipulate the Force to inflict damage to enemies with lightning that can run from his hands. Choosing our race between the five, we find ourselves on Korriban, the Sith planet of origin, and are immediately greeted by a cutscene completely dubbed in good English. An unfriendly foreman, who does not hide his contempt for us, informs us that we would incur a series of tests to become an apprentice of the Lord of the Sith Academy.

The dialogues reproduce the range of choices with which interact with the foreman and, as the tradition of BioWare games, offer the possibility to present themselves as submissive, sarcastic or contemptuous of authority. Back to the alignment of our moral character, represented by points of light and the dark side of the Force and give you access to exclusive equipment. The quality of the dialogue and the acting was well executed in any single player game and find it in an MMORPG is truly amazing. Even our character is voiced. Unfortunately we also noticed that when you can not accelerate or jump in any way these cut-scenes, but it is easy to suppose that it is a problem with the beta that will not reoccur at the launch of the game.