Star Wars: The Old Republic

Star Wars: The Old Republic - Knights of the Fallen Empire

A man can have anything... If he's willing to sacrifice everything. Step into an epic story-driven adventure as your character becomes The Outlander, a veteran of the Great Galactic War. A third faction…

27 October 2015

What Star Wars: The Old Republic - Knights of the Fallen Empire is

Star Wars: The Old Republic - Knights of the Fallen Empire is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by BioWare Austin and released in 2015. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on HeroEngine.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Sometime after the Invasion of Ziost, the Eternal Empire of Emperor Valkorion enters into the Galactic War between the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire, and led by its new emperor, Arcann, the Eternal Empire decimates both the Republic and the Sith. Players awake from carbonite five years after the galaxy has fallen to the Eternal Empire, with the Republic and the Sith Empire having all but collapsed, and must gather new and old companions and take the fight to the Eternal Empire as an "Outlander."

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action.

Where it sits in the Star Wars series

Star Wars: The Old Republic - Knights of the Fallen Empire is the 239th of 334 entries we hold in the Star Wars series. The next entry was Star Wars Battlefront: Companion in 2015.

See all 334 Star Wars games in release order →

What it launched against

Star Wars: The Old Republic - Knights of the Fallen Empire launched on 27 October 2015, within three weeks of Fallout 4, Rise of the Tomb Raider, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone and Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition.

Released around the same time: Fallout 4, Rise of the Tomb Raider, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone, Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition.

Official trailer