Your choices in KotOR do not carry over, so there’s some lines of dialogue in the beginning which allows you to choose how events in the previous game unfolded. Now all that is out of the way, Knights of the Old Republic 2 takes place some 5 years after KotOR with the galaxy still healing from the conflict instigated by Revan and Malak while feeling the repercussions of practically the entire Jedi Order being wiped out.
In fairness to those who played the 2004 release version (like me) I’m also going through and playing without the mod to compare the experiences. Having not played the original 2004 version for many years, I’m playing KotOR 2 with both the TSLRCM and M4-78 installed, and the review below will reflect their inclusions and just how noticeable any of the TSLRCM content is compared to the original game. Since 2004, mostly everything cut found itself put back together by modders to form the Restored Content Mod (TSLRCM), and an entire cut planet in the M4-78 mod. It was actually a fairly solid and worthy successor to KotOR, but it felt rushed and full of missing pieces. As you can imagine, lots of people, including myself, were disappointed with the released game. Tons of content, including a whole planet, was cut, moved, and barely put together to form as complete of a game as Obsidian could in the rushed time, but they left all the cut content hidden in the game’s source code (here’s a really great and lengthy article at Kotaku with details from Obsidian themselves regarding KotOR2‘s development and also another in-depth behind the scenes look, including Obsidian’s plans for a 3rd game, at Eurogamer). The development of KotOR2 was rushed as LucasArts was pushing the developers, Obsidian, to get the game out much sooner than expected to meet the holiday of 2004. Therefore, this review is of the “complete” version of KotOR 2 (well, as complete as the excellent work of the modders can make it!). Likewise, Steam’s Workshop allows you to simple update KotOR 2 with TSLRCM and M4-78 without even having to leave Steam, so not updating this classic the next time you play would be silly. Below is a review of Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords with both the Restored Content Modand M4-78 Planet Mod, which are both readily available for free on PC (at the link). Before this review starts in earnest, let me point out a couple of things.
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