The second Jedi battle hymn of the old republic.

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In Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, the first game takes place 4,000 years before the Skywalkers roamed the galaxy and this second chapter takes place five years after that with Sith assassins hunting down the last of the Jedi.

Players can customize their Jedi with over 60 new force powers and skills. A cache of new weaponry is impressive and you'll have the help of 10 others in your war party. There also are more options for the player to keep an already intense action game honed to the max.

This, however, is more than just a hunt, fight, and kill contest. Players become authors, scripting their own plots, with three-dimensional characters and...