KOTOR2 missing content restored

By Robert Purchese Published 29 September, 2009

Fan project reaches open beta.

The Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords Restored Content project has entered open beta after years of development.

Instructions and download locations can be found on the Deadly Stream forum (spotted by EG reader Garthy).

The Restored Content project - as the name suggests - aims to reinstate much of the lost content found on the KOTOR2 disc but not in the game itself. The one year that developer Obsidian had to make a bigger and better sequel simply wasn't enough - that much was apparent at review.

The Restored Content mod, lead by "DStoney", isn't the only KOTOR2 restoration project out there. Team Gizka's arguably more ambitious Restoration Project has been around since 2005, and remains unfinished but playable, albeit in a rough form.

Team Gizka promises to finish the Restoration Project one day, although the voluntary nature of the task means the finish line may be a year or two away.

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Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (18) 2 years ago

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  • darkmorgado #1 2 years ago

    Awesome! Been waiting for this for ages. Then again it might be the other one. I remember someone from Obsidian actually saying they were looking forward to seeing the game done as they had originally intended.
    Will be downloading this tonight. I re-bought the game a while back in anticipation for this.

  • RexRunti #2 2 years ago

    Guess I know what I'm playing tonight.

    Hmm lightside or darkside? Male or female... and what class...

    Just hope it works with Windows 7.
    Edit: Just remembered I've already got it running under Windows 7... woot
    Edited by 1 at 29/09/09 @ 12:11

  • Commodore75 #3 2 years ago

    "[TG's] finish line may be a year or two away."
    Uh, I think it's more of a question whether Team Giza will ever finish their project.
    Just check out this gem :
    http://fo rums.team-gizka.org/viewtopic.p...

  • Joco84 #4 2 years ago

    Can you get KOTOR 1&2 running on Vista?

    I used to have problems running it.... any ideas?

  • guernican #5 2 years ago

    KOTOR on Steam is compatible with Vista, I think.

  • darkmorgado #6 2 years ago

    I have KoToR 2 and it runs fine on Vista aside from a couple of odd graphics glitches, but I seem to remember the same glitches being apparent when it first came out on Xp as well (along with an utterly annoying game-ending bug where a cut-scene wouldn't trigger after fighting the wookie), so I don't think its a Vista-compatibility issue.
    Does the restoration project fix a lot of the bugs as well, or does it just re-insert the NPCs, quests, dialogue etc missing from the final build?

  • Lemming81 #7 2 years ago

    They'd get it done a lot faster if they actually accepted volunteered help. If you look at their website they apparently have a premium on how many helpers they want, which is probably the most bizarre thing of all.

  • SL33PY #8 2 years ago

    Too bad it's up to fans to complete the game to perfection. Kudos to them all.

  • darkmorgado #9 2 years ago

    @Lemming81, might be a "too many cooks" philosophy - by farming out smaller chunks of work to more people, they are increasing the risk that too many people will never get their bit finished. Plus judging on the guy's comments, he seems to view it as more of a personal pet project rather than something "for the community".

  • raion #10 2 years ago

    ... didn't I play a restored droid planet quite some time ago? the one with the formerly dead jedi master from the korriban sith academy?

    oh, wait, that was another thing? this one restores the factory where all those HK series droids are coming from?
    awsome!

    people! THIS is why PC games RULE! :D

  • Evolution #11 2 years ago

    There's actually only 1 person doing the restoring work now at Team Gizka, the rest are just beta testers.

  • Garfy #12 2 years ago

    Garthy!

    The one time I report the news and they spell my username wrong, *grumble grumble* (not really, glad to be of help ;)

  • hiddenranbir #13 2 years ago

    So which restoration restores more?

  • TheHitman #14 2 years ago

    @MilkybKid1985

    There's nothing wrong with the quote you highlighted. The article states that Obsidian were unable to make a "bigger and better" sequel, not that it only scored 8 so it's garbage.

  • Retroid #15 2 years ago

    I am pleased the meatbags have done this.

  • organica #16 2 years ago

    Awesome, hopefully this may resolve some of my grumbles from my first playthrough. Will definately give it a shot.

  • AphoticCosmos #17 2 years ago

    Massive kudos to the guys who worked on this project - I await the final product with bated breath.

  • Inigo #18 2 years ago

    You wait all year for a good RPG and 10 come along at the same time. KOTOR 2 was almost a classic.