Knight of the old Republic is getting remade for PlayStation 5

Kicking off the new PlayStation Showcase was word that Knights of the Old Republic was being remade for PlayStation 5 and by that, we mean exclusively for it, as Sony are footing the bill.

There are not a lot of details right now, but Aspyr is working on the remake, they have been in Star Wars for a few years now, bringing older games like Jedi Knight 2 and Republic Commando to PlayStation and Switch.

“I was a big RPG fan growing up. I started on the Apple IIC and played all the BioWare games. It wasn’t until I started playing KOTOR that I really understood how cinematic they could be,” Orion Kellogg, executive producer at Lucasfilm Games tells StarWars.com. “When I first put in KOTOR and saw that the camera was pulled down to ground level and I could look up at the skyscrapers of Taris, I really felt that I’d been put in the world in a way that I never had before. The characters were speaking to me in full VO [voiceover] and reacting to my choices, whether I was going light side or dark. It felt like it was a paradigm shift.”

Today, KOTOR stands as one of the most critically acclaimed Star Wars games ever, with the PC version amassing a current score of 93 on Metacritic. Fans have long requested a remake to bring the title, originally developed by BioWare and LucasArts, up to modern standards. As it turns out, Lucasfilm has been listening.

“We know that KOTOR is one of the most beloved Star Wars stories ever told,” Kellogg says. “We really appreciate the stature it has with all of the fans out there. As hardware advances and as our game-making prowess advances and as storytelling [techniques] advance, what better time to allow players to re-experience this great story with all of those lessons learned, and bring it back to modern platforms using modern methods? That’s something I’ve wanted to do personally for a very long time, and I think everybody involved with Star Wars games has wanted to do for a very long time.”

The game is being developed for PlayStation 5 and PC, no release date is yet known for the game.