Star Wars: KotOR Wins More

GameSpot has given LucasArts and BioWare’s Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic their “Best Role-Playing Game” award, and listed it as a finalist to their “Game of the Year” award. A snip of what they had to say:

Knights is an ideal blend of role-playing elements, and it represents the perfect marriage of console RPG-style focus on characters and storytelling with computer RPG-style focus on open-endedness. The result is a game with a surprisingly tightly paced narrative structure, for a game that never ceases to offer you choices as to what to do next. Some role-playing games offer great stories at the expense of letting you make meaningful decisions about what happens in those stories. Other role-playing games are completely open-ended but end up feeling hollow and generic. Knights of the Old Republic truly delivers the best of both worlds.