By Nich Maragos, 12/07/2004 at 00:00 Is it base to anticipate beneath of Sith Lords because it's alleged KOTOR II if it shouldn't be? If this had been arise alone as a PC bold instead of debuting on a console, allowance are acceptable that it would acquire been labeled as an amplification backpack rather than a sequel, and artlessly labeled KOTOR: The Sith Lords. All the hallmarks of an amplification backpack are there, afterwards all: new agreeable application the aloft cartoon engine and activity system, created as a ancillary activity by accession developer while the aboriginal creators plan on a complete follow-up. Since it's numbered as a able sequel, though, the abridgement of beforehand on some of the fundamentals on KOTOR I is a little disheartening. It in actuality is in actuality the aloft carapace that covered the aboriginal game's story, with the aloft bugs (I noticed my activity still had a addiction to bastardize and skip about the map at times, and the pathfinding AI isn't any bigger than you bethink it) and the aloft cartoon engine that's like watching a car crash. If they were accepted as Atramentous Isle, Obsidian's courage was consistently added adjoin bigger agreeable rather than bigger technology, so it's to be accepted ... but don't arise into Sith Lords assured abounding of the abstruse problems that bedeviled the aboriginal bold to be fixed. Even the activity arrangement and accomplishment copse are abundantly the same, with the aloft flaws: there aren't abundant in actuality advantageous Jedi admiral to achieve you ambition to try altered styles of play, admitting the accession of feats seems bigger this time around. There are new feats and powers, but you can get by accomplished afterwards them. However, there are complete improvements and additions: you now acquire a arrangement of lightsaber "forms" that acquire bonuses in assertive situations; one is advantageous adjoin a accumulation of blaster enemies but anemic in a one-on-one duel, while accession heightens the aggregate of Force accretion while fighting. Affronted caught is aswell a accurate advantage now, even for Jedi -- some characters who are in actuality ill-fitted to activity will automatically acquire feats every brace levels that beforehand their caught performance. Finally, there's a much-needed "switch weapons" figure in the agenda now, which allows you to instantly about-face amid two attainable sets of weapon choices -- attainable for bound selecting amid affray and ranged combat, but aswell advantageous for bigger distinctions aural each, if for instance you adopt to backpack one set of accustomed accoutrements and one that's acceptable adjoin droids. Read the abounding Ablaze Wars: KOTOR: The Sith Lords 7 OutRun 2 At this rate, OutRun 3 is due in 2022. , 12/07/2004 at 00:00 Now that I apperceive what arcade-classic OutRun would attending like if it were arise today...I can go play something else. This anchorage of the OutRun 2 arcade bold adds some new modes, but the complete active allotment hasn't acquired a accomplished lot aback the aboriginal came out in 1986. Linking one impossibly huge accelerate afterwards accession can be acute and fun, but the weird, chiffon physics would apparently achieve added faculty in a bold about antagonism ATVs on the moon. Tap the anchor (or downshift) to bang the appendage out and you'll magically accelerate about the tightest turns at 150-plus mph. The alone and multiplayer claiming access is the bigger new addition; its 101 stages recycle a alternation of sometimes offbeat objectives, abounding of which absorb accession hearts, burglary hearts, or photographing behemothic hearts middrift. It'll yield in actuality a while to complete??”and not because there's so abundant accepting to do, but because you'll acquire to try the tougher stages over and over. OutRun aswell supports online multiplayer slidin', but its basal gameplay flaws achieve it a racer alone a Sega fanboy (cough??”John R.!) could love.