Concept art for Star Wars KOTOR Remake leaks

Despite being announced five years ago, we've had no official updates for Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Remake. Originally in development at Aspyr, the game ended up shifting to Saber Interactive, but progress has been painfully slow from the outside looking in. Now, thanks to a former concept artist on the project, we have at least a small look at what the game was going to look like. 

An artist who worked on the KOTOR Remake project uploaded one screenshot of their work on the game to their personal website. To avoid getting the artist into any trouble, MP1st does not name them, but they do share the following image, purportedly taken from the artist's personal website:

The image is instantly recognisable to anyone who played the original game. It shows the area where you first land on Kashyyyk, the Wookie home world. On the planet, Wookies live up high in the trees, with few venturing down to the surface, known as the shadow lands, where dangerous creatures lurk. The area shown in the image is where you first land, before heading to meet the Wookie Chieftan.

Unfortunately, we do not have any concept art for other planets found in the original game. There were four main planets in KOTOR 1, including Kashyyyk, Tatooine, Koriban – the Sith home planet, and Manaan, a world covered almost entirely in ocean. You also spend a brief amount of time on Dantooine, where the Jedi Council is located, and Taris, where most of the game's prologue takes place.

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic first released in 2003, telling the story of Darth Revan, a former Jedi who turned on the republic to build their own army with the aid of the Star Forge, an ancient factory capable of producing endless fire power. The Remake was announced in 2020, ahead of the release of the PS5 console. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like the game is going to release before the next-generation PlayStation 6 console hits the market.

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KitGuru Says: Judging by this concept art, the original plan for KOTOR Remake was to stay very true to the original's art direction and scale, which as a fan of the original, is fine by me. Now that the game has moved developers, there is no telling what we will actually end up with, assuming it doesn't get cancelled. 

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