For a minute there, a full-on remake of Obsidian Leisure’s Star Wars: Knights of the Outdated Republic 2 was apparently in improvement. Nevertheless, the challenge seems to have been placed on maintain, based on a brand new report.
In line with Game File’s reporting, new authorized paperwork revealed that Aspyr and Lucasfilm Video games had been engaged on a full remake of KOTOR 2. Codenamed “Juliet” within the information, the challenge was a contemporary remake of the long-lasting 2004 RPG and was in improvement alongside the KOTOR remake, which developer Saber Interactive mentioned remains to be coming. Nevertheless, per Recreation File and in contrast to the KOTOR remake, improvement on the KOTOR II remake has ceased as not too long ago as March 2025. Lucasfilm Video games VP Douglas Reilly defined in depositions concerning the drama surrounding KOTOR II that, had the remake come to fruition, it might’ve contained the reduce DLC that was teased when the sport was introduced for Nintendo Change in 2022.
“‘Juliet’ was the codename for a challenge the place we had been going to do a full remake of KOTOR II,” Reilly mentioned. [It would have featured] trendy artwork, trendy gameplay, you recognize, maintain the story and the characters and the general–the basic content material of KOTOR II, however remake it for contemporary {hardware} and trendy machines with up to date graphics and all these sorts of issues. It was one thing we had been discussing with Aspyr. … The plan was that we might remake the content material that was within the RCM because it pertains to Star Wars in that Juliet challenge.”
The DLC, (*2*) (or RCM), was initially a mod that crammed within the narrative gaps whereas providing an alternate ending for KOTOR 2. As Aspyr formally revealed the restored content material announcement, the studio confirmed that the official DLC would do the identical factor: It will embrace new crew dialogue, an additional mission with HK-47, and a “new revamped ending.” Sadly, when KOTOR 2 hit Nintendo Change on June 8, 2022, the DLC by no means got here out. Apparently, the rationale why the DLC by no means dropped was that Disney’s legal professionals blocked it with what was apparently a sticking level surrounding who really made the mod. And now, it seems a KOTOR 2 remake will not drop, both.