Just saw the newest trailer for Star Wars: The Old Republic from Bioware. Wow. Just, wow. Released today at E3, this is strictly trailer/cut scene material, but it looks simply amazing. If you haven’t heard about this game yet, it’s the follow up to SW:KotOR II (Star Wars: Knight of the Old Republic: The Sith Lords for you noobs…). Taking place 300 years after the last game and approx. 3600 years before the Battle of Yavin; this MMO will let you pick Force User, Bounty Hunter, Trooper, etc. and then choose good or evil. I’m was already dreading losing weeks of my life to this game and now I thing I’m actually looking forward to it.

The trailer looks so good and movie quality trailers/cut-scenes for video games are nothing new; it got me wondering why Hollywood hasn’t moved to this for actual movies. Imagine not having to worry if your teenage actor’s voice is changing or no longer wants to be associated with a “childish” property. Or not having a movie not get done right or even at all because of a huge effects budget the studio doesn’t want to pay. You could pay half of what a normal “A-List” actor gets. I mean, look at the cut-scenes from Marvel: Ultimate Alliance; those looked incredible. I could watch a movie done that way easier than I could Beowulf. MoCap obviously isn’t the way to go. But this, this could revolutionize the movie industry and actors could work longer as voice actors. I mean, c’mon, I’m a huge Harrison Ford fan, but no longer believe his Indy could pull off half the stuff from the last movie (and it wasn’t just the script…). Of course movies would still get made with “real people” acting, but for franchises and sci-fi/fantasy/comic movies, why wouldn’t you go in this direction?

Enough of my rant/rave. Be sure to play the trailer twice and check out the game’s site here.