I don't think the game is better for it, sure it works for what the game is, basically a console game, but giving more freedom to choose your own storyline would have been much better.
Much of it was amusing at how it didn't make sense in the SW universe, in the sith academy when you kill the head and go back in all the students attack you. That is just stupid, you just took his position in a very sith like fashion, and the school should be yours. The dialog was poor as well, it assumed I was still on the light side even though my meter was railed to the low end.
There was just so much wrong in how KotOR was written.