Found a really good review on the official forum from a person who attended PAX with a group of his friends, and how their impression of the game changed after they played it:
http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=460703
A few snippets:
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Prior to going to PAX I had scoured the internet for all things TOR in the hopes of finding some little “tid-bit” of information I may have missed. This devouring of information really spiked when I started seeing quite a few reviews, and nearly insurmountable comments and posts on the internet alluding to some fore-gone conclusion that SWToR might not be what we had hoped; and indeed that it may not do well at all.
I found the prevailing dissent disturbing. I couldn't believe that so many people who have never played the game had such a negative opinion of it and that so many websites that had done previews of the game spoke so blandly of the combat and interface (among other things).
The basic consensus growing, it seemed, was that the game would be "good" but wouldn't "revolutionize" the MMO genre in any way.
In fact my girlfriend even reflected this view stating, "I just think GW2 looks more fun to play. Look at all the videos...GW2 combat just looks like more fun." She also thought that SWToR looked too "cartoony" and too much "...like WoW...”
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He then goes on in great detail to lay out his impressions of the story and the voiceover, the graphics and animation and the combat, and then gives brief impressions from four other people (hint: they all
really liked it. Including his girlfriend.)
It's a really big and intimidating wall of text style post, but the guy did a good job with it.