have you even read any of the e3 stuff about this game?
if it was before the movies then why the forget are there clone troopers? huh huh huh huh?
Why the forget do droids from SW:KOTOR (4000 years or something before the movies) look
almost exactly the same as the ones in the movies? It's because there's medieval stasis in the Star Wars universe; technology doesn't change much.
Also, have you even read the Wikipedia article?
The story takes place in the Star Wars fictional universe shortly after the establishment of a tenuous peace between the re-emergent Sith Empire and the Galactic Republic, 300 years after the events of the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic games and more than 3,500 years before the events in the Star Wars films