Star Wars: Bounty Hunter
Star Wars: Bounty Hunter Remaster
Release Date: August 1, 2024
Action, TPP, science fiction, Star Wars, movies, remaster/remake, action adventure, singleplayer
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A refreshed version of the popular TPP game from 2002. Star Wars: Bounty Hunter allows us to play as the famous Jango Fett who receives a new dangerous mission from Count Dooku. There are nearly 20 levels in the game in which we fight and deal with various obstacles.
Star Wars: Bounty Hunter is a third-person action game. It is a refreshed version of the game with the same title released in 2002 for PlayStation 2 and GameCube consoles. The production was handled by Aspyr studio, responsible for other modernized games from the Star Wars universe, such as: Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.
Plot
In the game we play as the bounty hunter Jango Fett, who we may recognize from the second episode of the movie saga. The action of the game takes place before the movie's story and is set between the first and second episode.
While carrying out minor missions involving tracking down criminals and debtors, Jango is contacted by Darth Tyranus (also known as Count Dooku). He offers a generous reward in exchange for the capture of former Jedi Master Bango Gor. The bounty hunter accepts the mission despite the fact that no other hunter has managed to accomplish it.
Gameplay
The game is divided into 18 missions, which are located on 6 different worlds, including Tatooine and Coruscant.
In order to complete individual missions, we use the hunter's physical fitness to fight hand-to-hand, run, jump and climb various platforms. We can rely on helpful weapons and gadgets from our arsenal, such as flamethrowers, double blasters and a jet backpack that allows us to take part in short-distance flights.
Each mission is also an opportunity to meet characters with whom we have the opportunity to cooperate and talk. Over a hundred characters appear in the game, including some known from the movies.
Technical aspects
The audio and the visuals in Star Wars: Bounty Hunter have not changed compared to the original from 2002. However, modern technical changes have been added, such as Steam Deck and DualSense support (we can use adaptive triggers on the controller).
Videos and Screens
[1:20] Star Wars: Bounty Hunter Star Wars Bounty Hunter - Launch Trailer
[0:58] Star Wars: Bounty Hunter Star Wars Bounty Hunter (2024) - Announce Trailer
ZTGD: 6 / 10 by Ken McKown
The biggest issue with Bounty Hunter is that it is a game of its time. The level design and navigation are frustrating, levels are too long, and the lack of save anywhere can get tedious at times. I did enjoy the added content such as the Boba Fett skin, but it just wasn’t enough to make this feel like a proper remaster. This is a hard game to recommend if you don’t have massive nostalgia for it. It wasn’t heralded when it came out, and that hasn’t changed with this re-release.
Checkpoint Gaming: 5.5 / 10 by Tom Quirk
While updated graphics and a new control scheme are all well and good, Aspyr should have done more to bring Star Wars: Bounty Hunter into the present day. The lives system should have stayed in the early 2000s where it belongs, as all it serves to do is make the game's already murderous level of difficulty even more aggravating by dragging out the experience and arbitrarily making players replay huge chunks of the game whenever the game serves up enough cheap deaths. The bounty hunting system also could have done with improvements to make it easier and more enjoyable to interact with. While there is some fun to be found with flying through the sky and gunning down your enemies, Star Wars: Bounty Hunter is overall too frustrating an experience to be an easy recommend for anyone but the most diehard of Star Wars fans.
Hardcore Gamer: 3.5 / 5 by Kevin Dunsmore
The updates to gameplay make Bounty Hunter feel modern, fluid and accessible, though the legacy controls are still there for purists. It would have been nice to see a remaster or remake that fixed additional quirks and greatly improved the presentation, but as a $19.99 port, Aspyr has delivered enough changes and updates to make Star Wars: Bounty Hunter feel like the game it always should have been at launch. Star Wars: Bounty Hunter is one bounty you’ll want to bring in alive.
Star Wars: Bounty Hunter Summary
Platforms:
PC Windows
PlayStation 4
Xbox One
Nintendo Switch
PlayStation 5
Xbox Series X/S
Developer: Aspyr Media
Publisher: Aspyr Media
Age restrictions: 12+
Star Wars: Bounty Hunter System Requirements
PC / Windows
Minimum: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 / AMD Phenom II X2 550, 4 GB RAM, graphic card 1 GB GeForce GTX 650 / Radeon R7 250, 15 GB HDD, Windows 10 64-bit
Recommended: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 / AMD Phenom II X2 550, 4 GB RAM, graphic card 3 GB GeForce GTX 1060 / 4 GB Radeon RX 470, 15 GB HDD, Windows 10 64-bit
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