#Star wars republic commando resolution series

This will trick you into thinking youвЂ™re playing a game produced within the last five years, not 15. Or night vision, as we Milk Way dwellers call it. ItвЂ™s such a cool touch and I personally canвЂ™t get enough of it.ДЄnother visual effect that really stands out is the low-light mode. Something else I really liked, and this is a small thing that youвЂ™ll forget about after youвЂ™ve seen it a couple of times, is your view getting filled with gunk, and then your visor cleaning it away automatically. (Watch the video for the spot-on impersonation that IвЂ™ve been repeating non-stop for weeksвЂ¦) And I love this, only because I canвЂ™t get enough of hearing вЂњgo and get yourself some bacta, soldierвЂќ. Though you will have to keep an eye on their health meters as they donвЂ™t always go and grab a lovely bit of bacta when they need to, but you can command them to in the same way as other contextual actions. Likewise, if a door needs to be hacked open, itвЂ™s the same deal. So, for example, if a passage needs to be blown open with explosives, you aim your reticule at the blockage and command a clone to go blow it up. The majority of commands that youвЂ™ll give to your soldiers are contextual commands. You could, however, go through the entire game and never use them the A.I is decent enough that your fellow clones will fight when they need to, take cover when things get heavy, and even revive you when you fall in battle. You hold down the command button which brings up commands that are mapped to the d-pad. You have limited control over your squadmates. The tactical aspects, while being inspired by Ghost Recon and Brothers in Arms, is not quite as deep as either. Think of Killzone and how heavy the weapons feel there and youвЂ™ll have a good idea of the heft thatвЂ™s felt behind Republic CommandosвЂ™ combat. The controls are a little heavy and youвЂ™ll definitely feel a bit uneasy going into your first battle, but itвЂ™s not unwieldy by any means. YouвЂ™ll get into mad firefights with droids, super battle droids, Genoshian warriors, and more.Дespite the gameвЂ™s age and the tech behind it, it still manages to feel quite modern. The moment-to-moment gameplay is good with the game providing a solid if a little short, single-player campaign that takes the super troopers on a few Star Wars-y missions. The big question is, then, does it hold up these days? Is Republic Commando worth playing on modern consoles? Yes, but youвЂ™ll have to take the rough with the smooth. Similarities between Ghost Recon, Brothers in Arms, and especially Halo, given the sci-fi setting, are obvious, but itвЂ™s never so obvious to be considered a blatant rip-off. Republic Commando definitely takes inspiration from other shooters of its day. Republic Commando took Star Wars into new territories by introducing a crack-squad of super clones in a Ghost Recon style outing, though significantly streamlined when compared to the famous Tom Clancy series. Battlefront was a Battlefield clone and Jedi Knight was a mixture of first-person shooter and third-person action-platformer/maddening-puzzler. Sure, we had the original Star Wars Battlefront and the Jedi Knight series, but they were not proper first-person shooters. See, back in 2005, the year Republic Commando released, Star Wars games were either dog-poo, or they were OK, but they were rarely ever honest-to-goodness first-person shooters.

Star Wars Republic Commando is a bit of an oddity, or at least it was. Of course, IвЂ™ll most likely end up playing it again on PS5 (via backwards compatibility) for the trophies because IвЂ™m a sucker for digital doodahs. For all intents and purposes, though, itвЂ™s the exact same game. The only differences will be variations between the resolution, some tweaks to the controls, and the U.I on Xbox being a little blurrier due to the way the enhancements work on MicrosoftвЂ™s consoles. That being said, itвЂ™s essentially the same game that will release when Star Wars: Republic Commando releases on April 6th.

#Star wars republic commando resolution series

Before we get this review underway, it should be noted that this review is based on the original game running on Xbox Series X|S with backwards compatibility enhancements.