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Summary: A great game, but come on!
Comment: I've been working on this game off and on for quite a while. It's a fun game...very challenging in a lot of places. I especially like the feature where you can collect bounties other than the one that's your primary objective...though some of these are stuck in the midst of a large group of enemies, making it nearly impossible to get to them without taking them out (problematic when they're wanted alive).
I'm now just over halfway through the game (I think), and it's just too darn tough...not because of any particular challenge, but because there are just too many enemies - by the time I think I'm getting near the end of the level, I run out of continues, and I have to start over! I've tried it more times than I can count, and just cannot get through this level. I just don't have that much patience - I've ordered a controller with a turbo option, to see if that makes things better...if it does, I'll post an update.
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Summary: Fun, but absolutely no replayability
Comment: ***Spoilers alert***
In one of those rare instances where you play someone other than a Jedi in a Star Wars game, Bounty Hunter provided a very interesting and highly entertaining thrill-ride through the underbowels of Star Wars planets.
Such levels as Coruscant take you from the roof tops of some of the middle-level buildings, to the lower levels where shady nightclubs and such are. Other levels take you to very interesting and highly lavishly built levels which provide a complex and interesting backstory as to how and why Count Dooku (pretending to be Syfo-Dias) chose Jango Fett to be the clone prototype for the Republic's clone army.
The gameplay is solid, and Jango is very powerful, and not invincible. His weapons are easy to figure out, and fun to use, and his jetpack is very useful in almost any situation. You have the ability to lock on to opponents with your guns, though this does not guarantee that all shots will hit, it certainly makes it easier when shooting and attempting to evade a flurry of blaster bolts hurled at you, and you not being a Jedi deflecting them with a lightsaber.
Unfortunately for a well crafted game, its biggest and ultimately fatal flaw is that it has absolutely no replayability. It has a relatively short campaign of some 12 missions or so, and that is it. There is no multiplayer, either online or with other controllers, there are no additions to the campaign or non-storyline battles you can do. There is only the campaign, and once that is over, you are essentially done with the entire game. Perhaps waiting a year would make it worth playing again, but otherwise this is not a game you should buy expecting too much.
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Summary: Most Relentless Player
Comment: My name is most relentless player because Ive been at it for three years.Im not even done,Im on level fourteen out of eighteen.And theres you should know,I feel bad about this but in year one I used a cheat code to get past the whole game.But in two months of extra levels I punished myself and restarted the whole thing.And (luckily)because of playing and winning the final level and seventeen I was much better.But I learned something wierd about the game,although some levels are higher there not the hardest.I say level fourteen is the hardest.I could be wrong,I could be right youll have to find out.But overall its fun,great graphics,and a good plot.If your a diehard Star wars fan,buy it,if you just want to try it out rent it.
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Summary: Decieving
Comment: The first time I heard of this game I thought it was a must have. I thought it would be awesome to play as my favorite star wars character. In fact, once I got a Gamecube, it was the first game I got. Here are the pros and cons of Star Wars: Bounty Hunter.
pros:
1-You get to play as the most feared Bounty Hunter in the galaxy.
2-You have all the weapons Jango has in the movies.
3-It has a good plot.
cons:
1-Levels are way to long and hard. Sometimes you don't even know what the heck you have to do to advance.
2-Graphics could use a little bit more work.
3-It's only one player. This game would be awesome if you could play cooperative.
I would suggest renting this game before actually buying it, to see if you like it or not.
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Summary: Star Wars polish saves average game
Comment: Bounty Hunter is a game that follows Jango Fett, the father of the classic Boba Fett character and also the blueprint for the clone army in the Star Wars prequels. The game chronicles Jango's back story and how Dooku comes to recruit him, and is worth experiencing for Star Wars fans. But it's not always a fun ride.
The biggest problem I had was with the weapon selection and switching. Jango comes with all his trademark weapons from the film (flame thrower, rockets, grenades, darts, capture cord, etc), but only his standard twin pistols are effective in a firefight when you've got enemies swarming and shooting at you from all sides. With their average strength and accuracy, and Jango's limited amount of health, you'll be dying often as you make your way through the levels. Switching to other weapons requires going through an unintuitive pause screen (unless you want to be shot while doing so), and the rest of Jango's arsenal would've been much more useful if they could be mapped to the controller buttons and accessed on the fly.
The game also has an interesting bounty-hunting aspect where you can nab bounties that in turn unlock extras from the main menu. However, the process of identifying, marking, and capturing a bounty alive is more complicated than it should be, and you'll often be left vulnerable while trying to nab an enemy alive.
What Lucasarts does well with, like always, is the overall Star Wars polish. The in-game graphics aren't always amazing, but the cutscenes are nicely produced. Strong sound effects, John Williams music and voice-acting from the likes of Temura Morrison, Leeanna Walsman, Clancy Brown and Corey Burton really sell the Star Wars experience. And there's always the comic book panels, concept art, trading card images, and other extras to unlock.
In the end, Bounty Hunter is still a very playable game, and dedicated Star Wars fans will certainly find this a worthwhile purchase (especially now, as it should be relatively cheap). There's really nothing outstanding to recommend to non-fans though, and the coolness of playing as Jango is occasionally lost in the clumsy weapons and bounty system. For the galaxy's most-feared bounty hunter, our boy gets killed pretty easily.
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