Star Wars: Bounty Hunter is a game that could have been much better, although it still provided it's entertainment. You play as the mercenary Jango Fett and put to use his many weapons including: Dual Blater pistols, flamethrower, poison darts, sniper rifle, whipcord, and his jetpack rocket. Jango can also zip around using his jetpack. Although, it doesn't last forever, so when you run out of juice you come back down to the ground and then it recharges itself rather quickly. The game takes around 12 hours to beat, with about 18 levels in 6 different worlds. The game follows a great story line based on Jango and highlights of his career. Like how he got the Slave I and how he became the model for the clone army. The plot has you collecting bounties for certain people, but in the missions themselves you can collect seconary bounties. Now this isn't always an easy task. You first have to scan them to see if there is a price on there head. Next you have to mark them, then (whether they are wanted dead or alive, or either one)you either kill them or wrap them up with the whipcord. THEN you have to collect it and normally you do all this under fire from other aliens. I found myself getting killed quite often while I went through the process of capturing a bounty. The gameplay also features a new targeting system where you can lock on to two people at once (you can only do this with the dual blaster pistols). Flying around and shooting things can be really fun at first but eventually it gets a little repetitive. When there is a lot of action around, the game does not slow up at all. It pretty much keeps a constant framerate, much to my relief. The graphics are fairly good, from the speedy laser to Jango's helment. Some of the enviroments could use some work, especially indoors and in the jungle levels. This time around Lucasarts has Industrial Light and Magic doing their CGI cutscenes (which look amazing) for them and Skywalker Sound taking care of the audio. The sound (like most Star Wars games) is excellent. The laser blasts and music all sounds like Star Wars. This game could have been better in several different aspects. The gameplay needs to be improved, but I don't know what...You can't quite put your finger on it but there's something missing. I also believe that the level design could have been spruced up some more. All in all I enjoyed Star Wars: Bounty Hunter and its flaws kept me from really loving it. I really wanted to, but I just can't. Bounty Hunter would make a great rental for the normal Star Wars fan, but if you're a harcore one, then you might want to hang on to this.

Rating: 4 [ Bounty hunters never had it so hard! ]

Star Wars Bounty Hunter is one game that will definitely keep you on your toes. The action is intense as you are often forced to take on several enemies at once, all the while trying to figure out who would be worth more to you alive (as a bounty) than dead. It really takes some skill to walk into an area of 5-6+ unfriendly people and figure out who is to be captured, and not take any fatal hits yourself in the process.
In between such quick bursts of action, game players will find themselves puzzled as what to do next to proceed to the next level. This often involves searching for a VERY small ledge (that always seems just out of reach) to either jump up on, or to hang onto and pull yourself up with. Believe me when I say that these jump points are not always in obvious places, and that you will often die many times trying to make them (having fallen into the proverbial bottomless pit to your doom). Even as a skilled game player with several dozen completed games under my belt, I had some frustrating moments that made me wonder if I was losing my touch.
After finally figuring out what to do next to progress along, I would be faced with a seemingly impossible jump which usually had me hitting the continue button for a good three or four times (sometimes more). For example, one part in level three had me slide down the side of one large cityscape building to another one, which required a quick last second jump combined with my jet pack thrusters power (which by the way only last for short five second bursts before giving out). I live for gaming challenges such as these.
The graphics and storyline were both done very well, and I was amused to run into some very familiar looking faces during my adventure. I remember once having to capture a C3PO looking (weren't these droids built for translation purposes? Hmm.) character who was on my bounty list, for posing what threat to the universe I not know.
The only fault that I could really find with this game was that Jango's body would sometimes become mixed with the scenery or doors if I was too close to them, or if I hit the wrong button causing me to unleash a punch kick combo by mistake. It would have been nice to have a map to prevent me from walking around in circles aimlessly for half hour intervals as well.
My biggest concern is that they made this game just a little too challenging for the average game player who may not have the patience or time to figure everything out. Still, this is a pretty good game that I think you will enjoy. I must recommend renting it first though.

Rating: 5 [ pure sweetness ]

This Game is the best game that I ever played. It never had a dull part, and you always are doing something or hunting somebody. The bounty hunter game end leading right up to the pre clone war. The missions are long and challanging and make you feel real good when you beat it, but it just has this pull to it that you never want it to be over because it is really fun.
The only bad thing about it is that it has lots of gliches but the over all game makes you look past that.

Star Wars: Bounty Hunter (CD-ROM)

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