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Republic Commando is a very good game I'd recommend whether you like Star Wars or not. The multiplayer game is great and under populated, but the single-player game is slick, polished, frantic, and exciting. The squad-based nature isn't revolutionary, nor is it as deep as "real" tactical games, but it's clean, easy to use, and doesn't slow things down. Add to that all the delicious details that LucasArts has crammed into every corner and you don't have many excuses not to enjoy it. Play this game get you really emerge in to the game. Your cloned brothers actually fell like your real bothers. You send so much time with them if game, it's really like their family. So it kind lonely went you get to missions you have to solo until you meat up with them again. Your bothers may all look alike but they all act different. One is funny, while the other is serious, while the last is just battle hungry. No matter what happens in the game you will always need your clone brothers either for support or a revival. The Clones are the best support AI I have ever seen in any game. And in most other title the AI is usually to stupid to help. Not the case here. Sev is a hard core hunter as, Fixer is just a funny man and scorch is the heart of the group. Learn your squad strength and weakness is what keep you alive in this game. "Republic Commando" is a game I can recommend for just about everyone. It's no Halo 2 killer but it give Halo 2 a good run for it's money. "Republic Commando" is just a lot of fun without those Jedi would be nice, however Jedis are in every star Wars game. And for once it is nice to not play a game with a jedi in it, or a Star wars game depended on a Jedi to be popular. RC is game play takes a way from the usual Jedi slash force play and concentrate on a lot of the grunt action. But who know, maybe in the future a jedi or two may be in part two. Place this game to the end and play it twice. The ending is unbelievable and it leave you wanting for more. Well, this would be much of a review if I didn't talk about some of the weal points in the game. But no worries, there is just a few minor ones. One of the main problem in this game is that your weapons seem to lack a lot of punch. While the blaster is just average compared to the reaper and the shot gun, but most of the game you need your blaster rifle since you can adapted in to other weapon like a sniper fire and a anti-armor weapon. However weak the weapons are matters not because you have some "dam good" support in the game. Minor graphic errors, no big deal. I'm sure LucasArts has patched it by now, they usually stay on top of those things and if not it's doesn't hurt the game. Over all I have to give the game two thumbs up despite it not being graphical superior to most game. However what it doesn't have in graphics it makes up in game play. Over all this game wins you over with superior game play and team work. A supper first person action shooter and a good multiplayer adventure.Read full review
I have played many FPS games, definitely 50-100 in the last 10 years so I have some experience in the manner. This game is a little gem, a pleasant surprise to the bulk of current shooters out there in the market right now. No DRM is a plus! In SW Republic Commando you take the role of a squad leader in a elite squad during the clone wars. You run all sorts of back story missions NOT shown in the movie. Clandestine ops, search and destroy missions, fighting in a wide variety of planets and terrain. You lead your AI squad through missions with a simple point and click interface that allows you to conduct simple strategic squad warfare. "Snipe from this position" "Blow that door" "Revive that squad member" are just a few examples of orders you can give to your AI squad mates. The AI wile simplistic but fairly realistic and the game does a excellent job of immersing you into the action of a elite commando team. The sound effects are definitely of the Star Wars cannon, the sound track surprisingly gorgeous for this little off-shoot title. The missions are pretty straightforward, making it difficult to get lost or stuck. The voice acting is done very well, with the developers putting effort into making your clone squad mates realistic and teem with a little life and personality. Kudos to the developer for making half-interesting squad mates. The weapons are a wide variety of expected Star Wars weapons with a few twists added here and there, making the approach different if not fresh from the standard FPS perspective. You can use a several grenade types, the hud is simple but effective for monitoring your squad mates current location, health and tactical status. While graphics cannot compare to the likes of Crysis and it's modern brethren, Star Wars Republic Commando can stand out with decent enough model types, good graphics, and it's small price tag. The system requirements are surprisingly low for a shooter of this grade, and I was surprised it ate up so few gigs, considering more modern games can now eat up 10-20 gigs each. All in all I enjoyed the experience and would easily recommend it to Star Wars fans and First Person Shooter enthusiasts, simply based on it's creative approach to a sagging genre, and it's wallet friendly price. Despite the fact fans are split on the Clone Wars franchise, this title does add a fresh perspective without using a light sabre or force powers. It allows additional exploration of little known, or relatively unseen sections of the movies which fans often times appreciate. If you are a hardcore realism shooter (IE - Call of Duty fanatic 4 & 5) you may find blaster weapons a bit of a change from a AK-47 and standard automatic weapons. The pace is still the same of the average FPS with fast paced sequences, some difficult bosses, and crescendo music during tense scenes to keep you gripped in your seat. For full retail price I might rate this as "good" but as shooters of this caliber (pun intended) deflate in price, my personal rating goes up as the low cost title can provide almost as much fun and graphical eye candy as the latest 50 or 60 dollar game so I chose to rate "excellent" especially since it has not bugged out, provided any display issues, hasn't locked up, or deactivated itself because I somehow insulted it's SecureROM policy. If you ever wanted to be a storm trooper, then this title is for you. It gives you a first hand experience that is hard to forget and well worth the price tag.Read full review
My husband's birth day was coming up on Sunday, April, 20, 2008. Joe, my husband of 30 years, loved everything to do with Star Wars. No big deal, I'll get him a few more Star Wars PC games for his birthday. The only Star Wars game he had was Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace. So I bought Star Wars Battlefront II and Star Wars Republic Commando for Joe. Then our troubles begin. What I forgot was that Battlefront II and Republic Commando were bigger and faster FC games made in 2004 by Lucas Arts. You have to install the Direct X 9.0c on your computer. Sure our computer is an Intel Pentium III but we had to unload over half of our programs to make room for the games. It felt strange to install the PC games to our DVD drive.Then a sign kept popping up saying we didn't have a 3D Graphics Card on our computer. We took our CPU into Computer Discount to have a GRAPHICS CARD wth Vertex Shader and Pixel Shader as well as Hardware Transform and Lighting Capability added to our computer. Since only one Star Wars PC game could go on our computer at a time, we tried to install Star Wars Battlefront II. We couldn't seem to get it to installed on our computer in the DVD drive. The game took up 4.0 of free space on the hard drive and was to big for our computer. The we installed Star Wars: Republic Commando to our computer. Since it was a smaller game and only took up 2.0 GB of free space on the hard drive it went on. Joe was happy with the more realistic movie quality of the game as well as the different weapons and more seniors. Nex year Joe wants a AMD Athlon computer for his birthday so he can play Star Wars Battlefront II.Read full review
I've been playing video games since the 1970's, just a few short years after I was born. I was never really into first person shooters like "Halo", "Wolfenstien", etc. However, I was always a fan of "Star Wars"; so, naturally, I had to pick up this game. It opened my eyes to the fun and awesomeness of first person shooters. It's military style allows you to play with friends (or enemies or frienemies). But this is a good game for those of us who really aren't into the Jedi, those of us who perfer Han Solo or Boba Fett. This game take the reality and game play of "Halo" and puts it into the reality and galaxy of "Star Wars". So, if you're a fan of Star Wars and a fan of Halo (or first person shooters), then "Republic Commando" is for you!
A great game by Lucas Arts. Whilst single player is a fun option I would recommend this game mostly for its online playability. The online servers are usually full. They run smoothly and support many different game styles. With a reasonable internet connection you can expect great online play. It will also run smoothly on most machines as it doesn't require a high amount of graphic acceleration or PC power whilst still hosting very reasonable graphics. The online gameplay also doesn't require much if not any patching. So it is basically plug and play. A great option for any age to play. Adam.
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