In some unspecified time in the future, Aspyr will run out of classic Star Wars games to shine and re-release—however there’s plenty of them, and we nonetheless haven’t gotten the Rogue Squadron video games, god dammit—however at the moment shouldn’t be that day. This morning, the developer introduced it had locked eyes on its subsequent bounty: Jango Fett’s origin story shooter, Bounty Hunter.
Particulars are scant about simply what the brand new re-release of the 2002 third-person shooter will truly replace—past making it re-available on trendy platforms, together with Nintendo Swap, Xbox, Ps, and Steam—however for now the Bounty Hunter remaster is about to jetpack into existence from August 1.
Set 10 years earlier than the occasions of Assault of the Clones, Bounty Hunter adopted Jango as he was tapped by Rely Dooku to get rid of his former padawan Komari Vosa, now head of a criminal offense syndicate and a Darkish Jedi—a time period that’s largely fallen out of favor for fallen Jedi in up to date canon, however is humorously timed given all of the dialogue about Darkish facet customers and Sith on this week’s episode of The Acolyte. Looking and monitoring an online of targets throughout the galaxy within the hunt for Vosa, you get to see Jango meet shapeshifter Zam Wesell for the primary time, purchase the Firespray ship that will become Slave 1, and, after all, get the supply to develop into the template for a brand new Clone military.
It’s fairly alright! The bounty system—which allow you to scan NPCS for potential bounties, and determined whether or not to take them in or alive—was neat for the time, though the sport’s infamously dangerous digital camera controls made combating in tight corridors flip Jango into much less of a fearsome marksman, and extra of a spray-and-pray madman. Fingers crossed the Bounty Hunter re-release received’t undergo the identical depressing destiny as Aspyr’s launch of the traditional Battlefront video games earlier this yr, plagued with bugs and networking issues, when it launches on August 1.
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