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Star Wars: Republic Commando

LucasArts

2005•Shooter•PEGI 12•About 10 hours

Taste attributes: actionadventurescience fictionmonster/alien/supernaturalrobots/ai/spacevehiclesfastunsavouryimaginarylinearglossybig & variedemotionally undemandingall consuming questfighting evilgame/competitionhuman spirit/resilience/survivalsolving the riddle/not as it seems

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Boxlist takeExpect an otherworldly, wide-ranging shooter, fast rather than slow-burning. Best if you like spectacle over intimacy.

Pace: very fast · Originality: balanced · Tone: dark · Weight: balanced · Realism: imaginary world · Story: balanced · Structure: linear · Look: glossy · Scale: big and varied · Emotional punch: undemandingHow we score

IGDB rating

82 / 100

268 ratings

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About This Game

Chaos has erupted throughout the galaxy. As a leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihalate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team-instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon. Star Wars: Republic Commando is a tactical first-person shooter video game, set in the Star Wars universe. It was developed by LucasArts using the Unreal Engine, and published for the Xbox and Microsoft Windows in 2005. The game features both single-player and multiplayer game modes. In the story, set in the Star Wars Legends expanded universe, players assume the role of RC-1138 ("Boss"), an elite clone trooper, known as "clone commando", and the leader of the special ops unit Delta Squad, consisting of three fellow clone commandos with distinctive...

Summary: IGDB

Story

Following a montage that briefly details Delta Squad's creation, early life, and training at the cloning facilities on Kamino, the game begins with the team being deployed into the front lines of the Battle of Geonosis at the onset of the Clone Wars. There, team leader Delta-38 ("Boss", the player character) meets up with squad mates 62, 40, and 07 ("Scorch", "Fixer" and "Sev" respectively) as they are given their first assignment: to assassinate Sun Fac, chief lieutenant of Geonosian Archduke Poggle the Lesser, one of the members of the Separatist Council. Upon successful completion of their...

Characteristics

Where this game sits on each taste spectrum

SlowPACEFast

FamiliarORIGINALITYOriginal

DarkTONEWholesome

LightWEIGHTINESSHeavy

FantasyREALISMRealistic

SimpleINTRICACYIntricate

Non-LinearLINEARITYLinear

UnderstatedSTYLEStylised

IntimateSCALEEpic

RestrainedEMOTIONIntense

Genres and themes

ActionAdventureScience fictionMonster/alien/supernaturalRobots/ai/spaceVehiclesAll consuming questFighting evilGame/competitionHuman spirit/resilience/survivalSolving the riddle/not as it seems

Keywords

AliensBloodySquad basedMilitaryRobotsRun and gunStar warsFuturistic

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Details

Developer: LucasArts
Publishers: Activision, LucasArts, Electronic Arts, Aspyr Media
Released: 17 February 2005
Series: Star Wars
Platforms: Xbox, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch
Modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Perspective: First person
Time to beat: 10h normally
Age rating: PEGI 12
Taste scores: How we score
Source: IGDB

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