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Star Wars: Republic Commando for Xbox Videos >>
Rating Reviewed By xino(Expert) Review Date 06/15/2007 Overall Rating  4 of 5 Value Rating 4 of 5 Rate this review? Summary Star Wars Republic Commandos is like Metroid Prime (the HUD)+Halo(Space)+Ghost Recon(Team Tactics)+Area 51(teams & Aliens)= Star Wars Republic Commandos.I am not a Star Wars fan, but any fan of a First Person Shooter who loves Halo, SWATS, Tom Clancy's series or Area 51 should get this game. The game is like a special Star Wars project that takes you behind the Clone Wars from Star Wars Episode 2: Clone Wars and some special scene from the upcoming movie Episode 3. In this game you take on a role a a clone solider "38" commanding your other clone brothers "Sev", "Scorch" and "Fixer". Together you are the Delta Squad, your squad is your weapon. Strength GRAPHICS: You will not believe it, but as soon as you start the storymode you will notice the awesome visuals, till you play the game up to 15min you will have seen how marvelous the graphics are from smooth 60frame rate, visually HUD screen just like in Metroid Prime to the special effect of the night vision just like in Splinter Cell.The graphics may look decent, but the designs changes the way the graphics looks (some parts of it looks like a next gen game with the shiny effect), also the visual effects. When you turn on the night visor, the whole graphics changes to this sort of realism night goggle. When you kill enemies, the blood splatter on your visor, and an elector sensor wiper clears the screen giving you a new visor screen. The same applies to the rain, when tears of rain drops on your visor, the sensor clears the screen. When you throw a flash grenade, if you look at the light, the screen goes white which shows you have been affected by the light, if you look away, you don't get affected by it. The same applies to the EMP, EMP that stops and destroys electronics, if you stand close to it, it will also damage your suit. GAMEPLAY: The gameplay for this game is BIG! Lets starts with the game's mechanic. As you know you can control your team to: Search n Destroy, Gather up, Cancel Tasks and defend an area. All done by a push of buttons. When you send your teams to search n destroy, they go on their own destroying enemies on the move, they act like real soliders! When you send your teams to gather up, they follow your lead. When you send your team to Cancel Task they stop the giving orders you gave them like use a tank, snipe at a special point ect. When you send your team to Defend an area, they defend the area. The enemy AI isn't that strong but smart, but the enemies do know when to attack and defend themselves. For an example their are these bunch of enemies that maneuver just like you and your squad, they give signs in hand when to attack and not. The environment is fantastic! everything is almost destructable! Basically you can't really die in the game, your team mates can revive you if one of them is alive, the same applies to them, when they are down you can revive them too. Since the game works like Halo with the shield, when you are low on health, you can retrieve and restore your health at a stationary point called Bacta. You can also hop on machines that fire ballistic shots to advance with the war. When attackng multiple enemies, you can command your squad to focus on 1 enemy. Different grenades have different effects for each enemies, for an example Flash grenade can blind aliens but not robots. EMP can stop aliens for a while by damaging their backpack while it destroys robots etc. Why I said the above list combine to this game: *Metroid Prime: Samus Arans HUD mechanics is just like in this game, your visor forms a shaggy/breakup effect when close to a driod, your visor gets dirty with alien blood, rain, broken visor etc. Your visor contains many details like displaying your teams statue health, your health and shield etc. *Area 51: exactly like Area 51, the character Crispy is just like Scorch. Sev is just like can't remember his name but the guy that told Crispy to shut the hell up when going down the elevator. Character respond to kills, orders etc. Plus the aliens in Area51 looks exactly like the ones in these game! Halo: multiplayer is just like Halo 2's, you have a storyline just like it which takes place in space. Also you have a shield just like the one Master Chief's has. Ghost Recon: You command your team just like in the SWATS. SOUND: There is nothing new about the sounds, just the same sound effects of a laser. The sound effect for some of the weapons wield sound pretty weak, for an example the laser gun you hold doesn't sound like something that can pack a punch to an enemy. The voice acting is sweet n nice! The actor that voice Jango Feet is the same game that voice you "38". 38's quotes are good, makes him sound like a REAL leader. Scorches quotes are funny, he is sort of the funny guy. Fixer is like a normal guy and Sev is like a "i don't have time for this". MUSIC: The music isn't all that, since there isn't that much to it. However when the game starts to get hectic, a nice Star Wars like music starts to play (not the official Star Wars tune:/). STORY: There isn't any FMV nor cutscenes. The cutscene available is the in-game cutscene. Where you can't move but move the visor and characters makes a speech, its sort of like an event. The story is: You and your brothers are a clone, having alot of experience in combat and war you are a special squad that can do a job: assassinate, takeover, destroy etc. I can't remember how the Clone War movie goes nor haven't seen Episode 3 movie. If you have, you might notice some parts from the movie. The story doesn't revive anything about you, your clones, brothers etc. But during the loading screens, some character words displays giving notes about their personality, hints n tips in the game, what happened during the training etc. The ending finally reviews why they were created! PRESENTATION: The graphics is awesome, the visor is sweet plus your team act like a real army team! The manual book is ok, but explaining the HUD is poor, it just shows bunch of arrows with no numbers. REPLAY: Yes there is a multiplayer available, it offers the same multiplayer such as Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch etc. A downloadable content, which is just 1 map. Weakness The game is not too short nor normal length. Its in between short and normal. It takes up to 10hours to finish the game. If you keep dying all the time! playing on normal it might take you 15hours to finish. If on easy 12hours.There aren't that much things to unlock. The only thing you unlock is just special interviews with the sound effect creator, team trainer, gameplay and voice actor. Multiplayer isn't that strong has other multiplayer games such as Battlefield 2, Unreal Tournament or Halo. Although the multiplayer does feel a little be like Halo 2 multiplayer but it's weaker version. Weapons, like most games, you get to have up to 8-10 weapons in the game, some allow you to carry 2 weapons at a time but you still get to use many weapons. In this game you can only use 4 weapons at a time, the fact is that you can only change 1 weapon:/ Your main weapon is the laser like shooter that packs about 35 ammo in a single round but takes 300 capacity ammo all together. That weapon cannot be changed, when you press the ? Directional, the same laser weapon gets an attachment scope used for sniping. This cannot be exchanged too. When you press the ? directional, it brings a grenade launcher however its still attached to the laser which cannot be changed! When you press the ? directional it brings up the pistol which cannot be changed or the weapon you collected or exchanged. Which means the ? directional is the only weapon you can carry or exchange. With the lack of no cutscenes or FMV, when playing nearly 2 hours of gameplay you will feel bored because it feels like you are repeating the same game over and over just trying to complete tasks. Since this game is old...you will only find about 1 or 2 multiplayer games available, you may not even find them all the time. If only there is a sequel or 2-4 online co-op mode. Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Rating Reviewed By Euter(Expert) Review Date 11/03/2006 Overall Rating  5 of 5 Value Rating 5 of 5 Rate this review? Summary To start with this is a great game for the price that it is at right now, and just great overall. The game has a great story of a clone commando, your character, and the other three members of his elite squad of clones. You are sent in on only a few missions, but they are very good although they are not very long. The enemies that you encounter are not very hard to beat, and their are not very many diffrent enemies that you encounter. The weapons are excelent, and the gameplay is just like halo. The only downside is that there are not very many weapons to use in the levels. So overall it is a very good game with only a few downsides.Strength Excelent gameplay,good storyline to follow, good graphics, and some cool cool characters in your squad.Weakness The game was short, you only fight a few diffrent enemys, and you don't have many weapons to choose from in the levels.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member.
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