I always loved Republic Commando simply because it really militarized Star Wars. What I mean by that is before, we only saw people shooting blaster from the hip, missing 90% of their shots, and getting cut down by lightsaber wielding force sensitives. It's kinda like what the reboot of Battlefront *could* have been like if they had used more influence from Battlefield. Professional soldiers, checking their corners, using cover, aiming down sights, and using small squad tactics to overcome numerically superior enemies... I'd love a remake of Republic Commando or a continuation to the story.
They really did a great job with the squad ai and incorporating actual small unit tactics. They had ex-special forces guys doing mocap and advising the animators iirc. I just realized even the way they infil onto the derelict ship is basically the star wars version of a HALO jump. Fuck yeah lol
If you’re ever able, read the Republic commando book series, starts with “Hard contact” if i remember correctly… Really awesome books. Features Omega squad and later on Delta etc…
@@levycore6475yes. Hard Contact’s intro actually is the mission references in the game where a separate commando squad got incapacitated and Delta had to go and blow the jamming device. That was Omega squads missions at the start of the book. But yeah the follow up books all have Delta Squad working with them. Great novels
Show them the 2003 show and immerse them in the Dark Horse Comics that came out back then. They're some top tier Star Wars stories that no fan should miss out on!
This is one of the games he's covered that I actually grew up with. It was so cool back the day as like a Squad based FPS that played a lot like Halo. I wish more games like this had been made as a series. I still play this game like once a year.
This game was an impulse buy for me that I knew nothing about beforehand. I had played Halo 3 at a friend's house, as it had just come out. I didn't have an Xbox, though, but I was itching to get to play it. So when I noticed SWRC in a bargain bin, I went "I love Star Wars, and this kinda looks like Halo" and thought it would be perfect to scratch that itch. The game totally blew me away and basically made my teenage years. I even bonded with a couple of friends over it at school. Some of the best years of my life. I still play it to this day.
same. I actually had gotten a demo pre release from my grandfather who got PC gamer magazine for some reason. I loved it. it was just the kashyyyk mission up to the bit with grievous, but I still spent hours on it. I eventually found a PC full release copy years later and I still play it a couple times a year.
It has never not held up. It's one of the best Star Wars games ever, and honestly it's a really great squad shooter too. I really do not understand the lack of sequel or remake. God this game would look great remade for today.
Yeah it def deserves a sequel apparently imperial commando was in the works but didn’t get much farther than concept art I think. I think it released a few years ago for ps4 but it wasn’t remade
In a time with so many good Star Wars games too... it really says something. KOTOR series, Jedi Knight, Battlefront (the real Battlefront,) Republic Commando, Empire At War, Star Wars Galaxies and more... no Star Wars games have come close to the games of 1997-2007.
@@drlca6601 even the android port of KOTOR is really damned good. It plays really well on a fucking kindle fire tablet from like 2018, lmao. And Battlefront 2 (2004) is one of the greatest shooters I have ever played in a room full of people. Halo was great, so was Mechassault, but damn battlefront was fun. Plus the fact it was star wars made it more accessible to people than Halo. I knew people that didn't play any shooter games that played the hell outta battlefront 2.
I recently re-played this game after so many years and I was surprised to find out that it is as good as I remembered it, although I found it a bit short, too bad it never had a sequel. I mean, that cliffhanger at the end did leave me a little upset for a while back in the day... And yes, I also reloaded the game multiple times just to snipe Grievous, it was just .... an irresistible thing to do.😊
Yeah it was a brief campaign I do wish there were more missions, and I def wish it had gotten the imperial commando sequel. The ending definitely needs further explanation!
@@Cheddar_Wizard I think it should have had co-op, too. That’s one of my biggest gripes. The fact that there are 3 other squad mates already facilitates it from a narrative standpoint. Whereas Halo usually just has a random John 117 clone.
Ngl, that last mission on Geonosis has been one of the levels where I spent most adrenaline in my life. It got to the point where I reloaded in a earlier checkpoint to have more time before the explosion, and even then I struggled until I actually led my squad to a good stategic defense in the command center Anyway, I love that game.
I've recently started a replay of this game and it's still awesome. Hard can still kick my ass. That being said a co op campaign would have been awesome.
yeah, the devs have stated that that was their idea, but EA forced them to do MP and they also couldn‘t due to how tight the release window given by EA was
This game was teased to me from the 2003 Clone Wars Volume 2 disc which had a trailer for the game with even a playable demo for it, only on XBOX. Didn't have an Xbox had the PS2. Got a 360 but didn't even realize this was on the backwards compatible list until I got my XBONE and saw it was added when looking at Star Wars game. After a decade and half of being teased. I loved it, a bit short but there is no other Star Wars game like it and I wish we got the Imperial Commando sequel.
Delta are still my favorite clones. My friend group of are mostly just fans of the shows and movies, so i was the weirdo that got all giddy over Scorch’s Bad Batch appearances. I’m still hoping that fps that got announced a bit ago is a spiritual successor to the game.
lmao fuck the Bad Batch and The Clone Wars... it's not that it's for kids... it's just not nearly as cool as things like Republic Commando. The Clone Wars is overrated as fuck. Now "Clone Wars" was the shit.
I don't know what Disney is doing. Having a wide selection of different new Star Wars games in different genres would be easy money if they did it right!
I have one strong memory with this game. Never played the full thing, but I once had a CD-ROM for a different game (no idea which now) that had the Republic Commando Demo on it. The Demo is the Tarfful mission from the very beggining until the scene you see Grievous, then it cuts to an ad for buying the full game. Seeing Grievous in the video intro, specially along with the memory of trying to snipe him, just hitted me like a truck! I need to play the full version now, hot dang...
That would have been Kotor 2 most likely. They released a demo of RC in that game. I remember it because I still have Kotor 2, and the demo option is still there, but it won’t let you play it on the XBONE.
Incredible game! I can't believe they launched it the same year as BF2 and episode 3, that more than likely cannibalized its success. I sequel or remake today would be one of the most exciting Star Wars announcements I can think of hearing.
This was perfect timing because I’ve had this game in my library just waiting to play it and was about to look up a video about it and BAM you came to the rescue! 😄👍
I got that game back when I was young, and both me and my brother had so much fun with it. Both playing the singleplayer and the multiplayer. I still play through that game once a year, even know I know what happens in the levels, I still LOVE it. Delta Squad is just so well written, it gives you the feel of both beeing a fighting unit and beeing a "family", and while they are the elite, they don't take stuff that seriously sometimes. Or lets say it like that, each member feels like a human, not like your usual video game charakters. That game brings back so much memories, just like the 2005 Battlefront 2, where my brother went on and made mods for until 2018. Id love to see a sequel to RC or even just a remake with better graphics. Knowing how to make games in both Unity and UE4/5, I even though about remaking a level of RC just for fun and again, to bring back memories.
For me this game is very special. When I was 13 my schoolteacher sent me to clean some old trash kept in one of the school storage rooms and almond old broken chairs and dusty textbooks I have found a huge plastic bag full of video games DVDs!!! None of the teachers knew where this bag came from and why it was stored there but me and a few of my friends were allowed to take home everything from that bag. Most of the games were trash but among others there was a DVD of REPUBLIC COMMANDO. I was a huge star wars fan so I was very hyped to try it out. And boy oh boy it was a cool time playing it for the first time. I was SO immersed, so scared of the spooky empty star destroyer corridors , so excited to find a lightsaber easter egg. It was a blast!!!
Fun fact: At some point early on in the game your clone advisor says something about "36's squad" being incapacitated, which is a reference to RC-1136 "Darman", one of the main characters from the Republic Commando novel series that was made to tie-into the game and would continue on for a few years afterward until it was unfortunately canceled, partially in part due to continuity changes from the '08 Clone Wars TV series. "DARMAN" is also the name of a cheat code that can be used in game, though I don't remember what it actually does.
Actually, the RC novels at least had an endpoint in the Order 66 novel (though some prefer Hard Contact as a standalone tie-in). It's the planned Imperial Commando sequel novels that got canned. The cheat skips the current level you're at. Honestly can't recommend it.
I picked up the modern port a couple years ago and honestly didn’t think it held up great. I hope the original two battlefront games could come to modern consoles sometime soon.
Hmm, you referring to the Switch port? That I can agree, although I hope BF II 2005's Xbox DLC gets officially ported and patched onto the PC release in return.
@@michaelandreipalon359 Yes! Played the Switch port and knocked it out all on one flight across the country. But if I’m not mistaken the port was also brought to PS4/5
Got this game hour one when it got re-released on the ps4, one of the first games i got when i got a switch. Must've played it dozens of times, and i revisit it every other month or so. And with revisit i mean in particular the ghost ship chapter. I have that entire part of the game memorized.
@@FutureDarkJedi the entire atmosphere in that chapter is top teir, from start to finish. The best part for me has always been that the part when toy turn the nightvision on and you're in a room filled entirely with dead clones
9:21 Actually the Republic Commando team was all fired due to downsizing. They were informed during production that they were going to lose their jobs as soon as the game shipped.
A bloody shame this great yet short game never got a true endgame in the Legends continuity, even if the sequel could have been in comic book miniseries form. Sure, we got the Disney Canon iterations shown in The Clone Wars 2008 and The Bad Batch, but they're not exactly the same characters in terms of depth and even voices.
I dream wetly about a Half Life: Alyx tier VR Republic Commando game. I'm kidding, What I'm not kidding about is having a nice sleep, dreaming about something nice probably, then hearing a far away loud metallic stomping sound. All of a sudden I wake up in my bedroom with a 9 foot tall, terrifying, Republic Commando style B2 Battledroid standing over me. Then I wake up for real this time in the same exact position and the battle droid is gone.
Honestly, the bullet-spongy enemies, the squad AI being what it is, the lack of a proper overarching storyline between the missions, and the way the game just suddenly ends when you think you are going to go in and rescue Sev or see the major battles of Episode 3 are pretty big negatives for me. But I still really like the game and remember it fondly, and always hoped a sequel would come out. Also, this is one of those games that I really think would be awesome in VR, the sense of immersion is great even on flatscreen.
I can live with the story missions being episodic.. setting-wise, you're a squad who gets assigned to do this, do that. The stakes are "kill this 1 enemy captain", "investigate this 1 capital ship", not "blow up the death star / defeat the empire".
Republic Commando really shines as a solid hybrid of FPS and Tactical Squad Shooter. The tactical squad element is easy to understand and you can issue commands while gunning (stay immersed in the FPS fantasy). It was Star Wars RB6 Vegas years before RB6 Vegas was even a thing. It was a great SW game and it did it without lightsabers or Force powers.
Both the game AND it's book series were AMAZING! Seriously, if you haven't read the books I would highly recommend them. They really help you understand what the average trooper thought of the Jedi and the Republic.
Honestly one of my favorite fps games and favorite license games. The context sensitive squad commands were so intuitive and so fun that I am genuinely surprised that it hasn't been replicated yet. Games like rainbow six and halo 5 were far more clunky in my opinion. This game really makes you feel like all of your commandos are an extension of your health bar and your fire power, that you cannot simply take down the enemies as a one man army like other fps games. Their banter is so charming an you spend so much time caring for their health bars and thinking so much about them, that I remember being genuinely upset as a child that you couldn't save Sev at the end.
This is one of the games of my early teenage years. I played a fuckton of the multiplayer, and there was actually quite a skill gap between good players and very good ones. Of course, by today standards it's dull and basic, but at the time, the gameplay was "deep" enough to give players many ways to get better. For example, I remember that throwing grenades was propulsed to an art form. It could one shot anyone if used well, so taking advantage of the bounces possible and mastering this mechanic was important to become proficient. Mastering the side jumps were also very important. (Double tapping a direction made you jump, it was only possible in MP games). Also, there was a community of modders that were adding maps. You had to download them and manually put them in the game files. They helped extend the play time on multiplayer for a lot of people back then. I also remember that you could bind messages to a keyboard key, in order to spam phrases or whatnot. I remember the absolute mayhem it used to be when playing 16 vs 16, in very tiny maps. A server was running a 32 slots server of team deathmatch. No map was excluded. On these small maps, it was chaos. 😂 With a friend we created a clan and we had a forum and all. I was 12 to 15. Anyway, I must have sank around a thousand hours or more into it, good times. PS: you don't reload ever, do you ? :p
The rise of the Halo clones from Metroid Prime to Republic Commando and you know what? I love them and I own them and they're still one hell of a time.
Finally decided to sub to your Patreon, I enjoy your content so much and supporting small creators feel way better than subbing to big creators. You deserve it dude!
It wasn't mentioned, but the big droid control ship you go into is one of the ones in Episode 2 at the end, not the ones shot down, but the commandoes are mentioned to Yoda. This ties in to that.
man, licensed games back then were something else... I spent so many hours playing battle for middle earth, return of the king, star wars battlefront, republic commando, and many more licensed games as a kid. The quality back then was kind of inconsistent, you could get some terrible games, and some fantastic ones, but in general they at least all felt somewhat.. inspired, like they actually had a creative vision of some kind (even if it failed) Licensed games now just feel so by the books and uninspired that I can't even be bothered. Feels like I am playing an advertisement for the whole franchise, they're playing it safe and it's usually some generic action game copying whatever is popular rn.
seems like the next videos are going to be Knights of the Old Republic related, would love to hear your thoughts on those, since they pretty much are still the best SW games ever made.
I could imagine an Imperial Commando sequel. It would be about the three of them and Sev's replacement, probably a normal human, trying to track down and eliminate this god-tier sniper who has been eliminating high profile Imperial targets. Each time it seems like they're getting close, he slips away at the end of the mission. At the end of the game, they learn it is Sev, and he has joined the Rebel Alliance and has actually begun teaching an entire squad of snipers almost as good as he is. It would have an ambiguous ending. Maybe the Deltas join him, maybe they kill him, maybe he kills them.
My copy of Republic Commando for some reason was permanently glitched and the night vision DOSEN'T work. I couldnt find any solutions online, so i concluded my problem was exclusively me
Fun fact, the battle of Kaashikk seen in the game happens mounths before the one seen in the movie (sans s the Clones are still in Phase 1). In the comics Republic set during the movie, it is said that « the Separatist are back on Kaashikk »
My favorite part of this game is that it sheds all the glory and heroics most associate with the franchise, especially considering how the Jedi are usually treated. You feel, based on the choice of art direction, how horrible it would be for the average soldier or spec-ops and how one would deal with it emotionally. The droids, Geonosians, and even the tougher Trandoshans feel formidable, creepy, and/or downright frightening as well, which is a nice change from the more comedic portrayal in other media.
Thanks to this game, scorch will always be my favorite clone in all of star wars. The gameplay gave a nice challenge at times, and the squad based mechanics were very well done. Of course, I have to mention how good the dialogue and writing is. It also made me racist towards geonosians, so there's that.
Commenting before I watch to say I've never heard of this before, but I hadn't heard of a LOT of the games you covered until I found you, you actually got me recently playing the Lego Harry Potter games as a nostalgia thing cause I owned the DS game for 1-4 as a kid, and playing the PC version all these years later for the first time has been a blast. Makes me want to revisit Lego Star wars next 😊
When I was a kid I wanted to buy this game. For some reason when I got the money to get it, I couldn't find it anywhere to buy as it was always sold out. I ended up reading about Battlefront in a gaming magazine I had and I was like "yeah this game also sounds pretty cool". I went and got it and ended up buying one of the greatest games of all time...accidentally just because I couldn't get Republic Commando. I was fucking happy back then. Ended up playing this one many more years later.
I just beat the game for the first time about 15 minutes before posting this comment. I have to say it was incredible, I loved the banter of the commandos and how the AI seemed intelligent. The game was also fairly challenging. Great game.
Yes. An absolute legend in the Star Wars series and one of my all time favorite squad shooters. I've never played anything like it. More military style combat games should take note and expand on the master ideas implemented in this game.
Surprisingly you also compared this game to TNMT and this is one of the main reasons I love it. I personally am not a big TNMT fan. But this game felt like it was both not exactly star wars and not exactly tnmt. It was a beautiful mix for me that made this game one of my favorites of all time JUST because of the team.
Did anybody else know if you downed your squad fully, revived them, and downed them again, all the wookies turned on you? You had to do the level while running through everybody while Tartful was lumbering behind you, and if he caught up he'd kill you instantly lmao
We could rent the game at Family Video for five days so we only got as far as the clone trooper getting executed from a buckshot to the face. Loved that game. Wish we could’ve finished it.
Important notes! This game really should be played on the harder difficulties. There is a proper way to fight enemies; unloading your blaster on a super battledroid is not how it's designed to be played. Drop an EMP on them and 2 sniper shots will kill them. They can go down in 3 seconds
this game deserves a solid sequel more than most star wars games.
More than the most recent starwars movies tbh
Don’t touch my childhood ea/Disney Reeeee
Fr that could be incredible
It almost got one, but it was cancelled due to lack of focus on the project and Disney shutdown Lucasarts after buying Lucasfilm.
@@arthurgamer3105 a variant of the unreleased Battlefront 3 game was released for psp under the name elite squadron
I always loved Republic Commando simply because it really militarized Star Wars. What I mean by that is before, we only saw people shooting blaster from the hip, missing 90% of their shots, and getting cut down by lightsaber wielding force sensitives. It's kinda like what the reboot of Battlefront *could* have been like if they had used more influence from Battlefield. Professional soldiers, checking their corners, using cover, aiming down sights, and using small squad tactics to overcome numerically superior enemies... I'd love a remake of Republic Commando or a continuation to the story.
Yeah I agree, back then I really enjoyed being "a common soldier" for once, not a Jedi with basically superpowers.
They really did a great job with the squad ai and incorporating actual small unit tactics. They had ex-special forces guys doing mocap and advising the animators iirc.
I just realized even the way they infil onto the derelict ship is basically the star wars version of a HALO jump. Fuck yeah lol
If you’re ever able, read the Republic commando book series, starts with “Hard contact” if i remember correctly… Really awesome books. Features Omega squad and later on Delta etc…
And then Filloni pilfered them and turned Commandos, much like ARCs into generic action heroes.
RC had such a nice military feel to it.
@@levycore6475yes. Hard Contact’s intro actually is the mission references in the game where a separate commando squad got incapacitated and Delta had to go and blow the jamming device. That was Omega squads missions at the start of the book. But yeah the follow up books all have Delta Squad working with them. Great novels
How I am gonna tell my kids that there was a time when General Grievous was a highly menacing figure?
Clone wars 2003 is all you need
Tell them Canon Grievous wasn't first, then tell them about Legends/original canons nightmare Grievous.
Show them the 2003 show and immerse them in the Dark Horse Comics that came out back then. They're some top tier Star Wars stories that no fan should miss out on!
just don’t show them padawan ashoka disarming and escaping form him to them 😂
Don't show them the filoni garbage
Back to the "Friendly Fire" thing, if you shoot any team member repeatedly, the entire team will turn on you and shoot you down.
Ha wow i never knew that
Or maybe i just forgot idk
@@GORILLA_PIMP it's funny too. and the never stop shooting either.
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Dam really that does sound pretty funny imma go look it up lol
The reticle also becomes red.
Oh, I never knew that. I guess I never thought of killing my teammates, the game does a really good job at making you grow attached to them.
The way the helmet cleared away the droid blood was SO COOL!
Yeah that was a really neat touch, this game had some great details like that
Also geonesian, trandoshan blood and so on...
Totally, overall the game was full of details like that and I just loved that.
Nothing like a little clanka juice to spice up the game abit
That's one of my favorite mechanics in the game, next to the vibroblade.
Was literally playing this game last week. This game is badass
Hell yeah it was, taking down super battle droids, squashing geonosians and wrecking trandoshans was amazing
Same, soon as it dropped on the switch i copped it INSTANTLY
Multiplayer is fun too
@@n0fc3utb3r5 does it play good in handheld ? I have a switch lite
So was I! I was streaming it on twitch 😂
This is one of the games he's covered that I actually grew up with. It was so cool back the day as like a Squad based FPS that played a lot like Halo. I wish more games like this had been made as a series. I still play this game like once a year.
This game was an impulse buy for me that I knew nothing about beforehand. I had played Halo 3 at a friend's house, as it had just come out. I didn't have an Xbox, though, but I was itching to get to play it. So when I noticed SWRC in a bargain bin, I went "I love Star Wars, and this kinda looks like Halo" and thought it would be perfect to scratch that itch. The game totally blew me away and basically made my teenage years. I even bonded with a couple of friends over it at school. Some of the best years of my life. I still play it to this day.
same. I actually had gotten a demo pre release from my grandfather who got PC gamer magazine for some reason. I loved it. it was just the kashyyyk mission up to the bit with grievous, but I still spent hours on it. I eventually found a PC full release copy years later and I still play it a couple times a year.
It has never not held up. It's one of the best Star Wars games ever, and honestly it's a really great squad shooter too. I really do not understand the lack of sequel or remake.
God this game would look great remade for today.
Financial budget constraints and corporate politics at LucasArts.
@@UnabridgedGamer i know that part. Where are the other fans asking though? There has to be more than dozens of us?
Yeah it def deserves a sequel apparently imperial commando was in the works but didn’t get much farther than concept art I think. I think it released a few years ago for ps4 but it wasn’t remade
In a time with so many good Star Wars games too... it really says something. KOTOR series, Jedi Knight, Battlefront (the real Battlefront,) Republic Commando, Empire At War, Star Wars Galaxies and more... no Star Wars games have come close to the games of 1997-2007.
@@drlca6601 even the android port of KOTOR is really damned good. It plays really well on a fucking kindle fire tablet from like 2018, lmao.
And Battlefront 2 (2004) is one of the greatest shooters I have ever played in a room full of people. Halo was great, so was Mechassault, but damn battlefront was fun. Plus the fact it was star wars made it more accessible to people than Halo. I knew people that didn't play any shooter games that played the hell outta battlefront 2.
I recently re-played this game after so many years and I was surprised to find out that it is as good as I remembered it, although I found it a bit short, too bad it never had a sequel. I mean, that cliffhanger at the end did leave me a little upset for a while back in the day...
And yes, I also reloaded the game multiple times just to snipe Grievous, it was just .... an irresistible thing to do.😊
Yeah it was a brief campaign I do wish there were more missions, and I def wish it had gotten the imperial commando sequel. The ending definitely needs further explanation!
I also wish gor a sequel, but even more for a good remaster WITH a working Coop mode!!!
@@krunschnew yeah a sequel/remaster with solid coop would be great
Literally the game’s only downfall was that it’s too short. Other than that it’s a total blast from a gameplay perspective.
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I think it should have had co-op, too. That’s one of my biggest gripes. The fact that there are 3 other squad mates already facilitates it from a narrative standpoint. Whereas Halo usually just has a random John 117 clone.
Ngl, that last mission on Geonosis has been one of the levels where I spent most adrenaline in my life. It got to the point where I reloaded in a earlier checkpoint to have more time before the explosion, and even then I struggled until I actually led my squad to a good stategic defense in the command center
Anyway, I love that game.
I've recently started a replay of this game and it's still awesome. Hard can still kick my ass.
That being said a co op campaign would have been awesome.
yeah, the devs have stated that that was their idea, but EA forced them to do MP and they also couldn‘t due to how tight the release window given by EA was
Co-op would have been incredible.
I remember walking down the Acclamator torpedo tube and imagining "Imagine if I could do this with someone".
@@JonatasAdoM Though it would ruin the horror experience
This game was teased to me from the 2003 Clone Wars Volume 2 disc which had a trailer for the game with even a playable demo for it, only on XBOX. Didn't have an Xbox had the PS2. Got a 360 but didn't even realize this was on the backwards compatible list until I got my XBONE and saw it was added when looking at Star Wars game.
After a decade and half of being teased. I loved it, a bit short but there is no other Star Wars game like it and I wish we got the Imperial Commando sequel.
Delta are still my favorite clones. My friend group of are mostly just fans of the shows and movies, so i was the weirdo that got all giddy over Scorch’s Bad Batch appearances. I’m still hoping that fps that got announced a bit ago is a spiritual successor to the game.
lmao fuck the Bad Batch and The Clone Wars... it's not that it's for kids... it's just not nearly as cool as things like Republic Commando. The Clone Wars is overrated as fuck. Now "Clone Wars" was the shit.
"How good is it?"
Me: Yes!
Well said it was superb
Imagine if they made a sequel or maybe an Imperial Commando game? But oh right, Disney doesn't know what to do with video games
I don't know what Disney is doing. Having a wide selection of different new Star Wars games in different genres would be easy money if they did it right!
This game was so short! It only had three mission that were split into a few different sections.
Quality>quantity
Right way too short
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it's ridiculous to think it can only be one or the other
This game could have been both
Stop thinking so narrow minded
i didnt grow up with it. I played it last year and loved it.
I have one strong memory with this game. Never played the full thing, but I once had a CD-ROM for a different game (no idea which now) that had the Republic Commando Demo on it. The Demo is the Tarfful mission from the very beggining until the scene you see Grievous, then it cuts to an ad for buying the full game. Seeing Grievous in the video intro, specially along with the memory of trying to snipe him, just hitted me like a truck! I need to play the full version now, hot dang...
That would have been Kotor 2 most likely. They released a demo of RC in that game. I remember it because I still have Kotor 2, and the demo option is still there, but it won’t let you play it on the XBONE.
The musical score for this game was INSANE for when it came out
Incredible game! I can't believe they launched it the same year as BF2 and episode 3, that more than likely cannibalized its success. I sequel or remake today would be one of the most exciting Star Wars announcements I can think of hearing.
I just recently played it for the first time a couple of months ago, I felt like as soon as i was getting into it the game ended
This was perfect timing because I’ve had this game in my library just waiting to play it and was about to look up a video about it and BAM you came to the rescue! 😄👍
You’re going to love it. I almost envy you. I wish I could experience it for the first time again. I was barely a teenager when I first played it.
I got that game back when I was young, and both me and my brother had so much fun with it. Both playing the singleplayer and the multiplayer. I still play through that game once a year, even know I know what happens in the levels, I still LOVE it. Delta Squad is just so well written, it gives you the feel of both beeing a fighting unit and beeing a "family", and while they are the elite, they don't take stuff that seriously sometimes. Or lets say it like that, each member feels like a human, not like your usual video game charakters.
That game brings back so much memories, just like the 2005 Battlefront 2, where my brother went on and made mods for until 2018.
Id love to see a sequel to RC or even just a remake with better graphics. Knowing how to make games in both Unity and UE4/5, I even though about remaking a level of RC just for fun and again, to bring back memories.
Do itttt
For me this game is very special. When I was 13 my schoolteacher sent me to clean some old trash kept in one of the school storage rooms and almond old broken chairs and dusty textbooks I have found a huge plastic bag full of video games DVDs!!! None of the teachers knew where this bag came from and why it was stored there but me and a few of my friends were allowed to take home everything from that bag. Most of the games were trash but among others there was a DVD of REPUBLIC COMMANDO. I was a huge star wars fan so I was very hyped to try it out. And boy oh boy it was a cool time playing it for the first time. I was SO immersed, so scared of the spooky empty star destroyer corridors , so excited to find a lightsaber easter egg. It was a blast!!!
Fun fact: At some point early on in the game your clone advisor says something about "36's squad" being incapacitated, which is a reference to RC-1136 "Darman", one of the main characters from the Republic Commando novel series that was made to tie-into the game and would continue on for a few years afterward until it was unfortunately canceled, partially in part due to continuity changes from the '08 Clone Wars TV series.
"DARMAN" is also the name of a cheat code that can be used in game, though I don't remember what it actually does.
Actually, the RC novels at least had an endpoint in the Order 66 novel (though some prefer Hard Contact as a standalone tie-in). It's the planned Imperial Commando sequel novels that got canned.
The cheat skips the current level you're at. Honestly can't recommend it.
That is a very cool detail to tie into the republic commando novels and the EU as a whole, never knew that.
Just played it for the first time this week. I loved it
You did it again!!! FDrew you rock man. I'll always support your channel since the beginning. Good job making this video. I know editing takes time.
I picked up the modern port a couple years ago and honestly didn’t think it held up great. I hope the original two battlefront games could come to modern consoles sometime soon.
Hmm, you referring to the Switch port?
That I can agree, although I hope BF II 2005's Xbox DLC gets officially ported and patched onto the PC release in return.
@@michaelandreipalon359 Yes! Played the Switch port and knocked it out all on one flight across the country. But if I’m not mistaken the port was also brought to PS4/5
It’s a bit of a difficult game but I’m playing it on Switch and it’s great!
I didn’t know there was a lively Mod scene, I’m gonna have to check that out! Thanks for another great video, dude.
This will always occupy a place in my heart. Must have played through it 30 times or so as a teenager.
I remember this very well! One of my favorite Star Wars game without Jedi.
I've been debating whether to get this for switch for a while now. You've sold me.
I literally completed this game a few days ago, i will admit though the ending was a bit abrupt for me and hated how we had to leave poor old sev.
I really loved this game! Singleplayer and Multiplayer!
Got this game hour one when it got re-released on the ps4, one of the first games i got when i got a switch. Must've played it dozens of times, and i revisit it every other month or so.
And with revisit i mean in particular the ghost ship chapter. I have that entire part of the game memorized.
With those drones that try to tear up open your helmet, it was pretty scary the first time haha
@@FutureDarkJedi the entire atmosphere in that chapter is top teir, from start to finish. The best part for me has always been that the part when toy turn the nightvision on and you're in a room filled entirely with dead clones
@@TheBenjaman Agreed, it probably was the most memorable section of the game
Game definitely deserved a sequel, too bad it was canned during the development of RC. Top 5 SW game imo
9:21 Actually the Republic Commando team was all fired due to downsizing. They were informed during production that they were going to lose their jobs as soon as the game shipped.
Ther only thing I didnt like about this game is that it was too short for the fun i had.
A bloody shame this great yet short game never got a true endgame in the Legends continuity, even if the sequel could have been in comic book miniseries form.
Sure, we got the Disney Canon iterations shown in The Clone Wars 2008 and The Bad Batch, but they're not exactly the same characters in terms of depth and even voices.
hoping this means an original Battlefront episode (or 2 if it includes Battlefront II 2005), excellent work!
An original battlefront 2 episode would rock, I love that game! Such a classic
I hope that Respawn's Star Wars FPS is set during The Clone Wars!
In my opinion this should be the golden standard for a shooter campaign.
This game deserve remaster!
I dream wetly about a Half Life: Alyx tier VR Republic Commando game.
I'm kidding,
What I'm not kidding about is having a nice sleep, dreaming about something nice probably, then hearing a far away loud metallic stomping sound. All of a sudden I wake up in my bedroom with a 9 foot tall, terrifying, Republic Commando style B2 Battledroid standing over me. Then I wake up for real this time in the same exact position and the battle droid is gone.
This was 1 of my favorite games when it 1st came out along side Halo and still replay it every now and then mainly for the nostalgia
Honestly, the bullet-spongy enemies, the squad AI being what it is, the lack of a proper overarching storyline between the missions, and the way the game just suddenly ends when you think you are going to go in and rescue Sev or see the major battles of Episode 3 are pretty big negatives for me. But I still really like the game and remember it fondly, and always hoped a sequel would come out. Also, this is one of those games that I really think would be awesome in VR, the sense of immersion is great even on flatscreen.
I can live with the story missions being episodic.. setting-wise, you're a squad who gets assigned to do this, do that.
The stakes are "kill this 1 enemy captain", "investigate this 1 capital ship", not "blow up the death star / defeat the empire".
Republic Commando really shines as a solid hybrid of FPS and Tactical Squad Shooter. The tactical squad element is easy to understand and you can issue commands while gunning (stay immersed in the FPS fantasy). It was Star Wars RB6 Vegas years before RB6 Vegas was even a thing. It was a great SW game and it did it without lightsabers or Force powers.
Got this game when it came out on the PS4. I had read all the books beforehand. Republic Commando is amazing and holds up amazingly well
The super battle droids were absolutely terrifying in this game, way taller than I expected too
This is by far my favorite Star Wars game and one of my favorite games of all time. Glad to see you covering it.
Both the game AND it's book series were AMAZING! Seriously, if you haven't read the books I would highly recommend them. They really help you understand what the average trooper thought of the Jedi and the Republic.
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Whatever games I play these days, whenever ordering my teammates to heal, I say it like this:
"Stop limping around and get some bacta, soldier!"
I still say things like "need me some bactaaa" 😂
I'm French so I had the French dub though (which was surprisingly good)
Honestly one of my favorite fps games and favorite license games. The context sensitive squad commands were so intuitive and so fun that I am genuinely surprised that it hasn't been replicated yet. Games like rainbow six and halo 5 were far more clunky in my opinion.
This game really makes you feel like all of your commandos are an extension of your health bar and your fire power, that you cannot simply take down the enemies as a one man army like other fps games. Their banter is so charming an you spend so much time caring for their health bars and thinking so much about them, that I remember being genuinely upset as a child that you couldn't save Sev at the end.
This is one of the games of my early teenage years.
I played a fuckton of the multiplayer, and there was actually quite a skill gap between good players and very good ones.
Of course, by today standards it's dull and basic, but at the time, the gameplay was "deep" enough to give players many ways to get better.
For example, I remember that throwing grenades was propulsed to an art form. It could one shot anyone if used well, so taking advantage of the bounces possible and mastering this mechanic was important to become proficient.
Mastering the side jumps were also very important. (Double tapping a direction made you jump, it was only possible in MP games).
Also, there was a community of modders that were adding maps.
You had to download them and manually put them in the game files. They helped extend the play time on multiplayer for a lot of people back then.
I also remember that you could bind messages to a keyboard key, in order to spam phrases or whatnot.
I remember the absolute mayhem it used to be when playing 16 vs 16, in very tiny maps.
A server was running a 32 slots server of team deathmatch. No map was excluded.
On these small maps, it was chaos. 😂
With a friend we created a clan and we had a forum and all. I was 12 to 15.
Anyway, I must have sank around a thousand hours or more into it, good times.
PS: you don't reload ever, do you ? :p
The rise of the Halo clones from Metroid Prime to Republic Commando and you know what? I love them and I own them and they're still one hell of a time.
you start as a baby in fallout 3 as well
Finally decided to sub to your Patreon, I enjoy your content so much and supporting small creators feel way better than subbing to big creators. You deserve it dude!
It wasn't mentioned, but the big droid control ship you go into is one of the ones in Episode 2 at the end, not the ones shot down, but the commandoes are mentioned to Yoda. This ties in to that.
man, licensed games back then were something else... I spent so many hours playing battle for middle earth, return of the king, star wars battlefront, republic commando, and many more licensed games as a kid. The quality back then was kind of inconsistent, you could get some terrible games, and some fantastic ones, but in general they at least all felt somewhat.. inspired, like they actually had a creative vision of some kind (even if it failed) Licensed games now just feel so by the books and uninspired that I can't even be bothered. Feels like I am playing an advertisement for the whole franchise, they're playing it safe and it's usually some generic action game copying whatever is popular rn.
Karen Traviss did an excellent job with the tie-in novels. They are among my favorite Star Wars books!
seems like the next videos are going to be Knights of the Old Republic related, would love to hear your thoughts on those, since they pretty much are still the best SW games ever made.
I could imagine an Imperial Commando sequel. It would be about the three of them and Sev's replacement, probably a normal human, trying to track down and eliminate this god-tier sniper who has been eliminating high profile Imperial targets. Each time it seems like they're getting close, he slips away at the end of the mission. At the end of the game, they learn it is Sev, and he has joined the Rebel Alliance and has actually begun teaching an entire squad of snipers almost as good as he is. It would have an ambiguous ending. Maybe the Deltas join him, maybe they kill him, maybe he kills them.
Classic Flandrew W
I remember watching my first trailer for commando while scrolling through the bonus and extras in battlefront on my PS2
My copy of Republic Commando for some reason was permanently glitched and the night vision DOSEN'T work. I couldnt find any solutions online, so i concluded my problem was exclusively me
I've always thought we needed a Republic Commando 2 with Left for Dead style PvP, complete with unique skill trees for each member of the team.
As a huge Star Wars fan, this was one of my favorite games as a kid! 🤘😆
Replayed this on my steamdeck and it was fantastic!
Fun fact, the battle of Kaashikk seen in the game happens mounths before the one seen in the movie (sans s the Clones are still in Phase 1). In the comics Republic set during the movie, it is said that « the Separatist are back on Kaashikk »
So mad we never got a sequel. I wanted to see how they saved Sev. Also introduced me to Ash from the end credits song “Clones”.
My favorite part of this game is that it sheds all the glory and heroics most associate with the franchise, especially considering how the Jedi are usually treated. You feel, based on the choice of art direction, how horrible it would be for the average soldier or spec-ops and how one would deal with it emotionally. The droids, Geonosians, and even the tougher Trandoshans feel formidable, creepy, and/or downright frightening as well, which is a nice change from the more comedic portrayal in other media.
Thanks to this game, scorch will always be my favorite clone in all of star wars. The gameplay gave a nice challenge at times, and the squad based mechanics were very well done. Of course, I have to mention how good the dialogue and writing is. It also made me racist towards geonosians, so there's that.
The voice actor for Scorch really sounds like guy who played SRU SWAT Sam Braddock from Flashpoint.
You start as a baby in fallout 3! I loved both of these games when I was younger.
When I first played this game I noticed the "Ninja Turtle formula" as well.
The books by Karin Travis literally made the Mandalorian culture, her books are why you love the mandoa.
Commenting before I watch to say I've never heard of this before, but I hadn't heard of a LOT of the games you covered until I found you, you actually got me recently playing the Lego Harry Potter games as a nostalgia thing cause I owned the DS game for 1-4 as a kid, and playing the PC version all these years later for the first time has been a blast. Makes me want to revisit Lego Star wars next 😊
This was the first game I fought through on Hard mode when I was like 8. Took me many moons but it was so good I had to see it through.
When I was a kid I wanted to buy this game. For some reason when I got the money to get it, I couldn't find it anywhere to buy as it was always sold out. I ended up reading about Battlefront in a gaming magazine I had and I was like "yeah this game also sounds pretty cool".
I went and got it and ended up buying one of the greatest games of all time...accidentally just because I couldn't get Republic Commando. I was fucking happy back then. Ended up playing this one many more years later.
Literally just beat this a few days ago, very fun game.
I remember you had a light saber hidden in one of the vent shafts and it activated a voice line 👌
Republic Commando and Battlefront II, two great old Star Wars games with full screen resolution backwards compatibility mode.
I just beat the game for the first time about 15 minutes before posting this comment. I have to say it was incredible, I loved the banter of the commandos and how the AI seemed intelligent. The game was also fairly challenging. Great game.
cant believe how many great star wars games were released just in a few years back then. Kotor, jedi outcast/academy, battlefronts, rots the game etc.
Yes. An absolute legend in the Star Wars series and one of my all time favorite squad shooters. I've never played anything like it. More military style combat games should take note and expand on the master ideas implemented in this game.
I’d love to one day see a remake with more missions, better graphics and models, and a gun that isn’t horrible and near useless
Imagine how insane a sequel would be with modern graphics.
This game went so hard and give you the hardest ending I and manny wanna go back for our squad mate
I completely agree. I came back and played it again a few years ago and had a great time. Maybe its time to give it another go
Surprisingly you also compared this game to TNMT and this is one of the main reasons I love it. I personally am not a big TNMT fan. But this game felt like it was both not exactly star wars and not exactly tnmt. It was a beautiful mix for me that made this game one of my favorites of all time JUST because of the team.
Did anybody else know if you downed your squad fully, revived them, and downed them again, all the wookies turned on you? You had to do the level while running through everybody while Tartful was lumbering behind you, and if he caught up he'd kill you instantly lmao
Haha yeah, your squad can also be fed up with your bs and gun you down, if I remember correctly
I haven't played Republic Commando but I have the books.
Played this game for the first time a week ago honestly I'm in love I need another game and I didn't even finished it yet
I love this game, I've played through it probably 20 times. I lived in hype for the sequel, Imperial Commando, for many many years
We could rent the game at Family Video for five days so we only got as far as the clone trooper getting executed from a buckshot to the face. Loved that game. Wish we could’ve finished it.
Important notes! This game really should be played on the harder difficulties. There is a proper way to fight enemies; unloading your blaster on a super battledroid is not how it's designed to be played. Drop an EMP on them and 2 sniper shots will kill them. They can go down in 3 seconds
Loved this game growing up. It would make such a cool movie
This is 1 of the most remastered needing games of all time