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Star Wars polish saves average game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: June 14, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Bounty Hunter is a game that follows Jango Fett, the father of the classic Boba Fett character and also the blueprint for the clone army in the Star Wars prequels. The game chronicles Jango's back story and how Dooku comes to recruit him, and is worth experiencing for Star Wars fans. But it's not always a fun ride.

The biggest problem I had was with the weapon selection and switching. Jango comes with all his trademark weapons from the film (flame thrower, rockets, grenades, darts, capture cord, etc), but only his standard twin pistols are effective in a firefight when you've got enemies swarming and shooting at you from all sides. With their average strength and accuracy, and Jango's limited amount of health, you'll be dying often as you make your way through the levels. Switching to other weapons requires going through an unintuitive pause screen (unless you want to be shot while doing so), and the rest of Jango's arsenal would've been much more useful if they could be mapped to the controller buttons and accessed on the fly.

The game also has an interesting bounty-hunting aspect where you can nab bounties that in turn unlock extras from the main menu. However, the process of identifying, marking, and capturing a bounty alive is more complicated than it should be, and you'll often be left vulnerable while trying to nab an enemy alive.

What Lucasarts does well with, like always, is the overall Star Wars polish. The in-game graphics aren't always amazing, but the cutscenes are nicely produced. Strong sound effects, John Williams music and voice-acting from the likes of Temura Morrison, Leeanna Walsman, Clancy Brown and Corey Burton really sell the Star Wars experience. And there's always the comic book panels, concept art, trading card images, and other extras to unlock.

In the end, Bounty Hunter is still a very playable game, and dedicated Star Wars fans will certainly find this a worthwhile purchase (especially now, as it should be relatively cheap). There's really nothing outstanding to recommend to non-fans though, and the coolness of playing as Jango is occasionally lost in the clumsy weapons and bounty system. For the galaxy's most-feared bounty hunter, our boy gets killed pretty easily.

Jango Fett's own game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 15 / 31
Date: May 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

One of the coolest upcoming Star Wars games is definetly this! This game follows the adventures of Jango Fett: Bounty Hunter and father of Boba Fett. About 15 levels are spanned in this game which starts in Epsoide 1 and end in the very beginning of Epsoide 2. You get those cool dual lasar guns and jetpack with probably more guns to control. The Slave 1 will be under your control which means space levels like the astroid field chase in Epsoide 2. Not many details of this game are known yet but you will explore many familar Star Wars sites such as Tatooine, Coruscant, and many other planets will be explored. The game will have some of the best graphics ever seen in games like it's other Star Wars games which push the graphic processor to the max.

At Last!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: February 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Jango and Boba Fett are probaly the coolest Star Wars characters ever and finally geting to control a Fett was the best!!! All his weapons are pretty cool only the ID scanner was hard to use and the sniper rifle was useless. If you are a Star Wars fan you must get it if you aren't buy it anyways because you will have to rent it a couple of times to beat it. But just to sum it up how can you resist a guy with shiny armour, a jetpack and a flamethrower???

Fett's Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 28
Date: July 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I saw the game trailer for this and it's so awesome!It starts right after The Phantom Menace and ends right before Attack of the Clones!I love STARWARS,and people keep saying that I made a bad choice getting a Gamecube because they think XBOX and PS2 are better,well,this game is defiantly going to be a hit,and there is so much action,also,the graphics are......awesome.You should check out some game trailers from The Legend of Zelda,Starwars:The Clone Wars,STARWARS:Bounty Hunter,STARWARS:Jedi Knight II:Jedi Outcast,because,those will probably beat anything XBOX has to offer.In STARWARS:Bounty Hunter you are Jango Fett,cool,(he was one of my favorite characters in EP.2)and you run around,and fly around 6 HUGE worlds through 18 levels.Your weapons include:Jetbackpack,2 dual pistals,Missile launcher,flamethrower,string-thing,and many more!
Also,you can travel around in Corusaunt!Ya that's right,that giant city planet,in your face Halo!You hunt bounty's and find out why Jango was picked to be used for the Clone Army!I will get this for sure,and all of the other STARWARS games!

This game is yet another disapointment in the SW saga!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: December 31, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is the absolute last game I will be buying from Lucas Arts until I try said game out via rental first. Frankly, the quality and design of this game is an embarrassment to it's producers and an insult to SW fans.

The game as advertised:
The game promises bounty hunter action, flying about as the dreaded Jango, ruthlessly collering wanted bounties in a world realized by the graphical power of the gamecube.

The game as it is:
One of the first thing you'll notice is the poor graphics. Really, when I loaded up this game I thought I was back on the N64. While there are a few good bits, most of the graphics consist of pasty textures with little or no detail (rooms are just a series of rectangles). Anyone who has played Metroid Prime will see an immediate world of difference between these two games. Metroid Prime was created by someone with a love of the game, BH looks like some flunking art students school project.

If you think you're going to be crusing the sky via jetpack, stealthily hunting bounties? Think again. The jetpack is but a poor man's booster, operating for about two seconds maximum. It's bascially good for jumping a little higher.

Forget stealth, their isn't any. In fact the idiot AI on this game can actually have you standing in a room in plain view of a bounty but as the AI is triggered by distance your enemy can't 'see' you.

Combat is equally sophisticated: Mash the A button to fire blaster at groups of identicle enemies, collect health energy, repeat. Enemies are basically all look alikes with a few variations.

Here's the worst part. In order to actually collect a bounty you have to identify the target and 'mark them'. Sounds plausible enough right? Well execution is terribly clumbsy - you have to actually holster your guns to scan for bounties. That's right - if five guys are running towards you...you have to stop, put away your guns and scan them...as they are blasting away at you. If you are lucky you'll survive long enough to mark your bounty. Fortunatley the game is rediculously geared toward the easy side...so even this flaw is not a roadblock to progress.

In short...spend your money elsewhere. I don't even have the heart to suggest renting this game as I did for AOTC.

Bounty Hunter is for Star Wars fans only......

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: January 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

At first glance, Bounty Hunter looks like a really awesome game with excellent graphics. But it is much more complex than that. Bounty Hunter is more of a "mixed bag" with some good things and some bad things.

The story is this: You play as Jango Fett, 20 or so years BEFORE the Clone Wars. The whole story sort of revolves around Count Dooku trying to get you to be the `host' for a cloning project on Kamino. While the levels don't relate to this directly, they do involve going after an archenemy of yours named Montross. The story does show the evolution of Jango and Zam's partnership, and even shows how Jango gets the Slave 1! Basically you blast your way through level after level with an assortment of weapons ranging from blaster guns to flamethrowers. One cool addition is the jetpack which allows for increased movement throughout the level.

The game has nice menus and starts you off with a nice movie hat leads into the first level. The graphics are nice in the movie but look a little bit plain. The graphics in the game are pretty good though, although this varies from level to level. Sometimes the camera will shake around if you get into a REALLY tight corner. But other than that things look real for the most part.

The sound is great if nothing new; it consists of the same old blaster sounds from the Star Wars movies. But the voices are spectacular. Jango's voice has been recorded by actor Temuera Morrison himself, as well as the voice of Zam Wesell by none other than Leeanna Walsman. Although Count Dooku and Darth Sidious's voice leave something to be desired, the rest seem appropriate for their characters.

Throughout the game you basically just shoot at whatever shoots at you, and climb over, jetpack over, or jump over any obstacles that get in your way. Occasionally the game requires some thinking, but overall it is fun. And if you get bored completing the levels, you can go off in search of bounties. While sometimes fun, it is often very frustating. To find a bounty, you must scan them with your ID scanner. But this requires you to holster your weapons. So while aiming at a person with your scanner to see if they have a bounty on them, you can get shot. It becomes particularly frustating when your bounty is surrounded by thugs or when it is shooting at you. This is one of the major downsides of the game.

The other downside are the levels themselves. With only 3 levels on Coruscant and 3 levels on Tatooine, you wish there were more of them as they are classic Star Wars locations. The levels themselves are big, which is a good thing in the beginning, but really hurts replayability. The game gets VERY hard as you progress, and after spending 45 minutes on one level only to die with the end in sight, you don't even want to try it again. They also aren't designed with multiple passages and ledges, so you can't really explore all over the place.

Overall the game is an average game, but definitely not one of Lucasarts best. I don't see why they don't just make a third-person game based on the original Star Wars movies....

Painfully average and generic

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 10
Date: September 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Star Wars: Bounty Hunter.

INTRODUCTION:
Everyone knows that the Star Wars name is the ultimate in science fiction. Unfortunately, as far as video games go set in everyone's favorite galaxy far, far away, they have been hit and miss. For every excellent game like Rogue Leader, there's a crappy one like Masters Of Teras Kasi to bring the genre's name down in the dirt in the video gaming universe. The Episode II: Attack Of The Clones motion picture introduced us to an awesome character - Jango Fett, father of the classic Boba Fett. And in 2002, to accompany the film's release, a game was released in which the gamer could become Jango! Read on for my review of Star Wars: Bounty Hunter.

OVERVIEW:
Star Wars: Bounty Hunter was released in 2002. The game is one player, and features three-dimensional platformer-styled action. It is available for the Playstation Two and Nintendo Gamecube consoles.

REVIEW:
I have to say, I had pretty high hopes for this game, but was pretty disappointed. I was as happy as any other Star Wars fanboy, finally getting to play the role of Jango before his unfortunate decaptiation on the wrong end of Mace Windu's lightsaber. Essentially, this game is straightforward platform action. Jango travels through various scenarios on his bounty hunts, tracking various means of making a living in the galaxy. While the premise sounds cool, the whole idea kind of falls flat. It's much too straightforward and VERY repetitive. Horrible level design and the fact that you can't save whenever you want don't help things either. And did I mention the painfully-long distance between save points? And that the camera sucks, and you have no control over it? Even hunting down the extra bounties and secrets don't add a whole lot of appeal to the game. Jango's got plenty of cool gadgets and moves, which add to the game's appeal somewhat, but the fact of the matter is that the whole package just seems a bit on the generic side. The production, with great graphics and sound, can't mask the fact that this is a generic three-dimensional platformer. And besides that, there are much better Star Wars games out there. This one's only for Star Wars fanboys like myself who want every game, or for those folks who just can't get enough of platformer action.

EDITION NOTES:
This game seems to be out of print now, but fortunately, used video game stores seem to get copies in on a regular basis. In other words, you shouldn't have a whole lot of trouble hunting this game down, if you really want to get it.

OVERALL:
What needs to be said has been said. Excellent production can't mask an otherwise generic game over which the Star Wars name has been thrown. While this game isn't terrible by any means (it puts garbage like Teras Kasi to shame), there are Star Wars games out there that are considerably better than this one. Stick with those. This one's for Star Wars and platformer die-hards only.

Dissapointment

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: January 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Looking at the promotions and reviews of the game, I decided to purchase it and unfortunately it was a huge dissapointment. All I have to say is play either Metroid Prime or Jedi Knight Outcast and them play Bounty Hunter. You too will be disapointed. THe idea and concept of the game is awesome, I just wish more time had been put into the graphics and game play. Once again Lucas disapoints.

Bounty Hunter

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: April 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Bounty Hunter sets a high standard for all of the star wars games made!A must have!!!!!!!!!

Jango rules

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: April 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

well i can't really find anything wrong about this game so i give it 5 stars. the weapons are awesome, jango's armor is realisticley burned and scared. so go ahead and buy it! or at least rent it.

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