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!
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
@@GORILLA_PIMPyes. It was one of the many projects in the world before Disney took over and shut everything down. You pick up with the remaining Delta squad members now acting as Imperial Commandos. You start of mopping up the remaining separatists/very early rebels. Eventually you are given a high priory target, a terroristleader who is teaching guerrilla fighters how to organize and disrupt the Empire’s operations. Spoiler: that leader turns out to be Sev. You’ll then flash back to his mission (sort of like Price’s sniper missions in COD 4) of how he escaped Kashyyyk when the droids deactivated and then started helping the resistance. From there Delta accepts Sev back into the fold but they go Rogue, working to spread the atrocities the Empire was doing to various local species like Wookiees, etc
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.
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.
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.
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.
Scorch from Delta Squad actually cameos in The Bad Batch. Clone Force 99 fight him in the TK Trooper blacksite. He was a formidable foe, and Clone Force 99 had to use multiple stun blasts just to take him down.
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.
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 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! 😄👍
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.
Replaying this now, the game is still ahead of it's time. The squad interactions are still unmatched. The squad management system is fantastic. This game was made in an era when companies cared about the qaulity of their products and it shows, it's still a fantastic game to play through.
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 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!!!
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
I was in a mood after finishing the game's port to the switch (specifically looking for the upscaled versions of the unlockable featurettes), and came across your video. I'm just glad people after all these years are still talking about one of my favorite games of my childhood.
Recently played this for the first time on ps4 and I loved it, it totally deserved a sequel! Delta squad had excellent banter, and playing as Boss leading the team was really fun! Thanks for making a video on this classic Flandrew! Form up Deltas, time to rearrange some architecture
Totally agree about the dialogue and banter. It never felt forced, never made me roll my eyes, or get so repetitive that I got annoyed by it. It’s good writing, and I think the voice actors sold the lines really well without absolutely ripping the ass out of them like they do in a lot of games.
yeah... quite possibly the best supporting cast on an FPS if I am honest. I cannot think of any other group that it is as impactful to the gameplay and are as fun to constantly listen to. the banter really made you care for the guys. As a kid I remember being genuinely upset that you couldn't save Sev.
@@diegog1853 yeah the banter made them almost feel like real people and I’m upset you couldn’t save Sev either. I like the idea that he survived kashyyyk and helped found the rebellion
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
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.
Before starting watching this, yes it does IMO. I just replayed this for thew first time in 20 or so years and it's sooo good. It's rare top see such a varried shotter even though it's just 3 long levels that is also quite the challange. Those super battle droid infinite spawners that you had to destroy was a b*, especially on the cruiser mission where it was CQC.
When I was like 13 I literally had a dream where I was exploring an abandoned store in the apocalypse and found a copy of Republic Commandos 2 and was devastated that I would never get to play it. Fast-forward 13 years and that dream is the closest I've ever gotten to seeing it
It completely holds up imo. Would love to see a sequel, maybe even in the form of a soft remake? Maybe show us what happened during those 1 year gaps between missions, and then transition into the early Imperial era that we see in TCW/Bad Batch. Would be a way to canonize certain events from the game/novel in the official timeline.
Man I remember when this game was announced i wanted it so bad but it only released on Xbox and PC and I think at the time I only had a GameCube. At least Jedi Outcast/Bounty Hunter/Rogue Squadron were on the GameCube! Loved those games growing up
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".
As someone whos kinda grown less and less interested in the classic jedi vs sith, lightsabers and the force and whatnot I fondly rember this game if nothing else because it was a case of playing something focused on the more "mundane" part of the universe (similar reason I very much enjoyed that bounty hunter game with Jango Fett)
Totally agree!!! I feel like the older I get, the less I care about the Jedi and Sith religious war. I'm actually really excited for something like Star Wars Outlaws just because it's focused on an average smuggler... no Jedi or Sith crap to deal with. Just you, your blaster and your gun. Han Solo has very quickly become my favorite character.
The blood and gore was honestly such a badass feature from what I've seen (never got far enough to see much while playing), granted it's nothing like Doom but still. Hell, it seems like the dismemberment in The Force Unleashed 2 is more remembered (although it's frequently misattributed to the first game, which had none) but it's endlessly satisfying. Even just being able to decapitate and dismember the Battle Droids without blood (like in the films) would've made Battlefront more satisfying.
I always interpreted the battle droid "blood" as that stuff that oozes out of batteries if you let them sit and corrode, or oil or some other kind of fluid, possibly for their limbs' hydraulics.
I loved this game so much growing up, the main ost of a chanting clone choir, the badass commando armor design, the wristblade leaving splashes of the enemies blood on your visor, the transformation of your rifle into different weapons, and the (what was mindblowing at the time) orders you'd give to your squad. what a game! I think what would have made it better is the main clone weapon feeling a little bit too weak, even against normal battle droids, it's more like tiny bullets instead of bigger blaster shots which would have changed the feeling of shooting droids, also shots should've left more of an impact on the droids. Compared to Halo (in which one of the most satisfying things to do is mow down hordes of grunts with both pistol and assult rifle) it just didn't compare in that satisfactory department. In fact just make the main weapon shoot like - the elites plasma rifle in Halo and the pistol - the grunts plasma gun.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
my favorite thing, to this day, is that you can die and your squad can still complete the area and come fix you up after either clearing the area or finishing the objective. It felt like I was part of the team and not just the star. I wish more games did that.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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 😊
I love this game soo much they should at least make a remaster if they don’t want to give us a sequel . That cliffhanger at the end was amazing and the music was amazing
