Ammo is also somewhat scarce, and you’ll often find yourself with just enough to make it through a firefight. Typical of the era, your health doesn’t recharge automatically, but will need to be refilled at bacta stations. Missions will at times require your team to split up, making your own personal tactics more important than ever. Environments range from large outdoor environments to cramped, dark spaceship corridors. Strangely the Switch version is missing a lot of the visual features and materials that made this game such a visual standout, but more on this later. That being said they all look great, and hold up well despite their age. Each environment is entirely unique though you’ll admittedly spend a long time in each one. The entirety of Republic Commando only covers three missions, but each of these missions spans multiple interlinked levels and span several years across the entirety of the Clone Wars. You and your squad can revive each other, but poor choices will quickly result in a full squad wipe. Even at standard difficulty, it presents a stiff challenge. This is good, as Republic Commando pulls no punches.
Revisiting Republic Commando sixteen years after its initial release, I was impressed with how well the AI of Delta Squad holds up. They can be given specific commands but are also capable of making intelligent decisions on their own. Each member of your four man squad has an individual specialty.
You command Delta Squadron, a group of highly trained commandos in the Republic army. It takes heavy influence from the Tom Clancy games of the era, along with mega hits like Halo. Republic Commando is a squad-based, tactical, first-person-shooter. Now it arrives on Switch with a few more compromises than one would hope, but can that underlying quality shine through? All this to say that Republic Commando, at its core, is a very good game. Delta Squad themselves even made a brief appearance years later in the Clone Wars TV series. Even the term “clankers” for droids came from Republic Commando. Its dark, gritty view of the Clone Wars reinvented the franchise, and undoubtedly served as a major inspiration for Dave Filoni’s Clone Wars and Bad Batch series. It was originally released in 2005 for both Windows and the original Xbox. Star Wars: Republic Commando is one of the best, and most influential, titles in the pantheon of Star Wars games.
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