Customer Reviews

Star Wars Bounty Hunter

5 star:		(45)
4 star:		(45)
3 star:		(8)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

This was the second game I ever got for PS2 and I just love it. I still go back to it after several years for nothing more than the thrills and good times it has to offer. Bounty Hunter isn't perfect but it is one of the better Star Wars games I've played and its a great third person shooter. I remember how much the graphics, cutscenes, effects, sound, and dialog blew me away a couple years ago and all I can do today is appreciate all these things more. Every time I play the game (I've played it a lot) I find new things to mess around with, whether it be small rodent creatures to blast or secret areas containing heavy weapons. The worlds are immerse with detail and most are actually almost beautiful. The explosions and laser blasts that fill the levels all look great, as do the characters, who's lypsyncing and motions are excellently executed. The action gameplay is fast paced with a very high frame rate. The sound design sounds as though it was taken directly from a Star Wars film. And most of all, the story is very entertaining, from your first encounter with the villanous scum Meeko, to your stealing of Slave 1 from an astroid prision, to meeting Tyranus. The story takes you all around the galaxy and be prepared to meet up with some familiar characters such as Zam Weesel. Many have complained about the game's repetetivness and lousy camera and I will admit that the camera tends to work a little strangly at times, but it certainly can be controled and is not something to get all worked up over. Bounty Hunter's action has never boared me and I find it's controls to be intruative and easy to use. Star Wars Bounty Huter is an excellent game with high production values and many good things going for it, I truely hope Lucas Arts releases a sequel for it because it is one of the best games I have ever played. Thanks for reading.

I'll admit I was a bit skeptical before I played Star Wars Bounty Hunter. I wasn't sure what to think of the pics and previews. Thankfully, it turned out to be a great game!

The graphics are much better than I was expecting (the lighting is superb). And the action can get pretty intense. When Jango uses his two blaster pistols, he can shoot at seperate enemies in different directions at once. And he can fire them pretty fast (as rapidly as you can hit the fire button). When coupled with ducking, rolling, and use of the jetpack, this can lead to some awesome gun fights. The flamethrower is pretty cool too.

The story's pretty good for an action title and there are some quality cut scenes with quality voice acting. Morrison is the best of the bunch in this title. He plays a great Jango and he gets to show more personality than he was able to in the movie (but not too much personality - they still keep him kinda shady which is good). I like how he handles some of the situations in the game - he's very aggressive and forceful.

There's just one thing I really wish they would have added - a little more animation for Jango. Don't get me wrong though. Jango stills has a decent amount of it, but when you switch weapons - ala switching to blaster pistols - it would have been cool if Jango would actually draw them out/put them away instead of them just appearing. But I guess that's just a little thing they could have added to make the game a bit more polished. It's still a great action game anyway.

We thought this game was awesome! Starwars fan or not this is the game for you! It is exciting and the levels are in a variety of exotic locations. The levels are long and loading is speedy. The only problem is sometimes you reach a level that is hard and takes a while to get past. The pattern is about 3 or so easier levels and then a more chalenging one. You get a variety of weopons including your pistols, whipcord, jetpack mounted mistles and other fun toys. You see a variety of cool aliens and can get secondary bounties on all the levels. Also the graphics are cool but not too disgusting so it isn't like a mature game. One of my favorite parts is the very cool wildlife (also dangerous). Get this game! Hey even my older sister loves it!

Well I always have doubts about licensed games even from my favorite Star Wars but this game is definetly a good solid action/adventure game.
Many people would just enjoy playing the as the great bounty hunter in the SW universe would be good enough but the developers really did a good job I thought the level design was very good it brought me back to the original Tomb Raider game as far as the scope and the way you must get through the level looking about for the way through is actually fun not a chore or a simple straight line but it can be challenging which I like.
One disappointed has to be the whole Bounty Hunter thing catching bounties should be fun right? but you must switch to a visor scan view which when you do is a pain cause its the same button for weapon switching also having 8 enemies swarming at the same time your searching a bounty is no fun you'll prob pick off your bounty by accident most times even then catching a bounty is still not much fun since they just stand around you select the bounty and its as simple as tieing them up with no fight what so ever and just pressing a button presto! It'd be nice if they tried to run or break free or something then not putting up a fight.
The only interesting thing about while in the visor view you get a very detailed profile of your bounty which is nice.
And the overall presentation is excellent from storyline to CG scenes which are lengthy are top notch StarWars stuff! The Graphics are pretty good considering how big the levels are very colorful in that you'll feel like your in the Star Wars universe. Your be pretty drawn in by it all and it was very hard to put down. Its a good length to so its denfinety worth it there.
There is a few other minor complaints so its not a 5 star game but nothing that would get in the way from enjoying this game, you don't need to be a Star Wars freak to enjoy, a good action/adv. game.

Star Wars: Bounty Hunter is a game that could have been much better, although it still provided it's entertainment. You play as the mercenary Jango Fett and put to use his many weapons including: Dual Blater pistols, flamethrower, poison darts, sniper rifle, whipcord, and his jetpack rocket. Jango can also zip around using his jetpack. Although, it doesn't last forever, so when you run out of juice you come back down to the ground and then it recharges itself rather quickly. The game takes around 12 hours to beat, with about 18 levels in 6 different worlds. The game follows a great story line based on Jango and highlights of his career. Like how he got the Slave I and how he became the model for the clone army. The plot has you collecting bounties for certain people, but in the missions themselves you can collect seconary bounties. Now this isn't always an easy task. You first have to scan them to see if there is a price on there head. Next you have to mark them, then (whether they are wanted dead or alive, or either one)you either kill them or wrap them up with the whipcord. THEN you have to collect it and normally you do all this under fire from other aliens. I found myself getting killed quite often while I went through the process of capturing a bounty. The gameplay also features a new targeting system where you can lock on to two people at once (you can only do this with the dual blaster pistols). Flying around and shooting things can be really fun at first but eventually it gets a little repetitive. When there is a lot of action around, the game does not slow up at all. It pretty much keeps a constant framerate, much to my relief. The graphics are fairly good, from the speedy laser to Jango's helment. Some of the enviroments could use some work, especially indoors and in the jungle levels. This time around Lucasarts has Industrial Light and Magic doing their CGI cutscenes (which look amazing) for them and Skywalker Sound taking care of the audio. The sound (like most Star Wars games) is excellent. The laser blasts and music all sounds like Star Wars. This game could have been better in several different aspects. The gameplay needs to be improved, but I don't know what...You can't quite put your finger on it but there's something missing. I also believe that the level design could have been spruced up some more. All in all I enjoyed Star Wars: Bounty Hunter and its flaws kept me from really loving it. I really wanted to, but I just can't. Bounty Hunter would make a great rental for the normal Star Wars fan, but if you're a harcore one, then you might want to hang on to this.

Ever since the original Star Wars trilogy, fans have wanted a chance to be Boba Fett. In Bounty Hunter, we get the next-best thing as we play as Jango Fett, Boba's father from Episode II. The game offers the opportunity to use all of the famous Fett gadgets, including dual blasters, a whipcord, a rocket pack with built-in missile launcher, a flame thrower, toxic darts, and more. Plus, you get to take on the role of the toughest bounty hunter this side of Kamino.

Bounty Hunter is probably the single greatest Star Wars video game ever made. Bridging the gap between Episodes I and II, it shows us how Jango Fett was selected to be the template for the Republic's clone army. As one of a "select few" invited to hunt the deadly Bando Gora cult, Jango races against a deadly rival to claim an astronomical reward. The game succeeds in turning Jango into a more interesting character than we are presented with in Episode II, and even hints at his motivation for wanting a son. The plot is more original and complex than it might otherwise appear, leading to twists and drama along the way.

Other famous Star Wars characters also make their appearances, including Count Dooku, Darth Sidious, and Jabba the Hutt. The game also features Jango's first encounter with Zam Wessell, and as an additional gift we also get to see how Fett acquires his trademark ship, Slave I. Temuera Morrison and Leeanna Walsman, the actor and actress who played Jango and Zam in the movie, also return to lend their voices, and the voices of Sidious and Dooku are so well done that you wouldn't know they weren't the actors from the movies. The vicious bounty hunter Montross and the dark Jedi Komari Vosa, the two arch-villains of the game, are also detailed and welcome additions to the Star Wars mythos.

Bounty Hunter is challenging, and full of special features that make it even more difficult. For instance, it's one thing to actually survive a level, but it's quite another to survive the level, find the "secret" icon, and collect all the optional bounties along the way. That's right, you can select to search for bounties using Jango's macrobinocular ID scanner. The scanner reads like a "wanted" poster, and tells you whether to bring your bounty in dead or alive. As Jango collects credits, passes levels, and finds secrets, hidden features open up, including an exclusive Dark Horse comic book prequel to the game, hilarious "outtakes," and more. A stat page shows how well Jango is performing, including enemies killed, bounties collected, and how many innocent victims got between Jango and his targets.

Bounty Hunter features huge levels that span a variety of planetoids, including Coruscant, Tatooine, and the asteroid prison of Oovo IV. At the same time, it also offers exceptional graphics and sound, and the detail is truly remarkable. The game looks and feels like Star Wars, and elements such as desert skiffs, a carbon freezing chamber, and certain level soundtracks tie Bounty Hunter to the original trilogy as well as Episodes I and II. Side notes to the movies also include a mention of Rozatta's junk dealing friend from Mos Espa (Watto), and a bounty posted for the Tusken Raider who took out one of Anakin's opponents in the pod race from Episode I. Adversaries include thugs from a variety of species (Aqualish, Rodians, Trandoshans, etc.), and they look and sound like they did in the movies. Having an ID scanner that even differentiates between the various Nikto subspecies is a nice touch for fanatical fans like myself.

Of course, anyone who has seen Attack of the Clones knows that Jango Fett meets his end battling Mace Windu on Geonosis, but, thankfully, playing a "dead man" does nothing to detract from the fun of this game. However, it would be nice to see his son take the spotlight in a sequel. "Bounty Hunter II: The Return of Boba Fett." How about it, Lucas Arts?

I've never really cared for the games in the Star Wars lineup (I mean, how many variations on X-Wing, Tie Fighter, STARfighter, JEDI Starfighter, Racer, Racer REVENGE on and on and on can you have?). So, I wasn't expecting to like this. Thing is, I loved it.

I'll agree that you spend a lot of time running around in circles wondering exactly where to go (hel-LO, Lucasarts, a MAP would be NICE), but that's actually why I liked it. You have to be able to think creatively sometimes in order to figure out your next move, and that's what turns this game into more than just a thumb exercise. And the views are so good, I don't mind a little extra walking around. Camera view is a little tough to control sometimes, though.

The bad guys are ridiculously easy to kill, but the addition of the "Secondary Bounties" goal gives you a reason to not just go around blasting everything in sight (sure you could just kill everybody, but you could also use some strategy, kill a lot of baddies, AND get rich).

All in all, it's a fairly intense game that makes you think AND gives good action and GREAT scenery.

Only big down side I really saw was that the voices of passersby got REALLY old REALLY quick. THere's only so many times you can hear "Hey," "Get him" and "Look a bounty hunter" before you just want to turn the sound off. I never checked to see if you can just turn the voices off (I just rented it), so maybe it's not even really a problem.

I really thought this game was going to be fun. It does almost everything right technically, but for some reason it just isn't fun. Perhaps it's because I've played far too many games of this sort. Whereas Jedi Knight and Jedi Outcast made you feel like a Jedi Knight- this game just doesn't make you feel like a Bounty Hunter. The only part of the game I felt like I was a bounty hunter was when I was chasing my bounty through the streets of Coruscant. But that was far too brief and once you've caught your bounty (ie tagged it) it just disappears and you are credited for the catch. This is the only time I have seen bounty actually try and flee. For most of the game, your bounty just stands there. The credits that you are awarded for catching your bounty are used to unlock different extras in the game (like an online comic book). I had hoped that the credits could be used to buy new weapons- but nope.

This game would have been much better if it were designed more like Tenchu. Instead this game feels like Obiwan for the XBOX.

Pros:
- decent back story- explains how Jango got his ship and his involvement with Tyranus.
- good graphics quality
- good cutscenes - by ILM
- good sound design - by Skywalker sound
- good user interface except for the camera. Other reviewers complain about the difficulty in switching between scanner and weapon. It's actually very simple- click UP ARROW to activate scanner; RIGHT ARROW twice to go to pistols from scanner. You'll be doing this a lot.
- Jango gets all the gadgets you'd expect for Jango
- Jet pack is his best feature- you will depend on it like Force Jump in Jedi Outcast.
- Frame rate is very high
- AI seems to be better than Jedi Outcast.

Cons:
- Very very repetitive
- Camera has a mind of its own at times and is difficult to override to see crucial elements of the game- like your character when it is trying hard not to step off a ledge.
- Camera tends to swing by itself to create a "good" view. This makes you very motion-sick very quickly. This is the first PS2 game that has made me motion sick with the wild camera swings.
- The only stealth component is that you can use your scanner to telescope out to find your victims, then shoot him/her from a long ways off. The stealth aspect doesn't really make the game more fun- like it does in Tenchu.

this game is good, i was all wrong about it. i got a little upset with the game in the beginning, i couldn't get past the arena in the beginning, but i figured it out.

the only frustrating thing about this game is that you have to figure out a lot of (what to do; where to go) and if you don't hang w/ it you won't like like it.

anyway, back to jango, he is cool, his attitude is fierce and intimidating, he is a one man force. i like how he handles business. see, i bought obi-wan for xbox and i was so disgusted w/ star wars that i vowed that i'd never ever buy another star wars video game.

this game is not the best action/adventure game but it is worth a try or a purchase. i gave it 4/5 because i was required to spend too much time trying to figure out out what to do next.
but all and all it is a solid and fun game.

First off, I KNOW that the title for my review was spoken by Boba Fett (Jango's son) in Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, but I thought that it was a great line, and very applicable to my review, as well as being an integral part of game play.
Back in 1980 (I was four), TESB was released, and my friend and I instantly were awe-struck by the mysterious helmeted bounty hunter with the nasty weapons and really cool rocket pack. Needless to say, when we played with our Star Wars figures arguments generally ensued over who got to play with Boba Fett. Now, 22 years later, with the release of Episode II: Attack of the Clones, new information about Boba's past, as well as his father, Jango Fett, has been shed...
This brings me to the actual review of the game (finally!). Star Wars: Bounty Hunter gives you the opportunity to BE Jango Fett on a variety of bounty missions where you are paid to bring 'em in, dead OR alive. At your disposal are twin blaster pistols, a helmet-mounted image magnifier/bounty tracking unit, wrist-mounted cutting torch, sniper rifles, thermal detonators (grenades), flamethrowers, whipcord (for subduing bounties without killing them), and of course, your trusty missile-firing rocket pack. In addition, Jango can hang from ledges, climb ladders, crouch-walk through air ducts, and duck and roll to avoid enemy fire. In short, no place is safe if you are the hunted!
Graphics are superb, and the camera angle may be customized to create some really COOL screen shots to show your girlfriend (as if she were REALLY interested). Sound is also amazing, especially when playing with a surround-sound system. Laser bolts sizzle overhead, detonating around you, while the sounds of the environment (both familiar and alien) add to the ambience.
Some levels are quite difficult, especially when dealing with wild animals and Tusken Raiders. Stealth and discretion is often a factor in a successful hunt, but this game also has it's fair share of large-scale Star Wars-style shootouts mixing multiple enemies and heavy doses of firepower (both from you, and AT you) But be brave, watch your back, and bring your bounty in! After all, YOU are Jango Fett, the most ruthless hunter in the galaxy (as your son will be...)!
Overall, the combination of sights, sounds and the excellent control layout makes for an awesome and thrilling experience. Especially for all us geeks who have wanted to BE a Mandalorian bounty hunter for more than two decades. This game is easily one of the top five best games (on any platform) based on the Star Wars franchise. If you consider yourself even the slightest Star Wars fan, or have had a long-time fascination with all things Fett, grab this one, and prepare to make the galaxy a more dangerous place with no where to hide.