Bounty Hunter Is Star Wars' Latest Classic Gaming Remaster

At immoderate point, Aspyr volition tally retired of classic Star Wars games to polish and re-release—but there’s a batch of them, and we inactive haven’t gotten the Rogue Squadron games, deity dammit—but contiguous is not that day. This morning, the developer announced it had locked eyes connected its adjacent bounty: Jango Fett’s root communicative shooter, Bounty Hunter.

Details are scant astir conscionable what the caller re-release of the 2002 third-person shooter volition really update—beyond making it re-available connected modern platforms, including Nintendo Switch, Xbox, Playstation, and Steam—but for present the Bounty Hunter remaster is acceptable to jetpack into beingness from August 1.

Set 10 years earlier the events of Attack of the Clones, Bounty Hunter followed Jango arsenic helium was tapped by Count Dooku to destruct his erstwhile padawan Komari Vosa, present caput of a transgression syndicate and a Dark Jedi—a word that’s mostly fallen retired of favour for fallen Jedi successful modern canon, but is humorously timed fixed each the treatment astir Dark broadside users and Sith successful this week’s occurrence of The Acolyte. Hunting and tracking a web of targets crossed the postulation successful the hunt for Vosa, you get to spot Jango conscionable shapeshifter Zam Wesell for the archetypal time, get the Firespray vessel that will go Slave 1, and, of course, get the connection to go the template for a caller Clone army.

It’s beauteous alright! The bounty system—which fto you scan NPCS for imaginable bounties, and decided whether to instrumentality them successful oregon alive—was neat for the time, though the game’s infamously atrocious camera controls made warring successful choky corridors crook Jango into little of a fearsome marksman, and much of a spray-and-pray madman. Fingers crossed the Bounty Hunter re-release won’t endure the aforesaid miserable destiny arsenic Aspyr’s motorboat of the classical Battlefront games earlier this year, plagued with bugs and networking issues, erstwhile it launches connected August 1.

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