Well, it’s time for the obligatory Star Wars post.
Originally, I wanted to revisit and finish Star Wars: the Force Unleashed on
the PS3. Then, I suddenly remember this old gem from my teen years. I saw it on
Playstation Network and had to play it again. I don’t know what any of us
expected when we saw a familiar figure dressed in Mandalorian armor in Star
Wars: Attack of the Clones. I thought it looked kinda cool, and hey, Jango Fett
lived up to that coolness even though he gets beheaded at the end of the movie.
Thankfully, that wasn’t the last time we’d seen Boba Fett’s daddy.
Star Wars: Bounty Hunter was a third-person action shooter
that was released in 2002, sometime after AOTC was released on video and DVD.
It was developed and published by Lucasarts during what was pretty much their
zenith. They were churning out all sorts of Star Wars games throughout the 90’s
and early 2000’s. While you would get something horrid like the Masters of
Teras-Kasi (ugh), you’d also get good games like KOTOR and Jedi Academy. They
even got Temuera Morrison (Jango Fett) and Leeanna Walsman (Zam Wessell) to
reprise their roles here. We even get Clancy Brown voicing another bounty
hunter and Corey Burton doing a pretty good Christopher Lee impression.
Bounty Hunter takes place a decade before the events of
AOTC. I don’t know how canon this is, and until someone shows me something
else, I’m counting it! Count Dooku puts outs a bounty for Komari Vosa, a Dark
Jedi who’s the head of the Bando Gora. Jango Fett and another Mandalorian
bounty hunter, Montross (Clancy Brown), answer the call. You pretty much end up
going all over the galaxy looking for clues, shooting folk, and taking other
bounties along the way. On your journey, you have your friend, Rozzatta, feeding
you info. You also run into another bounty hunter named Zam Wessell, “and I
definitely see her and Jango’s partnership lasting for a long time…”
Oh yeah... that happened.