What's interesting/strange about the game is that it essentially gives players the whole gamut of weapons and powers for Jango Fett right off the bat. But after all of the crazy Star Wars excitement settles down, and you look at Bounty Hunter squarely, it's your basic action-based shooter¿with a jetpack, of course. LucasArts will re-use and remix Star Wars Episode I and II music composed by John Williams with additional music by Jeremy Soule for the game. Unfortunately, the sound effects and music weren't available in the demo, but those we're told, are also being taken care of by Skywalker Sound. Right before LucasArts showed the game to the press, its internal artists had just injected the game with a batch of new textures, and even at this early stage Bounty Hunter holds great visual promise. Jango is powered with animations and moves that, while still a little clunky, pose good potential. The pre-alpha version we played was a little too early to make perfect sense of the game's final feel, but the basics are there. Playing as Jango Fett (not his son Boba Fett), I was able to take a look at about four different levels, each with various sub-plots and bounty goals. Getting the controller in my hand and playing Star Wars Bounty Hunter made me feel exactly like the mofo I had envisioned way back in the day. Today, I had the chance to dig a little deeper into the amoral world of a the cash-collecting bounty hunter. Armed with tons of cool gadgets, weapons, and a jetpack, there aren't any morals or scruples to hold you back from what you're really good at, which is collecting heads (preferably still twitching, but cold, dead ones are still good, too) for cash. You're a bounty hunter, a badass, hired assassin. You're not a light saber-wielding Jedi Knight, bound and determined to protect the good and find new young Jedis to guide the galaxy into infinite happiness. LucasArts' newest third-person action blaster puts a different light on the standard Star Wars title. That was cool stuff back then, and now LucasArts is making a game based on the original Fett in Star Wars Bounty Hunter. Remember how you had to fight Boba Fett as a boss? How he had all those weapons, flew around using the jetpack, and was one tough bastard to knock off? And remember how much you wanted to be him, instead of being that goo-footed Dash Rendar? Yes. It seemed to me that some smart person at LucasArts was listening to all of those googily-eyed Nintendo 64 users (of which I was one) back when Star Wars Shadows of the Empire hit the N64 in 1996. Having previously carried out the seemingly impossible assassination of a Banking Clan official for Jabba, Bossk - who first appeared in The Empire Strikes Back - has little to prove but a lot to gain by taking Fett down. Due to their last harsh meeting in Star Wars: Bounty Hunters #4, it looks as though the Trandoshan has decided to forget their past partnership in favor of scoring big.You know, playing Star Wars Bounty Hunter today brought back some old memories. Related: Star Wars Confirms Crimson Dawn's Connection To Clone Wars Now, Darth Maul's former operation is holding an auction to sell Solo, hoping to legitimize their return in epic fashion by offering the most valuable person in the galaxy, and a lot of heads have turned in response. Sadly, one of those heads belongs to Jabba, who has placed a bounty on both Solo and Fett, thinking the latter has betrayed him. The infamous smuggler has been stolen by none other than the reborn Crimson Dawn. Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters #2 comes from Charles Soule and Luke Ross, and sees Boba Fett determined to get Solo's carbonite-encased body back into his possession and complete delivery to Jabba the Hutt. Boba and Bossk are brawling ahead of Crimson's Dawn auction of Han Solo, putting to rest any question of who's the more skilled warrior. While the two bounty hunters have quite the history together, it seems as though money trumps any loyalty either might owe the other. In a new preview for Marvel's Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters #2, the legendary Boba Fett crosses paths with none other than Bossk, the savage Trandoshan looking to collect the large bounty placed on Fett's head. Warning: contains a preview of Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters #2!
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