Star Wars: Bounty Hunter Review #3
Bounty Hunter was a promising game before release. Anti-heroes are awesome, and played as the father of the most famous bounty hunter ever seems sweet, doesn’t it? Well it isn’t, not in this game. StarWars: Bounty Hunter fails to impress, or even reach a satisfactory level.
The stupid controls don’t add anything to this mess of a game. Running around has never been this hard in a videogame nor life, not even if you haven’t had food or water for eight days. Flying around in your jetpack is a chore, and you’d need years of experience to do it near-perfect. The aiming system is incapable of reacting as it’s told and it rather bounce around like a 25 pound 4 year old boy on a trampoline who just took marijuana for the first time. Overall, I’d rather run into a wall then mess around with this game so more, the controls make it unbearable.
The in-game graphics aren’t anything special either. Blocky characters, not to mention the SAME models over and over again, and bland textures add to the roster of this game’s flaws. The cut scenes are marvelous, totally stunning. Then again, those were made by the same people who make the digital effects in the movie.
The sound is the games best moments, but whoever said that means its good? The same tune is played throughout the entire game, and it gets pretty bland. If they added the John William’s music then it would have spiced the game up a little, but alas they didn’t. The blaster sounds are dull and sounds of explosions follow suite. Turn off the volume, if you bother with this one.
Gameplay, ah the gameplay. Anything special? Nope, not at all. It’s your typical run and gun gameplay, with the added bounty system. The bounty system is original, but it’s executed poorly. While attempting to mark unaware bounties, you’re constantly being fragged at, due to it being in mission. Not to mention targeting the bounties with your ID scanner is hard. Overall it just means like some half baked effort, that was added to keep you in the game for a few more hours, or minutes whichever.
The extras? Other than the quite funny bloopers of the cut scenes, there isn’t much here to look at. You unlock a comic, but why waste your time? Go out and buy a real one, that’s easier to read. You unlock some of the collectable game cards, but they are no use at all. It takes about 10 seconds to get sick of 5 cards. It’s not worth your time.
The originality is lacking in all aspects. There is at the most eight regular enemy models, one bland song, boring sound effects, ugly graphics, and seen that, done tat, gameplay. Where’s the originality in that?
Finally, Bounty Hunter isn’t worth your time. Don’t even rent this sad sack of a game, unless you enjoy pain.
Visuals: 0
Sound: 0
Originality: 0
Replay: 0
Overall: 0