Star Wars: Republic Commando

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8.5

Generally favorable reviews- based on 445 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 365 out of 445
  2. Mixed: 72 out of 445
  3. Negative: 8 out of 445
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  1. Timm504
    May 22, 2023
    5
    An good classic tactical shooter with an fun campagne that isnt too short or too long
  2. sirNeutral
    May 1, 2023
    7
    Feel like a fighter of an elite division of clones. Great game, one minus the ending is the most interesting.
  3. Magical_Viktor
    Apr 30, 2023
    5
    Существуют просто Зло и Большое Зло, а за ними обоими в тени прячется Очень Большое Зло. Очень Большое Зло, Геральт, это такое, которого ты и представить себе не можешь, даже если думаешь, будто уже ничто не в состоянии тебя удивить. И знаешь, Геральт, порой бывает так, что Очень Большое Зло схватит тебя за горло и скажет: «Выбирай, братец, либо я, либо то, которое чуточку поменьше»Существуют просто Зло и Большое Зло, а за ними обоими в тени прячется Очень Большое Зло. Очень Большое Зло, Геральт, это такое, которого ты и представить себе не можешь, даже если думаешь, будто уже ничто не в состоянии тебя удивить. И знаешь, Геральт, порой бывает так, что Очень Большое Зло схватит тебя за горло и скажет: «Выбирай, братец, либо я, либо то, которое чуточку поменьше»
  4. Specabox
    Feb 24, 2023
    10
    Best Star Wars game I've played so far (Cough cough thanks EA games). About 9 hours of gameplay, but has replay value due to storyline and combat being hand-in hand
  5. kopety
    Jan 29, 2023
    8
    One of the most underrated FPS games ever. Should be a must play title for every games like Halo
  6. AMBO
    Nov 19, 2022
    10
    Made a lot of memories with this one!! i recommend everyone to give it a try :)
  7. brayonyx14
    Aug 8, 2022
    9
    Easily one of the best games I have played. For a game 17 years old, it still holds up fantastically, and as an added bonus, its age makes the price low and very easy to run on max graphics. There haven't really been many star wars games that are so serious, and this game is a great change from the norm. Don't get me started on the music. It is so good and really makes you feel like aEasily one of the best games I have played. For a game 17 years old, it still holds up fantastically, and as an added bonus, its age makes the price low and very easy to run on max graphics. There haven't really been many star wars games that are so serious, and this game is a great change from the norm. Don't get me started on the music. It is so good and really makes you feel like a badass. The menu theme is pretty much the Star Wars equivalent of the Halo theme.… Expand
  8. AngryGeek
    Jun 7, 2022
    8
    It is a shooter game where you direct your team. I think it is of good quality for its type. I think you should play.
  9. Jackie_Jackson
    May 26, 2022
    9
    Я родился как Лунтик и сразу же попал на блядскую войну с консервными банками что за чертовщина такая до сих пор не понимаю и ловлю флешбеки 24/7
  10. Tomle1202
    May 24, 2022
    7
    Albeit a little light on gunplay and story, Republic Commando compensates by giving you control of one hell of a squad.
  11. EmirhanSahin
    Feb 1, 2022
    8
    A fantastic first person shooter game with star wars theme which I love. Give it a shot.
  12. 3t3rnal
    Dec 21, 2021
    3
    This game does show a lot of promise in certain areas, but is an utter failure overall due to extremely deep issues with game design, underlined by very poor execution in regards to a lot of it. Honestly, this gives me serious Daikatana vibes.

    The balance is bad. Guns do tiny amounts of damage, the enemy HP is generally huge and everything is spongier than a sponge factory. Despite the    This game does show a lot of promise in certain areas, but is an utter failure overall due to extremely deep issues with game design, underlined by very poor execution in regards to a lot of it. Honestly, this gives me serious Daikatana vibes.

    The balance is bad. Guns do tiny amounts of damage, the enemy HP is generally huge and everything is spongier than a sponge factory. Despite the levels being littered with resources, you will routinelly run out of ammo and grenades and have to rely on your pistol which recharges ammo. Accuraccy of the guns is also pretty crap, you can reliably hit stuff only at very close range, with the exception of the sniper rifle. This is not challenging skill-wise, it is artificial difficulty - you do not have to target specific parts or use specific weapons which do more damage (with the exception of one mini-boss type), the enemies are not smart or even all that dangerous - they just soak up a crap ton of damage before going down and more than half of your shots will miss just for lulz, that's the only difficulty the game has.

    The AI is utterly retarded - your enemies are dumb, aside from places where they are very specifically spawned and sometimes restricted from moving, they all just dumbly move towards you. Once could perhaps forgive it for the basic battle droids as it is lore friendly, perhaps, but even non droid enemies do this. Special category of stupidity are the several types of enemies who can fly or jump around - who will fly away from attacking you or jump away to show that they can - even when it literally saves your life and allows you to recharge shields and then kill them. The AI cannot even use basic manouvers like encirclement, despite outnumbering you literally all the time. A lot of the time they even forget to shoot / attack. and just run up to you and stand in front of you.

    The same applies to your companions, who are presented to you as these specialist - a demolition specialist, a hacker and a sniper / CQC, leaving you as the leader and assault / heavy weapons specialist. But you and your bot friends can do everything without any contraints. Your hacker will snipe, your sniper will plant demolition charges and your demo guy will hack doors. Your hacker is down? No need to revive him to get a door open, just send the sniper to hack it while you revive him to save time, etc. - Oh, and sniping, for the bots, is also tied to very specific interactive pieces of cover. They look like any other piece of cover, but have special sign hovering above them, so you know you can send your guys to snipe from there. Most of them are not well placed for a sniper overwatch... Oh, also, some objects which are marked as "enemy", but cannot by destroyed by shooting, your guys will infinitely shoot at while ignoring actual enemies around them. Some of these can be blown up by planting charges at them - sned your guy to do it, and you will see him, more often than not, slowly crouch walk to it, shooting it all the time, doing no damage to it, before snapping into the "planting charge" animation. At least they have infinite ammo (and more HP/shields than you, because the devs knew their AI is crap). Also, in some levels, they just refuse to move. They reach some room, and just stay there. You give them a specific order, they will walk from the other side of the map to do it, and then walk back.

    Now, finally to the padding - the reason why you have locked doors that you need to unlock everywhere and spend half a minute each time, and why killing a droid that takes 3 shots in the movie and in the TV series takes one and a half magazine, is that the game, without all of that, would probably be 3 hours long, perhaps around 3.5-4 with all of the cutscenes. This way, it has around 7-8, I would say. I finished it in 5.5 because I could not take it anymore, and about 90% into the first location, I rebalanced the HP pools... It really feels like someone play tested the game like a month before release, found out it is way too short, so they ramped up the HP pools 3-5x (no joking, for you to have a good time, you will have to reduce the enemy HP that many times, and you will still have a few engagements where you will run out of ammo by the end of them), but it was not enough, so they put door breachign everywhere. Then, they found out you won't really be progress in some places where you do not have some / all of your bots, so they just said "screw it, let everyone do everything".    … Expand
  13. Fazed
    Nov 23, 2021
    5
    Just didn't really enjoy the mechanics of controlling the squad, too much micro management for me. Also constantly running out of ammo when trying to kill an enemy that took more than 4 Mags. The setting is nice and the missions are fun enough. Apart from the one you can get soft locked in because of auto save.
  14. Sulong
    Nov 22, 2021
    10
    So far the best Star Wars game, it needs at least an epic remaster or a reboot with a sequel
  15. ProfAmateur
    Oct 16, 2021
    7
    It is a linear, singleplayer, first person shooter story.
    + Action pure
    + Good Weapon Arsenal
    + No unnecessary Cutscenes
    - System Bugs like some Settings crash the Game. Overheating PSU/GPU because VSync (FPS-Lock) doesn't work. Mouse Sensitivity in Menu is hell, no 16:9 support, and so on.
  16. vasilkolarov
    Apr 7, 2021
    10
    The game needs a sequel, a tv adaptation, anything. The game ended, but for us, the fans, it is still very much in our minds.

    Throughout the game, I was always left with some type of emotion -- fear, joy, or even sadness. That might be because of my young age at the time (I was probably around 10 years old when I first got to play it) but nevertheless, those feelings stay with you,    The game needs a sequel, a tv adaptation, anything. The game ended, but for us, the fans, it is still very much in our minds.

    Throughout the game, I was always left with some type of emotion -- fear, joy, or even sadness. That might be because of my young age at the time (I was probably around 10 years old when I first got to play it) but nevertheless, those feelings stay with you, packed into a memory.

    Are we ever going to see SOME kind of continuation of Delta Squad? I think so, I want to be an optimist.    … Expand
  17. Omland
    Jan 1, 2021
    9
    One of the better Star Wars games from a time when Star Wars games were at their best. Republic commando has a fun campaign with a great set of characters and an interesting story. Definitely a must play for any Star Wars fan!
  18. SewAwOw
    Jul 5, 2020
    8
    Отличный боевик, с интересным геймплеем и зрелищными перестрелками по вселенной ЗВ. Единственная игра, в которой управляешь отрядом, которая мне зашла. Очень хочется ремастера от Диснея.
  19. Sinmaker
    May 27, 2020
    7
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  20. Wiebe
    Feb 26, 2020
    8
    This game was good fun it does not excel or innovate, but it does what it does really well.
  21. Makarov20
    Jan 13, 2020
    10
    This game is gorgeous for it's time. I love the variety of enemies and the gameplay. The story is very interested and my squadmates have very cool personalities NOW STOP LOOKING AROUND AND GET SOME BACTA SOLDIER
  22. Genek13
    Nov 20, 2019
    9
    The only and the best FPS game in Star Wars universe.
    Great team management, story, visuals and music, which is straight from movies.
    Still playable to this date.
  23. LordVariks
    Feb 15, 2019
    10
    Shows the true grittiness of the Clone War. The game has a great story, and gameplay features that really make it memorable, hell I even play it again and again sometimes.
  24. NightGeisha
    Dec 9, 2018
    8
    I was feeling nostalgic I start to browse my old games collection and that was when I think: "Star Wars", I have several old Star Wars games that I could retry and give a small updated review.

    Republic Commando it's fantastic, even thinking that it's a 2005 game. It covers a period between the 2nd and 3rd Star Wars movies and you play as an elite Clone trooper. Its a 1st person    I was feeling nostalgic I start to browse my old games collection and that was when I think: "Star Wars", I have several old Star Wars games that I could retry and give a small updated review.

    Republic Commando it's fantastic, even thinking that it's a 2005 game. It covers a period between the 2nd and 3rd Star Wars movies and you play as an elite Clone trooper.

    Its a 1st person shooter with squad based control mechanics. It does not have nice graphics, by 2017 standards, and not even reach 1920x1080. Unfortunately for me I get issues to replay it on 2017, much likely due to some compatibility problem with Windows 10. But it was a game that I played when it was released and that I really do not forget the squad control mechanics that I mentioned before.

    It’s a “must have” classic for any gamer or Star Wars fan. Enjoy it, and “may the force be with you”!    … Expand
  25. Mpbpl
    Nov 4, 2018
    10
    Best underrated FPS ever!!
    The multiplayer is great, with great maps, balanced gameplay and you actually need strategy to win.
    But now, the focus of the game, single-player: The campaign is AMAZING, you play the leader in a squad of 4 stormtroopers that are superior to normal ones, and your assignment is to get behind enemy lines and destroy the enemy from within making the job of the    Best underrated FPS ever!!
    The multiplayer is great, with great maps, balanced gameplay and you actually need strategy to win.
    But now, the focus of the game, single-player:
    The campaign is AMAZING, you play the leader in a squad of 4 stormtroopers that are superior to normal ones, and your assignment is to get behind enemy lines and destroy the enemy from within making the job of the army easier.
    The gunplay is AMAZING, with an average diversity but every weapon created is really awesome. There are a lot of different grenades that will be used in different scenarios. Enemies are diverse and situations get progressively harder. The AI of them is good enough to not break immersion.
    As the leader, you get full control of your squad mates, in defense positions, sniper positions, demolitions, hacking, grenadier, hold ground, go offensive, follow your position, focus a single taget. And that makes this FPS a more strategy and shoot type of FPS instead of run and gun.
    The rest of the squad is SENSATIONAL!!! Their AI is masterfull, they are there to help and indeed they do. They have different personalities, different tastes and listening to the squad talk feels real!
    Unfornately, even though they have different specialties, every squad member can do everything with the same effectiveness, but that is a very little crack in a almost perfect game.    … Expand
  26. iddqd4
    Feb 13, 2018
    8
    Отличный, крайне увлекательный шутер, в горячо любимой вселенной.
  27. Aeryx
    Jan 15, 2018
    8
    This is definitely the best Star Wars FPS game there is. I can't imagine any game doing any better as Republic Commando invented the self-cleaning visors for helmets. How can you do better than that?
  28. TheMasiMan1
    Jan 24, 2016
    9
    You get to experience the clone war as a clone but your not a normal clone, no, you're a leader. You can't go around shooting everybody, you need a team, now thats kind off annoying that Im weak, but its a great teamwork game. It also offers alot of replayability. Graphics are great, even greater considering the fact that this game if rom 2005, and it still has great graphics! I cant talkYou get to experience the clone war as a clone but your not a normal clone, no, you're a leader. You can't go around shooting everybody, you need a team, now thats kind off annoying that Im weak, but its a great teamwork game. It also offers alot of replayability. Graphics are great, even greater considering the fact that this game if rom 2005, and it still has great graphics! I cant talk about multiplayer because the servers are closed. Bummer, if it is great, then I would give it a 10/10, but thats not the reason I didn't give it a 10/10, I give it a 9/10 because its not that long.… Expand
  29. NikoSC
    Jan 5, 2016
    8
    I remember playing this game a long time ago, I noticed that it was on steam for 10 bucks. Welp, I made a impulse buy. It's a pretty solid Star Wars game that focuses more on the military side rather than the Jedi. I like that its a tactical squad based FPS. The game has very enjoyable characters and the voice acting is pretty good. It runs on Epic Game's Unreal engine 2. My only minor nitI remember playing this game a long time ago, I noticed that it was on steam for 10 bucks. Welp, I made a impulse buy. It's a pretty solid Star Wars game that focuses more on the military side rather than the Jedi. I like that its a tactical squad based FPS. The game has very enjoyable characters and the voice acting is pretty good. It runs on Epic Game's Unreal engine 2. My only minor nit picks is that some of the weaker enemies were very bullet spongey(that means they took a lot to kill). And the single player was really short. Little do most people know there was going to be a sequel called Imperial commando. But the idea was scrapped. With this game is either you love or hate it.… Expand
  30. Nintolerance
    Nov 28, 2015
    8
    Some excellent atmosphere, attention-to-detail and voice acting ties this game together. Shooting mechanics feel a little lightweight and the squad commands aren't as deep as say, SWAT 4.

    Republic Commando's sustained by its sense of coordination and teamwork. You grow to rely on your team, and genuinely feel exposed and weakened when not backed by your AI partners. Voice work is great    Some excellent atmosphere, attention-to-detail and voice acting ties this game together. Shooting mechanics feel a little lightweight and the squad commands aren't as deep as say, SWAT 4.

    Republic Commando's sustained by its sense of coordination and teamwork. You grow to rely on your team, and genuinely feel exposed and weakened when not backed by your AI partners. Voice work is great and, as I said above, brings this game from decent to great.

    That said, there are some weaknesses. Shooting's not dreadful, but does lack punch. AI can interact with targets and the environment, but there's no way to arrange door breaches or tactical movement outside of the (thankfully common) interaction points. Last but not least, I encountered a handful of bugs that forced me to reload to earlier checkpoints more than once.

    Still a great game, still definitely worth your time.    … Expand
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Awards & Rankings

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#54 Best PC Game of 2005
19
#19 Most Discussed PC Game of 2005
13
#13 Most Shared PC Game of 2005

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Metascore
78

Generally favorable reviews - based on 34 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 34
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 34
  3. Negative: 0 out of 34
  1. IGN
    82
    Presentation is really what carries Republic Commando farther than it could have gone on its own. It comes with a grand score, good voice work, lovely animation, and great artistic style and polish.
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  2. GameSpot
    87
    A pedestrian and unimaginative multiplayer mode is the only notable flaw in a game that otherwise plays, looks, and sounds fantastic.
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  3. Xequted
    88
    The game’s artificial intelligence is impressive, and utilising the commands and setting team command points through the levels really makes it feel like you’re working through the game with real people who actually know what they are doing.
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