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Star Wars Republic Commando Review March 8, 2005
My review of Star Wars Republic Commando for the PC is up at GameSpy.com today. It's a great game with amazingly high production values, but it's short and the multiplayer component is barely worth a derisive snort.
Also, I love it when I get paid to write three articles for one game --a preview, a "first impressions" piece, and a full review. It makes up for the times I had to review those less than awesome games.But still, Republic Commando is a very good game I'd recommend whether you like Star Wars or not. The multiplayer game is subpar and under populated, but the single-player game is slick, polished, frantic, and exciting. The squad-based nature isn't revolutionary, nor is it as deep as "real" tactical games, but it's clean, easy to use, and doesn't slow things down. Add to that all the delicious details that LucasArts has crammed into every corner and you don't have many excuses not to enjoy it.
And finally, props to whoever at GameSpy (and I'll bet it was Sluggo) decided to use "SEND IN THE CLONES!" as the tagline for this article. That made me laugh, because a few years at QuakeCon Sluggo and I spent the whole weekend screaming that at each other at random intervals for no other reason that its striking us as funny.
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