Comments on: Retrospective: Republic Commando

By: phenom_x8

phenom_x8 — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 23:04:34 +0000

Star Wars RepCom is the best FPS I’ve ever played. My first team based FPS played I supposed (sorry i’m new on PC gaming in 2005, I didnt even know about SWAT,R6 or another PC team based FPS). The feel and the atmosphere tottally unforgettable for me!

By: Huggster

Huggster — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:12:00 +0000

Dead thread is a curiosity and foolish. Loving first the willy directs us. Great prices and sponsors. Many people will read this.

By: Fluorite Beads

Fluorite Beads — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:59:03 +0000

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.Garnet Beads

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Re-Retro: Republic Commando | It burns when I PVP! | MMORPGs — Mon, 24 May 2010 09:43:07 +0000

[...] revisit to Star Wars: Republic Commando, originally written for PC Gamer. Admittedly I’ve already given RepCom a little retro cuddle on RPS, but as Lucasart’s Star Wars shooter is now available on [...]

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Re-Retro: Republic Commando | Rock, Paper, Shotgun — Mon, 24 May 2010 09:11:12 +0000

By: Carra

Carra — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 22:16:32 +0000

Wee, playing through it again. Still as great as I remember. Clickie, go set that charge. Clickie, go snipe. Why has noone made another squad based shooter which is so intuitive as this one?

Sure, I also enjoyed Freedom Fighters. That game was best with around three squad mates. At that point, I did about half of all the damage and my squad mates did the rest. With eleven running around, it didn’t matter much what you did yourself. They should have limited their squad to around four guys, just like Republic Commando.

By: Rock, Paper, Shotgun: The Pub Lunch Exegesis » Steam + Lucasarts = Global Fangasm

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:55:51 +0000

[...] your hands and say yeah. And even overlooked latter-day gem Republic motherfuggin’ Commando finally gets its day in the [...]

By: Nurdbot

Nurdbot — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:03:49 +0000

I heavily agree, Republic Commando is one my personal favourite Star Wars games of the 2nd Generation LA has pumped out next to KOTOR, JKA and pre-NGE SWG.

It certainly is worth getting, the primitive almost there Ragdoll Physics, The Chatter between your Squad Mates and the pleasure of finally mastering the really hard bit of the game (Escaping the shop about the go boom). Nothing is more manly that Pistol Whipping 8 Robots in a row in 4 seconds.

An awesome SW game. Best thing about the game? The non presence of any generic Jedi.

By: Radiant

Radiant — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 00:58:20 +0000

Freedom fighters is good fun but it’s console roots really do show and the multiplayer is pants.

By: Garth

Garth — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:35:41 +0000

I remember liking the demo, but not enough to run out and get the game.

Maybe I’ll take a look at it (After I retry the demo ;)

I’m also going to look for a demo of Freedom Fighters, as I’ve heard good things.

By: Seniath

Seniath — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 19:26:42 +0000

Just finished it, and agree with everything mentioned above. I will say one thing, however. Who the hell thought “I know, lets put an Ash song in over the credits”. The note it ended on, with the (minor spoilers) Republic invasion of Kashyyyk, having the RotS Imperial March theme over the credits would’ve been much, much more fitting. But no, something totally unrelated to the game, or the universe. Not to mention the fact that an ex girlfriend left me with an intense distate for Ash.

By: Radiant

Radiant — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 07:54:13 +0000

If you like squad based shooters on the PC I THOROUGHLY recommend Ghost Recon.
Not GRAW, not GRAW2 but Ghost Recon 1 on the PC.

Fully patched up with the add-ons [Desert and Island Thunder] it is perhaps my favorite game of all time and one I still go back to now.

You just approach every fight with your brain.
It has these stunning moments where maybe you set up an attack using a full squad on an enemy encampment which you can approach how ever you want based on the geography, there’s no set positions that the game makes you play; a sniper here, an attack screen here, ambush element there.
The AI is awesome, it never lets you down.
You let rip and all of a sudden your team is pouring bullets into the camp and one of your dudes fires a 203 grenade launcher into the mess which makes the bad guys run right into your ambush element [made up of 2 guys one with an M60].
Or you’ll painstakingly [using move and cover tactics] fight your way through a mall in Moscow come out the other end still fighting and realising you’re having a scrap on the steps of the Kremlin with tanks coming across red square.

It’s an awesome game
When they dumbed everything down in later GR games it was heartbreaking.
Where later GR games had you use the other team [singular] as some kind of auto turret; Ghost Recon 1 was the perfect squad shooter.