Bounty Hunter Is Star Wars’ Latest Classic Gaming Remaster

At some point, Aspyr will run out of classic Star Wars games to polish and re-release—but there’s a lot of them, and we still haven’t gotten the Rogue Squadron games, god dammit—but today is not that day. This morning, the developer announced it had locked eyes on its next bounty: Jango Fett’s origin story shooter, Bounty Hunter.

Details are scant about just what the new re-release of the 2002 third-person shooter will actually update—beyond making it re-available on modern platforms, including Nintendo Switch, Xbox, Playstation, and Steam—but for now the Bounty Hunter remaster is set to jetpack into existence from August 1.

Set 10 years before the events of Attack of the Clones, Bounty Hunter followed Jango as he was tapped by Count Dooku to eliminate his former padawan Komari Vosa, now head of a crime syndicate and a Dark Jedi—a term that’s largely fallen out of favor for fallen Jedi in contemporary canon, but is humorously timed given all the discussion about Dark side users and Sith in this week’s episode of The Acolyte. Hunting and tracking a web of targets across the galaxy in the hunt for Vosa, you get to see Jango meet shapeshifter Zam Wesell for the first time, acquire the Firespray ship that will become Slave 1, and, of course, get the offer to become the template for a new Clone army.

It’s pretty alright! The bounty system—which let you scan NPCS for potential bounties, and decided whether to take them in or alive—was neat for the time, although the game’s infamously bad camera controls made fighting in tight corridors turn Jango into less of a fearsome marksman, and more of a spray-and-pray madman. Fingers crossed the Bounty Hunter re-release won’t suffer the same miserable fate as Aspyr’s launch of the classic Battlefront games earlier this year, plagued with bugs and networking issues, when it launches on August 1.

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