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Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 1.0 hrs on record
Posted: 2 Mar, 2021 @ 10:09pm

I've played through all campaigns and gotten the full SW:RC experience. The reason it shows it as 1 hour on steam is because the widescreen fix that's available doesn't work with Steam (it uses a different .exe to launch).

As for the game itself, it's a good bit of fun. Obviously, it doesn't hold up like it did back when it came out. There are quite a few issues I have with it:
- Most environments are purely visual and don't offer any sort of different tactical experience (except for the solo levels, that was pretty interesting
- The squad command system is easily mastered and fully experienced within an hour instead of evolving over the course of the game
- All of the characters are very one-note and not interesting at all; I was hoping for them to grow and evolve as characters
- The only difficulty you should play this game on is hard; for a 2005 game, the "Hard" difficulty was incredibly easy
- The final level is underwhelming and what happens is just plain blue balls
- AI sometimes takes a mind of its own (eg reviving teammates on their own). It hurts the experience that you aren't commanding them to do so at all times, but it works for the characters and their strong ties
Some positives:
- Weapon swapping for your main arsenal is extremely cool
- Character designs work well for what they are
- Extra weapons from different species are often extremely useful
- Ammo is just the right amount of limited, forcing you to use different weapons and save certain kinds of ammo as much as you can
- Health refills are plentiful
- Enemies are interesting and varied

All in all, I would say it's worth a buy on a very good sale. If you're a Star Wars fan and played this as a kid, this is a great trip down memory lane that still barely holds its own. If you're not a Star Wars fan (like me), this is a decent game to pass the time with while playing a beloved classic so you can bond about it with others or just revisit it from your childhood.
This game definitely deserves a REMAKE (not a remaster), focusing on fleshing out all the mechanics and forming this game into what it could've been. Or a sequel just doing all that would be fine too I guess.
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