Star Wars: Bounty Hunter Remaster

Star Wars: Bounty Hunter on PS4/PS5 is a loving time capsule. It’s not a modern game in structure or control feel, but for fans of Star Wars lore, especially the prequel trilogy and The Mandalorian-style bounty hunting fantasy, it offers a compelling ride. The upgraded performance makes it the best way to experience the game today, and the budget price makes it a fair pick-up for curious newcomers and nostalgic fans alike.

Star Wars: Bounty Hunter is a solid throwback to the glory days of 2000s action games.

Aspyr has polished the graphics and fixed some of the camera issues that plagued the original, but all the janky problems at the core of the 2002 game remain.

Aspyr Media's port of Star Wars: Bounty Hunter is missing a lot of the atmosphere I loved about the original game. The sharpness in the visuals now remove too much, and shine a spotlight on the game's worst angles. At the same time, the modern control scheme improves on the experience so much that the parts of Star Wars: Bounty Hunter that made it a classic are able to shine brighter far more than they ever did - even if the camera is still wreaking havoc most of the time.

While we can commend Aspyr's efforts to modernize Star Wars: Bounty Hunter, it's clear that significant issues persist within the core gameplay mechanics. Visually, the game impresses and delivers a strong dose of nostalgia for Star Wars fans. However, when evaluated on its own merits, without the Star Wars branding, the flaws become much more apparent.

Whilst it might be the best option to play Star Wars: Bounty Hunter, it still doesn't excuse the faults of the original. I do adore the polished presentation but the platforming and combat feels stuck in time. The level design can contain great moments of verticality but the continue system can occasionally feel restrictive. As nice as the new controls can feel, it remains an authentic preservation of a fairly average game.

Whilst Aspyr have tried, Star Wars: Bounty Hunter is unfortunately too much of a relic to polish up to today’s standards. Jango Fett’s story may be a decent one, but not at the price of retreading mid-ground nostalgia.

This game is a huge steaming pile of garbage. The greedy developers are charging $20 for a remaster of a PS2 game. That's double the price of the original version that's available on PS Plus Premium. That is extremely expensive. The graphics are a joke. This isn't even a true remaster, it's a freaking port. It looks nearly the same as the original PS2 version. I guess the lighting was improved, the visuals look less blurry and it has better shadows. But that's about it. It also has a 16:9 aspect ratio but is it really on that format? Because the characters look a little too fat, or was it always like this? If this game is double the price of the PS2 classic, then I think it should double the quality. Otherwise, what's the extra $10 for? This should've been a free upgrade for existing owners. Even by $20 standards, this game does not hold up to the average $20 games of today. Just to be clear, my review is based on the remaster, not my thoughts on the original during the PS2 era. Come to think of it, I don't see anything good about this game; it's boring. The camera is still awful. The AI is still incredibly stupid, the enemies walk into pits and fall to their deaths. The textures make me want to puke. ● There is no multiplayer. So once you beat the story, there is literally not a reason to play this game again. Sure the original didn't have multiplayer, but there isn't a single rule dictating that they can't add multiplayer. Maybe if this game had multiplayer, I could've had fun and it would've justified the $20 price tag, but the developers were too cheap and lazy for multiplayer. Or how about improve the goofy physics? There are too many polygons and there are characters with their fingers stuck together, and you greedy devs want to charge $20 for this trash? This has to be some kind of joke, there's no way in hell this is serious. You are much better off getting the $10 version. Sure you may get something that looks a little more dim and blurry with a 4:3 aspect ratio, but it's not like the $20 version is any better. So basically the PS Plus version is the $10 burger, and the "remastered" version is that same burger for $20 but with cheese, it's pathetic. I don't recommend this game at all.