Star Wars: Republic Commando

Star Wars: Republic Commando is a first-person shooter Star Wars computer and video game, released in the US on March 1, 2005. It was developed and published by LucasArts for the Windows and Microsoft Xbox platforms. The game uses the "Unreal Engine" developed by Epic Games.

Synopsis
Star Wars: Republic Commando follows the tale of 'Delta Squad', an elite group of clone commandos, through three missions during the Clone Wars. Trained in squads of four by Mandalorian mercenaries such as Walon Vau and Kal Skirata, the commandos were more capable than their rank-and-file clone brethren, having undergone live-fire training as opposed to mere computerized simulations. All clone commandos were proficient with a large variety of weapons, computer systems, and demolitions equipment.

The game covers Delta Squad’s activities in three locations, the planet Geonosis, a derelict Acclamator I-class assault ship designated the Prosecutor, and the planet Kashyyyk. In each location, the player leads the squad through a series of objectives while battling against enemy forces ranging from droids to Trandoshans. The player is assisted throughout the game by a clone adviser designated CC-01/425 who updates mission objectives as each level progresses.

The game helps to bridge the gap between Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones and Star Wars Episode III:  Revenge of the Sith. The developers state that if the novels and movies are seen from the point of view of the Jedi, then Republic Commando is from the point of view of the troops.

Soundtrack
Republic Commando is notable for being the first entry in the official Star Wars game to feature licensed music. The song "Clones," performed by the band Ash, is played when the credits roll. Ash are known for their Star Wars fandom; their debut album was entitled 1977, and contained numerous Star Wars references.

The main bulk of the soundtrack is a break from convention of previous Star Wars games that use abridged versions of John Williams' original score, instead using a combination of Williams' music and new music composed by Jesse Harlin. This new music takes on a high-paced, gritty and vocal theme to the traditional Star Wars score, helping to immerse the player even more in the game.

The Mandalorian battle song Vode An (Brothers All) is also heard throughout several parts of the game, including the main menu and several battle sequences.

Cast

 * RC-1138 (Delta Three-Eight or "Boss"), voiced by Temuera Morrison
 * RC-1140 (Delta Four-Oh or "Fixer"), voiced by Andrew Chaikin
 * RC-1207 (Delta Oh-Seven or "Sev"), voiced by Jonathan Cook
 * RC-1262 (Delta Six-Two or "Scorch"), voiced by Raphael Sbarge
 * Taun We, RAS Ship Computer, voiced by Rena Owen
 * Trandoshans, Trando Multi-player announcer, Clone trooper sergeant, Republic voices, Radio chatter voiced by David W. Collins
 * Automated ship voice, Clone Troopers, Clone trooper lieutenant, Gunship pilot voiced by Roger L. Jackson
 * Yoda, Captain Talbot, Trandoshan slaver #2 voiced by Tom Kane
 * Battle droid, Super battle droid voiced by Clint Young

Crew

 * Director&mdash;Tim Longo
 * Writers&mdash;Ryan Kaufman, Michael Stemmle, John A. Hancock, Justin Lambros

Characters



 * 35
 * Clone advisor CC-01/425
 * Delta Squad
 * RC-1138 Boss
 * RC-1140 Fixer
 * RC-1207 Sev
 * RC-1262 Scorch
 * Sun Fac
 * Jango Fett
 * General Grievous
 * Captain Martz
 * RC-1136
 * Captain Talbot
 * Tarfful
 * Unidentified clone trooper
 * Walon Vau
 * Taun We
 * Mace Windu
 * Yoda

Creatures

 * Aiwha
 * Gurrcat
 * Jungle worrt
 * Kreetle
 * Mynock
 * Nerf
 * Phinda

Droid models

 * Advanced dwarf spider droid
 * B1 battle droid
 * B2 super battle droid
 * Droideka
 * GNK power droid
 * IG-100 MagnaGuard
 * MSE-series
 * OG-9 homing spider droid
 * Prowler 1000 exploration droid
 * R2-series astromech droid
 * R5-series astromech droid
 * Types of the Scavenger droid

Events

 * Clone Wars
 * Battle of Geonosis
 * Raid on the Core Ship
 * Battle of Kashyyyk
 * Mission to the Chaykin Cluster
 * Mission to Kashyyyk

Locations

 * Chaykin cluster
 * Corbantis system
 * Corellian sector
 * Corellia
 * Coruscant
 * Geonosis
 * Geonosian catacombs
 * Geonosis droid foundries
 * Petranaki arena
 * Kamino
 * Tipoca City
 * Tipoca City Military Complex
 * Kashyyyk
 * Kachirho
 * Kachirho Bridge

Organizations and titles

 * Captain
 * Confederacy of Independent Systems
 * Commerce Guild
 * Techno Union
 * Trade Federation
 * Trandoshan slavers
 * Trandoshan Heavy assault mercenaries
 * Trandoshan mercenaries
 * Galactic Republic
 * Grand Army of the Republic
 * Clone advisor
 * Clone commandos
 * Delta Squad
 * Theta Squad
 * Clone troopers
 * Clone trooper lieutenant
 * Clone trooper pilot
 * Clone trooper sergeant
 * Jedi General
 * General
 * Mandalorian Supercommando
 * Sergeant
 * Slicer
 * Sniper
 * Wookiee Chieftain

Sentient species

 * Geonosian
 * Geonosian warriors
 * Geonosian Elites
 * Human
 * Kaleesh
 * Kaminoan
 * Trandoshan
 * Wookiee
 * Yoda's species

Vehicles and vessels

 * 74-Z speeder bike
 * Acclamator I-class assault ship
 * Prosecutor
 * Arrestor
 * All Terrain Tactical Enforcer
 * Belbullab-22 starfighter
 * Soulless One
 * CR25 troop carrier
 * Droid starfighter
 * Low Altitude Assault Transport/infantry
 * Harken
 * Lucrehulk-class battleship
 * Lucrehulk-class Core Ship
 * Nantex-class territorial defense starfighter
 * Observation Ship
 * Recusant-class light destroyer
 * Separatist cruiser
 * Self-Propelled Heavy Artillery
 * Trandoshan dropship
 * V-19 Torrent starfighter
 * Wookiee dropship

Confederacy Weapons

 * E-5 blaster rifle
 * Electrostaff

Republic Weapons

 * DC-15A blaster rifle (Unusable by the Commandos of Delta Squad)
 * DC-15S blaster (Unusable by the Commandos of Delta Squad)
 * DC-15s Side Arm Blaster
 * DC-17m Interchangeable Weapons System (With all three configurations)
 * Retractable Knuckle plate vibro blade
 * Lightsaber (Unusable by the Commandos of Delta Squad)

Geonosian Weapons

 * Geonosian Elite Beam Weapon
 * Geonosian Force Pike (Unusable by the Commandos of Delta Squad)

Trandoshan Weapons

 * Accelerated Charged Particle Array Gun
 * Accelerated Charged Particle Repeater Gun
 * Heavy Accelerated Charged Particle Repeater Gun
 * LJ-50 Concussion Rifle
 * Trandoshan warrior's blade (Unusable by the Commandos of Delta Squad)

Wookiee Weapons

 * Bowcaster
 * Wookiee Guided Rocket Launcher

Detonators/Grenades

 * Detonation pack
 * EMP grenade
 * Flash-bang grenade
 * Improvised explosive device
 * Proximity mine
 * Sonic Detonator
 * Thermal Detonators

Turrets

 * Anti-aircraft gun
 * Composite-beam laser turret
 * EWHB-12 heavy repeating blaster
 * LR1K sonic cannon
 * Mass-driver cannon
 * Trandoshan rocket turret
 * Turbolaser
 * Wookiee rocket turret
 * Wookiee Quadrail Launcher

Other technologies

 * 57C holocam
 * B1 battle droid dispenser
 * B2 battle droid dispenser
 * Bacta healing station
 * Clone trooper learning helmet
 * Cloning
 * Droideka dispenser
 * Flash training
 * Hologram
 * Holoprojector
 * Kamino cloning chamber
 * Jetpack
 * T-visor

Miscellaneous

 * Aurebesh
 * Bacta
 * Huttese
 * Katarn-class commando armor
 * Mando'a
 * Night Ops Armor
 * Phase I clone trooper armor
 * Phinda resin
 * Shyriiwook
 * Slavery
 * Wroshyr tree

Flaws
Some key differences between what is seen in the game and in the films are that all of the B1 battle droids have metallic-gray armor plating (which appears to be rusty). They also have oversized circular cybernetic eyes instead of black optical sensors. Also some species have had changes made on their physical structure. The Wookiees and the Geonosians, for example, are taller than normal. The Geonosians also look more mechanical than as they are portrayed in the films. However, some of them are classified as Geonosian elites&mdash;who can belong to a different subspecies. The Trandoshans are, unlike the other species in the game, not taller, but shorter than is the norm in other media. Most are short and stocky to the point of looking overweight. They bear a stronger resemblance to Barabels. This is explained by Fixer when he says that they are lazy because they are slavers.

The game's main menu screen features scrolling text written in the Aurebesh font. Similar to some of the Aurebesh texts in Galactic Battlegrounds, the selection is totally unrelated to Star Wars. When translated, the text reads: "Looking forward to hanging out—and hearing more about trip back home I‘ll be in PA for july 4th bbq-wanna do that again? 15 years later? Otherwise I’m not sure if I’ll be back in city on Monday or stay down there since I do have that day off…let me know how things unfold for you"

When the player is incapacitated, the right side of the HUD shows a scrolling Aurebesh-text, that repeats until the Delta 38 is revived by one of his squadmates. Translated, it reads: “Based on our / revised project / schedule, and / after talking / with chris, / its apparent tha / t it would be good / for the project / if I delayed my / upcoming vacation / by a week. Thus, / I will be gone from / Monday, Septemb / er 20th / for 3 weeks, / and will return / on Monday, / October 11th. / However, I will / still be out on / riday, September / 10th, as my / parents are takin / g a road trip acro / ss the country / The new / objective elipse / thing makes it / really hard to / see. It’s a major / imparment to comb / I know we / ve revisited / it a ton of times / but it just / blocks out too / much of the playe / ’s view to be he / lpful. I’d sugge / st either a halo / style 3d world / position indicator / or a 2d indicato / at the top of the” (the /’s replace the original line breaks, missing letters are as in the original text). It can be speculated that, because they needed something to appear on the HUD, the programmers just took random texts out of internal memos or e-mails and translated them to Aurebesh.

When the Droid Control Ship is destroyed, the Super Battle Droids should not have been deactivated. The Super Battle Droids were designed to not depend on a Droid Control Ship.

When on Geonosis the game shows a clone trooper getting bacta from a bacta dispenser. But in the mission of the Chaykin Cluster, Boss, the main character, says that only commandos have a bacta processing implant that allows them to absorb the bacta from a dispenser.

In the chapter Extreme Prejudice,the spider droid at the end still registers as an enemy after Gunship Harken destroys it, as you can tell Scorch to focus fire on it after it collapses.

In the final level when you hear how Sev is apparently under fire and being overwhelmed, if you attach the sniper scope and look over to the left, you can see Sev in his turret, just sitting there with no enemies around him at all.

Trivia
The main character's number in the game is 1138. This is paying tribute to one of George Lucas's pre-Star Wars projects, THX 1138.

There are several references to the original trilogy quotes. When you approach B1 battle droids, Scorch says "Ah! These must be the droids we're looking for!" and "Look sir, droids.", and when you approach the Core Ship, Sev says "Look at the size of that thing", both references to A New Hope. When Boss is pointing his weapon at a lightsaber, he says, "An elegant weapon for a more civilized time, eh? Well guess what? Times have changed!" is another reference to "A New Hope."

If playing online and on the ghostship level you can find a lightsaber under the stairs of the republic base by where the flag is in CTF.

Another lightsaber can also be found on the ship in campaign mode when the player has not yet regrouped with his squad. The second time the player has to burst away a barricade, he can turn right and crouch through a little tunnel. If he then turns right again, he will encounter a dead clone trooper and the lightsaber. This also triggers a comment by 38 on Obi-Wan description of a lightsaber in episode IV as a "noble weapon of a more civilized age."

Several holograms in the game display Aurebesh text which reads "I hate computers so much"

The game features high levels of violence, an uncommon occurrence in a Star Wars game. For example: when the player punches an enemy to death or kills them any other way when they're at very close range, it (the enemy) essentially spills blood (or oil in the case of droids) over the clone commando's helmet visor, which subsequently cleans itself automatically. The Geonosians (having the most violent death graphical sequences of organic enemies) can explode if enough damage is dealt. Another example of heavy violence is that the player can venture through a Geonosian birthing chamber and kill Geonosian infants. Also, if a player shoots his Wookiee allies, they bleed red blood. This violence is not only limited to alien species, but extends to Humans as well (as the clones are Humans). This is more apparent in the Acclamator-class assault ship raid, where at least in two sites of the ship some clone troopers are torn apart with a little spill of blood near them. Due to this, it was given the equivalent of an M rating in Germany due to the fact that Germany has less tolerance for blood in games.

On the second part of the level "Attack of the Clones," during the ride down the booby trapped elevator, a piano remix of the Imperial Marsh can sometimes be heard.

The Chaykin Cluster could be named after Andrew Chaikin, the man who voices "Fixer".

A map editor was released with one of the patches to Republic Commando. It uses the Unreal engine, UnrealEd.