{"id":1679,"date":"2012-11-09T13:19:30","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T13:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/?p=1679"},"modified":"2012-11-09T13:38:58","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T13:38:58","slug":"my-top-100-50-star-wars-bounty-hunter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/?p=1679","title":{"rendered":"My Top 100: #50 &#8211; Star Wars: Bounty Hunter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1688\" style=\"width: 363px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Star_Wars_Bounty_Hunter_PS2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1688\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1688\" title=\"Star_Wars_Bounty_Hunter_PS2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Star_Wars_Bounty_Hunter_PS2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"353\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Star_Wars_Bounty_Hunter_PS2.jpg 353w, https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Star_Wars_Bounty_Hunter_PS2-211x300.jpg 211w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 353px) 100vw, 353px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1688\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2002 &#8211; LucasArts (PlayStation 2, GameCube)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With\u00a0all the demand for a TV series or video game\u00a0based on the life of the morally ambiguous Boba Fett character,\u00a0I&#8217;m kinda\u00a0wondering why many people forgot about\u00a0poor old Jango.<\/p>\n<p>Why did people\u00a0like\u00a0Boba Fett so much, anyway?\u00a0 I&#8217;m the biggest <em>Star Wars <\/em>fanboy I know, and I&#8217;ve never really understood why he was so popular.\u00a0 Sure, his helmet was cool, but aside from it being green (my favourite colour, by the way), he was just a glorified stormtrooper.\u00a0 He barely had any lines, none of them particularly interesting, and he &#8220;dies&#8221; in the lamest way possible.<\/p>\n<p>And another thing; were those pyjamas with armor plates on them?<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, though I didn&#8217;t flat out dislike Boba Fett, I didn&#8217;t particularly care about him as a character.\u00a0 His story in the Expanded Universe is cool, but I wouldn&#8217;t go out of my way to read a novel about him, or anything.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Jango&#8230;\u00a0 that&#8217;s a different story.\u00a0 I know the prequels were generally weaker than the originals, but Jango was badass.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wgTDnMARBgA\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you can look beyond the fact that there now\u00a0seem to be\u00a0New Zealanders in the <em>Star Wars <\/em>universe, the introduction of Jango Fett in <em>Attack of the Clones <\/em>is almost the coolest thing about the whole prequel trilogy (everything going to crap at the end of <em>Episode III <\/em>being the coolest).\u00a0 Much the same as with Boba in <em>Empire<\/em>, Jango had that air of mystery about him.\u00a0 Unlike Boba, however,\u00a0dear ol&#8217; dad\u00a0knew how to bust a move; it took a hell of a lot more to do him in than a clumsy, half-blind guy waving an amphistaff around.<\/p>\n<p><em>Star Wars: Bounty Hunter <\/em>explores how Jango Fett becomes the template for the clones of the Grand Army of the Republic.\u00a0 Count Dooku (I accidentally typed &#8220;Dookie&#8221; three times, just now) has put some feelers out there, looking to see who was up to the task of tracking down a rogue apprentice of his.\u00a0 You travel to a bunch of places you&#8217;ve probably heard of, following leads, talking to shady characters, and slowly tracking down Jedi Komari Vosa as though on some\u00a0cross-galaxy scavenger hunt.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a third person shooter that takes full advantage of Jango&#8217;s wide array of weapons and gadgets.\u00a0 From his trusty jetpack to the poison darts seen in <em>Episode II<\/em>, you&#8217;ll get to make use of some pretty nifty items along the way.\u00a0 The shooting has been labeled as repetitive by some online reviews I&#8217;ve seen, but I see no problem with that.\u00a0 I&#8217;d compare it to one of those crazy action shooters like <em>Serious Sam<\/em>&#8230;\u00a0 there aren&#8217;t as many enemies as that, but you&#8217;ll find yourself hitting the fire button as quickly as you can to get out of sticky situations.\u00a0 I actually find it quite intense, and never dull.<\/p>\n<p>In retrospect, some of the platforming elements remind me a bit of the <em>Uncharted<\/em> games.\u00a0 There&#8217;s quite a bit of dangling from ledges, and you get to scale big buildings and cliffs with the help of your trusty jetpack.<\/p>\n<p>Throw in some collectable bounties, lots of bonuses for those who like to look around, and you&#8217;ve got a game tailor-made for the fanboy in you.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and in terms of memories gathered\u00a0from this game,\u00a0there aren&#8217;t\u00a0that many that are\u00a0interesting or unique.\u00a0 I just recall skipping class at University, waiting for\u00a0a work shift at my new job\u00a0to start, talking\u00a0about the\u00a0<em>Star Wars<\/em> Expanded Universe with\u00a0my\u00a0friend Phil&#8230;\u00a0 that&#8217;s it.\u00a0 Yay.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1689\" style=\"width: 680px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/MontrossFullArmor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1689\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1689\" title=\"MontrossFullArmor\" src=\"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/MontrossFullArmor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/MontrossFullArmor.jpg 670w, https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/MontrossFullArmor-300x232.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1689\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is Montross, Jango&#8217;s rival&#8230; I believe Mandalorian translates to &#8220;identical armor, different colour&#8221;.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; With\u00a0all the demand for a TV series or video game\u00a0based on the life of the morally ambiguous Boba Fett character,\u00a0I&#8217;m kinda\u00a0wondering why many people forgot about\u00a0poor old Jango. Why did people\u00a0like\u00a0Boba Fett so much, anyway?\u00a0 I&#8217;m the&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/?p=1679\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,28,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-playstation-2","category-star-wars","category-top-100"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1694,"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions\/1694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}