Star Wars: Republic Commando (XBox | PC)

That would be cool. I've always liked tactical and realistic shooters, and a SW themed one would be great.

There might be jedi in the game, but you probably won't play as one ever. I could imagine one helping out your squad in some situations and it wouldn't detract from the game.

 

Good thought! Didn't think of that. Hopefully you do something besides shoot Geonosians in this game. Something along the lines of capturing key Seperatist leaders or something to that effect.

 

Bah, LEC and Microsoft didn't like my proposal:

Obi-Wan Gear Solid: Geonosis Stealth Action

 

I sent this exact same idea to Lucas arts in 2001. This is exactly the same as the single player troopers mod. Even down to the term gritty realism. I have spoken about this idea on many occasions to epic and Lucas arts over the past 2 and a half years.

you can actually see the multiplayer version in progress on our mod site here and check out the pics here. very sad stuff from lcuas.

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=161298

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=161295

Patrick Fitzsimons

Troopers project lead.

http://www.troopers.jolt.co.uk/

Troopers - emails extract and original game design concept doc.

I thought of the four most popular parts to a game, Driving, Team combat\Action, Gritty realism of today (real world games such as medal of honor) and star wars and came up with Troopers.

Troopers will be a single\multiplayer first person Action\Team Combat game for the pc that also includes the use of vehicles. Single player will also involve team combat (control of four troopers in your unit).
Set in the star wars universe at the beginning and during the battles between the republic (rebel alliance) and the empire. (Just before the original star wars trilogy and continuing through it). Single\Multiplayer will use weapons, characters and vehicles from the star wars universe, all of which will keep there characteristics from the films and thus make the game an extension of the best loved elements of the films. The sci-fi fantasy element will be blended with the gritty realism and style of such films as saving private Ryan.

Notes

This would be the first of a trilogy that would take you from the fall of the republic to the return of the jedi.

 

These are ARC Troopers right? They're amazing.

 

"This looks like Aliens with a Clonetrooper helmet. Pass."

Not only that, but it seems to be a knockoff of Starcraft: Ghost, except elite clonetroopers = ghosts , geonosians = zerg.

I'll probably end up playing this anyway, I'm a sucker for Star Wars ...

 

Looks pretty good to me! Good thing It's for PC, otherwise I'd never be able to play it...not that I can run it anyway on my machine

 

'I hate to be negative but this unoriginal concept doesn't do anything at all for me. Aren't there enough gritty, violent FPS games *outside* the Star Wars universe? This looks like Aliens with a Clonetrooper helmet. Pass.'

I would have loved a new X-Wing game. Oh well, the Larry Holland flight sim and Rebel Strike will have to do!

you want a something original but you want another X-wing game I think this game was going to rock

 

I'm sure that Geonosians are far from the only enemies in the game.

I'm certainly looking forward to it. Multiplayer could be great.

 

This game looks awesome. I'm soo glad I have an xbox becuase my comp probably won't handle it. And it will most likely come out on xbox a few months before PC like KOTOR is supposed to. If it ever comes out.

 

This could possibly be one of the best SW games every released...or an absolute disaster.

In the world of tactical games, there are two extremes. On one hand, you have the "hardcore" tactical games like Ghost Recon or Rainbow Six; on the other, you have "lite" tactical games like the Delta Force series. As much as I'd like LEC to go fully in the direction of the Tom Clancy games, I doubt this would happen as it would alienate a substantial audience due to its difficulty - I'm guessing we'd get something in between with elements from both subgenres. This course of action would lead to the success that I mentioned.
The failure would be if they decided to proceed along the lines of the Star Trek Elite Force way of doing things - BLECH!!

I'm guessing you'd probably play as an ARC (Advanced Recon Clone) trooper; maybe even as "Alpha" - the ARC trooper from the comic book series.

I've gotta admit that this has really piqued my interest!!!

 

yea alpha rocks to bad we have to wait a year I wished they would tell you about these things later to make the wait more bearable *cough galaxies cough*

 

2nd quest I think its after the defense of kamino because the clonwars events go in the order of their release so they should be arc troopers

 

but they are blue they just seem to be missing the kilts but perhaps its because their armor was modified for the specific mission

 

this game will rock but whats up with plo_kooms signuture

 

I'd love to see some actual in-engine screenies soon...

 

yea that would be cool any updates from the mini-site at lucas entertanment

 

What I find interesting is this is the first SW game in quite a while (probably since GBG) that is being done in-house at LucasArts, even though they're using an existing engine.

I think this game is in real early development and we won't see in-game screenshots for a while yet.

There are so many other character driven (as opposed to flight sim or strategy) SW games coming out soom -> Galaxies, KOTOR, Jedi Academy that they'll probably wait until those 3 are released before stepping up the promotion of Republic Commando.

 

ah man. But we can still speculize about about plot points and gameplay and such.

 

We could also probably use this time to brush up on our spelling skills too!!!




Anyways, good point JP, I never thought of that. But, IMO, the only thing about LucasArts games that has suffered when they do them in house are the graphics/models/etc. And since they're using an available engine already, I'm really looking forward to it.


This is the first FPS since Dark Forces without a Jedi as the main character... Thank goodness.

 

hay i tak dat in2 ofence i kan sow spel

 

PC baby o yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

 

The quality of this thread amazes me.