this game deserves a solid sequel more than most star wars games.

The way the helmet cleared away the droid blood was SO COOL!

How I am gonna tell my kids that there was a time when General Grievous was a highly menacing figure?

I always loved Republic Commando simply because it really militarized Star Wars. What I mean by that is before, we only saw people shooting blaster from the hip, missing 90% of their shots, and getting cut down by lightsaber wielding force sensitives. It's kinda like what the reboot of Battlefront *could* have been like if they had used more influence from Battlefield. Professional soldiers, checking their corners, using cover, aiming down sights, and using small squad tactics to overcome numerically superior enemies... I'd love a remake of Republic Commando or a continuation to the story.

I always wanted Imperial Commando. Sad that it will never happen.

Was literally playing this game last week. This game is badass

This is one of the games he's covered that I actually grew up with. It was so cool back the day as like a Squad based FPS that played a lot like Halo. I wish more games like this had been made as a series. I still play this game like once a year.

Back to the "Friendly Fire" thing, if you shoot any team member repeatedly, the entire team will turn on you and shoot you down.

I recently re-played this game after so many years and I was surprised to find out that it is as good as I remembered it, although I found it a bit short, too bad it never had a sequel. I mean, that cliffhanger at the end did leave me a little upset for a while back in the day... And yes, I also reloaded the game multiple times just to snipe Grievous, it was just .... an irresistible thing to do.😊

It has never not held up. It's one of the best Star Wars games ever, and honestly it's a really great squad shooter too. I really do not understand the lack of sequel or remake. God this game would look great remade for today.

Ngl, that last mission on Geonosis has been one of the levels where I spent most adrenaline in my life. It got to the point where I reloaded in a earlier checkpoint to have more time before the explosion, and even then I struggled until I actually led my squad to a good stategic defense in the command center Anyway, I love that game.

For me it was the perfect tactical shooter in the star wars universe and gosh how good was the soundtrack there :O

Recently played this for the first time on ps4 and I loved it, it totally deserved a sequel! Delta squad had excellent banter, and playing as Boss leading the team was really fun! Thanks for making a video on this classic Flandrew! Form up Deltas, time to rearrange some architecture

"How good is it?" Me: Yes!

I've recently started a replay of this game and it's still awesome. Hard can still kick my ass. That being said a co op campaign would have been awesome.

i didnt grow up with it. I played it last year and loved it.

This game was teased to me from the 2003 Clone Wars Volume 2 disc which had a trailer for the game with even a playable demo for it, only on XBOX. Didn't have an Xbox had the PS2. Got a 360 but didn't even realize this was on the backwards compatible list until I got my XBONE and saw it was added when looking at Star Wars game. After a decade and half of being teased. I loved it, a bit short but there is no other Star Wars game like it and I wish we got the Imperial Commando sequel.

This game was so short! It only had three mission that were split into a few different sections.

Always thought the enemies felt too blaster spongey.

Delta are still my favorite clones. My friend group of are mostly just fans of the shows and movies, so i was the weirdo that got all giddy over Scorch’s Bad Batch appearances. I’m still hoping that fps that got announced a bit ago is a spiritual successor to the game.

You did it again!!! FDrew you rock man. I'll always support your channel since the beginning. Good job making this video. I know editing takes time.

Scorch from Delta Squad actually cameos in The Bad Batch. Clone Force 99 fight him in the TK Trooper blacksite. He was a formidable foe, and Clone Force 99 had to use multiple stun blasts just to take him down.

I have one strong memory with this game. Never played the full thing, but I once had a CD-ROM for a different game (no idea which now) that had the Republic Commando Demo on it. The Demo is the Tarfful mission from the very beggining until the scene you see Grievous, then it cuts to an ad for buying the full game. Seeing Grievous in the video intro, specially along with the memory of trying to snipe him, just hitted me like a truck! I need to play the full version now, hot dang...

This was easily among my favorite games when I got my original xbox.

I've always wondered if this game was the Star Wars response to Halo. The Geonosians remind me of Flood combat forms, the Super Battle droids are tough like the Elites, and the magnaguards rush to get close and fight you like the Brutes did. The main Clone rifle in this game reminded me of the Halo 1 assault rifle- big magazine size, low damage and not the greatest accuracy. The Shotgun was very satisfying to use. Still a fun game to play, if just a little short.

Replaying this now, the game is still ahead of it's time. The squad interactions are still unmatched. The squad management system is fantastic. This game was made in an era when companies cared about the qaulity of their products and it shows, it's still a fantastic game to play through.

This was perfect timing because I’ve had this game in my library just waiting to play it and was about to look up a video about it and BAM you came to the rescue! 😄👍

Finally decided to sub to your Patreon, I enjoy your content so much and supporting small creators feel way better than subbing to big creators. You deserve it dude!

I was in a mood after finishing the game's port to the switch (specifically looking for the upscaled versions of the unlockable featurettes), and came across your video. I'm just glad people after all these years are still talking about one of my favorite games of my childhood.

Imagine if they made a sequel or maybe an Imperial Commando game? But oh right, Disney doesn't know what to do with video games

I just recently played it for the first time a couple of months ago, I felt like as soon as i was getting into it the game ended

Fun fact: At some point early on in the game your clone advisor says something about "36's squad" being incapacitated, which is a reference to RC-1136 "Darman", one of the main characters from the Republic Commando novel series that was made to tie-into the game and would continue on for a few years afterward until it was unfortunately canceled, partially in part due to continuity changes from the '08 Clone Wars TV series. "DARMAN" is also the name of a cheat code that can be used in game, though I don't remember what it actually does.

Just played it for the first time this week. I loved it

I didn’t know there was a lively Mod scene, I’m gonna have to check that out! Thanks for another great video, dude.

This is by far my favorite Star Wars game and one of my favorite games of all time. Glad to see you covering it.

Unrivaled best HUD in a video game

I own this game on every platform it is available on, I don’t own all of the platforms. Best Star Wars game ever made.

One of the best licensed games ever made imo.

I got that game back when I was young, and both me and my brother had so much fun with it. Both playing the singleplayer and the multiplayer. I still play through that game once a year, even know I know what happens in the levels, I still LOVE it. Delta Squad is just so well written, it gives you the feel of both beeing a fighting unit and beeing a "family", and while they are the elite, they don't take stuff that seriously sometimes. Or lets say it like that, each member feels like a human, not like your usual video game charakters. That game brings back so much memories, just like the 2005 Battlefront 2, where my brother went on and made mods for until 2018. Id love to see a sequel to RC or even just a remake with better graphics. Knowing how to make games in both Unity and UE4/5, I even though about remaking a level of RC just for fun and again, to bring back memories.

I loved this game this one of the very few games I played over and over again. This needs a sequal asap!

Now we're asking the real questions thank you Flandrew!

Great video! 💙 I still wish a sequel would be released someday.

This was 1 of my favorite games when it 1st came out along side Halo and still replay it every now and then mainly for the nostalgia

I remember this very well! One of my favorite Star Wars game without Jedi.

Thanks Flandrew for this!!! I've never played but knew about it because I was so much into BATTLEFRONT.

7:35 the wookiees are beasts! Loved them

Before starting watching this, yes it does IMO. I just replayed this for thew first time in 20 or so years and it's sooo good. It's rare top see such a varried shotter even though it's just 3 long levels that is also quite the challange. Those super battle droid infinite spawners that you had to destroy was a b*, especially on the cruiser mission where it was CQC.

Incredible game! I can't believe they launched it the same year as BF2 and episode 3, that more than likely cannibalized its success. I sequel or remake today would be one of the most exciting Star Wars announcements I can think of hearing.

I've been debating whether to get this for switch for a while now. You've sold me.

The musical score for this game was INSANE for when it came out

Probably my favorite Star Wars game. Thanks for the review!

This will always occupy a place in my heart. Must have played through it 30 times or so as a teenager.

Man I remember when this game was announced i wanted it so bad but it only released on Xbox and PC and I think at the time I only had a GameCube. At least Jedi Outcast/Bounty Hunter/Rogue Squadron were on the GameCube! Loved those games growing up

This is still one of the best games I've ever played. I replay it almost every year, finished my 2023 replay yesterday and it still feels amazing.

This game deserve remaster!

It’s a bit of a difficult game but I’m playing it on Switch and it’s great!

I remember watching my first trailer for commando while scrolling through the bonus and extras in battlefront on my PS2

I loved this game so much growing up, the main ost of a chanting clone choir, the badass commando armor design, the wristblade leaving splashes of the enemies blood on your visor, the transformation of your rifle into different weapons, and the (what was mindblowing at the time) orders you'd give to your squad. what a game! I think what would have made it better is the main clone weapon feeling a little bit too weak, even against normal battle droids, it's more like tiny bullets instead of bigger blaster shots which would have changed the feeling of shooting droids, also shots should've left more of an impact on the droids. Compared to Halo (in which one of the most satisfying things to do is mow down hordes of grunts with both pistol and assult rifle) it just didn't compare in that satisfactory department. In fact just make the main weapon shoot like - the elites plasma rifle in Halo and the pistol - the grunts plasma gun.

Ther only thing I didnt like about this game is that it was too short for the fun i had.

I really loved this game! Singleplayer and Multiplayer!

hoping this means an original Battlefront episode (or 2 if it includes Battlefront II 2005), excellent work!

Got this game hour one when it got re-released on the ps4, one of the first games i got when i got a switch. Must've played it dozens of times, and i revisit it every other month or so. And with revisit i mean in particular the ghost ship chapter. I have that entire part of the game memorized.

Replayed this on my steamdeck and it was fantastic!

This was the first game I fought through on Hard mode when I was like 8. Took me many moons but it was so good I had to see it through.

I completely agree. I came back and played it again a few years ago and had a great time. Maybe its time to give it another go

Got this game when it came out on the PS4. I had read all the books beforehand. Republic Commando is amazing and holds up amazingly well

Game definitely deserved a sequel, too bad it was canned during the development of RC. Top 5 SW game imo

It wasn't mentioned, but the big droid control ship you go into is one of the ones in Episode 2 at the end, not the ones shot down, but the commandoes are mentioned to Yoda. This ties in to that.

I hope that Respawn's Star Wars FPS is set during The Clone Wars!

Karen Traviss did an excellent job with the tie-in novels. They are among my favorite Star Wars books!

The blood and gore was honestly such a badass feature from what I've seen (never got far enough to see much while playing), granted it's nothing like Doom but still. Hell, it seems like the dismemberment in The Force Unleashed 2 is more remembered (although it's frequently misattributed to the first game, which had none) but it's endlessly satisfying. Even just being able to decapitate and dismember the Battle Droids without blood (like in the films) would've made Battlefront more satisfying.

So mad we never got a sequel. I wanted to see how they saved Sev. Also introduced me to Ash from the end credits song “Clones”.

I picked up the modern port a couple years ago and honestly didn’t think it held up great. I hope the original two battlefront games could come to modern consoles sometime soon.

Fun fact, the battle of Kaashikk seen in the game happens mounths before the one seen in the movie (sans s the Clones are still in Phase 1). In the comics Republic set during the movie, it is said that « the Separatist are back on Kaashikk »

It completely holds up imo. Would love to see a sequel, maybe even in the form of a soft remake? Maybe show us what happened during those 1 year gaps between missions, and then transition into the early Imperial era that we see in TCW/Bad Batch. Would be a way to canonize certain events from the game/novel in the official timeline.

When I was like 13 I literally had a dream where I was exploring an abandoned store in the apocalypse and found a copy of Republic Commandos 2 and was devastated that I would never get to play it. Fast-forward 13 years and that dream is the closest I've ever gotten to seeing it

I literally completed this game a few days ago, i will admit though the ending was a bit abrupt for me and hated how we had to leave poor old sev.

seems like the next videos are going to be Knights of the Old Republic related, would love to hear your thoughts on those, since they pretty much are still the best SW games ever made.

I remember you had a light saber hidden in one of the vent shafts and it activated a voice line 👌

Years ago, even years before steam, I bought a collection of sw games, mainly because of empire at war which I wanted to play, because of the RTS setting I enjoyed back then. I wasnt aware of the gems KOTOR and Republic commandos in the collection until a bit later. I was hooked by both the moment I started them!

Classic Flandrew W

For me this game is very special. When I was 13 my schoolteacher sent me to clean some old trash kept in one of the school storage rooms and almond old broken chairs and dusty textbooks I have found a huge plastic bag full of video games DVDs!!! None of the teachers knew where this bag came from and why it was stored there but me and a few of my friends were allowed to take home everything from that bag. Most of the games were trash but among others there was a DVD of REPUBLIC COMMANDO. I was a huge star wars fan so I was very hyped to try it out. And boy oh boy it was a cool time playing it for the first time. I was SO immersed, so scared of the spooky empty star destroyer corridors , so excited to find a lightsaber easter egg. It was a blast!!!

A bloody shame this great yet short game never got a true endgame in the Legends continuity, even if the sequel could have been in comic book miniseries form. Sure, we got the Disney Canon iterations shown in The Clone Wars 2008 and The Bad Batch, but they're not exactly the same characters in terms of depth and even voices.

Yes. An absolute legend in the Star Wars series and one of my all time favorite squad shooters. I've never played anything like it. More military style combat games should take note and expand on the master ideas implemented in this game.

I remember finishing this game, still own the same copy from when it was first released.

This was an amazing game! It reminded me of Halo but better due to the Star Wars story.Great video,Flandrew! 😁

As someone whos kinda grown less and less interested in the classic jedi vs sith, lightsabers and the force and whatnot I fondly rember this game if nothing else because it was a case of playing something focused on the more "mundane" part of the universe (similar reason I very much enjoyed that bounty hunter game with Jango Fett)

Republic Commando really shines as a solid hybrid of FPS and Tactical Squad Shooter. The tactical squad element is easy to understand and you can issue commands while gunning (stay immersed in the FPS fantasy). It was Star Wars RB6 Vegas years before RB6 Vegas was even a thing. It was a great SW game and it did it without lightsabers or Force powers.

Babe, wake up, new flandrew video just dropped!

Honestly, the bullet-spongy enemies, the squad AI being what it is, the lack of a proper overarching storyline between the missions, and the way the game just suddenly ends when you think you are going to go in and rescue Sev or see the major battles of Episode 3 are pretty big negatives for me. But I still really like the game and remember it fondly, and always hoped a sequel would come out. Also, this is one of those games that I really think would be awesome in VR, the sense of immersion is great even on flatscreen.

I remember there’s some shielded, spider droids that were really tough to beat.

This is one of the games of my early teenage years. I played a fuckton of the multiplayer, and there was actually quite a skill gap between good players and very good ones. Of course, by today standards it's dull and basic, but at the time, the gameplay was "deep" enough to give players many ways to get better. For example, I remember that throwing grenades was propulsed to an art form. It could one shot anyone if used well, so taking advantage of the bounces possible and mastering this mechanic was important to become proficient. Mastering the side jumps were also very important. (Double tapping a direction made you jump, it was only possible in MP games). Also, there was a community of modders that were adding maps. You had to download them and manually put them in the game files. They helped extend the play time on multiplayer for a lot of people back then. I also remember that you could bind messages to a keyboard key, in order to spam phrases or whatnot. I remember the absolute mayhem it used to be when playing 16 vs 16, in very tiny maps. A server was running a 32 slots server of team deathmatch. No map was excluded. On these small maps, it was chaos. 😂 With a friend we created a clan and we had a forum and all. I was 12 to 15. Anyway, I must have sank around a thousand hours or more into it, good times. PS: you don't reload ever, do you ? :p

The super battle droids were absolutely terrifying in this game, way taller than I expected too

As a huge Star Wars fan, this was one of my favorite games as a kid! 🤘😆

Lmao. The friendly fire bit was 100% me as a kid.

You should check out the rest of the clone wars tie in games, they’re a real mixed bag of quality

I still remember when i first saw the game back in 2005: Man, this games graphics look amazing.

I remember playing this game on my Xbox 360. This one was so hard for young little me and so fun.

This game went so hard and give you the hardest ending I and manny wanna go back for our squad mate

Wow, Rebel Commando sounds like it would have an awesome plot arch with Sev joining the Rebel alliance but his team working for the Imperials! I had no idea that there were sequels in works at any point! I replayed this game recently on a steam deck and have to say it's probably the coolest game to play on deck because the graphics look good and the battery life is through the roof!