Star Wars: Bounty Hunter

Why Star Wars: Bounty Hunter got so many rereleases compared to other cult-favourites compared to Shadows of the Empire or The Phantom Menace video game is anyone's guess, but there is one reason this is the case: it's still fun to play, weird control scheme and all.

The story is relatively simple enough: you're Jango Fett and doing your thing, and that is bounty hunting. That changes when Count Dooku contacts Fett and wants him to acquire a force-sensitive target for Five-Million-Republic-Credits, and these events lead to the story of Star Wars: Episode II.

Star Wars: Bounty Hunter does what tie-in games should be: complementary releases that aren't beat-by-beat retreads of the movie it's based on, and instead expands the universe it's depicting.

In the seemingly endless tapestry of Star Wars video games, Bounty Hunter dared to take the franchise into a quasi-action-platformer emphasising gunplay, apprehending targets and gaining secrets in-level that unlocked goodies like a comic book and trading cards.

Bounty Hunter gets an 8/10 on the IMDb front. 4/5 stars. In a pre-Mandalorian world, this game was the best window into the world of Star Wars bounty hunting outside the movies or television shows. Still, the game is an important piece of Star Wars history.