Star Wars Republic Commando - A series that never was

[@TheSaltFactory]

Thanks for the patience on this one, I've been busier IRL than expected. Should be looking at either The Witcher 3 DLC or Mass Effect Andromeda next. If you're interested in trying out Factor, use code SALT50 to get 50% off your first Factor box at bit.ly/3ZkMIBi

[@MystaHector]

I’ll be still patiently waiting for the very first Deus Ex 😁

[@mre1561]

Welcome back Salt

[@jackashmore]

Andromeda would be awesome just restarted the trilogy

[@HasanBabasi]

Better be like 8 hours 😡

[@PuellaMagiHomuraAkemi]

24:20 Or you just take cover? It was never an issue for me and from your footage your cover wasn't even covering you You should also tell people to apply a fix for resolution and doing a hex edit for FOV. (Dont worry its very easy) also nobody cares how something is pronounced, dont be so nerdy.

[@jakekillify]

Salt, Boss is not British, he's voiced by Temura Morrison, you know the guy who voiced Jango fett and all the clones in the movies? He's from New Zealand.

[@haldir255]

I had to do an auditory double take when he said "british".

[@Billyasbob]

As an Australian, I find it wild the amount of americans that think NZ or AUS are British @@haldir255

[@lukeholden2501]

im came to the comments to make sure i wasnt the only one who got mad he said british. the absolute disrespect to the actor. lol

[@mups4016]

​@@lukeholden2501Arr sound same

[@ErroneousLobster]

​​@@lukeholden2501Yes this, I feel cleansed knowing I am not alone. And thank you for the excellent video Salt, we know you mean no insult

[@twistedshrimp8239]

Temuera Morrison voices Boss, he's Jango Fett's actor and he also voices all the clones in the prequels. So technically every clone should sound like him, but I believe it was a choice to give your squad mates more personality and being able to differentiate between them.

[@MagikarpPower]

it came from george lucas himself iirc

[@dac5782]

Funny you mention that, in earlier builds of the game, Morrison was the only voice actor, however the playtesters got confused who was talking while playing, which lead to the rest of Delta Squad with the other clones having different voice actors. I believe that, as far as the canonical limbo the game is in is concerned, they all have the same voice; it's different in the game because video game.

[@CalamityCain]

Which shows how great of a talent Dee Bradley Baker really is. Temuera Morrison is great, no question, but Baker's Performances as the clones is just leagues above his voice acting skills.

[@Mediocre_Gaming1917]

One of the clones (Scorch, I think) jokes about this, he says something like "hey if we're all clones, how come we have different voices?"

[@thomgwynne]

Also important to note that his accent is not British in the slightest.

[@DagVag]

I always interpreted each commandos voice as what they sound like to their brothers. To us watching and the Jedi around them, they all sound the same, but while we’re playing as Boss, each brother has a remarkably unique voice.

[@iceicebabie]

Nice! I also simply chalk it up to recognition being a huge deal. Imagine if all 4 squad members sounded literally identical or almost exactly the same. It would get old.... Fast!!

[@existential_narwal9257]

​​@@iceicebabieive watched clone wars and i disagree

[@the5thlegionSW]

@@existential_narwal9257 It wouldn’t be the same though. Yeah in the clone wars you always know who’s speaking, but that’s because it’s a show not a game. If you were blasting at bugs whilst hearing a voice talk, you wouldn’t know who’s who without them having diffrent VA and the personalities of these characters are a focus of the game

[@neutchain7838]

Huge shout out to Dee Bradley Baker. There is a scene with 6 different clones and all sounds distinctively different. Not really the tone but they way they talk, their mannerisms, the way they articulate. Absolutely amazing work super talented voice actor and clearly the master of his act. He gave personality to the clones and no small thanks to him, when I rewatch the movies I look at the clones in a very different way then I did before.

[@spartanx9293]

7:44 Republic commando Is a console game their are practical limitations

[@titanjakob1056]

An elegant game for a more civilized time Guess what times have changed

[@Bronasaxon]

For the worse I would say. The times, that is.

[@xaikken]

Such a great video game quote

[@drekwilliamton5830]

It was too good for this world 😔

[@otakon17]

6:33 you're an *elite* Republic Commando with expensive, specialist gear and more expanded training and conditioning. That guy was a "standard" Clone Trooper; literally disposable according to many(some Jedi included). That's the difference.

[@ScarlettR61]

And people wonder why the clones began to hate the Jedi (in legends mostly)

[@Peef_Spogdar]

Yeah and he literally mentioned the “or if we die” line seconds before, so him getting stuck on that was kinda confusing.

[@Jolis_Parsec]

@ScarlettR61 They knew Disney would come along and turn the series into hot garbage if the Jedi were still around, so this was the clones trying to save Star Wars from the Rat Shack’s clutches.

[@michaellane5381]

​@@Jolis_Parsecthis was made way before Disney.

[@TheBigBenji890]

This was far and away one of the greatest games I've ever played, and the fact that we never got more games is damn near criminal.

[@idontwantahandlethough]

Hell yeah! I rented it at Blockbuster (lol what a sentence) and ended up buying it because it was just so damn cool! I absolutely LOVED the way it made you feel like part of a team with your squadmates

[@Ay-xq7mj]

The issue is its a copy of previous squad style shooters. The property is good but a dev like valve would be great remaking it/sequel.

[@jordand5555]

Now we just get a list of the latest lucasarts cancellations every 3-6 months. Bahahahaha

[@irishijo1]

​@@Ay-xq7mjYou want Nightdive, not Valve for remaster/remakes

[@xxvaltielxx1789]

And now we have SW games getting axed left and right

[@ChadLePettis]

Sev is still out there, hunting Sepratists, waiting to reunite with Delta Squad. Such a great game

[@napiersh1]

Never forget.

[@michaellane5381]

Fun fact, if you kill the cruiser at Sev's position(fire with your turret at the end, walk back and shoot down with. Everything you have, the pistol eventually works) you still cannot see what happens to him, he just says his lines in the turret/disappears.

[@xaikken]

@@michaellane5381those of us who tried for hours to save him 😂

[@TheRecklessMetalhead]

That cliffhanger😭

[@HolyknightVader999]

The series that should have been........ Imagine a Republic Commando game taking place during Order 66.

[@ChrisRedfieldsbloodline]

Jedi youngling mini-boss battle, complete with health bar. 😎

[@HolyknightVader999]

@@ChrisRedfieldsbloodline Except since you're not Anakin, they can actually kill you. =D

[@otakon17]

Final mission with a split decision of going through with it or fighting against your "brothers".

[@HolyknightVader999]

@@otakon17 There you go.

[@eduardoalcazar2600]

That was the plan. Imperial Commando was planned as a sequel while Republic Commando was still being developed, that's why RC ended on a cliffhanger about the squad. It was unfortunately cancelled after RCs poor market performance. Idk why Salt didn't look that info up, it's pretty widely known among RC fans

[@spiceywolf15]

I love salt's mention of their personalities changing because of who they trained under cause... thats kind of exactly what happened if you read the republic commando books. All the men who trained the commandos instilled their own beliefs and values into the clones. Good call salt.

[@victorwagner2423]

Except not really in this case as all deltas were trained by Walon Wau and RCs had 2 trainers total anyway. It's just that from the perspective of the clone, two of their brothers speaking couldn't be more distinct.

[@andrewmeyer3599]

In this case it was only for the player to be able to determine who's talking. Every Commando being voiced by Temeura would get confusing

[@Supercohboy]

ARCs and Commandos were a slight offshoot of the Clone Trooper program, this is explained in interviews for the games and is gone into much greater detail in the Republic Commando books. I can't remember the exact wording, but Commando/ARCs were genetically slightly different from their standard brothers and their DNA was allowed to mutate slightly/differentiate on top of that, and this combined with their unique training regimen led to them acting and sounding differently from the other clones. The elite mercs training the spec-ops clones encouraged them to develop their own personalities too iirc, and having a bunch of violent angry men as your mentors leads to trauma and therefore a mix of different personality changes in response to that aspect alone.

[@iainengland8058]

I fn loved those books , Karen Traviss did us so right by that series. I just wish she could have written a sequel series 😢

[@jossland1628]

@@iainengland8058My brother!

[@SL1cK_1]

Fun fact Scorch is voiced by the actor that also voiced Carth Onasi in KOTOR -Raphael Sbarge

[@Johnny-ux7yi]

He also played Kaidan in the Mass Effect Trilogy.

[@SL1cK_1]

@@Johnny-ux7yi Yes! That too.

[@GeorgiGospodinov00]

Wow that's so cool!

[@puddel9079]

A rare line from scorch popped up when I revisited this game years after playing. "No one can beat my 1337 haxxor skills." It was dated, cheesy, and totally in character; I had a good chuckle.

[@DreddPirateRoberts]

Yep

[@eduardoalcazar2600]

There's a loading screen that explains that due to the specialized training the commandos received (Sev getting sniper and assassination training, Scorch getting explosives training, etc) they began to develop personality quirks which grew, which I think you missed in your playthrough. This happened to all clones, in a controlled environment like Kamino their personalities can be kept the same but exposed to the stresses and chaos of war, they all began to develop different personalities based on their experiences. Even in the real world we have an example of this, twins are genetically identical and technically clones but they don't grow up to act the exact same way. Their experiences also lead them to develop unique personalities. Same thing happened to the Star Wars clones

[@biolj]

Pc version does not have loading screen blurbs only the Xbox version had them. I had the pc version back in the day and only played the Xbox version as an adult and came to know the blurbs even existed at all

[@theFORZA66]

Not only do they grow up to not act the same, they develop different accents and voices

[@shagohad3]

Salt didn't mention it but Republic Commando was also a very good EU novel series by author Karen Traviss. Unfortunately, she cancelled the series after book 5, Imperial Commando, due to her version of Mandalore being rendered non-canon by 3-D Clone Wars. The game also would've had a sequel called Imperial Commando but was scrapped at the concept art phase.

[@thepyrodar6080]

I remember how halfway through my playthrough I realized that when you walk right in front of a locked door you can hear the enemies talking about wether or not they noticed you, giving you a hint if you should blow it up or hack it. That's when it became my favorite shooter for a very long time. ^^

[@AdMerIin]

So, the people behind it came out to talk about the plans a few years ago. Basically they did have a sequel they wanted to make and had a skeleton of an idea for it. It'd be Imperial Commando and would be about the start of the empire with Delta being an Imperial commando unit, slowly moving towards breaking away since Sev ends up being a rebel and brings them into the fold.

[@MagikarpPower]

that would've been awesome

[@mattmurphy7030]

That’s an intense story. Should have happened

[@BenD0v3r32]

Almost like Bad Batch lmao.

[@rekius328]

yeah something like that, basically Sev becomes a rebellion commando and after their sequel project called "ImpCom" that got canned they would've also had a third sequel project which they called "RebCom"

[@MrSirHenryMF]

This and KOTOR 2 are my favorite Star Wars stories.

[@Horvath_Gabor]

Both are criminally underrated too. KotOR 2 is especially painful, as there's this absolutely amazing, 11/10 game in there, but it was butchered by the Curse of Obsidian and ending up half-finished.

[@thatcat_]

​@@Horvath_GaborThe Sith Lords restoration mod fixes that, its a great way to play it.

[@Grivehn]

​@@Horvath_Gabor Agreed in the sense that no game (or most other media to be frank) went more deep on the philosophy of Star Wars than Kotor2. I still love Kotor1 for being the big american action movie, and Kotor2 for just what I said before, all the nuance. The game itself is sadly super boring for a long time though... going through Pelagos and Telos always feels like a chore, unlike Taris which was high stakes but still fun. You cant even get to max lvl unless abusing a bug on Korriban, which was just removed for restored content mod. Korriban was sadly more of an afterthought than anything, and Nihilus isnt really given time to shine either except when he attacks Telos. And of course, much of Kotor2 is basically forgotten by the time of Swtor, since that was also made by Bioware. And whilst I also love the initial class stories and campaigns, the later stages of Swtor just dont fit into neither EU or Disney.

[@ForestRaptor]

And XWing Alliance was grand

[@Ziel23987]

@@Horvath_GaborYup. Not even the fan restoration mod can fix this. It's one of those games - the lows are really bad, but hardly anything managed to match the highs.

[@DreddPirateRoberts]

15:17 - He's not British. That's Temuera Morrison. He's a New Zealander.

[@Iwonder...0000]

And a Maori, at that.

[@DreddPirateRoberts]

@@Iwonder...0000 Indeed

[@chris14151]

Yeah, but New Zealand is like Britain #4 so, close enough

[@tristenkelley357]

​@@chris14151they litterally all sound the same fr fr

[@guyd970]

british with extra steps

[@skylerdama]

One of my absolute favorites back in the day. I swore nobody else knew about this game. The ending made me so sad 😢

[@youngrootv]

If you watch the Clone Wars animated show or Bad Batch, you’ll see that it’s actually commonplace for the clones to have different personalities and different voices.

[@plissken94th57]

Same voice just different cadence

[@jjmuti3979]

I mean this game is where that began.

[@youngrootv]

@@jjmuti3979 I know I’m just saying that if he wants more context for how the clones act and are, then you get that in those shows. The clones get expanded on way more in them.

[@spartanx9293]

​@plissken94th57 cut up is irish

[@Mrfatpepper2]

I used to play this online with my brothers on our old pc, the multiplayer made this game legendary! We were a part of a clan that would fight rival clans in team deathmatches all the time. The campaign was crazy to me as a kid, and the ghost ship mission is really the closest thing we got to a Star Wars horror game. I always used to think they could make a sequel bassed off the deathtroppers book.

[@diogenes1488]

Multiplayer was great. So many memories. Beat this as a kid like thirty times.

[@Calvin_Coolage]

The Kamino map with the jumppads is burned into my brain.

[@Supercohboy]

I was quite disappointed when Republic Commando 2 practically wrote itself as the SW EU continued to grow around 2010-2014. The Republic Commando books were selling well, Deathtroopers was a hit, and tactical FPSes were doing okay at the time. There was a noticeable lack of Halo for a while after Reach released iirc, and around this time all the Tom Clancy stuff turned to garbage, so that would've been the perfect window to release a Republic Commando sequel (between Reach and H4), but alas.

[@GeorgiGospodinov00]

The competitive side and having clanvsclans were so cool! Which clan were you in? I was in RedCell and later in TAG while my big bro was in TeamXtreme (TX_).

[@mrdubtee1873]

Literally breaks my heart everytime I see this. I was so hopeful when I heard about the respawn FPS

[@Exenos12]

i loved the video, the only thing i need to point out, did you not know there are 4 grenade types? the standard thermal, the electric one witch shreds shields and droids, the sonic a timed proximity, and the flashbang working on you and all biologics? switching grenades is a massive thing and helps against the higher ranked enemies, with super battle droids getting stunned and shorting out with the EMP, the trando machine gunner being stunned with the flash bangs letting you take a chance to whale on him and the sonic being great for a corner trap or fast movers like the magna guards. however all of the elite enemies will protect themself the second or third time you use a grenade on them with the supers putting a shield up, the trandos covering their eyes. this was something i didn't see you mention and i wanted to stress how the grenades can change an encounter

[@GoldRider4265]

Supers (really any droid that wasn't a boss) died to 2 emps and the damage stacked instead of refreshing. If you tossed them back-to-back then they couldn't deploy the shield (being stunned) and just died unceremoniously.

[@charmingeskimo1902]

I also noticed he never switchef

[@ArteriusSaren]

The Prosecutor is one of the coolest location ever although being a generic starship, setup for that location is cool. Concept with modular weapon. I wish we had a sequel.

[@AWPtical800]

Fun fact: Delta Squad got canonized in The Clone Wars animated series (season 3, episode 14). It was only as a shout-out as they're gone after the first two minutes, but Scorch has a greater role in The Bad Batch as commander of Dr. Hemlock's Imperial Royal Guard detachment.

[@PIMPTD]

The only reason they have different voices was to help you connect to each clone. Be harder to know who was talking etc. by the way you care at the end and the fact we still want sequel cuz the ending, I believe they succeeded

[@parytheplatipus]

Remember, Boss isn’t British, he’s played by Temuera Morrison, you know, Jango Fett and all that.

[@wiredshadowfury569]

The theme for this game is called Vode An. It is written in Mando’a and the lyrics go hard. “Glory! Eternal Glory! We shall bear its weight. One indomitable heart, brothers all!”

[@mattmurphy7030]

Now that’s a deep cut. _Kandosii sa ka'rta, Vode an._

[@Dog.Dad.Studios]

After just playing through Brothers in Arms, and loving their squad mechanics, It's so sad that this hasn't been adopted in the modern games. Thanks again for your videos!

[@wymanrtaylor]

I played this for the first time like two years ago and was quite pleased with how enjoyable it was

[@Chevy64w]

This game had one of the greatest video game trailers of all time, watched it a thousand times on the original battlefront disc on Xbox

[@guyd970]

One of the best shooters I've played. The HEADSHOT callout in multiplayer was unforgettable.

[@jessemach5817]

We need a remaster or sequel of this game make it happen this is an all time classic game that needs this treatment

[@meowmeowmcpurrington2480]

I think a remake would be better for this game, new and improved graphics and some gameplay enhancements more akin to like Dead Space. Otherwise a sequel would be great.

[@otakon17]

IIRC it's getting a remaster soon.

[@buncer]

@@otakon17with the way Star Wars games have been lately, with all the announcements then cancelations, I’ll believe it when I see it.

[@PlebNC]

Umm... There IS going to be a remaster. I remember a trailer was released last year showing the opening cutscene.

[@eldritchmorgasm4018]

I think another game would be nice, but not just "Republic Commando 2", maybe more like a spin-off. You play another commando-squad, beginning is the Clone Wars, the middle is Order 66, after that the Imperial stuff comes into play, including you meet Delta & get to know what happend to them. Then you get to decide if you wanna play as the Empire or Rebels for the finale. Also, put in some details from the books. But Dismal Disney-SW is kinda allergic to money, they don't care about stuff like that.

[@Nightmaresouls666]

Even normal clones end up end up with unique personalities and sometimes voices. So it definitely fits given the squads background.

[@Luigi-is-a-spy]

Salt on Republic Commando? Christmas came early boys!

[@Cubanbro22]

The player character isn't british but New Zealand. It's voiced by Temuera Morrison who plays Jango (and now Boba) Fett

[@GunBreaux]

I gotta disagree on the ending, I LOVED it! I still play the final cutscene and badass drop to 'Clones' by Ash when I'm working out. After serving overseas for several years, I really identify with a lot of the themes the game puts out. It really feels like you're a cog in a huge machine that's constantly churning out objectives. You never see the bigger picture. That scene at the end feels like a brief glimpse inti seeing the whole. The feeling of loss, the futility in always following orders that you know are going to get you killed. The endless rinse and repeat of mission after mission. The game nails it.

[@jackashmore]

The fact that Disney had the balls to include scorch’s armor in Bad Batch but said it wasn’t Scorch had me done with the series.

[@phunkracy]

Same with Kyle Katarn who Andor is like 70% based on. Id rather have Kyle, thanks

[@Twinnecrotic]

Wasn't scorch listed in the credits?

[@titanjakob1056]

@@phunkracyno he ain’t your thinking of kanan aka rebels katarn/kota his ship in the comic is practically Kyle’s ship

[@joshuakolton9955]

Is it not scorch? 🤔

[@phunkracy]

@@titanjakob1056 both can be true at the same time, as far as i'm concerned both Kyle and Andor are leather jacketed mouthy mercenaries with bryar pistol who reluctantly work for the rebellion and end up warming up to the cause under mon mothma and stealing death star plans.

[@robinschlyter309]

"Bite-sized video" = 45 mins. You good sir are a legend.

[@SkeletonGuts45]

Boss's va, temura, is a new zealander bro. That man has one of the coolest voices and one of the reasons i loved jango/boba and the movie clones was because his voice gave them grit. Granted, swrc audio quality didnt do his voice much justice. As for the game, i gotta say the way you describe it, versus how it actually plays is unfair. I would be willing to bet any sci fi and fps fan would enjoy that game providing they were born 1990 - 1999 (the graphics, mechanics and sound/set/level design would absolutely be too much for the pampered and soft gamers of today lmao.

[@mattmurphy7030]

I think he sounds kinda ghey but to each their own

[@ReliableDiamondThug]

it just makes me happy that this game is still remembered and commandos in concept are kept in continuity. When I first played EA BF2 i had autistic squeals of joy when i saw that you could not only play as a republic commando, but how accurate the weapon and abilities were. And on top of that the first time they appeared in the bad batch with all of the games classic sound effects, the first-person visor view that happened (hope im not making that up lmao) and seeing SCORCH was insane. A little sad they haven't done more with him (yet) but the fact alone that this game is not forgotten is great. I never even beat it, I got to the last level and simply never picked up the game again, just kind of happened.

[@mattmurphy7030]

Have you played the squad mod?

[@ReliableDiamondThug]

@@mattmurphy7030 I can't say I know what you are talking about.

[@DatCrazyNerf]

Salt did Temeura Morrison so dirty in this video.

[@Zaanse_Mayo]

Very nice video. One remark though: Boss' voice actor is actually Temuera Morrison, the original actor of Jango Fett and all of the clones in the prequel movies. He is not Brittish at all, but rather has a strong New Zealand accent :)

[@sharkusaurelius1591]

I played through Republic Commando again about a year ago. Almost 20 years later it still holds up. This would have been a great series.

[@JonSmith-hk1bq]

The Republic Commando books by Karen Traviss were totally unexpected highlights of the old EU. She did a great job fleshing out Mandalorian as well as the moral tangle of the Clone Wars. It's a shame Imperial Commando series got cut short and superseded by Clone Wars lore before just being erased completely.

[@lackinganame7857]

A fun thing me and my brothers found was you can melee rollie droids to death easily. If you stand between the gun right in their face they can't turn them inward and shoot you.

[@DaJackCracker]

I played this as a kid, Battlefront, Kotor, and this game were actually what introduced me to the Star Wars universe. I never saw the ending as a true ending, but rather a cliffhanger begging for another game. I remember hoping for a sequel for years after I played, where I expected we would see what happened to Sev, meet a new replacement trooper, ect.

[@Nbalko1997]

And another thing, 38 is voiced by Temuera Morrison. The man who play Jango Fett and also Boba Fett in Book of Boba and redid the voice of Boba Fett in Empire in later years. He is Māori, a native of New Zealand, not British.

[@BeefJerky4104]

24:12 - FYI, the easiest way to beat the elites is to use the flash grenade so that they cannot shoot back at you.

[@travisfischer7514]

Loved this game as a kid, glad you're covering it

[@PuellaMagiHomuraAkemi]

Its still great to play today with some minor tweaks like FOV :)

[@darmansbar7900]

9:40 Fun fact: That squad, Theta, is wiped out except for one clone RC-1136 "Darman" who becomes part of argubely the second best Clone Commando Unit after Delta, Omega Squad in the Republic Commando Novels who also feature Delta Squad Higly reccomand

[@JaelaOrdo]

“The Wookiees freedom cannot be sacrificed” - The Jedi to their army of slave child soldiers

[@UnlimitedBlakeWorks]

5 minutes into the video and salts research and production are already way improved since last i watched (about a year ago) love it

[@kaidorade1317]

A Republic Commando video essay? Looks like Salt’s back on the menu boys!

[@MinutemanMogul52]

One thing I wanted to point out is that the different squad members did have their strengths shown in game. Each can do everything however if you assigned them to do things that are suited to them they did it faster or were more accurate. Sev on the sniper was a better shot than Fixer. Fixer can hack terminals faster than the others so when those missions that needed to hold off while the hacking took place was better if you had fixer on the job. Scorch was best at explosives and was best at breaching, placing dry charges and using the grenade launcher. So there actually was a reason to use them to their advantages.

[@kappatalism6969]

Your squadmates actual abilities are on par with each other. A one minute slice to Boss, Scorch, or Sev also takes Fixer a minute. A 20 second demo plant is still 20 seconds to Scorch. The only difference you get is varying dialogue barks based on who was assigned what task.

[@MinutemanMogul52]

I swore they were SLIGHTLY better at least. I used to play the shit out of this. Maybe I’m mistaken. But I thought they really had a benefit

[@GoldRider4265]

@@MinutemanMogul52 That was the plan, however in testing it came to light that either it felt bad when you couldn't match up their specialties, or it was too hard to program the prioritization. It's been a very long time since I watched the documentary of the game's creation, but I vaguely remember this being the case.

[@SpencerBurkett]

Boss isn't British, he's New Zealand if anything, he's voiced by Temuera Morrison, the actor for all of the clones in the prequel movies.

[@BrickDaniels-qu7bz]

I skipped 42 minutes and still ended up getting hitting something entertaining at the end. Bravo.

[@Reekumon]

Boss isn't British, he has a New Zealand accent because he's played by Temuera Morrison the actual actor for the clones 🥲

[@kennywilson5422]

Republic Commando has always been on my back log. Remembering renting it as a kid.

[@AgencyNighthawk]

Oh, you did NOT just call Temuera Morrison British. Dude, please.

[@wyvernjack6068]

The human voice is not determined by genetics outside of the depth of the larynx. Its entirely possible for each clone to speak slightly different as most people without existing damage to their throat can speak in all the full frequency range of 1 to 350hz. Given practice mind, were even able to copy other peoples voices to an alarming similarity. Most vocalists and voice actors with experience do this.

[@ilovemonkeyos]

The ‘main character’, your guy, “Boss”, the “British guy” is Temuera Morrison himself; Jango Fett/the voice of the Clones in the movies and a lot of (but not all) spin-off content. (:

[@Pinky_Dinkle]

Salt made me chuckle at that part! He's literally the clone guy.

[@bumblebeebat-te5xv]

He's a Kiwi, isn't he?

[@ilovemonkeyos]

Boss could use a bo’o’a wa’ah with all those missions on Geonosis.

[@lord_cirno2667]

23:45 here's a tip on the trando elites, use the sniper and shoot it's head which will always stun him. This means you can essentially stunlock him by repeatedly shooting and take him down in three-four shots. If you're not confident in your first shot or in a bad position you can throw a concussion grenade, which you get in the first act, which will stun him longer. All in all do not let this thing attack ever and do not get close to him because he can and will obliterate you and your squad's health.

[@TurKlack]

15:10 I'm surprised you didn't notice, know, or mention that "Boss" is voiced by Temuera Morrison, and is therefore the only one with the actual Clone Voice while the others were given different Voice Actors. Believe or not but that was Georges idea. He believed giving everyone the same Voice Actor might make them less personal or something :D I mean his decision did turn out to work, but I do wonder if it couldn't be done with just Morrison. On a side note... I haven't seen you use any other Grenade other than the thermal detonator so far in the Video. Did you even *know* you can use other Grenades? I mean I hear you complain now that the first Trandoshan Gatling Enemy was such a hard pill, but you can easily defeat him with Flash Grenades... What is going on?

[@lukecoaction]

This was one of my all time favorites as a kid, glad you’re covering it!

[@mattmurphy7030]

“Boss is british” Temura: am I a joke to you?

[@wesley3300]

Man I love this game. I actually replayed it recently and it’s still one of the best FPS experiences I’ve had. When I first played it I was a kid having a major Star Wars phase and I played every game I could get my hands on. I also loved Halo and the older CoD WW2 games, but Republic Commando stood out for really immersing me in the Star Wars world I was in love with. Still a lot of fun to play today, in my opinion.

[@Korasi]

BRITISH?!???? EXCUSE ME

[@Chevy64w]

I must’ve played this game start to finish around a hundred times as a kid

[@RaineAsteria]

I have a whole playlist for work of just your videos. I don't know how many times I've listened to them more than once. xD

[@zoguenette]

every time a video is released it makes my day. What we need now is a Kotor 1 dark side playthrough. We all want it!

[@illegallyblind5674]

I'm having a nostalgia heart attack, god it has been 13 years since I first played that game. Glad to see someone recognize how good this game was.

[@grumpydusty]

Their differences come from being built differently than clones, with genetic enhancements. They have more independence to handle their missions, commandos need to make their own decisions. Not like regular clones that just follow given orders. They are built to do whatever it takes to complete a mission, deep in enemy lines without communications from command. They need to think on their own. Having a specialization, that when together as a unit, form a very formidable squad. Capable as a battalion boiled down into a small team. This, let their individual personalities grow. They are the original "Bad Batch". *Side note;* 62 aka "Scorch" is IN The Bad Batch as Royce Hemlock's personal guard. (science corps, project necromancer) *Critique;* Boss/38 is voiced by Temuera Morrison. You know... Jango? Boba Fett? THE CLONES. He's from New Zealand, not British. *The music;* "Vode An" is in Mandalorian, a war chant passed down from Jango to instill their values and brotherhood.

[@PasOdMater]

Man, I've played this game so many times. Such wasted potential for what promised to be a phenomenal series.

[@OMGiTzKraZiE]

my favorite game growing up, Clones by ash has been stuck in my head for years because of this game

[@cuoy13]

Glad to see you return back to the galaxy far, far away. Would love to see you cover the Dark Forces series (all the way to to Jedi Academy), The Force Unleashed 1 & 2, and the more recent Jedi series with Cal Kestis. Also, non SW, would love to see you do the Jak trilogy, plus Sonic Adventure 1, 2, Sonic Heroes, Shadow The Hedgehog, and Sonic 2006.

[@toadofsteel]

Scorch sharing a voice actor with Carth Onasi (since the game came out so close to Kotor) made it even funnier for me, after hearing Carth whine for eternity, having his clone doppelganger squee over high explosives was a great change of pace.

[@ChadGarion25]

I can't cite my sources, but I remember from background material that Clone Commandos are genetically bred differently from stock clone troopers. Furthermore, in either legends lore at least, they trained under special Mandalorian drill instructors and as a result they took on different behavioral quirks and mannerisms. This is why Sev, Fixer, Scorch, and Boss all have divergent personalities despite being clones.

[@selfaware7617]

This game with the Grove Street squad mod is fire

[@Sev017]

Feel like ive been subconsciously waiting for the piece on this game. Definitely a nostalgic favorite for me, first time I tried it was through the demo of the original clone wars cartoon that allowed you to play the portion of Geonosis were you regroup with the team after the first squad split through the spider droid. I played that 15 min demo for hours until I got the whole game.

[@phaedrus12134]

I've been watching your videos for years. Constantly am suggested your videos and more than any other youtuber your videos come up on my auto play... Yet I wasn't subscribed... I thought for sure I was. This has been rectified.

[@Hoenir]

I miss the lucasarts/film Star Wars game era from early 2000's. Jedi Knight (Dark forcers, Outcast, Academy), Empire at war, Kotor 1/2, Republic Commando, Battlefront. All very special to me. Growing up i didnt have the money to buy them Original, so we had to pirate them on CD. Used to go to this Market on weekends as a kid to buy pirated Games and by random chance, i got the Republic Command CD. I still remember playing it at Christmas and Sunday mornings. Crazy such a simple memory is still one of my most cherished memories.

[@mauriciobetimpaesleme8702]

17:38 Seeing that Super battle droid coming when alone still gives sleep terrors

[@tylerrassi4148]

Fun fact about voice changes happening as we age well beyond puberty. Men actually go through a 2nd puberty at around age 30 which will greatly change your voice.

[@Danthesane]

I mean with the Bad Batch show being popular and Disney basically blueballing us, I think we should at some point get another Star Wars story game. That’d be great

[@HughRMungustein]

This game always had my absolute favorite interpretation of Super Battle Droids

[@WeNeverHadForever]

I remember getting this when it came out and being blown away by how smooth it ran on my middling PC. Even at maxed settings I never recall having any type of frame drop or anything of that nature, and for the time it was a very pretty looking game.

[@kibecawest9867]

The reason behind Scorch, Fixer and Sev having non-standard clone voices (as many people have mentioned, Boss is voiced by Temura Morrison, and thus has a Kiwi accent which is the standard clone voice) is more about design philosophy. The game was made well before the first airing of The Clone Wars CGI show, but still wanted to explore the individualism of clones, which was increasingly becoming a focus of various clone-centered media. I think the canon explanation is that they all sound the same to non-clones, but clones can tell each other apart based on subtleties in the way that they speak and their personalities. Republic Commando takes that concept to the extreme, and does it extremely well.

[@coolbrotherf127]

Republic Commando is one of my most played games a kid. I loved it so much and still enjoy it to this day. It is a hidden gem for me for sure.

[@MBKill3rCat]

One of my favourite childhood games, and one I still consider a great game and go back to every now and then. If I remember correctly, the original plans for the sequel were for it to be 'Star Wars: Imperial Commando', with Delta Squad hunting down Jedi.

[@drekwilliamton5830]

This brought back so many memories. This game was great, and it's a dman shame nothing was learned from this game, simply because it didn't appeal to the mainstream. The blood wiping animation with a laser was so cool, I remember thinking that was the ducks nuts back in the day

[@pdpMASTERP]

Boss is New Zealand accent not British 😂🎉🎉 he's voiced by the actor that did all the clone troopers in the movies and tv serial

[@frankyboi1819]

New salt vid as soon as I get off work? What a treat!

[@J_Hodders]

What is it with Salt and getting the oddest things wrong?? The voice actor for boss is quite clearly the voice of the clones and the guy who plays Boba Fett, Temuera Morrison, who isn't British and certainly isn't trying to sound noticeably British. Temuera Morrison is from New Zealand. As for why the different republic commandos have different voice actors, a quick google search that would have also pointed you towards Temuera Morrison suggests that it's for better character recognition because the dialogue is entirely played into your helmet.

[@SonGoku-vf4qk]

im so glad every time i see this game get recognition. this was one of my favorites growing up. i love delta squad

[@kinghoodofmousekind2906]

I liked how you also drew a line between what came before SW: RC with LucasArts as you talked about the game itself! Good video, cheers!

[@thegreengouf56]

I was just about to do it, but the salt saved me again.

[@Jambitjigs]

This was the best game i ever played as a child, after battlefront 1 and 2 I finally hired this and I have purchased it on every platform since it was released released and played it again the last few years. I hope they do a remaster or remake of this game, I’d buy it 5 times

[@princeofscars35]

Before the Bad Batch, there was Delta squad. I like to think this game inspired them to create the Bad Batch for the show, it just fits too perfect. Boss- Hunter Sev- Crosshair Scorch- Wrecker Fixer- Tech

[@charmingeskimo1902]

A series that never was… a perfect way to sum it up. The lore ran deep, the chemistry was strong. Sad to not see anything done with this.

[@CharemTheShadox]

I've watched quite a few videos reviewing this game and it's always interesting to see new takes. I personally have never played it, ironically enough. By the way, a GREAT deal of kudos to you for putting your sponsor in the chapter timestamps so we can see where it is. I've observed some channels that use chapters and have sponsors and they just 'conveniently' never put a chapter to their sponsors so you don't know where the ad will pop up or end at. I get that people often skip ads but trying to trick people like this is lame... Anyways, I watched your whole sponsor ad since you're actually being cool about it. Thank you!