Beloved PS2 Action Shooter Star Wars: Bounty Hunter Is Being Remastered on PS5, PS4

August is PACKED this year. I might not be able to play this till 2025 😖

EDIT: Actually the beginning of August isn't that packed for me personally. Maybe I could squeeze this in 🤔

I love the game but hope they update the controls, I remember it feeling off

I can't say it's amongst my favourite Star Wars games, I much preferred Star Wars Rogue Leader and Shadows of The Empire from back then

It's being made by Aspyr....HARD pass

Yes! More old games!

As I wrote on NintendoLife, I've enjoyed this on the GameCube and also bought when the PS2 version was re-skinned / released for PS4. IF this version has more GameCube-style graphics (I didn't like the PSs) and a modern control system it could be a purchase.

I'm cautious that Aspyr made a dog's dinner of the Battlefield Classic release, although as a single player game, some of that games' issues should be mitigated. Should be ...

and yeah; a decent price with trophies is a must. If it's £30 or more for this and not borked, I'll wait for a sale

A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one! Hoping for some QOL improvements as some cheap difficulty on the PS2 made it a slog to retread levels after blowing through a very limited number of lives. My good friend and I made it to the end in our let’s play with what Id consider an appropriate amount of rage for what the game threw at us:

https://youtu.be/FZVB2LmoCf8?si=KmUqXkDBMfFZ0UZq

The more old games, the better. Bring it on!

This came with my Darth Vader PS4…

No sure how well this will sell given you can already buy it on PS4/5

Better yet how about they still fix the remaining issues for the battlefront collection. The broken planet graphic on the hoth space map springs to mind.

Kinda weird considering there already is a PS4 version of Bounty Hunter available right now. Even just looking at this trailer I can't really tell any difference.

This is basically what the original PS2 game looks like, when rendering in 4K on an emulator. Pretty lazy remaster. They could at least have added new high res textures.

Beloved is a strong word. It was a comfortable 7/10 at the time but not really memorable.

Is this not already on PS4?

@nessisonett
Yes as a PS2 classic port

My all time gaming dream would be a remaster of Factor 5's rogue leader from gamecube. But i think Nintendo is involved with the rights, so probably wont ever happen

Aspyr releases feel always very sloppy to me. So I will probably pass on this.

@MegaManX-7 true though

I loved the first one but I can’t seem to get onboard with these remasters. Compared to modern day gaming, everything about them frustrates me. I wish they’d do more proper Bluepoint-esq remakes instead.

Having said this, I do think this particular game was an underrated classic!!

I loved this game back when it came out originally. Janky as all heck but so fun to play as a bounty hunter.

@Beetlebum91 I was just going to say, I had fond memories of this, got it for my PS4/5 some time ago and didn't up playing very far as the controls are just awful. I'm confident they'll be updated, but I guess we'll see.

So I have the emulated original version on my PS4 and ps5. And it's fun but god it's janky controls wise and the difficulty sometimes is just downright unfair. I actually abandoned my recent play through because I wasn't having fun. And dualsense controllers are not cheap.... But if this is a remaster that fixes those issues I could be interested. I've no problems with aspyr, the jedi knight remasters they did were good fun. And best way I've played them so far.