Star Wars: Republic Commando is one of the best squad-command shooters I’ve had the good fortune to play, and I couldn’t be happier it’s getting a new lease on life on PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch. However, taking place after the events of
Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones, its tale of a tiny squad’s victory over impossible odds can’t be entirely trusted.
There’s nothing new about games having unreliable narrators, but more often than not, such stories deal in extremes. Your protagonist will spend six hours roaming a haunted forest, looking for their spouse, before remembering they crudely dismembered them and mailed the pieces to Antarctica. Or as you’re about to kiss the mono-gendered alien love interest, it strikes you that there have been some major inconsistencies with this space epic. Suddenly, the scene dissolves to reveal you’re a gin-sodden space janitor who’s fallen asleep in a pile of their own sick.