If you want a good Star Wars game or you you want to get some backstory on Jango Fett, this is what you're looking for.
The Bad: After you play through it once, you won’t want to touch many of the missions again, your main blasters are the only weapon without ammo which makes using the other ones seem held back, not much to do after you beat the single player
Star Wars Bounty Hunter is a third person shooter that explores the events prior to Episode 2. Here, you see how bounty hunter Jango Fett is recruited by Dooku to be the template for the Clone Army.
Gameplay is pretty average. You use A to shoot, B to jump, X to roll, Y to use your cutting torch (maybe three times in the whole game), L is your jetpack, R locks on to enemies and causes you to strafe, which can be used with rolls and jumps as well. D-Pad switches weapons and turns on your ID Tracker.
Most of the levels have you running around through linear paths shooting anyone you see. The story has you looking for clues as to the whereabouts of bounty head Komari Vosa. These clues are only found in the cutscenes between levels and have no influence on how you go about slaughtering everyone in your path.
A catch to the game is that since you are the best bounty hunter in the galaxy, you can catch pesky criminals mid-mission, because you’re that good. So, you use your ID scanner thing to inspect civilians on the streets and what-not and if they have prices on their heads, you can kill them or tie them up and claim the bounty. Then, they vanish into thin air...
Whatever...
Graphics are pretty good. Nice shiny armor, nice blaster effects, neat explosions, glaring sun(s) on Tatooine, dank jungles on Malastare, and beautiful evenings on Coruscant make up the games environments. If one thing is done right, it’s the level design. Pretty nice stuff, exactly what you’d expect from Star Wars.
Sound is nothing bad. Typical Star Wars blaster effects, normal stuff, if not lots of it. One thing that made me mad was they replaced Jango’s blaster sound from the movie with some generic blaster sound. I loved that sound in the movie!!! Good music, new stuff as well as stuff from the movies, the latter done by The Genius John Williams.
Value depends on your taste. After you trudge through the grueling campaign once, most of the levels are unappealing and you won’t want to traverse them again. However, some are fun more than once...
You unlock things like trading cards, concept art, blooper reels, and even a comic as extras for nabbing extra bounties, but most of these you will get the first or second time of playing any given level, and they aren’t too rewarding to be worth playing through the better half of the game’s campaign.
This game is on no terms unique, but it isn’t a blatant rip-off of any game either, it’s just a normal third-person shooter with some Star Warsy twists.
Bottom line is, play it if you like Star Wars, need a good solid action game for a weekend, want the info it gives you, or if you like mercilessly killing innocents on the streets of Coruscant. Rent it, borrow it, or get it cheap.