A welcome change to the typical star wars games that are repetitive.
The storyline begins when you are being “born” as a clone but not just any ordinary clone a commando that is trained for special combat missions. Your name or number is 3-8 or 38. You soon learn about your squad mates 07, 40, and 62. They are colorful personalities that have a vast arrange of dialogue that you will hear throughout the game. Once you are ready to begin fighting you are dropped out of a drop ship and must fight your way through the beginning of the clone wars to meet up with the rest of your team. I couldn’t wait to meet because of the description given and when you find them they are either killing a massive amount of droids and meeting up with you are engaged in hand to hand combat. Both of these look sick but once they are done and have collected your entire force you begin your first real missions.
The gameplay is interesting. Objects in the game that are usable have a sort of star above them and you can either commando one of your teammates or go there yourself and use it. The objects that are usually available are computers, door access codes, bomb planting and discharging, sniping, grenade launching, and a tactical door entrance maneuver. Each of these take a certain amount of time but there are really only four times that anything takes; 5, 10,30 and 61 seconds. It never gets boring because you never know what’s hiding behind the next door or if your squad mate will be able to finish before he dies. You can engage all those actions by yourself but it’s really better to tell one of your friends to do it and defending him from the oncoming onslaught.
The music scheme is pretty original although it does use the cliché “scary” theme. Even though it is cliché it provides for a great atmosphere but once you get out of a tuff time a more mellow music comes about and you are able to gain your composure.
The dialogue is also very interesting and provides for a deeper game experience. Each of your squad has personalized quotes and this draws you closer to them and gets you really pissed off when you hear through your wireless radio that one of them is shouting and then when you call out his names no answer. You quickly try to find him and kill the droids that overpowered him.
I realize I’ve begun to ramble and am keeping your from going and either buying the game or renting it and playing it. So I leave you with this advice or whatever you want to call it: go and have fun and shoot those effin droids and win the clone wars for the Republic!!!!!!!!!