Star Wars: Bounty Hunter's remaster is above-average, but be prepared to face the original's rough edges

You might be looking at Star Wars Outlaws as your next stop in a galaxy far, far away, but Star Wars: Bounty Hunter’s Aspyr-developed remaster is a more than welcome return to the PS2/GC-era Star Wars underworld.

I vividly remember the original PS2 release of Bounty Hunter becoming a personal favorite back in 2002, mostly because my most-liked character walking out of Attack of the Clones was Jango Fett. He was a guy sporting Mandalorian armor who actually did cool stuff on-screen and had two awesome laser pistols, so of course he was my fav. That was sound 10-year-old logic. The game itself I actually didn’t get until Christmas Eve, but you can bet I was glued to it for months after that. Long story short: Warts and all, I’m very fond of this one, so I had very high expectations for Aspyr’s latest Star Wars remaster.

Earlier this year, the Star Wars Battlefront Classic Collection launched to mostly negative reviews for a variety of reasons. While I thought the core experience was preserved quite well (and with previously platform-exclusive content added back in!), the online side of the games was a bit of a mess, and the bloated install size on most platforms was baffling to say the least. Most issues have been ironed out by now, yet I can’t blame veteran Star Wars gamers for acting cautious when Bounty Hunter’s remaster was announced a while back.