Your final piece of equipment is Jango's jetpack, which will let you soar through the air. The ID scanner is especially useful when working on the secondary bounties you'll be able to pursue for extra credits, which can be used to unlock extras in the game. To help you pick your targets, you'll have access to an ID scanner that will give you information on individuals. You'll also be able to use a heavy blaster, grenades, and a sniper rifle that lets you zoom in and take people out from afar. You'll start out with his dual blasters, flamethrower, and whipcord. On the subject of shooting, Jango is armed to the teeth. All told, Bounty Hunter contains 120 unique characters to talk to and shoot at. Although he's something of a loner, Jango has at least one friend in the game-a female toydarian named Razzata (think of a rust-colored and slightly feminine Watto) who offers useful tips and some moral guidance. As you search for your prey, you'll encounter numerous characters of all shapes and sizes. Along the way, you'll encounter six major bosses, as well as a number of secondary bosses. Always up for a challenge, and some credits, Fett agrees, sending you on 18 levels of bounty-collecting fun spread across six worlds. If Fett manages to complete the assignment, he'll get a tasty bounty and be immortalized millions of times over in clone form.
The assignment kills two birds with one stone for Tyranus, who's being hassled by his boss, Darth Sidious, to get rid of Vosa so she doesn't mess up Sidious' long-term plans of creating a clone army and overthrowing the Republic.
The story centers on Jango being commissioned by Darth Tyranus, née Count Dooku, to take out Komari Vosa, a rogue Jedi who used to be Tyranus' apprentice. The game is set 10 years before the events seen in Episode II and provides some insight into how Jango Fett become the clone template.
In addition, composer Jeremy Soule-who has done work on games like Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale, among others-will contribute some character themes, some ambient music related to the environments, and the scores for some of the game's cutscenes. The game's voice acting will be supplemented by its soundtrack, which draws on the many of the familiar Star Wars themes composed by John Williams. Bounty Hunter's vocal cast includes Temeura Morrison, who played Jango in the film Leanna Walsman, the actress who played Zam Wessel film actor Clancy Brown, who voices Montross, one of the villains in the game and veteran voice actress Lucille Bliss, who does the voice of Razzata. LucasArts is handling Bounty Hunter's development, Industrial Light & Magic is doing the CG for the game's 18 minutes' worth of cutscenes, and Skywalker Sound is handling the game's sound. The game's pedigree is getting an added boost from the different companies pitching in on its development. While still a bit rough in places, the game looked quite promising. This action game starring the bounty hunter Jango Fett is in development for the PlayStation 2 and the GameCube, and a pre-alpha build of the PlayStation 2 version was on hand to give attendees a look at the game. LucasArts held an event today to show off Star Wars Bounty Hunter to the press.