Everything New In Star Wars: Bounty Hunter PS5 Remaster

Summary Star Wars: Bounty Hunter remaster offers new features like visual enhancements & a playable Boba Fett skin, fulfilling a 22-year-old promise.

Aspyr's remaster includes DualSense features on PS5, using haptic feedback & adaptive triggers for immersive gameplay mechanics.

Visual improvements in the remaster upgrade textures, lighting, & introduce new playable character options, making it a superior release over the previous PS4 version.

The 2002 title Star Wars: Bounty Hunter has been remastered for modern consoles, with new features such as visual enhancements, and an unlockable skin that delivers on a decades-old promise. The title follows former Mandalorian warrior Jango Fett's time as a bounty hunter before his appearance in Attack of the Clones and explains just why he was chosen to be the template for the clone army, as he proves himself after being hired to defeat the deranged dark Jedi, Komari Vosa, and bring down a cult known as the Bando Gora. It also depicts several key moments, such as how he acquired his iconic ship, Slave 1, which was later inherited by Boba Fett in the series.

The new version has been developed by Aspyr, who has previously worked on Star Wars remasters and ports such as Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and the more recent Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection. Star Wars: Bounty Hunter is a multiplatform release and launched on PS5, PS4, PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S, making this the first time the game will be playable on Xbox consoles as it originally launched on PS2 and Nintendo Gamecube in 2002 and skipped Microsoft's console. While most of these versions play the same for the most part, the PS5 version does have some additional features due to its DualSense controller.

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The PS5's DualSense Can Be Used For Gameplay Mechanics

Along With The Haptic Feedback The Controller Is Known For

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Despite already having a release on PS4 - which is playable on PS5 via backwards compatibility - the new release of Star Wars: Bounty Hunter is made to run natively on PS5, and as previously stated, the main features unique to the PlayStation 5 are through its DualSense controller. As is to be expected from Sony's latest controller, Star Wars: Bounty Hunter utilizes the haptic feedback and adaptive triggers when using Jango's weapons to make them feel different from one another, as he wields dual blasters, a flamethrower, toxic darts, jetpack missiles, and more.

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Jango’s in-game radio communication has been re-routed to play through the controller's speaker - depending on whether the speaker has been activated or not, which can be sorted through the PS5's settings - to create a more immersive experience in this newer version. The DualSense has also been tied more directly into other gameplay mechanics, as the lightbar display on the controller can be used as a visual indicator of Jango’s current health status, mirroring his health bar in the game.

Star Wars: Bounty Hunter Has Received Visual Improvements

With Upgraded Textures, Advanced Lighting, And More

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As is expected from a modern remaster, everything in Star Wars: Bounty Hunter has been upscaled to work on larger displays with higher resolutions. Because of this, Aspyr has had to improve the game's textures, giving them bump maps to give more depth and texture to the environment to make it feel richer and slightly closer to what players would expect from a more modern release.

There's also been an overhaul to the lighting system in the game, with dynamic lighting creating far more immersive environments, as every bolt from Jango’s blasters will illuminate the surrounding area. Aspyr has also clearly taken note of how the original game could be extremely dark at times, as Jango now has a toggleable flashlight that he can use to navigate these darker areas in the remaster.

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The New Version Of Star Wars: Bounty Hunter Has A New Playable Character

Delivering On A 22-Year Old Promise

While many of the aforementioned features have been improvements to the game that players already knew from 22 years ago, perhaps the biggest new addition is that Aspyr has finally made one of the original game's Easter eggs a reality. While Star Wars: Bounty Hunter's campaign primarily follows Jango Fett's origin story, previous versions of the game displayed a very low-resolution texture with a message written in Aurebesh that translated to “Cash in all bounties to play as Boba.”

Unfortunately, this was a false promise, as the feature to play as Boba Fett didn't exist, which led to some disappointment for those who achieved 100% completion and still could only play as Jango Fett, with many speculating over the years that this was an intended feature that was cut, and the message simply wasn't removed. In the new version of Star Wars: Bounty Hunter, however, once players have finished the main campaign, they are finally able to equip a new Boba Fett skin for their next playthrough.

Despite Star Wars: Bounty Hunter already having a playable release on the PlayStation 5 through the previous PS4 release, it's clear that Aspyr's newer features and graphical improvements make the new version the superior release for those who do want to revisit Jango's story. While the DualSense features are exclusive to the PS5 version, the inclusion of Boba and the visual enhancements are the same across all other platforms of the game, ensuring players are mostly receiving the same overall experience regardless of how they choose to play.