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Star Wars Republic Commando

The game is set during the events of the Clone Wars that started at the climax of the movie Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones. In the game, the player is expected to take command of a Clone commando team, made up of elite Clone troopers. These “clone commandos” have been specially bred at the clone factories on Kamino. The commando team will travel to various locations in the Star Wars universe, including Kashyyyk, Geonosis, and the derelict spacecraft, The Prosecutor.

It took me a bit longer than normal to clear this game, I kept failing to remember that I was playing it and got completely sidetracked by a space dwarf mining game, but I eventually made it happen. The game is 15 years old at this point, from three console generations ago, but thanks to the backward compatibility system that xbox has, I was able to play it on my Project Scorpio xbox one x. There’s times that it shows it’s age, but those times thankfully don’t happen very often and with the console’s 4k uprezing system the game even looks pretty good, despite the age. I was particularly impressed with the squad mechanics, many games have tried this sort of thing, but only a few get it right, which I think Republic Commando definitely did.

The only major complaint I have about the game is that your commando squad is made of four clone troopers, the player is one and the other three have names, but they also have colors: red, yellow, green. I spent the entire game, right up to the final level, being concerned that two of my guys were injured in some way that I couldn’t figure out. It wasn’t until I was watching the extra videos that I found that contribution was suggested by Lucas himself.

It would be easy to look at gameplay and think this is just a reheated Doom clone and while you may be right in some minor ways, I’d say it does enough with the Star Wars lore to make it worthy of your time if you’re interested in the Droid Attack on the Wookies.

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Cauliflower Witch by KueshkaArt on DeviantArt

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Georgia pair sentenced to combined 35 years for terrorizing black child’s birthday party with Confederate flags

Jose Torres and Kayla Norton were convicted earlier this month under a street gang terrorism law for harassment in Douglasville, Ga.

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Batman by Sina Pakzad Kasra

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BATMAN VILLAINS – Mr Freeze – by Entropician on DeviantArt

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Terror Birds

Directed by Sean Cain. With Jessica Lee Keller, Lindsey Sporrer, Greg Evigan, Leslie Easterbrook. When Maddy Stern discovers her father has gone missing during a routine birdwatching excursion, she and her college pals trek out into the wilderness to find him, only to end up in a wealthy scientist’s desolate ranch aviary, where they encounter a pair of giant, hungry terror birds believed to be extinct for centuries.

I was looking for something fun to watch while cleaning my living room and this was on broadcast tv, with what looked like a SD formatted picture stretched to widescreen, then compressed to hell, and thrown into the air for my antenna to catch. You may think I’m complaining, but I think the grindhouse aspirations were best complemented by the technological horror that I participated in. The movie itself is poorly written, poorly acted, and poorly constructed, but it was perfect for the day I was having.

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A Bell X-2 skids to a landing at Edwards Air Force Base, April 22, 1952

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First night on the job

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C’MON

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NAZIS

DAMASCUS

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ICE CREAM

STATES WHERE JOE BIDEN WILL BE PRESIDENT

AFTERMATH

Sightless

Directed by Cooper Karl. With Madelaine Petsch, Deniz Akdeniz, Alexander Koch, Matthew Yang King. After an attack renders her blind, Ellen Ashland withdraws from the world to recover. But soon she plunges into paranoia, unable to convince anyone that her assailant has returned to terrorize her by hiding in plain sight.

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Synchronic

Directed by Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead. With Anthony Mackie, Jamie Dornan, Katie Aselton, Ally Ioannides. Two New Orleans paramedics’ lives are ripped apart after they encounter a series of horrific deaths linked to a designer drug with bizarre, otherworldly effects.

Time travel movies generally don’t have much to add to the trope, either events can be effected by time travel or they can’t, but Syncheonic leands a couple new wrinkles to the standard “man goes through time” story. Much to it’s credit, something that could in theory feel like well trod on story elements are given a patina that is ultimately quite pleasing.

Oddly I think this was this second movie I watched this past weekend with Anthony Mackie in the lead, I’m definitely becoming a fan of his work. To think, I was introduced to him in the role of a bird man that goes by the name of “Falcon” in a comic book film!

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For the Unusual Couples WandaVision Wedding Rings Prop Replica 3-Piece Set

Valentine’s day is coming up, so for all you WandaVision fans out there, why not offer an officially licensed “Vision and Wanda” wedding ring set to your significant other? You are an unusual couple after all, right? The WandaVision Wedding Rings Prop Replica 3-Piece Set – Entertainment Earth Exclusive is fashioned after the rings seen […]

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