The game says it will have “modernised controls,” but says nothing about being graphically remastered beyond increased resolutions - still, for a 16-year-old game, it looks pretty damn nice. Republic Commando will come to the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 on April 6, which is interesting as it originally only came to PC and Microsoft’s Xbox back in 2005. But given that Mandalore and its history of warrior peoples are having a real renaissance thanks to The Mandalorian TV series and Clone Wars’ recently concluded final season, it’s nice to get this look back at how it all started.

It introduced the peaceful New Mandalorian faction, lead by Duchess Satine Kryze, and was a radical overhaul of the warrior culture depicted in Traviss’ Republic Commando novels to a level that Traviss formally cut ties with Lucasfilm in the wake of it. Filoni’s Clone Wars series - which, as a Star Wars product with the direct involvement of Lucas, overrode the Expanded Universe’s novels in the old tiered system of Star Wars canon - eventually rewrote all of that.

Delta squad in the clone wars