This Revenge of the 5th was brought to you by Geonosian blood, a wiped screen, and a lot of yelling.

🎥 Let’s start by showing y’all the trailers shall we?

😏 Not Gonna Lie… This One’s a Blast

Even though this is another Star Wars game, I must admit it—this one is a blast. So what’s the plot rundown?

🫡 Clone Squad Rollout

Well, essentially you play as this special league of clones called the Commandos, where you will play as one of them in first-person view. The team heads to Geonosis to destroy the robot factory from the inside out.

Along the way through, you will encounter Geonosians and Super Battle Droids. You will have to take them out all the while placing bombs in specific areas.

Yeah, that’s it for the game. It’s you, the player, sitting down and just having some good old-fashioned Star Wars shooting time.

🪳 Bug Guts and Buddy Commands

I really like how in this game the ins and outs of Geonosis are portrayed as eerie. Makes sense—I mean, if you’ve never seen or heard of these robots or bug creatures and you enter this place and you bump into them the first time?

You’re gonna be scared, so I like the approach. I also like that in this game you can give your comrades commands by pointing at an objective, so you can have your comrades place bombs, and heal you if you’re knocked on the ground.

Also when you get Geonosian blood on your visors, the screen just wipes it off for you. Oh yes—did I forget to mention when you kill Geonosians you get their blood on your visors?

Oh, I didn’t? Well uh yeah, that’s a thing in this game. It’s a cool detail.

🧱 Difficulty Spikes Be Like…

Side note—I will admit my only issue with this game is how difficult it can get sometimes.

Sometimes the game feels easy enough, but other parts you’re being overwhelmed by Super Battle Droids and Geonosians. You and your teammates will unfortunately die and have to restart that whole segment again.

Which I guess is a staple for really any video game, so why am I complaining. But yeah—I highly recommend this game.

📺 Canon? Kinda!

In a way, I guess we could look at this game as canon because one of these four commandos made an appearance in Bad Batch Season 3.

But they also appeared in that third episode of that four-episode story arc that introduced Savage Opress in Season 4 of The Clone Wars.

That’s a fun fact for today.
(Also, my rock star sister – yeah she is really in a rock band – gives shark facts at every show. Seriously. So I guess the Cliffy Claven gene runs in the family.)

🛰️ The Other Campaigns

👾 Campaign 1: Geonosis

Already talked about this—go in, blow stuff up, get swarmed by bugs and bots.

🚨 Campaign 2: Prosecutor

(Yeah, I grabbed this description from the Republic Commando wiki because I’m not about to type all that in my own words.)

“Almost a year after the Battle of Geonosis, an Acclamator-class assault ship — the Prosecutor, under the command of Captain Martz — goes missing while on patrol in the Corellian sector. After two weeks of no contact, the Prosecutor, Delta Squad’s first home, appears in the Chaykin Cluster near the Corbantis system in Separatist-controlled territory but doesn’t respond to any contact attempts. Three hundred sixty-seven days after the start of the Clone Wars, Delta Squad is dispatched to investigate.”

🌲 Campaign 3: Kashyyyk

(Also from the wiki. Because again, no way I’m pretending I wrote this whole mission briefing myself.)

“As the war drags onward, Delta Squad participates in increasingly dangerous missions. A cry for help is heard by the Republic from the Wookiee homeworld of Kashyyyk, where Trandoshan slavers have established their camps and are enslaving the Wookiees with the help of Separatist weaponry. Delta Squad is sent to rescue the Wookiee chieftain Tarfful, who has been captured by the Trandoshan presence on this planet weeks before the beginning of Delta Squad’s mission.”

🛑 Final Boss Fight (And Then the End)

How does this campaign end? Well, it ends with the squad going up against some MagnaGuards.

Eventually, both MagnaGuards are defeated and destroyed, and Tarfful’s intelligence is secured to aid the Republic and Delta Squad in aiding the Wookiees with retaking their planet from the CIS.

That’s how the game ends. Yes, I know—spoilers. But hey, I’m spoiling an old game. Anyways, I highly recommend checking this game out.