The Republic Commandos are coming back at long last... but not the long-mooted sequel to the game, sadly. They'll be appearing in The Clone Wars instead when Season 3 debuts on September 17th.
While this is good news for fans of the characters, as Republic Commando is one of the best and most unique Star Wars games ever released I'm still annoyed there's no sequel incoming. Yet.
It's also a bit salt-in-the-wound that they appear in The Clone Wars, since the run of well-received Republic Commando novels by Karen Traviss (the most recent being Imperial Commando: 501st) was cancelled because the cartoon's last season totally contradicted the series' depiction of the planet Mandalore - even though George Lucas has whole paid departments to make sure this never happens.
Feel free to shout "NERD!" now.
Source: IGN
Aububuh
I might have to read that. Have you? If so, is it good?
The Republic Commando novels are, amazingly, some really great books. They do this the same way the game is great - by almost feeling completely separate from Star Wars and all the film events going on.
The big downside though is that thanks to The Clone Wars pissing Karen Traviss off she's not doing any more in the series, so the story doesn't really get resolved. I think this is the only case of this ever happening with Star Wars.
The Tingler
The book 'Republic Commando - Order 66' might help you there. :)
I might have to read that. Have you? If so, is it good?
Aububuh
I'm very happy about this. I'd still rather see them in another game, because I want to see what happend to them during order 66, and I don't think we'll see that in the show. Oh well, this way we'll see 07, and he's awesome.
The book 'Republic Commando - Order 66' might help you there. :)