He’d felt guilt before, Wrecker’s injury still gnawed on his conscience. But again, the newer version is probably an 8, if we were to give it a go using our new grading system.Hunter had felt anger before, he felt it every time he had to bite his tongue, step back to let some officer take the glory. Yeah, it falls short of full SA, but the sculpt, design, colors, and source material give it extra credit in my book. We’ll rescue it from obsolescence and give it a status of “surpassed”. Because of this, the figure might be rendered obsolete by the upgraded version, were it not for the fact that the SOTDS figure is missing the all important hip canister. Amazingly, the entire crew was retooled with ball jointed knees and ankles in the the 2011 Shadows of the Dark Side line. The figure was re-released along with repaints to make all of Delta Squad in a multi-pack later in the Saga Collection. For weaponry, Scorch comes with a DC-17m Interchangeable Weapon System, which has silver parts just like some blasters that came in TVC several years later. Like the backpack, it’s removable, but both leave holes behind should you choose to leave them off the figure. There’s also a canister pack, perhaps for ammo or medical supplies. The figure has a removable back pack a unique design to this trooper. while the upper body is excellent, especially for a 2006 figure, it fails to realize full potential due to the limiting lower body. This hinders the posability quite a bit, of course. Sadly, the promising articulation ends there, as there are no knees or ankles. The body has ball joints at the neck, chest, shoulders and elbows. The sculpt is excellent, and very true to the game character. You could almost see the HUD as you imaging being on the other side of the helmet. The marks on the helmet could almost be the inspiration for the bloody handprint on Finn’s First Order helmet. The dirt and scoring on the figure are pretty great as well. The helmet style was all new in the game, and gives the impression of the standard clone phase one helmet on steroids. The colors and patterns on the armor are striking, and unlike any clone design previously seen. The figure seemed tricky to find at first, but if you had patience, you should have been able to find him. To add to the fun (if you cared about such things), he was also available in the Ultimate Galactic Hunt silver chase variant. I remember thinking it was one of the more awesome figures to hunt down. Scorch was selected to be the first member of Delta Squad to be realized in 3.75” action form. Specifically, Scorch ad the rest of Delta Squad were in a season 3 episode of the show, called “Witches of the Mist.” Gregor was another Commando, and after seemingly sacrificing himself spectacularly to help his friends in TCW, he appeared later in Rebels along with Wolff and Rex. However, I had completely forgotten that Dave Filoni saved him, Delta Squad, and the concept of the republic commando during various episodes of The Clone Wars. I had assumed the character was no longer canon, swept away like sawdust on a shop floor with the Disney purge of 2014. It was your team’s job to fight through the ranks of the Geonosians and take out this key Separatist leader. However, he was one of the level “bosses” in Republic Commando. We reviewed Sun Fac a few days ago, and mentioned that he barely had any screen time in Attack of the Clones. It was quite satisfying to revive your squadmate just at the moment you were knocked out yourself, but you could then jump into that character, turn around, and revive the previous.ĭelta squad were some of the coolest looking clones around, and it made perfect sense that Hasbro would jump on the chance to give us action figures from the game. Some of the most edge of your seat action came when you were in close quarters and enemies were picking off your squad, and you had to revive each other in order to keep the mission going. If you managed to apply a medi-pack to one of your downed mates, you could revive him. I say this because they weren’t actually killed, just wounded and incapacitated. There was a tactic in the game where you could jump into the shoes of any of the 4 members of the squad, which was helpful if any of the others were taken out of action. It had a decent story, cool character design, and an immersive first person perspective. Republic Commando is probably in my top 5 Star Wars games.
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