Order 66 is compelling because it requires you to strategically engage your enemies. Picking one of these up lets you call for an air strike, damaging all enemy units onscreen. Med kits abound, and are the game's only power-ups, aside from very rare missile icons. In these instances it's a good idea to keep him in front to take damage. One unit, for example, can occasionally activate a shield. You can also switch the order of the troops in the formation to suit your strategy. Your units can travel in three formations: staggered, horizontally linear, and vertically linear. Choosing your troops wisely is practically half the battle certain units are almost required to beat each level's end boss. Each type of soldier fires in a particular direction with a certain level of power. You can select these from a small roster that grows each time you complete a level, and eventually includes Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader himself. In Order 66, you command three units at a time. Jedi can sense Sith bowel movements far across the galaxy, yet they can't tell when these same Sith are amassing vast armies within their own headquarters. The gameplay is so good, you'll curse the fact that the user interface is completely broken on the Sony Ericsson S710. Order 66 combines excellent strategic shooting with lackluster presentation and broken menu interaction.

'Enact Order 66' is Palpatine's way of commanding you to kill all the Jedi-a move anticipated by everyone but the Jedi themselves, who were too busy doing nude yoga in their hippie commune to notice that every single clone soldier had gone all Dark Side. In Star Wars: Republic Commando: Order 66, you control Republic insurgents under the thrall of Chancellor Palpatine, who's not so secretly a Sith Lord.

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