We've documented 10 accessibility features for Star Wars: Bounty Hunter, including Fully Voiced (Or No Speech), Low Pressure, Play Without Hearing, Some Speech Subtitled and Minimal Reading. Its accessibility is strongest in Getting Started and Reading but it also has features in Audio, Controls and Visual to reduce unintended barriers.
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Our accessibility examiner, Ben Kendall, first checked Star Wars: Bounty Hunter accessibility a year ago.
Accessibility Notes
There are checkpoints throughout each level, but these are often spaced quite far apart, meaning you can quite easily lose a lot of progress if you die. In addition, there is no map and many of the levels can be extremely yard to navigate, with lots of very similar-looking, or identical, areas that you need to move through, so it is very easy to get lost.
Cutscenes don't have any subtitles, but during gameplay, a woman who speaks to you over the radio has her dialogue presented as subtitles, although these are neither large nor high in contrast. The only other text during gameplay is the optional bounty scans you can perform, which indicate whether the target is wanted dead or alive, as well as other non-essential information. Again, this text is neither large nor high in contrast.
Many sections of the game are very low in contrast or dark, with the final three stages, comprising the game's final chapter, all being extremely dark and containing hordes of black, fast-moving enemies.
Game Details
Release Date: 19/11/2002, updated in 2015
Out Now: GameCube, PS2, PS3 and PS4
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Players: 1
Genres: Platform, Shooting (Action, Puzzle and Stealth)
Accessibility: 10 features
Components: 3D Third-Person
Developer: Lucasfilm Games (@LucasfilmGames)
Costs: Purchase cost
Controls
We've documented 1 accessibility feature for Controls in Star Wars: Bounty Hunter which deals with how you control the game, different options for alternative inputs and whether you can remap these settings to suit your needs.
Gamepad
Can play with the following:
Multiple Buttons & Two Sticks: Can play with multiple buttons and two sticks.
Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Controls
If you want to play Star Wars: Bounty Hunter, but it doesn't offer the Controls accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Controls accessibility:
- Halo Infinite (14 Controls Features)
- Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (10 Controls Features)
- Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (10 Controls Features)
- Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga (10 Controls Features)
Difficulty
We haven’t documented any accessibility features for Difficulty in Star Wars: Bounty Hunter which deal with how you can adjust the challenge of play, and whether this is locked once chosen or can be adjusted as you play. The following games are similar to Star Wars: Bounty Hunter, and offer accessibility features for Difficulty:
- Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (3 Difficulty Features)
- Horizon Forbidden West (3 Difficulty Features)
- Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (3 Difficulty Features)
- My Friend Pedro (2 Difficulty Features)
Getting Started
We've documented 3 accessibility features for Getting Started in Star Wars: Bounty Hunter which deal with what support is offered to get started with the game. This includes customising the experience when you first open the game via any onboarding processes it provides as well as tutorials and other assistance when you first start playing.
Assistance Getting Starting
These features aid your play of the game in terms of cognitive load on learning controls, dealing with pressure and coping with the environment and challenges.
Tutorials: There are helpful tutorials and instructions on how to play. Information is provided in a timely manner, with appropriate level of detail.
Low Pressure: Game tasks aren't time-limited or there's a low-pressure mode. This avoids the pressure of being put on the clock for overarching missions, or failing tasks because you didn't reach a destination in time.
No Jump Scares: No sudden loud noises or popping-up scary visuals that unexpectedly appear without warning, or the option to disable them.
Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Getting Started
If you want to play Star Wars: Bounty Hunter, but it doesn't offer the Getting Started accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Getting Started accessibility:
- Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (7 Getting Started Features)
- Doom Eternal (6 Getting Started Features)
- Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga (5 Getting Started Features)
- Horizon Forbidden West (5 Getting Started Features)
Reading
We've documented 3 accessibility features for Reading in Star Wars: Bounty Hunter which deal with how much reading or listening comprehension is required, how well the game provides visual and audible access to the text and whether subtitles and captions are a good fit for purpose.
Reading Level
How much reading is required to play the game's main path or story and how complex the language is. The presence of voiced characters doesn't reduce this requirement, as it's recorded as a separate datapoint.
Simple Minimal Reading: Minimal reading is required. The quantity and complexity of reading are at a level that a primary/elementary student (9-year-old) could understand.
Subtitles
Some Speech Subtitled: Some spoken content has subtitles. This reduces the pressure on interpreting all the spoken content, although not everything is captured textually.
Voice Acted
All Dialogue is Voice Acted (Or No Speech In Game): All of the game dialogue and narrative can be voiced, or there is no speech in the game. This means there is no requirement to read the dialogue and narrative text to play the game.
Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Reading
If you want to play Star Wars: Bounty Hunter, but it doesn't offer the Reading accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Reading accessibility:
- Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (6 Reading Features)
- Halo Infinite (6 Reading Features)
- Star Wars: The Old Republic (6 Reading Features)
- Star Wars: Squadrons (6 Reading Features)
Navigation
We haven’t documented any accessibility features for Navigation in Star Wars: Bounty Hunter which deal with how the game provides guidance and assistance to navigate its worlds. These are only for games that have traversal and exploration in 2D and 3D spaces. The following games are similar to Star Wars: Bounty Hunter, and offer accessibility features for Navigation:
- Halo Infinite (11 Navigation Features)
- Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga (8 Navigation Features)
- Star Wars: The Old Republic (8 Navigation Features)
- Horizon Forbidden West (7 Navigation Features)
Visual
We've documented 1 accessibility feature for Visual in Star Wars: Bounty Hunter which deals with how you can adjust the visuals to suit your needs, and offer additional information if you can't hear the game.
Motion Sickness Friendly
Motion Sickness Friendly: Doesn't have 3D movement elements that may trigger motion sickness, like motion blur, depth of field and field-of-vision. Or includes the ability to disable motion blur, depth of field and field-of-vision effects.
Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Visual
If you want to play Star Wars: Bounty Hunter, but it doesn't offer the Visual accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Visual accessibility:
- Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (6 Visual Features)
- Halo Infinite (6 Visual Features)
- Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (6 Visual Features)
- My Friend Pedro (5 Visual Features)
Audio
We've documented 2 accessibility features for Audio in Star Wars: Bounty Hunter which deal with how you can adjust the audio of the game and whether audio cues compensate for aspects of the game that are hard to see.
Adjustable Audio
Balance Audio Levels: Set music and game sound effects separately. This enables you to select your preference as well as ensure critical game sounds aren't obscured by other audio.
Play Without Hearing
Play Without Hearing: No audio cues are necessary to play the game well.
Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Audio
If you want to play Star Wars: Bounty Hunter, but it doesn't offer the Audio accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Audio accessibility:
- Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (4 Audio Features)
- Uncharted: Golden Abyss (4 Audio Features)
- Uncharted: The Lost Legacy (4 Audio Features)
- Star Wars: Squadrons (4 Audio Features)
System Accessibility Settings
In addition to the accessibility features provided in the game, you can also use system-wide accessibility settings:
PlayStation 4
PlayStation 4 has a range of accessibility settings. Some are system only, some work in games (invert colours and button mapping).
Read more about system accessibility settings.
Accessibility Report supported by VSC Rating Board, PlayabilityInitiative and accessibility contributors Ben Kendall