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10 Accessibility Features

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.

This report is created with input from accessibility experts and the player community to help people find games that have the accessibility features they require. Once you have found potential games on the database, there are excellent specialist accessibility sites that offer in-depth reviews to guide your purchasing decisions.

Star Wars: Bounty Hunter is a running, jumping and shooting game where you play a ruthless bounty hunter on a galaxy-spanning mission to track down and capture a rogue force-wielder. As you infiltrate secret bases, factories, and prisons you must fight thugs, droids, and mercenaries with automatically aiming weapons. It stands out for its classic Star Wars story and how the auto-aiming makes play about evasion and precise jetpack movement.

Our accessibility examiner, Ben Kendall, first checked Star Wars: Bounty Hunter accessibility a year ago.

NotesAccessibility Notes

To use certain weapons and abilities, as well as fly with your jetpack, you need to hold down buttons. Your twin pistols, your main weapon, only fire once per button press, so you very often need to rapidly press the fire button as fast as you can, often for several minutes at a time, and sometimes while simultaneously moving, jumping, and flying. The game has no difficulty options, and later levels get extremely hard, requiring practice as well as precise movement and timing.

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.

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DetailsGame 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

 

ControlsControls

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.

 

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DifficultyDifficulty

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:

Getting StartedGetting 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.

 

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ReadingReading

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.

 

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NavigationNavigation

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:

VisualVisual

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.

 

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AudioAudio

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.

 

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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.

VSC LogoAccessibility Report supported by VSC Rating Board, PlayabilityInitiative and accessibility contributors Ben Kendall


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