For those of you tired of the slop Disney has been trotting out recently, the best alternatives to the Bad Batch show and the Mandalorian show are the two video games, Republic Commando and Bounty Hunter. Both have a great performance from Temuera Morrison as RC-1138/Boss and Jango Fett, as well as great performances from other actors like Raphael Sbarge and Clancy Brown. Republic Commando gives us what the Bad Batch show promised but failed to provide, the adventures of four highly-skilled commando super-soldiers who blow through legions of enemies while spouting one-liners like badasses, while Bounty Hunter provides what Mando has been missing; the adventures of a tough lone Mandalorian gun-for-hire as he makes his way through the galaxy, fighting Coruscanti drug cartels, Republic soldiers, Hutt gangs, Dug kings, and even a cult led by a Dark Jedi.
Of course, the trade-off for the authentic feel of these games is that they're rather hard; Bounty Hunter is basically a Nintendo Hard game on the same level as the NES Ninja Gaiden, what with the enemies and the platforming combining to be a very challenging affair, whereas Republic Commando is at most at a same level as Heroic in Halo, and sometimes it even feels like Halo on Legendary, with powerful enemies like Super Battle Droids, Geonosian Elites, and Trandoshan Heavy Assault Mercenaries who can kill you rather easily and tank several assault rifle clips. You have to know how to exploit their few weaknesses in order to defeat them. But for the gamers who don't throw their controllers at the screen whenever the game whoops their asses, these games do reward you with an engaging story and a badass main character voiced by Temuera Morrison.
Bounty Hunter's story revolves around Jango Fett dismantling a powerful drug cartel known as the Bando Gora, which operates more like a cult. Like the Collectors from Mass Effect 2, they're everywhere and nowhere at the same time; they're hard to find, unless you're willing to make the right sacrifices. The story relies on characters like Jango Fett, and a cast of colorful characters that provide some backstory and drama for the man. There's Jango's old Toydarian friend, Roz, who acts as his intel source; she cares about Jango because he's done more than his fair share of good deeds for her, so she looks out for him out of some kind of professional courtesy. There's Montross, played by Clancy Brown, basically acting as the Star Wars equivalent to the Kurgen in that he savors blood and destruction. He's a Mandalorian rival of Jango Fett, who disagreed with him becoming Jaster Mereel's heir. He serves as the main rival for Jango; whereas Jango values bounties based on how much money is attached to it, Montross would happily kill people even if it means he's paid less, so long as he gets high off the carnage.
We also see Zam Wessel, and we see the start of her partnership with Jango, and the story actually does show why he tolerates her, but also why he's willing to kill her when things go sour. Zam is handy in a pinch, but she'd happily sell Jango out if it means she gets to live, so it's not that surprising why Jango would use her against Padme, and why he iced her when it seemed like she was going to betray him to the Jedi.
Republic Commando, on the other hand, revolves around an operator squad of four Republic Commandos, each with a designated specialty. You have RC-1138 Boss, who is the commander of the group and who is their tactician and leader. He's basically Jango Fett if he were a Republic soldier, since the whole idea behind him is that he is close to Jango in terms of attitude and performance. You have RC-1140 Fixer, who is the technician and the by-the-book soldier. You have RC-1262 Scorch, the funny man and demolition man of the group. And you have RC-1204 Sev, the combat specialist and sniper of the team, who gets off on killing things. These four personalities mix together to create Delta Squad, the most elite of the Clone Commando squadrons, recognized by Jango himself as "my boys". The Clone Commando program had some fatalities during the training process, which Jango wrote off as "culling the weak". For him to praise Delta Squad in such a manner shows how well they've done in training and how deadly they are in combat.
The game follows the four of them as they go through different situations, from helping the Republic win on Geonosis, to rescuing a captured Republic ship, to helping Wookiees combat slavers on their own turf, and the four members of Delta Squad and their personalities bounce off each other as they fight through legions of enemies, from droids, to Trandoshan slavers and mercenaries, and Geonosian warriors and elites. These four become fire-forged friends through the campaign, to the point where the loss of just one caused them to panic and get dismayed.
I can tell you more, but it'd be more prudent to just let you guys play the games yourselves so that you'd find out on your own how much better these games do the job of the BB show and the Mando show.
