- Choose which faction you’d like to join – The Rebel Alliance, Imperial Army, Clone Troopers or the Separatists
- Drive AT-ST’s, speeder bikes and tanks to outmaneuver your opponents
- Jump into the cockpit of X-Wings and TIE Fighters and fight for control of space
- Explore actual locations from the Star Wars films, like the wooded moon of Endor and the ice planet Hoth — and new locations like Kamino, the ocean planet
- The ringed world of Geonosis, the jungle moon of Yavin IV, the canals and bridges of Naboo are all created in amazing, fully-realized 3D
Product Description
Star Wars Battlefront gives you a chance to play a soldier during the wars in the Star Wars Galaxy. Battle for freedom or dominance, across 10 unique worlds. Use authentic Star Wars weapons and vehicles — from X-Wings to snow speeders. Experience true online chaos, as you fight the great battles of the Star Wars universe! In Conquest Mode, players who capture planets will gain specific advantages over their rivals – adding to the strategic challenge Exciting o… More >>
I love this game. I totally understand where many of the negative reviews are coming from…but as a person who only plays games once in a great while, I must say that I thoroughly enjoy this title.
It’s easy to learn and you can just jump right in a play for ten mins or 5 hrs and not get bored…granted, if I played 5 hrs a day every day for a couple weeks this game would get old REAL fast…but it’s certainly a solid game with good graphics.
If you are a Star Wars fan but not a gamer (as I am), this is a great game for you.
Rating: 4 / 5
All in all it’s an alright game with lots of fun things to do and shot. Many of the different vehicles you can use if you can find them and there are a variety of different weapons and people to use. However, Do NOT count on being darth Vador or Luke or any of the other main characters other than Chewy, He’s the only one you can be. There aren’t any Jedi knights you can be, or not that I have found as of yet. The overall game is difficult but interesting and tends to keep your attention. I was very pleased with the sniper view on some of the people you can use, however enemies when very close up seem to disappear and re-appear all over the place.
The graphics and movies are good, wouldn’t say the best, but they are good.
All in all if you like shooting and blowing stuff up, and enjoy the Star wars movies and idea, then this game would be a good addition to your collection.
Good luck and happy hunting…
Rating: 4 / 5
I’m not a Star Wars fan, but this game is so much fun. I haven’t had this much fun on a game for a long time.
GOOD:
There are so many vehicles to use. There are also some cool characters….and jetpacks. The levels are creative and the “capture the base” style play keeps respawn play strategic. Playing with so many bots gives a big battle feel that I haven’t experienced in a game. Also, there are many details from the SW movies that are added into the levels.
BAD:
The online servers aren’t set up very well. It’s hard to find a game with a friend, or any specific room at all. Also, some of the blaster guns trail way behind your crosshairs and this gets annoying. As with any online shooter there are occasional teamkillers.
If you like first person shooters and/or Star Wars than get this game. It seems that Lucas Arts is releasing online patches quite often to fix all the problems in this game.
Rating: 4 / 5
For some reason Star Wars and video games don’t seem to get along very well. There really haven’t been any good Star Wars games on consoles since the SNES Super Star Wars series back in the early 90′s (Jedi Outcast for PC notwithstanding). Star Wars Battlefront is looking to rectify that. And it, to all intents and purposes, comes pretty close.
Star Wars Battlefront can be best described as Battlefield: 1942 with a Star Wars mod. You have the basic classes of soldiers from the Star Wars universe; Rebel solider, Pilots, Stormtrooper, Snipers, and even Wookies. All with thier unique weapons and abilities. There are squad commands to a limited extent. Basically you can order who ever is in your close proximity to back you up, hold position or advance. Personally I was looking for a little more deeper command structure, like in the EA game Freedom Fighters. The graphics are very good. Everything has a very Star Wars feel to it.
The controls are somewhat confusing at first. About 2 one hour long sessions are required to really get used to them. Piloting flyable vehicles is quite difficult. Though the maps are large, it’s a constant challenge to NOT crash into anything. The game environments run the gamut of the Star Wars universe. From Yavin to Hoth they’re all represented. Some of the game environments are more combat friendly than others. There’s lots of open space and at times cover is hard to find. One thing that didn’t make it into the game is the player’s ability to “lean out” from behind cover. This makes things difficult when in the middle of a fire fight. Also the single player campaign could have benefited from more depth. There’s Galactic Conquest mode and Historical Campaigns, but there’s no real story line and no othe objectives other than “capture command posts” which are indicated by beacons of colored light. There’s no “storyline” to speak of, but footage from the films is used to try and give the action more context. Again, I was expecting more of a Freedom Fighters type of single player with more compelling objectives. But unfortunatley I didn’t find it. During Galactic Conquest there are “Planetery Extras” you unlock. For example, if you’re playing as the Empire you can unlock Darth Vader to fight along side your troops. Sounds cool and to and extent it is. There’s also Split Screen action so you can take on a friend or play co-op. One thing that bothered me was that in training mode you are only shown videos of how to do things. The passive training mode did little to help me during the actual gameplay. A more interactive mode would have benefited players more.
With no Network Adaptor I was unable to try the online modes. But after playing the Single Player game, I get the feeling that the online mode isn’t much different. Single player feels more like a practice mode for the online games.
Okay now, why did this game get 4 stars? Even with all it’s problems, this still is a pretty fun game once you’ve been playing it for a while. It’s also a very good game graphically. One thing I’m hoping is that Pandemic and Lucas Arts will take the foundation that they’ve laid down for this game and build on it. Giving it a more extensive single player mode and making some things a little more player friendly. There’s enormous potential here. They just have to tap into it. Wait till this one is on sale.
Rating: 4 / 5
The Good:
Hey–it’s Star Wars! Very cool to play in terrains from the films. And there’s something both beautiful and ominous about turning around to see a gigantic AT-AT walker, silouetted in the sun, bearing down on you. The aiming and firing controls are top-notch and when you aim right you hit (none of the horrendous “I’m shooting but not hitting him” problem that plagues Socom 2). A little icon pops up when lag sets in, allowing you to re-think your strategy. And the vehicles are cool (but require some skill to fly). The awards given out at the end of each round are a nice touch and add a sense of humor (maybe on par with the terrorist chef in Zipper’s game). The gameplay is fast–much more of an adrenalin rush than Socom. Like Dodgeball with Blasters.
The Bad:
Clans don’t exist. And there’s really only one game–a “Domination”-type game which has the serious potential of getting old really soon. The game is much, much more in the vein of “Unreal Tournament” and “Tribes: Arial Assault” than it is “Socom 2″. It’s worth noting, by the way, that those games are three years or more old already. Gamers today expect more sophisticated stuff. The “open mike” concept may work for chat rooms and cocktail parties, but hardly anyone is using it here (it smells like a gimmick) and more times than not you wind up hearing the sounds of some anonymous player chomping on his crackers while he/she’s playing.
The Dark Side:
When I first posted this review I spoke at length about the problem with the sparse number of available servers. I promsied that if things changed I would retract my statements. Well, the folks at Gamespy or Lucasarts heard (I’m hoping) this common complaint and responded. Tonight there were many, many servers from which to choose and logging into the game was a breeze. I’ve edited my post here as promised.
So what, then, is the game’s Dark Side? Well, with the server problem fixed there really isn’t a dark side. Obviously I’ve made a lot of comparisons to “Socom 2″. But I came to realize that Socom 2 and Battlefront are really two different games. Apples and oranges. They both serve different purposes in the online gaming world.
Don’t expect “Star Wars: Socom”. It’s not, will never be and isn’t intended to be. Likewise, if you like Battlefront and are thinking about trying Socom, you’ll soon realize what I mean here.
Will it appeal to all of the Socom loyalists? Well, tonight (Thursday, 09/23) the Socom servers were at half their capacity. That hasn’t happened in months– if ever. In other words, roughly 15,000 people went somewhere. Yeah–probably to Battlefront. Will they stay with Battlefront?
Only the Force knows…
Rating: 3 / 5