Villains where you’re guaranteed to be one of the key characters during a 5 round battle where the first to the score limit wins. Hero Hunt randomly selects a player and faces them off against everyone else – kill the hero and you become one (a bit like Gladiator mode from Timesplitters 2). What if you can’t get hold of your favourite character from the original trilogy? There’s a mode for that. Battlefront is the cool toy and had to figure out a way to share itself with all the kids. Tie Fighter duel, there’s not that barrier to entry that can crop up with some of the games that need you to commit time to levelling up before letting you play with the cool toys. Because everyone can play as one of these characters, or blast an AT-ST with a rocket launcher, or take part in an X-Wing vs. Find one of these tokens and you get to pick Luke, Han or Leia for the Rebels, and Vader, The Emperor or Boba Fett for the Empire, granting you appropriate powers and exceptional health until the other team manage to take you down.
Picked up and used at the right time they can provide a much needed boost, or even change the tide of battle, especially with the Heroes/Villains. Power ups are your access to heavy weaponry, vehicles or Heroes/Villains during the battle, and because they’re semi-randomly placed and require no particular level to use, they’re a brilliant way of keeping your engagement. Blaster types are varied enough so that it’s easy to find something you like, and bonuses (called Star Cards here) come in all sorts of formats from grenades to jetpacks. You’ve no choice of character or class, which strips back any deliberation at the start of a round, and differentiation between players is through unlocking weapons and abilities as you level up. There’s more of an arcade style approach to the action so that anyone can enjoy the Star Wars experience – this is a mass market appeal game remember. Despite Battlefront coming from the studio that’s brought us 4 incarnations of Battlefield where accuracy and skill are paramount to success, this is a different proposition. Choose 1st or 3rd person view, run at the enemy, fire, die, respawn, repeat. Who could resist being able to storm Echo base as part of the Imperial army, or take control of snowspeeder and skim the frozen landscape looking for targets? It’s also one of the modes that has up to 40 players at once taking part, really making you feel part of a huge fight for victory.įocussing on the mechanics for the moment (we’ll get to the other modes shortly), things are kept deliberately simple.
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Challenged with taking down an AT-AT or two in the snowy terrain of Hoth produces arguably the most iconic moment from the movie universe, and for any Star Wars fan is probably the selling point of Battlefront. It doesn’t feel like there’s a primary mode you should be focussing on, though Walker Assault probably gets the most recognition due to its inclusion in beta. There are only 4 worlds (at the moment anyway), but each world accommodates a map that can be used in each of the 9 game modes on offer, and the layouts of the maps are suitably different to make best use of the mode being played. Let’s address the issue around content first. That isn’t here, and it’s not necessarily a bad thing. See, I wanted the land and space battles that we got in Battlefront II, but with the power of the current generation there to realise the environments and scale that wasn’t available a decade ago. Now it’s finally here and it’s with mixed emotions that I’m reviewing it.
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We hungered for a promised third instalment on the PS3 that never materialised (though development footage surfaced), and so it skipped a generation.
Imperials, the aim of the game was a simple fight for control of objectives in a themed map and managed to make you feel like you were part of the universe George Lucas created nearly 40 years ago. Pitting two teams against each other, Rebels vs.
There have been a lot of Star Wars games and very few have lived up to fan expectations, with two of the notable exceptions being the original Battlefront and its sequel on PS2. The real question should be: does it do the source material justice? Alongside that there’s been much made of the supposed lack of content, no singleplayer campaign and a pricey season pass so it’s been facing an uphill struggle from the off. Is it reboot or a sequel? That’s the question that’s been on the lips of many since Star Wars: Battlefront was announced, and now that we’ve had hands on it’s still not entirely clear.
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