Yet it also displays that DICE have a ways to go before really nailing a good blueprint for story telling. It feels like DICE’s next effort after Battlefied 1’s War Stories. It’s a lot to cram into just five hours and even though we know and love these characters, within the game itself it’s just not enough time to experience a satisfying character arc for each. Over the course of that five hours, DICE does its best to tug on every one of our nostalgia heart strings, allowing us to play not only as Iden Versio but also as Luke, Leia, Han…. If you play a lot of videogames and love Star Wars, you’re better off putting the game on the highest difficulty. With that, for better or worse, Battlefront II’s campaign begins feeling like Star Wars at its best.īut does that feeling last? We should hope so with the campaign lasting only around five hours.
Not only is it fantastically designed from the get go, but it’s also Star Wars canon. You know this is all about the fall of the Empire after the collapse of the Death Star II. You see the world design, hear the voice acting. If you grit your teeth and bought Battlefront II, for sheer love of Star Wars as I did, you’ll sit down and watch the opening cinematic, feeling that warm glow of Star Wars familiarity sinking in. Let’s bear these points in mind as we review – and only review – Star Wars: Battlefront II. Yet, unlike the protest score you will find on Metacritic, the game developed by DICE, Criterion and Motive is not automatically awful because of a monetisation system forced upon them by their publisher. I completely agree that it is the most dangerous thing to established AAA gaming that we have to contend with. The original PC version of the game supported up to 64 players - which according to Steam Charts is right around double the Steam version’s average player count - but it’s not clear how big you can make games this time around.ĭespite the fact that the game is approaching two decades old at this point, this is the second update the Steam version has gotten since its 2019 release.Lastly, I’d like to take this chance to remind everyone that yes, lootbox economy is bad. The original release of Battlefront also had multiplayer, which could be played either over a local area connection, by using the GameSpy servers on PS2 or and PC, or over Xbox Live on the original Xbox.īattlefront was re-released on Steam in 2019, as Star Wars: Battlefront (Classic, 2004) but since GameSpy shut down long before that back in 2014, there wasn’t a multiplayer option, outside of custom workarounds. This new update, which is only for the Steam version of the game -because the other platforms it was released on were the PlayStation 2 and Xbox - adds online multiplayer. Nope, not the DICE game from 2015, the original Battlefront from 2004.
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