![]() ![]() It’s a basic concept, but knowing when to use Assault, Heavy, Specialist or Officer and when to take advantage of their unique abilities (such as the Officer’s power of healing) simply reinforces the objective-based nature of the five core multiplayer modes. The game actively wants you to play as a team, even going so far as rewarding you with extra in-game points just for completing objectives or scoring kills while in the vicinity of the squad you spawn with. With huge, branching maps it’s here that the much-needed changes to matchmaking are truly felt.Ĭlasses – the bread and butter of pretty much every other shooter worth its salt – have finally been introduced, fostering a distinct sense of teamwork that permeates practically every mode of BF2. Galactic Assault, the big 40-player, objective-based mode that took pride of place in the first game returns, and it’s just as much a must-play experience as ever. ![]() Multiplayer is the real star of the show here, and in its sophomore iteration, DICE has built an online experience that feels like Star Wars as much as it authentically looks like it. It’s everything we’ve ever wanted Battlefront to be – it’s just a shame BF2 doesn’t do it more. You then leap back into your ship and do it all over again. One mission sees you flying a starfighter, engaging in dogfights before landing and entering a firefight on the ground. There’s an attempt to introduce stealth a few times, too (which doesn’t work as it’s simply inapplicable elsewhere), but it’s when Motive combines multiplayer modes in a narrative setting that the campaign comes into its own. You’ll get to explore plenty of new (and familiar) locales, and take part in many an important canonical event, but the campaign never truly manages to rise beyond the objective-based nature of its multiplayer DNA. It’s just a bit of shame that there’s very little story to hold it all together. In fact, the rest of the cast puts in some decent performances, too – even those doing passable imitations of your favorite Star Wars characters (seriously EA, could you not afford Mark Hamill?). Hats off to actress Janina Gavankar for making a ‘villain’ likeable for all the right reasons. In Versio, we get a female protagonist with depth a character willing to question the ideals and figures that have helped make her the warrior she is. In the shoes of Iden Versio, a brilliant and coldly efficient commander of an elite Imperial special forces team, you’ll explore a Star Wars universe reeling from the end of Return Of The Jedi. The game's flight handling has received significant improvements since the first game Serving partly as a quasi-tutorial for the game’s wider multiplayer systems – enabling you to unlock and select weapons and Star Cards (which offer access to interchangeable, cooldown-affected abilities) – the short-but-sweet campaign weaves a canonical story that takes you into the heart of the main saga, through its immediate aftermath and beyond. ![]() At the same time it also makes a convincing case that single-player, narrative-driven games set in a universe of lightsabers, TIE Fighters and Salacious Crumb still have a place in 2017. Squad goalsĭeveloped by Motive Studios (the studio built around former Assassin’s Creed exec Jade Raymond), the story campaign offers an experience that’s both authentically Star Wars and consistently exciting. We've now played through the game's single-player campaign in its entirety, and we'll be spending some time with its multiplayer over the coming days before we update this review with our final verdict. From the lush forests of Endor to the cold glimmer of space, you’ve never seen Star Wars look this good away from the silver screen. Running on DICE’s frighteningly beautiful Frostbite engine, it’s one of the most graphically accomplished games we’ve seen running on current-gen tech. Battlefront 2 rights those wrongs, and then some. ![]()
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