Star Wars: Battlefront isn't the deepest game and the leveling mechanics are thus a bit pointless but high level players won't be able to overrun new players with better gear thanks to that. I thus managed to become a MVP within the first hour of play and i don't mind the lack of a campaign due to Dice's mostly bad track record.The new novel "Battlefront: Twilight Company" fulfills that role just fine and there is nothing wrong with having a focus either. The whole experience itself is more importantly the most force accurate in the history of Star Wars games and my biggest gripes are fixable balancing issues and a few glitched achievements (The horror!). The graphics and sound are further some of the best on the market and the sense of scale is awe-inspiring. The amount of modes/maps is fine enough and the sequel is destined to make this game absolute but EA started on the right note with the license.
25 Reviews
Why this game got an 8 on IGN
TheManInsideTheHouse1 February 2016
Warning: Spoilers
Star Wars battlefront is one of the best Star Wars games I've ever played. You start off on a mission on hoth, and then you get to play multi-player. The reason everyone dislikes this game is because it didn't have what they wanted in comparison to battlefront 2. This isn't bf2, it's a reboot. The jakku map is okay, and the game needs WAY more content to be worth the $60. However, Dice released helpful info on future DLCs.
Yes, you can play as Luke, Han, Leia, the emperor, fett, and Vader, but there's only like 5 planets. In the coming year we will get jabbas palace, cloud city, the Death Star, and a new sullust map, each with new heroes and villains and weapons and everything. The best map as of now if Endor, and maybe hoth, but all of them are quite good. The game-play is alright, like if battlefield's K/D ratio and Call of Duty's gun-play had a baby.
This game is worth $40, but with the coming DLC's it'll be worth the original $60 PLUS the season pass. This makes $110. So, if you are prepared to buy both now, wait a month or so, and then pick it up, it'll be worth the price. If you wanna play it now, Be warned: You won't get anything currently with the season pass. You need to wait.
By the way, two weeks after everyone with the pass gets the DLCs, they'll be available anyways (paid). See ya.
Yes, you can play as Luke, Han, Leia, the emperor, fett, and Vader, but there's only like 5 planets. In the coming year we will get jabbas palace, cloud city, the Death Star, and a new sullust map, each with new heroes and villains and weapons and everything. The best map as of now if Endor, and maybe hoth, but all of them are quite good. The game-play is alright, like if battlefield's K/D ratio and Call of Duty's gun-play had a baby.
This game is worth $40, but with the coming DLC's it'll be worth the original $60 PLUS the season pass. This makes $110. So, if you are prepared to buy both now, wait a month or so, and then pick it up, it'll be worth the price. If you wanna play it now, Be warned: You won't get anything currently with the season pass. You need to wait.
By the way, two weeks after everyone with the pass gets the DLCs, they'll be available anyways (paid). See ya.
A fun game that needed work
giticomi5 October 2021
This rework of the original Battlefront series is pertty fun and great looking. But there where many mechanics and aspects missing that could have made this game a masterpiece. With it only being multiplayer its pretty good and entertaining for a while.
Disappointing
ksketchley1 January 2019
The graphics and the gameplay make this game but everything else is lacking content. There is some fun to be had but the more you play it the more repetitive it gets and eventually it just gets boring. Compared to the original battlefront this game is just a disappointment and that's why its a 6/10. Its not bad game but it should of been a lot better than it was.
Underwhelming Mess
felipe_maldonado_e4 December 2015
The hopes were high when a reboot of Batlefront was announced at 2013 E3, even more knowing that the game would be in charge of no other than DICE, the developers of the acclaimed Battlefield series, which inspired the original Star Wars Battlefront games. Sadly, DICE it's under EA's wing, which from a extremely objective point of view, could be seen easily as a non too consumer-friendly company. As the months and then years passed, the speculation and excitement was bigger and bigger from the fans, especially after the gameplay trailer shown at Star Wars Celebration earlier this year. Finally, the game came out; after having played over 20 hours, I can't deny that I've had an awesome time playing it, but the feeling about what could've been generates on me a sensation between rage and disappointment. On the graphics and sound department, the game is absolutely flawless (excepting the awful voice acting in most heroes and villains), the game looks and sounds like Star Wars and because of that, it's one of the most immersive game to date. Then, the gameplay; it's pretty "arcade" or casual, really easy to get into, something that could bother some "hardcore gamers", to me it's fine because keeps the accessibility that the original games had and almost every other Star Wars game have had. The main problem of the game comes when we dive into the content of the main game, a game that costs full retail price. The developers said some months before release that the game would be multiplayer focused, without a conventional campaign, the first bad sign. With that said, it can be expected that the game would have a really complete multiplayer experience (like every other modern multilayer based game), but what we get in Battlefront it's an extremely limited experience; the main game only come with four planets (Hoth, Endor, Tatooine and Sullust), with a new one being added later this month (Jakku), the number of planets was alarming and worried a lot of fans when it was announced, but then they (Dice) said that every planet would have different maps. Yes, in fact, every planet have different maps (something like 4 or 5 each), so, the main problem lies into the game modes. There are something like 10 game modes, which sounds like a decent number, the problem is that only two of those apply all the features that the games disposes (Heroes/Villains, vehicles, massive ground battles; basically what the original games were all about), but almost every other game mode (excepting Fighter Squadron and Heroes vs Villains) feels like just a fill in (like Blast, a painfully generic team deathmatch), modes that that end up as bland and too different from what people used to love about the older games, massive Star Wars battles (like the ones on the two "big" modes, Walker Assault and Supremacy). Summaryzing, we end up having: two "real" modes, whit four maps each (which are all pretty similar), 6 heroes and villains to pick (3 each), 4 ships in total, two ground vehicles (both from the empire side), 11 blasters, 25 "star cards" (perks and various equipment), an almost empty and lazy character customization and a laughable single player "experience"; plus, when you first boot up the game, you already have a text box on the main screen offering you the fifty dollar season pass (almost the same price of the main game), almost saying that you can't have the full experience without it. I could dive more into the game aspects, but you get my point. This game could've been one of the best game in history, but the developers messed up, the game had a rushed release, which causes an almost sickening dependence on future DLC. If you don't like Star Wars nor arcade/casual shooters, I wouldn't recommend this game to you, lacks on content and, consequently, replay-ability.
A fun game easy to pick up right off the bat
airfaith30 March 2016
A fun shooter with interesting weapons and a lot of replay ability, its not hard to play and fall in love with
not as technical as the older battlefront games but its good as its own separate game heres the first ten minutes of the game for those haven't played yet, but if you enjoy a simple shooter easy to throw on and play for an hour or two then you wont be disappointed at all
plenty more on the channel too but i don't know anyone that has regretted buying it, yet anyway, and i don't even have the latest DLC still loving it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deH9UWxxWYY
not as technical as the older battlefront games but its good as its own separate game heres the first ten minutes of the game for those haven't played yet, but if you enjoy a simple shooter easy to throw on and play for an hour or two then you wont be disappointed at all
plenty more on the channel too but i don't know anyone that has regretted buying it, yet anyway, and i don't even have the latest DLC still loving it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deH9UWxxWYY
Graphically Gorgeous but Content is Lacking in this game.
Johnny-the-Film-Sentinel-218713 July 2017
Star Wars Battlefront is definitely a Star Wars game through-and-through, but it's still an EA-DLC-scam that demands you pay Season-Passes all-up. There are modes to enjoy here and there, but the game feels like it's just a placeholder for EA's future Star Wars games. Not too bad, but not all that special either.
At least with Battlefront II it seems that EA's apparently learnt that content over emptiness is the real way to sell their games. The older N64 Star Wars games, Shadows of the Empire, Rogue Squadron and PodRacer are more complete than this 2015 game. AND THOSE GAMES CAME OUT NEARLY TWO DECADES AGO!
If there was any bad to have come out of Disney's purchase of Lucasfilm in 2012, it was the resulting deal with EA that was their real mistake. That and their shutting down LucasArts' developing arm.
If you're a fan, get this. But if you want a more complete gaming package, look elsewhere. That, or just wait for the next EA Star Wars games.
At least with Battlefront II it seems that EA's apparently learnt that content over emptiness is the real way to sell their games. The older N64 Star Wars games, Shadows of the Empire, Rogue Squadron and PodRacer are more complete than this 2015 game. AND THOSE GAMES CAME OUT NEARLY TWO DECADES AGO!
If there was any bad to have come out of Disney's purchase of Lucasfilm in 2012, it was the resulting deal with EA that was their real mistake. That and their shutting down LucasArts' developing arm.
If you're a fan, get this. But if you want a more complete gaming package, look elsewhere. That, or just wait for the next EA Star Wars games.
Very good game!
harry-browne822 November 2015
Star Wars battlefront is a great game Great weapons Great explosions Great vehicles Great Heroes Great Villains Great Missions Great Online Modes Great Offline Modes Definitely worth the money! Get it! The Heroes and Villains are amazing to play as, although there could be more than just 6 (Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Leia Organa, Darth Vader, Emperor Palpatine and Bobba Fett) There is loads of great game modes like Walker Assault, Cargo, Supremacy, Blast, Droid Run, Hero Hunt, Fighter Squadron, Drop zone and Heroes vs Villains. There is only 11 blasters and 23 star cards with not much customisation for weapons it could be SLIGHTLY better, but over all great. The Battle of Jakku will be AMAZING, with an extra 2 MAPS and it will be so good. I would definitely buy this game it is so worth the money and you will love it!
Very Disappointing...
rctguy7511 October 2016
Warning: Spoilers
I am a huge fan of the original Star Wars Battlefront games for Play Station 2. Those two games are two of my top 10 favorite games of all time, and both deserved 10 out of 10 stars. Because of this, I had very high hopes for the New Star Wars Battlefront. I played the game with my friends, and...
This game was disappointing for me. I had high hopes but not many of them were satisfied. However, this is not the worst game I have ever played. It may have a lot of flaws, but it also has some good things about it. The one thing that is really great about this game is the graphics. The graphics were great and were definite improvements from the first two games. The game also added some new game modes that were not in the previous games. However, those are the only two positives I see in this game.
On the other hand, there are quite a few negatives about this game. The biggest flaw in my opinion was excluding the option of picking between the Galactic Civil War and the Clone Wars. This feature gave the first two games a ton of variety, and some maps were even better on one of the two options. Another negative was the downgrade in the number of available Jedi the player can play as. There is only six playable Jedi, and the New Battlefront excluded a lot of great characters from the second game, such as: Yoda, Mace Windu, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Jango Fett, Darth Maul, and General Grievous. The last big negative was that the game wasn't complete on release. The game itself already cost $50, and there are 4 separate expansion DLCs. Each of those are $50. Really! The first two games were complete on release, why isn't this one?
In all, the New Star Wars Battlefront was very disappointing. It had less features, less characters, and was not complete on release like the first two Battlefront games. While the graphics are great, and there are some new features, the New Star Wars Battlefront, in my opinion, isn't worth the purchase. If you want a great Star Wars game, buy the first two Battlefront games. You will be glad that you did!
This game was disappointing for me. I had high hopes but not many of them were satisfied. However, this is not the worst game I have ever played. It may have a lot of flaws, but it also has some good things about it. The one thing that is really great about this game is the graphics. The graphics were great and were definite improvements from the first two games. The game also added some new game modes that were not in the previous games. However, those are the only two positives I see in this game.
On the other hand, there are quite a few negatives about this game. The biggest flaw in my opinion was excluding the option of picking between the Galactic Civil War and the Clone Wars. This feature gave the first two games a ton of variety, and some maps were even better on one of the two options. Another negative was the downgrade in the number of available Jedi the player can play as. There is only six playable Jedi, and the New Battlefront excluded a lot of great characters from the second game, such as: Yoda, Mace Windu, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Jango Fett, Darth Maul, and General Grievous. The last big negative was that the game wasn't complete on release. The game itself already cost $50, and there are 4 separate expansion DLCs. Each of those are $50. Really! The first two games were complete on release, why isn't this one?
In all, the New Star Wars Battlefront was very disappointing. It had less features, less characters, and was not complete on release like the first two Battlefront games. While the graphics are great, and there are some new features, the New Star Wars Battlefront, in my opinion, isn't worth the purchase. If you want a great Star Wars game, buy the first two Battlefront games. You will be glad that you did!
Big stinky, crusty, aromatic pile of doggy doo-doo (since I can't say the expletive version)
t-hf21 November 2015
This game is an absolute atrocity, I can't play my copy for more than 10 minutes without getting bored and wanting to slice my larynx with powersaw - and I am writing this review in the time following one of those 10 minutes. The reason I haven't ticked the spoiler box is that there's literally nothing to spoil. No plot and the excuse for a single player campaign is 3 game modes utilizing variants of gameplay across the same 4 maps against AI control. The list of game modes reads like a joke someone would tell to parody this game's respect for the player at a stand-up gig: Battle on Tatooine, Hero Battle on Tatooine, Battle on Hoth, Hero Battle on Hoth, Survival on Hoth, Hero Survival on Hoth, Hero Battle Survival on Tattoine on Hoth, Hoth on Tatooine on Hero Battle. I am deadly serious in that regard.
Now, I am a hardcore Star Wars fan and have been since childhood as is my friend. I invited him over to play the game with me on launch day. I am not kidding you when I say that after about half an hour of playing various game modes, we turned to each other and said "wanna play Fallout?". That is how bad it is, the fact that a game that should have been the definitive Star Wars gaming experience managed to bore two shameless Star Wars geeks within 30 minutes and that playing a game that had already been out for a week and a half (and was far superior I might add) was the preferable option on frickin LAUNCH DAY!!! LAAAUUUUNCHHHH DAYYYYYY!!!
Now, you might be asking, surely it's fun to play as your favourite characters and occupy your favourite locations. Yeah it is for like the first 10 minutes. After the novelty wears off, your stuck with a pretty repetitive and mediocre 1st/3rd person shooter frankly. This is just a very lazy effort that seems to just be trying to get at least some money out of hyped up Star Wars fans before The Force Awakens gets every other consumer's money in December, and by "lazy", I mean that there is no point that the world of Star Wars came alive and sucked me in like the movies do. There are only 3 characters on each side that you can play as and they are not even voiced well, along with spouting truly stupid lines that bring to mind a hackey 3D Sonic game - "there's nothing like a good shield", oh, the thing's I do for that princess", "use their overconfidence against them" to name but a few.
Overall, this game has been a huge disappointment and I really feel ashamed for spending any amount of money on it. It's not complete by a long shot and is definitely not the great Star Wars experience that we were promised. And don't start saying "it's not complete because they want you to buy the dlc" and all that, I realise that, but that is not an excuse. THe player should feel satisfied and rewarded for buying the game and supporting the studio. And a word to anyone that doesn't feel like a Star Wars fan lest they buy Battlefront, do not let them make you feel like that. Star Wars is my life and in the end, I was ultimately let down by a mediocre and subpar shooter created by focus groups to cynically manipulate my love for the series. Please don't give money to these a**holes. Go buy Fallout 4 or Rise of the Tomb Raider or even Halo 5 (if you hadn't already). Give money to good studios that are at least making an effort to reward gamers for their purchase. This game is not worth your money, Star Wars fanboy or not.
Now, I am a hardcore Star Wars fan and have been since childhood as is my friend. I invited him over to play the game with me on launch day. I am not kidding you when I say that after about half an hour of playing various game modes, we turned to each other and said "wanna play Fallout?". That is how bad it is, the fact that a game that should have been the definitive Star Wars gaming experience managed to bore two shameless Star Wars geeks within 30 minutes and that playing a game that had already been out for a week and a half (and was far superior I might add) was the preferable option on frickin LAUNCH DAY!!! LAAAUUUUNCHHHH DAYYYYYY!!!
Now, you might be asking, surely it's fun to play as your favourite characters and occupy your favourite locations. Yeah it is for like the first 10 minutes. After the novelty wears off, your stuck with a pretty repetitive and mediocre 1st/3rd person shooter frankly. This is just a very lazy effort that seems to just be trying to get at least some money out of hyped up Star Wars fans before The Force Awakens gets every other consumer's money in December, and by "lazy", I mean that there is no point that the world of Star Wars came alive and sucked me in like the movies do. There are only 3 characters on each side that you can play as and they are not even voiced well, along with spouting truly stupid lines that bring to mind a hackey 3D Sonic game - "there's nothing like a good shield", oh, the thing's I do for that princess", "use their overconfidence against them" to name but a few.
Overall, this game has been a huge disappointment and I really feel ashamed for spending any amount of money on it. It's not complete by a long shot and is definitely not the great Star Wars experience that we were promised. And don't start saying "it's not complete because they want you to buy the dlc" and all that, I realise that, but that is not an excuse. THe player should feel satisfied and rewarded for buying the game and supporting the studio. And a word to anyone that doesn't feel like a Star Wars fan lest they buy Battlefront, do not let them make you feel like that. Star Wars is my life and in the end, I was ultimately let down by a mediocre and subpar shooter created by focus groups to cynically manipulate my love for the series. Please don't give money to these a**holes. Go buy Fallout 4 or Rise of the Tomb Raider or even Halo 5 (if you hadn't already). Give money to good studios that are at least making an effort to reward gamers for their purchase. This game is not worth your money, Star Wars fanboy or not.
The best STAR WARS game i've ever played
slount10 August 2016
Warning: Spoilers
From dice the developers of the Battlefield series comes STAR WARS BATTLEFRONT. this game shows what Dice dose best which is making large multiplayer fun. the graphics and sound effects are gorgeous and when john Williams music play during in the game you really feel like your right there in the movies.
well lets talk about whats available for people who cant play multiplayer the solo player which i should warn spoilers are ahead. there are a handful training missions which are really fun. you can chose between 5 missions, a speeder bike mission through Endor, flying x-wings through beggar's canyon and play as Atst on Sullust. there are handful of battle missions where you and your team of Ai go against another team of Ai and fight to collect points and the first to 100 points win you can also play as a hero or villain in the same mode. then there is your traditional survival mode where you fight off against wave after wave of enemy. i was a fan of this mode but the maps are smaller and no Bloody vehicles
now let's get to the reason this game is popular the multiplayer and there are so many modes but the one i love the most is fighter squadron where you are in a ship dogfight against other enemy ships and just doge and attack. there most popular one is walker's assault which is taken right from the movie where you go up against enemy soldier and the iconic ATAT and you have to control various up-links and when you do that the ATAT shields are down and you can attack it and you have to do it before the ATAT get to there location.
this game does have its flaws but it is still massive fun but i hate it that EA does is make you pay 100 dollars then if you want the Dlc you play 70 dollars so well done EA 170 dollars for the full game (Clap Clap) this game is still fun without the DLC.
well lets talk about whats available for people who cant play multiplayer the solo player which i should warn spoilers are ahead. there are a handful training missions which are really fun. you can chose between 5 missions, a speeder bike mission through Endor, flying x-wings through beggar's canyon and play as Atst on Sullust. there are handful of battle missions where you and your team of Ai go against another team of Ai and fight to collect points and the first to 100 points win you can also play as a hero or villain in the same mode. then there is your traditional survival mode where you fight off against wave after wave of enemy. i was a fan of this mode but the maps are smaller and no Bloody vehicles
now let's get to the reason this game is popular the multiplayer and there are so many modes but the one i love the most is fighter squadron where you are in a ship dogfight against other enemy ships and just doge and attack. there most popular one is walker's assault which is taken right from the movie where you go up against enemy soldier and the iconic ATAT and you have to control various up-links and when you do that the ATAT shields are down and you can attack it and you have to do it before the ATAT get to there location.
this game does have its flaws but it is still massive fun but i hate it that EA does is make you pay 100 dollars then if you want the Dlc you play 70 dollars so well done EA 170 dollars for the full game (Clap Clap) this game is still fun without the DLC.
Star Wars Battlefront Review
jholland581 December 2015
Is this the game that can beat Star Wars: Battlefront I and II? In short no it isn't. This game had so much potential to provide hours of fun game-play that you can experience while being part of the Star Wars universe but unfortunately it falls flat in a mere 2 hours. First things first, the game looks gorgeous. It could arguably beat most games that have been realised on the this generation. One of the main competitors for the title is Ryse: Son of Rome and we know the shortcomings of that game as well. Right of the bat you'll realise that the game has been created near perfectly for example Endor looks stunning from the massive trees populating the map to the riverbed following along the ground. The Walkers look amazing and so do the explosions, pretty much everything about this game looks stunning. Moving onto the sound which is again like the graphics amazing and fans should be pleased. The lasers shooting out the barrel of the guns sound great. The soundtrack is fantastic but the voice overs aren't that great. I'm pretty sure only Anthony Daniels (C3PO) was the only actor from the films to come and do a voice over for the game. Another notable inclusion is Sam Witwer who played Star Killer in The Force Unleased. I'm not saying the voice overs aren't good. They are but they're not perfect. Now onto the bad points of the game the map design is lacklustre, they just seem generic and like no effort has been put into them. They aren't too memorable either. The guns have very little recoil so there isn't much skill involved with kills. The customisation is very limited, you can only choose from a list of preset faces and if you want a scout trooper you'll have wait till over rank 30. In a Star Wars you would expect at least one mission/mode to take place in space but nope the closet thing you have is hoping in a X-Wing or Tie Fighter etc and having dog fights in the sky but for some reason space wasn't included. The only worth while mode is Walker Assualt but even that can get boring. We all know this game will sell and EA knows this so they have already started working on the sequel. Star Wars Battlefront isn't worth the money you pay at the moment. My recommendation is wait for a massive sale.
Awful
arorashadow_200325 November 2015
Star Wars Battlefront III or rather the uninspired "reboot" of the original two games, shows DICE and EA pumped all their resources into making the game nice and pretty but lack in the game play department. Perhaps instead of taking a glorified field trip to Skywalker Ranch and all the filming locations of the Star Wars films, DICE would have better spent their time playing the original two Battlefront games and refining all the fine elements from them and weeding out the weaker elements. But instead they fall back onto making the game like every other first-person-shooter to have come out in the last several years. With half of the worlds as the original two Battlefront games with no first-player campaign mode, (Galactic Conquest, Story Mode, Instant Action) and most of the actual meaty content relegated to online play, assuming you can shell out the money for XBox Live.
The game's main modes are glorified tutorial quests, survival campaigns and death matches all feeling so underwhelming and just not fun. Star Wars has a plethora of planets, worlds, concepts to use but DICE went with the familiar few with the addition of one or two more to make it look like they're actually trying. There is aerial combat in the game but it's very stilted and just kind of boring; though I never cared much for the space battles in the original Battlefront. Oh but there is more content if you give EA Games even more money for a "season pass." In other words pay twice for the price of one game! I had little hope when I heard EA was going to be the one behind this game and the end result was exactly as a I expected, dull, inspired Call of Duty Clone catered to the annoying little kids who have been raised on Call of Duty. The missions are dull most of the content is online and multiplayer because apparently EA thinks nobody plays games alone anymore. The graphics are pretty but that's no surprise there and the game does control very well and shockingly you actually get the option to play first or third person. Battlefront is garbage, the originals were far better and it's hard to say why EA couldn't stick to that concept.
The game's main modes are glorified tutorial quests, survival campaigns and death matches all feeling so underwhelming and just not fun. Star Wars has a plethora of planets, worlds, concepts to use but DICE went with the familiar few with the addition of one or two more to make it look like they're actually trying. There is aerial combat in the game but it's very stilted and just kind of boring; though I never cared much for the space battles in the original Battlefront. Oh but there is more content if you give EA Games even more money for a "season pass." In other words pay twice for the price of one game! I had little hope when I heard EA was going to be the one behind this game and the end result was exactly as a I expected, dull, inspired Call of Duty Clone catered to the annoying little kids who have been raised on Call of Duty. The missions are dull most of the content is online and multiplayer because apparently EA thinks nobody plays games alone anymore. The graphics are pretty but that's no surprise there and the game does control very well and shockingly you actually get the option to play first or third person. Battlefront is garbage, the originals were far better and it's hard to say why EA couldn't stick to that concept.
Single Player Review - Spoilers (if there is such a thing)
infoalwaysacritic27 February 2016
Warning: Spoilers
This review includes information for the single player/couch co-op modes of the game alone.
For many players, the single player offerings of this title are not worth talking about, because it is clearly not the focus, nor is it a priority for the publisher. Never-the-less, there are some that will only have access to the single-player modes in this game. For this reviewer, the PS4 platform is the one that is used for reference.
As of right now, the single Player modes include 3 categories: Training, Battles and Survival
Training (Solo and Co-op option): 5 Missions that take about 5-10 minutes each, allowing you to briefly fly an X- Wing, Drive a speeder, Drive an AT-ST from A to B, Play as Darth Vader and fly a Snow-Speeder.
Battles (Solo and split screen versus): 4 Head to head battles, with a handful of AI available to be on your team or not. Points are collected from your defeated opponents as tokens. 4 Head to head HERO battles, with 6 heroes to choose from.
Each battle has 3 difficulty levels, ranging from difficult to very hard though some maps are noticeably harder than others. There are some additional challenges to accomplish as well as collectible gems.
Survival (Solo and Split screen Co-op) 5 Levels with 15 waves of enemies you attempt to survive. (a 6th is announced, though it is not clear if it will cost $ or not). These levels usually take around 30 minutes to complete. In Survival. you will secure drop pods to get battlefield pickups and defeat waves of various troopers, AT-ST's, Tie fighters and Probe Droids.
There are 3 levels of difficulty and other challenges to earn stars and credits.
Overall: The overarching experience for a single player is about 6 hours deep without ever going online; longer if you want to complete all of the challenges. Additionally, you will likely end up playing with a friend here and there, making for many more hours of play without going online.
Gunplay handles well with the PS4 controller, with logical and familiar control options. All of the weapons are unlocked from the start in the single-player modes, and most feel different, with others handling unique. All weapons are effective at long range, making use of cover is vital to survival missions.
Graphics are stunning in this game, and make for an authentic experience for the Star Wars buff. The gameplay, however, has almost no progression, with credits only being useful towards multiplayer applications - which can then be transferred over to the single player card options when you've completed some missions on hard difficulty.
Sadly, there is almost no objective play to the single player modes. Even the drop pods in Survival are optional, with no ill effects to letting them be destroyed. Dice has been consistently releasing some free DLC to enhance the game and address complaints from the community, so there is some hope that they will allow some of the multiplayer elements to become single-player as well, like the battle for Jakku map.
Conclusion: While it is very limited and lacks any sense of progression, the single-player modes do offer enough hours of gameplay on their own to entertain someone who is looking for a casual pickup and put down game. It looks great and plays well while being accessible enough for young kids. Sadly, with such lack of depth, fans of the original Battlefront games are guaranteed disappointment to see what the new one could have been if they had been true to the original game's philosophy.
UPDATE: In July 2016 EA released an update that added a new offline mode called "Skirmish". There are currently 2 modes in Skirmish allowing you to dogfight in spaceships (though not in space) and Play "Walker Assault" wherein 1 or more AT-ATs are attacking a rebel base. Players either try to destroy the walker as the rebels or protect it as the Empire. Similar to other offline modes, there is no character customization or rewards for the player to pursue at this time. Both modes have 3 difficulty levels to select from, though the differences are significant between normal and hard levels of difficulty. Bots seem to respond primarily to the player, often hunting the player and at times, spawn killing repeatedly occurs. The ill effects however are mitigated by the fact that the game does not track any statistics of the player from one game to the next.
For many players, the single player offerings of this title are not worth talking about, because it is clearly not the focus, nor is it a priority for the publisher. Never-the-less, there are some that will only have access to the single-player modes in this game. For this reviewer, the PS4 platform is the one that is used for reference.
As of right now, the single Player modes include 3 categories: Training, Battles and Survival
Training (Solo and Co-op option): 5 Missions that take about 5-10 minutes each, allowing you to briefly fly an X- Wing, Drive a speeder, Drive an AT-ST from A to B, Play as Darth Vader and fly a Snow-Speeder.
Battles (Solo and split screen versus): 4 Head to head battles, with a handful of AI available to be on your team or not. Points are collected from your defeated opponents as tokens. 4 Head to head HERO battles, with 6 heroes to choose from.
Each battle has 3 difficulty levels, ranging from difficult to very hard though some maps are noticeably harder than others. There are some additional challenges to accomplish as well as collectible gems.
Survival (Solo and Split screen Co-op) 5 Levels with 15 waves of enemies you attempt to survive. (a 6th is announced, though it is not clear if it will cost $ or not). These levels usually take around 30 minutes to complete. In Survival. you will secure drop pods to get battlefield pickups and defeat waves of various troopers, AT-ST's, Tie fighters and Probe Droids.
There are 3 levels of difficulty and other challenges to earn stars and credits.
Overall: The overarching experience for a single player is about 6 hours deep without ever going online; longer if you want to complete all of the challenges. Additionally, you will likely end up playing with a friend here and there, making for many more hours of play without going online.
Gunplay handles well with the PS4 controller, with logical and familiar control options. All of the weapons are unlocked from the start in the single-player modes, and most feel different, with others handling unique. All weapons are effective at long range, making use of cover is vital to survival missions.
Graphics are stunning in this game, and make for an authentic experience for the Star Wars buff. The gameplay, however, has almost no progression, with credits only being useful towards multiplayer applications - which can then be transferred over to the single player card options when you've completed some missions on hard difficulty.
Sadly, there is almost no objective play to the single player modes. Even the drop pods in Survival are optional, with no ill effects to letting them be destroyed. Dice has been consistently releasing some free DLC to enhance the game and address complaints from the community, so there is some hope that they will allow some of the multiplayer elements to become single-player as well, like the battle for Jakku map.
Conclusion: While it is very limited and lacks any sense of progression, the single-player modes do offer enough hours of gameplay on their own to entertain someone who is looking for a casual pickup and put down game. It looks great and plays well while being accessible enough for young kids. Sadly, with such lack of depth, fans of the original Battlefront games are guaranteed disappointment to see what the new one could have been if they had been true to the original game's philosophy.
UPDATE: In July 2016 EA released an update that added a new offline mode called "Skirmish". There are currently 2 modes in Skirmish allowing you to dogfight in spaceships (though not in space) and Play "Walker Assault" wherein 1 or more AT-ATs are attacking a rebel base. Players either try to destroy the walker as the rebels or protect it as the Empire. Similar to other offline modes, there is no character customization or rewards for the player to pursue at this time. Both modes have 3 difficulty levels to select from, though the differences are significant between normal and hard levels of difficulty. Bots seem to respond primarily to the player, often hunting the player and at times, spawn killing repeatedly occurs. The ill effects however are mitigated by the fact that the game does not track any statistics of the player from one game to the next.
Fantastic multiplayer content but lacking in single player content
jwebb-4938126 March 2017
Warning: Spoilers
The 'remake' of this beloved game focuses on multiplayer game-play with little single player action since most things are behind a 40 pounds season pass wall which should have come in at base game, as there are only 4 planets to explore and 4 DLC's containing bespin, the death star,the outer rim and rouge one: scarif.
THERE IS NO CAMPAIGN!The general graphics of the game are outstanding and you do really get the feel of the magic f star wars.If you are buying this game solely for its offline content then it is not worth the money whereas if you are buying this for its multiplayer content and are willing to fork out hard earned cash for a season pass then go ahead you will have a great experience as the season pass has a lot of content making the game worth playing.
THERE IS NO CAMPAIGN!The general graphics of the game are outstanding and you do really get the feel of the magic f star wars.If you are buying this game solely for its offline content then it is not worth the money whereas if you are buying this for its multiplayer content and are willing to fork out hard earned cash for a season pass then go ahead you will have a great experience as the season pass has a lot of content making the game worth playing.
I have a good feeling about this . . .
southdavid21 February 2018
Bit of background to start. "Star Wars: Battlefront" has, as of time of writing, had 68 hours of playtime from me. I didn't start playing it at release, but rather was inspired to pull it from the "to play" pile when the downloadable content was made available for free - ahead of the release of the sequel. This is just my feeling, but the Indian summer that the game enjoyed with the release of the DLC appears to now be dying off, you can always get a game on the 20 vs 20 server, but some of the smaller games, particularly in the DLC areas only have enough players to start games in the evenings.
If I'm going on about the Downloadable extras a lot, it's because it leads me to what would have been my first criticism of "Star Wars: Battlefront" had I have bought it on release, the amount of game that you actual get. With the single player game essentially just a glorified tutorial - the entire game is based around the multiplayer experience. There were the usual game modes that you'd anticipate in a modern first person shooter but with one addition that I loved, Walker Assault. This has you attacking or defending giant AT-AT Walkers as they trudge towards an Alliance target. However, these various game modes were initially only spread over four planets from the Star Wars Universe, each presumably chosen for their striking visual differences to each other. Hoth, is snow covered hills and Ice Caverns; Endor is Forests and treetop Ewok villages; Tattoine is sand dunes and strewn with wreckage from previous battles and Sullust is lava flows, Igneous rock and the Empires industrial Tie fighter production base. Despite the large maps, and a couple of variations depending on game type, these four planets become very familiar very quickly. I can imagine that a number of early adopters were disappointed with how little actual game was available to them. However, from my point of view, each DLC package added another world to the point the game has now double the variety that it was upon release.
Despite the lack of content one this you can't accuse DICE of is lacking fan service. The game is all about fantasy fulfilment, series weapons, vehicles and armour have been faithfully recreated. The score and sound effects are exactly what you've known and loved for 40 years. You generally play the game as a nondescript Imperial Soldier or Alliance Rebel, however, the game tries to autobalance matches by offering access to the "heroes". Each of the characters has their own unique weapons and traits. Luke Skywalker, for example, wields his lightsabre that can (for a short time) deflect laser weaponry and he gains instant kills by swinging his blade. He can also use The Force to push Imperials off platforms or into walls. The trade off with these characters is that their life does not replenish from avoiding combat for a while, like it does with the standard characters.
The gameplay is great. Weapons hits feel substantial and hit collection is really good. The maps are large and sprawling and generally manage to avoid pinch points except for certain mission types that require one side to defend a small area for a certain amount of time. Like other Battlefield titles, the game encourages players to play in different ways, some sniping from distance and some charging in for close combat battles.
One further criticism of the game is its lengthy loading times and occur between games and particularly as you enter a game for the first time. You can easily sit for three to four minutes once the game has found a suitable server for you.
But the complaints are small weighed against an excellent and entertaining game that has provided me with hours of fun. On to the sequel (I never pay for any microtransactions, so this one might be interesting!).
If I'm going on about the Downloadable extras a lot, it's because it leads me to what would have been my first criticism of "Star Wars: Battlefront" had I have bought it on release, the amount of game that you actual get. With the single player game essentially just a glorified tutorial - the entire game is based around the multiplayer experience. There were the usual game modes that you'd anticipate in a modern first person shooter but with one addition that I loved, Walker Assault. This has you attacking or defending giant AT-AT Walkers as they trudge towards an Alliance target. However, these various game modes were initially only spread over four planets from the Star Wars Universe, each presumably chosen for their striking visual differences to each other. Hoth, is snow covered hills and Ice Caverns; Endor is Forests and treetop Ewok villages; Tattoine is sand dunes and strewn with wreckage from previous battles and Sullust is lava flows, Igneous rock and the Empires industrial Tie fighter production base. Despite the large maps, and a couple of variations depending on game type, these four planets become very familiar very quickly. I can imagine that a number of early adopters were disappointed with how little actual game was available to them. However, from my point of view, each DLC package added another world to the point the game has now double the variety that it was upon release.
Despite the lack of content one this you can't accuse DICE of is lacking fan service. The game is all about fantasy fulfilment, series weapons, vehicles and armour have been faithfully recreated. The score and sound effects are exactly what you've known and loved for 40 years. You generally play the game as a nondescript Imperial Soldier or Alliance Rebel, however, the game tries to autobalance matches by offering access to the "heroes". Each of the characters has their own unique weapons and traits. Luke Skywalker, for example, wields his lightsabre that can (for a short time) deflect laser weaponry and he gains instant kills by swinging his blade. He can also use The Force to push Imperials off platforms or into walls. The trade off with these characters is that their life does not replenish from avoiding combat for a while, like it does with the standard characters.
The gameplay is great. Weapons hits feel substantial and hit collection is really good. The maps are large and sprawling and generally manage to avoid pinch points except for certain mission types that require one side to defend a small area for a certain amount of time. Like other Battlefield titles, the game encourages players to play in different ways, some sniping from distance and some charging in for close combat battles.
One further criticism of the game is its lengthy loading times and occur between games and particularly as you enter a game for the first time. You can easily sit for three to four minutes once the game has found a suitable server for you.
But the complaints are small weighed against an excellent and entertaining game that has provided me with hours of fun. On to the sequel (I never pay for any microtransactions, so this one might be interesting!).
Hands down....
therobnfw-8303319 October 2018
Supremely disappointed
bigbo200028 November 2016
Warning: Spoilers
This is odd for me. I don't really have super high standards for those "nostalgia" games or films, so I rarely have to worry with writing a bad review based on it not living up to expectations. But this game doesn't even live up to mediocre expectations. I had been a huge fan of Battlefront 2. My friends and I had gaming parties and championships. We loved the wide range of maps, battles, space battles, galactic conquest modes, etc.
I purchased this game and its season pass for DLC, and within 5 hours, asked for my money back. Yeah the graphics are great but it isn't even 1/5 of the game as battlefront 2. fewer characters, fewer maps, fewer game modes, no story, far less fun. No one wants to play it, no one talks about it. A few months after it was released it was like it had never even happened.
any success its had is from it's brand recognition. Do yourself a favor, if you're a PC gamer like me, Battlefront 2 is only a $2 on steam, download it and see for yourself how sub par this game is to its previous version which is more than 10 years old.
I purchased this game and its season pass for DLC, and within 5 hours, asked for my money back. Yeah the graphics are great but it isn't even 1/5 of the game as battlefront 2. fewer characters, fewer maps, fewer game modes, no story, far less fun. No one wants to play it, no one talks about it. A few months after it was released it was like it had never even happened.
any success its had is from it's brand recognition. Do yourself a favor, if you're a PC gamer like me, Battlefront 2 is only a $2 on steam, download it and see for yourself how sub par this game is to its previous version which is more than 10 years old.
An Improved Game Thanks to DLC Skirmish Mode
KalKenobi8324 October 2016
Played Star Wars Battlefront very excellent game also great graphics and voice work also easy controls really enjoy how if you play skirmish mode which can you play either Walker Assault or Fighter Squadron on various worlds of the Star Wars Universe which include Tatooine,Hoth,Endor,Sullust and Jakku you are thrown into a War in the of The Star Wars also on Fighter Squadron you can play with iconic Starfighters such as the X-Wings,A-Wings, T-47 Air Speeder,Tie Fighters and Tie Inceptors also Iconic Spacecraft as The Millennium Falcon and Slave I also you have plenty of MODs to choose from Demolitions various others also Plenty of Guns Including the DH-18,DH-34,E-3 and E-11 Blasters also you can play with both sides as well The Rebel Alliance and The Galactic Empire as well Iconic Characters such as Luke Skywalker,Han Solo,Princess Leia,Nein Nub,Lando Calrission,Chewbacca, Darth Vader, Emporer Palpatine/Darth Sidious, Boba Fett, Dengar,Greedo and Bossk which is awesome all characters have "special cards" that they use if you use any of them your opposition will be like rag dolls. for me this is a great game also having the DLC of Skirmish really improved the by ten fold also if your Star Wars Fan this is the game for you also gets me excited about Star Wars Battlefront II great Job by EA Games and DICE Improved Game thanks to DLC Skirmish Mode 10/10
It sucks
cam90231 December 2015
The three stars I give this are for the fact that it's Star Wars, it looks nice, and because its Christmas time and I'm in the mood for giving an extra star. This game is boring. You can do everything the game has to offer in about two hours. After Battlefront II came out ten years ago, I was incredibly excited to see what a next gen console game had to offer. I haven't been more disappointed with a game in years. All I have to say is it's boring, and there just isn't much packed into the game other than the beautiful visuals. I'd like to write a longer review, but there just isn't enough there for that. I will keep typing, however, because I need to have more lines in my review, thanks to IMDb's review guidelines. Now that I think about it, I would like to comment on the atrocious voice acting in this game. Nobody sounds ANYTHING like their film counterpart.
Online Battle is Awesome!!!
glausbz24 April 2021
Been playing this game during the pandemic.
I play the online Battle option so you play with up to 40 other players at once.
Absolutely love it as I am and have been a die hard fan since 1977.
Paid $12.50 for it at Xmas time on Microsoft store.
I play the online Battle option so you play with up to 40 other players at once.
Absolutely love it as I am and have been a die hard fan since 1977.
Paid $12.50 for it at Xmas time on Microsoft store.
A fine game, but numerous minor flaws take away from the overall product
smartukovich21 July 2017
Warning: Spoilers
This is a good multiplayer game. Visually beautiful. Easy to learn. Fun to play. The maps and weaponry fit numerous playstyles. The heroes and villains are also fun to play. With the addition of the DLCs this game will not become boring.
This game does have flaws however. The hero units are extremely overpowered against infantry. If there is a hero coming your way, there isn't much you can do as an infantry unit. Certain star cards such as shock grenades, scatter guns, and disruption are annoying to say the least. Some of the game modes such as turning point and sabotage are pretty broken and it is very easy to get spawn trapped in those maps.
Singleplayer is largely unplayable due to a completely broken AI. The broken AI units are also included in the multiplayer fighter squadron game mode.
Overall I rate this game a 7.5/10.
This game does have flaws however. The hero units are extremely overpowered against infantry. If there is a hero coming your way, there isn't much you can do as an infantry unit. Certain star cards such as shock grenades, scatter guns, and disruption are annoying to say the least. Some of the game modes such as turning point and sabotage are pretty broken and it is very easy to get spawn trapped in those maps.
Singleplayer is largely unplayable due to a completely broken AI. The broken AI units are also included in the multiplayer fighter squadron game mode.
Overall I rate this game a 7.5/10.
Where is the content????
WeAreLive22 October 2018
This game was nothing more then a waste of time and money.
The game play is just terrible, the CGI was the only good thing and aside from that it's just a terrible game by a horrible company who lie to fans.
Do me a favour and just stick to the old battlefront it was way better then this money making garbage.
There is barely even any story aside from side mission. Even if you wanted to play story mode you need two players.
Also, great job on bringing a wonderful voice cast in this game and not including any prequel/Clone Wars content.
The game play is just terrible, the CGI was the only good thing and aside from that it's just a terrible game by a horrible company who lie to fans.
Do me a favour and just stick to the old battlefront it was way better then this money making garbage.
There is barely even any story aside from side mission. Even if you wanted to play story mode you need two players.
Also, great job on bringing a wonderful voice cast in this game and not including any prequel/Clone Wars content.
Hero smearo
anthonywledford4 March 2021
50% -- For casuals, it's mediocre; for veterans, it's callous
FreeMediaKids24 January 2019
PROS
* The game's photorealism is among the best I have seen by 2015's standards.
/ Although SWBF now offers the liberty to customize characters, select pistols, rifles, and secondary items (rocket launchers, jump packs, grenades, bacta bombs), there are principally no classes, and positions in gameplay are limited to staying in gunfight with primaries and often no strategy (since health regenerates and ammunition is infinite), with secondaries only occasionally accessible throughout.
CONS SWBF is perhaps the most poorly implemented game of 2015. Faithless and with no Galactic Conquest, prequel content, or campaign (which they were developing) and only 4 worlds and minimal communication among players and AI bots, it tends to 10 uncustomizable game modes (14 with expansions) which ultimately could have been merged into 4 (or 6). Of the 27 maps, 20 are multiplayer underutilized for numerous game modes, and only 7 of them (excluding 1 from expansions) are also available in single-player.
CONCLUSION: For casuals, EA SWBF is a visually awesome but overall mediocre FPS indistinct from other more original competitors; for veterans, with the developer's ungenerosity and lazy care, it is a callous experience that exposes Electronic Arts as having joined the Dark Side. For a game with a high budget, high expectations, aggressive advertising, and the enthusiastically hyped-up media, EA SWBF is the apex of the 2015 games that are critically disappointing. I never bought anything from EA since. (Actually I did purchase a large expansion pack, but that turned out to be ungenerous and equally callous, which made for an even worse experience. Fortunately, I fully refunded for that, and that is--and will be--the only exception to my refusing EA's services.)
CONS SWBF is perhaps the most poorly implemented game of 2015. Faithless and with no Galactic Conquest, prequel content, or campaign (which they were developing) and only 4 worlds and minimal communication among players and AI bots, it tends to 10 uncustomizable game modes (14 with expansions) which ultimately could have been merged into 4 (or 6). Of the 27 maps, 20 are multiplayer underutilized for numerous game modes, and only 7 of them (excluding 1 from expansions) are also available in single-player.
CONCLUSION: For casuals, EA SWBF is a visually awesome but overall mediocre FPS indistinct from other more original competitors; for veterans, with the developer's ungenerosity and lazy care, it is a callous experience that exposes Electronic Arts as having joined the Dark Side. For a game with a high budget, high expectations, aggressive advertising, and the enthusiastically hyped-up media, EA SWBF is the apex of the 2015 games that are critically disappointing. I never bought anything from EA since. (Actually I did purchase a large expansion pack, but that turned out to be ungenerous and equally callous, which made for an even worse experience. Fortunately, I fully refunded for that, and that is--and will be--the only exception to my refusing EA's services.)
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