While you’re able to browse Battlefront 2‘s menus as you’re initially searching for a multiplayer game, you’re forced to wait inside a queue before a game actually starts.
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It’s hardly a surprise, then, that I wasn’t able to find a Strike or Blast match in the three full days I was able to spend with the title. The remaining modes - Heroes vs Villains, Strike and Blast - are relegated off to the side of the menu with hardly any fanfare. If campaign is a bit of a mess, multiplayer in its current state is a disaster.īattlefront 2′s main multiplayer menu lists the five modes currently available, but two - Galactic and Starfighter Assault - are by far the most prominent. As Achievements or Trophies aren’t impacted by difficulty, I’d say that most should stick to Normal to get the most out of the offering. With three difficulty settings to choose from, I’d advise against the most difficult while it’s enjoyably challenging for the most part, a final boss battle in the game’s second-to-last chapter proves almost impossible. With the story, DICE ultimately delivers a number of tension-packed scenarios and sequences, though the promise of bridging the gap between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens is laughable -– most of the story takes place around the destruction of the second Death Star. That said, HDR seemed to suffer from an odd stutter during the campaign’s cutscenes, and the screen will dull and brighten as you move through menus. It’s also a great place to exclaim just how gorgeous Battlefront 2 is I audibly gasped when seeing the highly-detailed likes of Maz’s Castle, Jakku, Sullust and other locations in (adaptive) 4K and HDR for the first time.
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We already know that the single-player campaign will continue thanks to free DLC, but to have the core game’s story end on such a low note is disappointing.įor all these negatives, the story remains a Star Wars’ fan’s dream, equal parts comedy, action and emotion. The need to insert a Luke, Leia or Solo detracts from the story Motive promised us all – and leads to a very rushed conclusion that comes far out of left field. Instead, we don’t Inferno Squad is sent to the sidelines for around half the campaign as we instead go through nostalgia-filled romps with a number of established characters. If we stayed tightly focused on that group as it worked through the major points of the Star Wars timeline, I’d have been a happy camper. Their dynamics and backstories are delicious I truly enjoyed the trio’s interactions all throughout the game’s thirteen chapters. The core of the campaign focuses on the three leads of Inferno Squad – Versio, second-in-command Hask and techie Del. I’m not sure if that’s the fault of marketing, or of developers who truly believed they were doing something outside of the box. It’s nothing that EA, DICE, Motive or LucasFilm - hell, even Criterion, and they just handled the vehicles –- promised. While I’m not about to spoil anything, most of the known universe saw through the ploy the story of Star Wars: Battlefront 2’s campaign is ridiculously predictable. “In a new point of view that we haven’t gone quite so deep in in Star Wars before.”īut was she really? Does Battlefront 2 really offer us the chance to see the world from the Empire’s eyes? Campaign “She is still heroic on that level, just from a total different perspective,” he continued. “She is exactly that type of hero that you would look up to and that you would aspire to be, right? Because if you are a member of an Imperial academy, and you were trained into that and that’s what you believe in, that’s what you’ve been raised to sort of to become, she epitomises that.”
“If you are growing up in the Empire, Iden is exactly ,” Creative Executive at LucasFilm, Steve Blank, told me after the reveal. Fans were elated at the premise an in-game protagonist who works for the bad guys rather than the Jedi or the Rebellion? It simply hadn’t been done before. Right out of the gate, Battlefront 2 was detailed as something completely different I should know too – EA flew me to Orlando, Florida so I could be in attendance for the game’s big reveal at Star Wars Celebration earlier this year.īattlefront 2’s success seems to be placed squarely on the shoulders of one Iden Versio, the Commander of the Empire’s Inferno Squad. EA powerhouse developer and Battlefield veteran DICE was canned for a lacklustre debut the original (well, the 2015 original) Battlefront was slammed for a lack of features, rushed content and a general lack of soul. Star Wars Battlefront 2 is burdened by expectations.
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