Product Description
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Star Wars Battlefront II improves upon the original game's
single-player experience with open-ended, mission-based
objectives inspired from all six Star Wars films. The compelling
storyline spans more than 12 new locations, many from Episode
III, including volcanic Mustafar and the space battle above
Coruscant. All-new classic movie moments complete the Star Wars
Battlefront II experience, as players battle within the interior
of the Death Star and visit Princess Leia's blockade runner, the
Tantive IV, as seen at the beginning of Episode IV A New Hope. In
addition, at certain key moments within the battles, players can
feel the Force as a Jedi.
For the first time ever, Star Wars Battlefront II players can
engage in space combat and, during the same battle, board enemy
ships to attack from within. Starting on foot inside a capital
ship, players can enter the spacecraft of their choice and travel
into space to dogfight with the rival faction. From there, they
can dock within the enemy's capital ship, overtake the ship's
command posts, man its turrets to disable its shields and destroy
it from within! Or, they can simply stay inside their own capital
ship and defend it from attacks and enemy fire. The choice is
theirs.
The stellar online play that marked the original Star Wars
Battlefront returns even bigger and better for Star Wars
Battlefront II. Players can locate their buddies and track their
stats as they battle alongside more players than ever (up to 24
on PS2, 32 on Xbox, 64 on Windows).
.co.uk Review
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With the latest movie almost making up for the quality of the
first two films it looks like Star Wars has won back the hearts
and minds of fans everywhere and Battlefront II s to be the
perfect celebration of that. Like the original its a sort of
Star Wars version of PC hit Battlefield 1942, where two armies
face off against each other, either off or online, jumping in and
out of various vehicles as they find them.
Of course in Battlefield 1942 "various vehicles" meant jeeps and
tanks, in Battlefront II it means X-wings, TIE Fighters, AT-ATs
and, for the first time, Episode III vehicles like the BARC
speeder, Jedi Starfighter II and V-wing.
The biggest change to the game, apart from the new vehicles, is
space battles with several of the levels taking part aboard giant
space cruisers which you can exit in starfighters, have a
dogfight in deep space around and then pilot back to for a bit
more on foot combat. Levels include the Blockade Runner from the
beginning of A New Hope, the space battle above Coruscant and
Utapau and Mustafa from Episode III.
Another long awaited addition is playable Jedi, although you can
only be one for a short time so as to not unbalance the gameplay.
Although the emphasis is on online play the single player mode
has been beefed up with better artificial intelligence and a
proper story linking all the missions. "Star Wars fans, like
this, they will", as Yoda would say (if he was real and wrote
game previews instead of being a Jedi Master). -- Harrison Dent
This preview is based on an incomplete version of the game;
features or problems mentioned above may not appear in the
finished game.