Customer Reviews
This is a good game but more a BF1.5 version then BF2..
I won't go over details other reviewers have covered. They are accurate and somewhat fair. I will cover what hasn't been mentioned or expressed. The game has a story and conquest mode. The story covers the 501st Legion of the Empire. The story follows them from their first mission to the supression of the Jedi. After that they deviate from the offical story line. To win the game, requires the Empire to win!! That means all facts and story lines will not be canon after the Jedi Temple. The game play is similar. A great deal of the issues in Battlefront 1 was fixed in Battlefront 2. They added a space battle situation and rearranged some of the controls. The troop commands are now limited to follow me or move out. You have to purchase items depending on the amount of money you make in battle. There are some annoying bugs in the game mainly in the Conquest mode. Hero Han Solo has a laser pistol and once you earn bonus pistol thats when the bug kicks in. If you switch to cutter to repair something you can't switch back to pistol to fight. Any bonus weapons you earn must be load manually by switching from rifle to pistol then back to rifle each time you start a new game or respawn. Another bug is the suicide shuttle pilot. Once you land on an enemy ship and disembark, one of your guys reboards the ship, takes off and crashes into the bulk head. Space marines aren't very useful because I've never been boarded so some of the bonus items are useless like turrets in space battle. Flying a vehicle could cause you to lose the game if you spend too much time flying aroung in dogfights.The AI are still dum. They're smarter then their predessesors. Don't let them pilot spaceships with you as a gunner. You'll just die when the ship crashes into something. The turrets in the space battles are no good against other ships. Another bug is the Cantina music in Jabba's palace or Mos Isley. The music overpowers the sound and voice and plays throughout that stage of the game. It's an obvious bug that does effect game play in both story and coquest mode. The screen credits showed they had 28 QC and QA testers and inspectors looking at the game and yet I found these bugs in only a few hours of game play. The game play is good and even on the highest level, I made General very easily. That's the other issue I have with the battlefront series. They are too easy to win. I win 98% of the time on the most difficult level. I even opt out of using bonuses and still win. I sometimes lose due to bordom. My points so far after purchasing this game opening day: Points: 61234 Rank: General Kills: 23816 Ratio 7.86 All my medals are Legendary. Finally, there are very little movie scenes in Battlefront 2 (5-7 seconds) and the loading screens are just pictorials unlike battlefront 1 with its animation. The graphics are par or a little below that. The figures look somewhat haze. The map details a par and the space battle are ok. I love Star Wars but I won't be rushing to buy first day releases after 3 title purchases that although great didn't push the enveloped and could have used more time in quality control to eliminate the bugs.
Battlefront 1 better
Here's a few problems
1. You have to capture Command Posts. If you'd rather drive vehiclres of man gun turrets, tough. Stand by the CP and try not to get shot.
2. Dark, not in theme, but in time of day. What kind of Empire attacks after the sun goes down in white uniforms.
3. In BattleFront 1, when you shoot someone in the face with a missle at point blank range, they usually die. Not so in BF 2.
Being able to fight in space or as a Jediis overrated. With the exception of Yoda, most of the Jedi have been superfluous to the conquest.
This game is fun but too short
This game has many different kind of features and levels. It has good graphics and lots of things such as guns and vehicles. If you like the Combat Flight Simulater games, you will love this. It is the Combat Flight Simulater games and more. Flight and ground. The space not only looks cool but you can choose different kinds of ships. Things ranging from slow bombers to fast 1 on 1 fighters. Not only that, but you can also take your ships and infiltrate the other main team's main carrier ship and help bring it down from the inside using special landing ships. This game takes you through most of the major battles in the Star Wars series. It also not only goes into the Clone Wars but also the Galactic Civil War. It is not a only one player game so people do not just have to sit around and watch you play. Yes it does have a vs. mode so you can go head to head with your freinds and family. It also has many kinds of games on quickplay. You have your standard conquest where you have 150 times your troops can get killed and whoever kills 150 first wins. You have hunt, in which you play with some you have to usually kill some kind of creatures such as Gungans, Ewoks, and Wampas. You have my personal favorite assault, in which all of the bosses such as jedi and other major people like Chewbacca all fight. It is seperated by good and bad in this mode so you can't have people like Han Solo and Darth Vader on the same team. The last mode is the classic capture the flag, which is get the enemies flag and bring it back to your base. It also has 1 flag capture the flag which is where there is only 1 point at which to get the flag. There are many different kinds of troops with different skills and weaponry. Troopers, engineers, snipers, and many more. Yes this game does have a story, but the plot is very cheap. I won't ruin it, but it mainly goes by the movies. In this game you mainly play as CIS Republic, Empire, and Rebels. So it kind of shifts through them. Overall this game is pretty good and worth the money. I would say this is money will spent if you are a Star Wars fan.
