Star Wars Battlefront 2 (Xbox One)

Game itself is awesome for star wars fans!! However if you are ordering from CONTINUE TECHNOLOGY they stated new and I got a used game at 22 pounds and I’m really not happy!!!

Game is cinematic quality, I’m really surprised. The controls are a little finicky but that might just be me as my 8 year old can manage it. However, on first insertion, it needs about a day to complete the updates and downloads, so if you’re in a hurry, you’ll have to be patient. The stats seem to suggest it needed about 70-80 GB of data updates, so if you’re working from home, this’ll kill off any VOIP calls you’re likely to make during the day. Good game and attention to detail is apparently “amazing” according to my older boy.

Great game very fun came fast and had nothing bad happen very fun for hours on end.

It’s A good game, it has changed drastically since its release, I would recommend anyone to retry this game.

Game as described, excellent price and fast delivery, thank you. Bought for a birthday present, the birthday is on 10th May. The company kept me updated throughout the purchasing process and delivery, would recommend

I really liked this game, only bought it once the news came out that they were binning micro-transactions on the main characters etc and leaving them on the optional loot boxes, don’t even both with buying the loot boxes as they don’t enhance the game play, only the aesthetics of the characters (costume and victory pose).
Campaign was great and drew me in really well, once I got onto the online play it was brilliant, different map types enable completely different experiences and the range of weapons and characters is brilliant, feels like how it should have been all along but they clearly messed it up with the in game transactions.

Brilliant game. I am a massive star wars fan and love this game. The graphics are good. (I play on my Xbox One X- 4K) Game has a multiplayer feature which is brilliant fun so even when you have completed the game you can still have fun with your mates. Won a couple of battles against my mate but he’s still better than me. Need to get practicing!!!!

Bought for my son and he was delighted with it. ‘Great graphics and good action’.

Great Game. Not sure why all the hate. EA got rid of the micro transactions so unfair to give 1 star for this reason. These reviews don’t do it justice. Massive improvement from the first game. The online multiplayer is fantastic., No game is the same. The Graffix and Gameplay is brilliant. they have done really well with this one.

Another Christmas gift that I have to threaten if the husband doesn’t switch it off and remember to do the jobs I’ll never buy him another game. Well after 13 years you’d think I’d learn I’m a gaming widow. He’s loving life.

One very happy boy received this for his birthday and is delighted.
Arrived earlier than predicted so happy parents too!

The obvious thing about this game is that it was designed for Microtransactions. I completely agree with the community with the Boycott of this game and the controvesy regarding the fact you have F2P mechanisms in a game that is not F2P. But the game is still awesome regardless. The graphics are amazing, the Star Wars battles are jaw dropping, the sounds are spot on. Everything about this game is brilliant, even the star cards, since they moderate how powerful other players are. But it is just ashame that they had to make it into a game where they wanted more than their 40-50 initial payment for the game. EA… you suck. Rethink your life.

Yes there are lootcrates, but no it is not pay to win. You can’t even pay with real money for lootcrates anymore. Campaign is short but the multiplayer experience is brilliant, fully recommend

Nephew got this for Xmas he likes it recommend for any Star Wars fans

Great game, contains really good gameplay and easily can make one addicted to the thrill of playing in the Star Wars realm.
Don’t know why there are so many bad reviews; but either way that does not stop me from playing this game.

Don’t listen to the rubbish reviews about pay to win. I held off buying this due to these claims but caved due to being a star wars fan. I’m winning and not spent any additional money at all, also everything is unlockable, just need to play the game. Xbox x enhanced, fantastic single player and multiplayer got me hooked.

Amazing Star Wars game, the graphics are detailed, and the campaign is gripping and interesting. Also it is nice not to pay for DLCs and add-ons.

Whether you love it or hate it, Star Wars Battlefront 2 will be remembered as the most controversial game entry into the franchise ever. People will remember all the key terms like “EA”, ” pay to win”, “loot boxes”, etc. I do not wish to sway anyone’s already made minds about the game however, this is just my opinion on it.

Now, let’s begin…

Battlefront 2 is an action shooter based in the Star Wars universe, offering a variety of single player, co op and online multiplayer gameplay options. It is because of these options that I rate the game so highly based on the value of content.

To start with the single player, it is represented as a linear campaign that’s story arks between the film episodes Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens. You play as a newly written character, Iden Version, a special ops agent in league with the galactic empire. After their defeat at the decisive battle of Endor, Version and her spec ops team, named Inferno Squad, fall back and rally with what is left of their empire, in an attempt to avenge their fallen emperor and brothers in arms.

Story wise, I find Iden’s journey compelling from the start. Aside from a few past games like Tie Fighter, we never really get a point of view tale from the Empire’s side. We know as an audience what they’re capable of but to see their representation and ideals from an insider’s insights is fresh; Iden has been bought up on propaganda like corrupt Jedi and protecting the galaxy from itself since child birth, and you feel this influence reach out to you as a player. I remember my first few hours of the game slaughtering rebels with no qualm, almost as if the bravado of the empire was rubbing off on me, like the rebels were the badguys! Without spoiling anything, there are a few twists and some slices of playable cameos of classic film heroes, but I thought the actors for voice overs and motion cap were well cast and well written. Janima Gavankar does a great job in her role as Iden.

Gameplay wise, the campaign is linear and focuses on a mix of boots on the ground firefights and air/spacebourne fighter dogfights, some areas being open enough to provide a sense of space and creativity against foes, while keeping up the pace of an A to B story mode.

Before getting into multiplayer, I’ll cover the mechanics of the controls for on foot and fighter combat, as that will cross over into the online mode in question. You control with typical dual analogue set up with abilities bound to the number buttons and the Y button. These include grenades, shields, secondary weapons and misc items like placeable turrets. Instead of ammo, you use a cool down system for laser blasters, and these primary weapons can be swapped out in the campaign at weapon racks or caches. Unlike the previous Battlefront game, weapons have a sense of dynamic handling to them, such as high recoil or aiming down sights to refine accuracy at a distance.

Fighter sections control very similiar to a previous game I played and loved called Star Wars Starfighter. The left stick controls role tilt and pitch, and the right stick controls thrust speed. Utilizing this control in the right way is the closest I’ve felt to geniolry being in the cockpit of a fighter from the universe. You have a lot of control to engage in quick and nimble dogfights of navigating through asteroids and debris, and the camera perception really helps to navigate your surroundings, be it 1st or 3rd person view, which can be switched on the fly in fighter and on foot modes.

Now for what makes the online different in terms of gameplay, you don’t select from a large cache of weapons, instead you have classes that define what kind of weapons and abilities you will use in a game. There are 4. Assault is the main balanced soldier with a battle rifle, heavy trooper has a heavy machine blaster, officer has a pistol and buff abilities for other players, and the specialist which acts like a sniper/recon. Each class brings something different to the battlefront and the inclusion of multi-era battle scenarios held cover the different historical factions like the clone army vs Separatist battle droids, rebel alliance vs empire and the resistance vs first order, including specific era maps like Kamino and Naboo from the prequal trilogy, to Jakuu and Starkiller base in the new films.

The game modes consist of 5, galactic assault and Starfighter assault being the main flagship modes, with objective based strike, death match blast and heroes vs villains. Galactic feels very vast with 20 players per side and the maps are huge to traverse and fight over. You also get battle points for kills and objectives which you can use to spawn as elite support troops, classic heroes from all era and even support vehicles. Starfighter mode is exclusively fighters, 3 classes, fighters, interceptors and bombers. All have different feels of speed and damage input based on their role and there’s a lot of fun to be had from mixing then up. I’ve had many a fun match fighting aces with interceptors and then commuting bombing runs on objectives like capitol ships or internal reactors. Each map is different I’m it’s objectives structure style so you don’t just get a new background template, you get mildly different games each round. I found this was what separated these 2 main modes from walker assault and fighter squadron in the previous Battlefront: the objectives was exactly the same per map but these maps include context to the sides you play and the location you’re in. You’ll be hijacking a AT AT Walker on Endor to attack an imperial base and defending a palace as the clone troops on Naboo.

Strike is a best of style smaller game, similar objectives like “king of the hill” or “capture the flag” over smaller chunks of the assault maps wasn’t really an appeal to me at first. Bit after playing so many long and vast galactic assault games, this proves as a nice bite sized Battlefront experience, almost like a short intense game of football. Blast is a standard team deathmatch in the same in terms of size and time as strike, and heroes vs villains is a variety of team death match where over rounds, a player assumes the role of the objective target for the opposing team, and your allies must defend you. It also has a fun novelty factor; if you were a kid with the figures and ever thought “what’d it be like to have Darth Maul fight Han Solo, this puts that fan fiction into play!

In terms of progression, you gain different in game currency from games and set milestones to unlock ” star cards that either upgrade qualities like health regent speed or ability cooldown, to swapping out class abilities for others. Example being the assault classes’s shotgun ability could be swapped for a homing rocket launcher or precision pistol. Certain grenades for flash or emp grenades. And weapons can be purchased and upgraded, though they fall in line with the same category as that class. Heavy will unlock varies heavy weapons, officers get pistols.

Before covering the co op friendly arcade mode, I’ll talk about the loot box controversely as briefly as possible and how I felt the apparent pay to win aspect has affected my online experience.

I purchased the standard version, no elite pre order cards and despite playing a few hours a day and getting a decent amount of in game currency, I’ve hardly purchased any cards or ” buffs”. Despite this, I’ve enjoyed a load of competetive matches against players who may have been equipped with these elite cards and while I am not a massive online league gamer, all the games I’ve played have felt fair and based on skill and timing, as opposed to a higher explosive damage or quicker regent health. Some people might feel differently but I don’t feel that they outbalance the game to the point that it is broken and unfair to inexperienced players. Even if or when EA turns these micro transactions back on in the future, I still think the game will be fun and fair to play for players who don’t wish to splash out on virtual variety packs (the cards all come in literal loot boxes, as does the ones you properly unlock through gameplay, although these are titled and have specific unlocks and aren’t just randomized).

Lastly, arcade mode is an offline custom game set that can be played solo, co op or versus. There’s a few fun options to custom set and the team match and onslaught modes included are reminiscent to Halo’s firefight or Gears of War horde. You also have select “scenarios” to complete that are a fun distraction and earn more milestones, but I highly recommend setting your own values. Me and my girlfriend have had a great time holding off relentless waves of stormtroopers while playing as rebel wookie warriors in Mos Eisley bar!

I’ll finally touch on graphics and sound. In short, the game looks and sounds amazing, as authentic to a Star Wars film as possible. The texture work on Xbox One has a nice polish of sand shifting through wind gusts, puddles and Mudd literally making a mess on your uniform and armour, and debris from grenade blasts and vehicle debris is well presented. There’s nothing to fault on performance other than long load times compared to other games and a mild framerate drop from it’s targeted 60 frames per second, but these didn’t distract from the experience and provide a bit of downtime between omlines matches, and the game still runs really well compared to other 30fps locked games.

To sum up why I loved the game and was happy with my purchases, the sheer amount of game modes and authentic feel of Star Wars. The story mode had great characters and gameplay, locals looked fantastic, smaller load times between levels and death checkpoints, and the right amount of fanfare without the classic characters overshadowing the new heroes, like how Force Awakens balanced it’s parts for the likes of Han and Leia with Finn and Rey. It is on the short side (I counted 6 hours) but I enjoyed it so much that I stuck with it through one play session and didn’t want to put my controller down. Plus if I wanted to play something longer I would have gone for a bigger single player game like an RPG. Speaking of which, Knights of the Old Republic on Xbox backward compatability is a great example of that if you want something on the narrative long play side 😉

The mutiplayer did have some initial lag/server connection problems during my first week of play but with recent updates seems to have stabilized, and games are quick and easy to connect to. I’ve enjoyed spreading my experience with different like the assault and heavy and now I’m trying my hand as an officer to support the morale of my team.

Not a lot of split screen games are given focus these days so I comment Dice for continuing this trend on from 2015 Battlefront’s survival and skirmish modes. Me and my girlfriend have had literal years of fun from those simple yet replay valued modes and are having a Han Solo laser blast with this new custom arcade mode. It’s perfect for instant bot based action.

If you love Star Wars, epic scale multiplayer combat, a brief but memorable story mode and were unsure about the loot crate system, I would personally say that Battlefront 2 is worth the purchase. If not, atleast rent it and try a month’s worth of Xbox live. I’m also looking forward to the free content coming in the future, especially a free story expansion on December 13th!

Real good, don’t really care too much for the micro transaction hubbub but Disney apparently got worried that the controversy would affect the Star Wars brand as a whole so forced them to turn that guff off. The game relies quite heavily on the progression system so there are some folks running around OP as hell but if you’re any good you can still hold your own, would be nice to restore a bit of balance though.

The game is really nice looking, plays well and lets you experience a tonne of battles from the whole Star Wars saga…and there’s no more camping to collect the hero tokens like in the first game so that’s nice. All in all i’m having a blast, get your buddies together and chuck some money EA’s way because they’re the only ones licensed to produce Star Wars games now so we’re stuck with them and might aswell make the best of it.

First off, days prior to the release of this, there was a whole backlash for EA when it came to light that there was an incredible buy-to-win aspect and it damaged the game’s reputation even before people had even put the game into their console. I had even attempted to cancel my pre-order on this basis but it was too late and to be honest I’m glad I didn’t end up cancelling it. THE PAY-TO WIN ASPECT HAS BEEN REMOVED SO IGNORE REVIEWS THAT SAY THIS RUINED THE GAME FOR THEM, THEY OBVIOUSLY HAVEN’T PLAYED IT BECAUSE IT’S NOT THERE!

I’m not going to sugar coat it, there are still a great amount of issues with this game that I’ve encountered – being disconnected from the EA server when exiting to the main menu after a game. Being kicked out of a loading screen, back to the main menu after joining a game (this seems to only happen when the map is Jakku) and this causes an issue when playing with a group as the host won’t be able to search for another game because it’ll say that you’re all still playing Jakku eventhough you’ve been kicked out. Nothing game breaking but a big inconvenience when all you want to do is play.

Another problem is EA have said that being able to purchase the means to buy new crates has only been suspended, not completely taken off, so eventually the people who take this game a bit too seriously will be emptying their (or their parent’s) wallets in order to be more powerful – when EA think the coast is clear and the time frame in which you can send your game back and get a refund has expired no doubt.

The level progression system is very strange too, rather than leveling up your classes the more you play as them, you actually show it through what star cards you have equipped and their rarity level from what I can gather. To be able to get the star cards, you spend credits you earn from games on crates in which you get a randomised selection of items which can be emotes, star cards or end game poses. The problem with this is that you could play as the assault class only and be content with playing as that, you might never even play as the other 3 classes, but you’ll still get items for the classes you don’t play which is very annoying because you’re spending in-game currency which you’ve earned, and you don’t get a massive amount per game.

For all it’s flaws though it is a genuinely fun game to play and very authentic. There’s more maps, more characters to pick from (and thanks to the battle points system, which is a fantastic addition, you are able to play as the more powerful characters if you’re good enough) and the addition of challenges adds another dimension to playing the game, giving you credits or crafting parts for killing so many players, playing as certain classes for a certain amount of time, using a hero’s ability on players so many times etc.

I have yet to play the story but it’s apparently short lived and poorly executed which is a shame really because it sounded interesting and like it could actually add something to the saga.

I’m a big fan of Star Wars and will continue to enjoy this game with my friends but for many it may not be worth the price (which is quite far fetched and I’ve never paid so highly for a standard edition of a game before) but I wouldn’t worry because no doubt those who haven’t been impressed by the game will trade it in and after Christmas it will be worth half the price it is now.

A great improvement on it’s predecessor but still a lot that needs to be worked and considering it still falls below the par of the original Star Wars Battlefront 2 which is now 12 years old!

After playing this I don’t really see why there’s so many haters. I know people are against EA and the way you progress in the game but bet half the people who have given 1 Star haven’t even played the game. Just jumped on the hate band wagon. The campaign is very enjoyable and so is arcade mode. I’ve just started playing multiplayer so far so good. So instead of reading negative reviews try for yourself and make your own mind up.

This is an amazing game,the gameplay is fun, the maps and characters are really quite beautiful. People are complaining about micro transactions, but the developers are trying to deal with these problems, and I am pretty sure a lot of the one star reviews haven’t actually bought the game after they hear about it, I mean, they said there is no season pass, you were happy with that, do you expect them to pay for all of the work that goes into a game made for you? You put between 40 and 70 into it, that is so small compared, they didn’t add a season pass, instead they added completely optional micro transactions, they are not forcing you to spend money rather than earn star cards.

Having played the beta and early access from EA its safe to say this is the game which should’ve been released first itme around. The graphics are incredible and the characters are actually realistic unlike the first.
If transactions are putting you off this game you might as well stop being a gamer. Let’s face it every big corporation is going to use Micro transactions to maximize profits! The only thing we can do as consumers is NOT BUY THEM. Then they will see it’s not worth their time to make it in the first place.
otherwise, solid game.

P.S i love heroes and villains game mode