Disclaimer: EA provided AusGamers with flights, accommodation, and meals for the Star Wars Battlefront II review event. I'm a Star Wars Battlefront apologist . That's the 2015 version I'm talking about because, obviously, the original Pandemic Studios Battlefront games were fantastic.

For a Star Wars fan, it is a good and a bad time right now. There are Star Wars movies releasing again, the shops are full of shiny things and the younger folk now know what a wookiee is.

Janina Gavankar; Graphics; Many varied maps and objective playing multiplayer

Multiplayer progression system; Lack of Star Wars movie music; Movie character facial models

Well.. Not like the Battlefront I that I have played in the past and nothing like the original Star Wars battlefront I and II from Pandemic (2005). The game feels stiff in movements and dynamics. I honestly could not stop laughing at the crate system.

When LucasArts was firmly in charge of developing their own line of Star Wars video games, quality control was a complete crapshoot. Sometimes the developer released winners, sometimes losers, and sometimes fascinating experiments that at least tried to do something different.

Alright, keeping this short: The designers took away...the FUN, the choices (fixed hands and non-adaptable configurations), and the good radar (ii's radar is insanely awful, can SEE on-screen before radar picks up??!).

Can this game overcome bad implementations of microtransactions to be worth your money? Find out in our review of Star Wars Battlefront 2.

"Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering." The words of Yoda were echoing in my head as I played Battlefront II. There is certainly no shortage of hatred circulating around this game at the moment and while I will mention that later on, right now I'm going to go the way of the Jedi and focus on...

EDITOR'S NOTE: This review contains words by James (Single Player) and Toby (Multiplayer). Toby flew to San Francisco for the multiplayer review event as a guest of EA. Star Wars Battlefront II's campaign takes place between Return of the Jedi and presumably ends at some point between The Force...

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