Star Wars: Battlefront

"He just stepped on my concussion grenade! Ha!"

Ever wanted to roll around on the floor as a droid? Or maybe throw a couple thermal detonators at Darth Vader? You almost certainly want to drive a giant atat and squash people like bugs, didn't you.

In this game you can do all of that, and more. You can play through two seperate time periods on many different planets with many different scenarios. The most common ones are capture the other team's base, but there are ones where you have to take out the vehicle, secure streets, and collect intelligence.

There are a lot of different battles to play through, and all of them make it feel as though you are a real participent in a war. You don't have more abilities than the other team's units, so the only thing that sets you apart is how good your reasoning skills are.

GAMEPLAY: 8/10

This game has many different modes to play with many variations to make it interesting. There are bacta tanks as a planetary bonus, along with Jedi heros, reinforcements, extra aiming, and sabatoged vehicles. The modes include galactic dominiation in which you try to take over the whole galaxy, quickplay, and ONLINE. (I will talk about that later on.)

Battlefront has 3 different difficulty modes which are all different and fun to experiment with, so you will never be over or underchallanged.

This game has fantastic controls. They are easy to access and easy to learn. There are only two problems, and for them I have gave gameplay an 8/10. The problems are controlling the droidekas is simply crap. It is impossible to pivot while moving. Both of the analog sticks control direction AND moving. They might have done that on purpose however to not let that unit be overwhelmingly powerful.

The second thing is hardly worth mentioning, but it is nevertheless there. The vehicles are so hard to fly. It took me about 30 minutes of crashing into objects before I mastered the controls. They are simply crazy.

STORY: 10/10

This story goes along almost exactly with the starwars films. They added some levels in to make it more interesting, but they didn't take many, if any out. There are two different story modes. The last three movies make up one of them and the first three movies make up the other. They are all very interesting. The teams for each are:

Clone Wars: CIS(droids) and Republic
Galactic Civil War: Rebels and Empire

Graphics and Sound: 9/10

The sound for this game match up very well from the "There they are, get them." Droid monotone to the human's many different voices. The music is nice, but gets old after a while.

The graphics are very good. They are at least comparable to SOCOM, which I think are very alike.

Replayability: 15/10

Yeah I know... No 15/10...
It deserves it though. There are endless choices to change the game each time you play with over 50 levels with 2 teams each and abobut 5 units each to chose from. Multiply by each other and you get 500 different variations to take into consideration.

Then you have online play which is always exciting.

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Online Play

The online version of this game is good, but far from necesarry. I have it, but barely ever play it because the rest of the game is so good. My only problems with it is finding a server that wont fill up before I can hit the X button, and the load times are too long for the amount of gameplay.

Final Recommendation:

Buy this. You will not be regretting it. You won't get bored.

Reviewer's Score: 9/10, Originally Posted: 11/17/04