Star Wars: Battlefront

"The BEST Star Wars game ever to come out"

Let's face it there hasn't really been a good star wars game in a looooooong time, up until now.

Star Wars Battlefront plays a lot like battlefield 1942, but it's much better, you can enter almost all of the vehicles in the star wars world, almost all of the soldiers almost all of the planets. This, by far acceded my expectations.

Graphics, 10/10

They made no mistakes with the graphics they look so life like, the vehicles look even more astounding. The levels look awesome, in fact they look so real that you might think thats a real movie, yep they are that good. All of the character models look decent. The weapons look nice. But the graphics only show there true power on Hoth. The echo base is truly astounding and the shield looks just like it is from the movie. And the walkers look from the movie as well, same thing with the snow speeders. The caves that link some of the command post together don't look the least bit chuggy, in fact they look just as good as the outside.

Controls 10/10

The controls are very simple and straight forward. They are not that stiff nor sensitive, they are just perfect. They are simple that I could list them all right now, I think i will. X to jump, square to reload, triangle to enter or exit a vehical, R1 to fire, and R2 and L2 to cycle through your primary and secondary weapons.

Sound 8/10

I bet your pissing your pants wanting to know why i gave this an eight, but i will tell you that latter, for now I'm just gonna say the good things. The laser sounds are straight from the movie. And the music of course is perfect, (no need to explain why). The jet packs sound great as well as the vehicals. Again the sound shows it'd true power on Hoth. For example, when in the caves you can hear, see, and feel the rumbling as the lasers hit them. There is another sound element that's cool and funny. When you throw a gernade, and someone is close to it, or if you accidentally get close to the blast yourself, you hear the flopping sounds of your corpse and it rolls and rolls and rolls and rolls and rolls in midair. It's quite funny! As I said before the sound has a weak part. Say you play the game straight for about two hours, the sound buzzes and fuzzes and sometimes, blacks out completely. This is actually quite common. Sometimes it's really minor and only blacks out once but at other times it's really serious. It blacks out then goes back to normal then blacks again, then the sound tries to come back but in result it fuzzes. Then you just can't stand it anymore and therefore you shut off the game. Just don't play for a while to avoid this problem.

Gameplay 10/10

There are just so many things to do, it seems endless. It's hard to put it in proper form. So I'm just gonna make up a scenario. Okay let's say I pick Kamino and I pick the Republic and I chose the jet trooper. Then I play. I start flying around and killing people, I take over a command post. I star flying again, almost get killed by a destroyer droid. OH MY GOSH, my jetpack runs out of fuel, right in the heat of battle! i fight for mt life, just then a gernade from my own team comes flying towords me, I try to escape with my jetpack, oh, I just remembered it's still out of fuel. I run like crazy, but it isn't enough, the gernade explodes and sends me flying in the air, flipping doesens of times, landing on a slope and i go flying off the map. As you can see there are SO many things you can do.

Overall 9/10
While the sound can get weird This game still offers plenty fun, and should entertain you, for years on end.

Reviewer's Score: 9/10, Originally Posted: 01/18/05