Star Wars Battlefront

Star Wars is a huge media franchise, the movies spawning cartoons, comics, audio dramas, books, and even video games.  One of my favorite Star Wars games is Battlefront.  The game allows you to be a soilder in the classic battles.

 

GAMEPLAY

Battlefront is literaly a battlefront, in which you can do anything from driving a speeder, or a x-wing.  Or choosing what classes of infantry you want to be, including plain infantry, snipers, pilots, and more.  The most amazing thing about the game is how much is going on at one time, all the other AI units continue the battle even after you die.  When you die,  it takes you to a class selection screen.  Each faction has 5 different units, each with thier own special weapons.  The game does not allow you to pick up weapons, so when you respawn is the only time you can change.  There are 3 different type of droids scattered through the map including: the ammo droid, the health droid, and the vehicle repair droid, they give you exactly whats in their names.  The maps are all based on places shown in the movies, such as Naboo, Geonosis, and Endor.  They are pretty big and basicly free roam, letting you do whatever it is that want to during the battles.  Also spread out accross the maps are Command Post, points at which you capture, or respawn at.  The core gameplay (yes i'm just now there) is to win the battles for the faction that you choose, by capturing all the CPs and holding them for 20 seconds, or wiping out the enemy forces.  There is a historical campaign which lets you play the battles in order, a galactic conquest mode, in which you choose your faction an capture the galaxy, and instant action, which lets you play any battle, when you want to.  The factions have to be in a time period against each other,so you can play in the Clone Wars (clones vs. droids) and the Galactic Civil War (Rebels vs. Empire).

 

GRAPHICS

The game has good graphics for 2004 on the systems it was released on, but even when compared to graphics seen on the same systems in 2006, they are pretty average.  Graphics really don't bother me so... it's all good.

 

AGE

While Battlefront doe's feature shooting, theres no blood, and it's no worse than the movies.  Age 9 and up.

 

CONCLUSION

If you have a system that this game is on, go get it, it's great!  If you love Star Wars, and are looking for a deep, unforseen plot, this game has no real story, so The Force Unleashed would be a better choice.  With many different ways to play, this ones a classic, which I give a 8 out of 10, may the force be with you.

 

DETAILS

Star Wars Battlefront was released in 2004 for Xbox, PS2, and PC.

It's rated T for Violence by the ESRB.