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Star Wars: Battlefront II

aka: Star Wars: Battlefront 2 (Classic, 2005), Star Wars: Battlefront II (Classic, 2005)
Moby ID: 21218
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A second helping of Battlefront provides all the same multiplayer action with an added level of spice, and plenty of new content.

Along with an updated assortment of multiplayer maps based upon the Star Wars Saga, including Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, you now have the opportunity to fight as some of the greatest heroes, including the Skywalker family, Darth Vader, Yoda, The Emperor himself and Princess Leia, among others. An expanded single player campaign has you fighting as Vader's 501st Legion of troops, fighting in the Clone Wars as the undercurrent of evil, soon to be known as the Empire, takes its place in the Galaxy.

Now you can also take to the stars in specially developed multiplayer levels where your skill in an X-Wing or TIE-Fighter come to the fore. Defeat enemy ships and destroy the heavy cruisers and capital ships to achieve victory, or land within enemy territory and blow up a Star Destroyer from the inside.

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  • 星球大战:前线II - Simplified Chinese spelling

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Average score: 75% (based on 42 ratings)

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Average score: 3.7 out of 5 (based on 92 ratings with 6 reviews)

I want to kiss the makers of this game!

The Good
Practically everything was great. The graphics are great, the storyline is great and the places you go to are even better. I just so love the idea of the space battles. And we get to play as Jedi now! How cool is that? Even though you can only do four lightsaber moves with them (minus lightsaber throw) It's still great to play as the Jedi, and Sith of course.

The Bad
A real disappointment is the amount of planets they took away, like Bespin and Rhen Var. Another thing is how small the space battles are. They should be as broad as the movies. Another con is the Jedi character voices. They don't sound a thing like the movie voices. The only exceptions are Jango Fett, Boba Fett and Greivous.

The Bottom Line
Star Wars: Battlefront 2 (in "Rise of the Empire" mode) is about a clone legion known as the 501st. It features planets such as Tatooine, Geonosis and Kashyyyk. The game also space battles. My advice is Buy It NOW!!!!!

Xbox · by M.Allen (83) · 2006

Oh Where Art Thou, TIE Fighter?

The Good
To be honest, there wasn't much about this game that I liked. I'll preface that now, so that you can read the rest of this review with a grain of salt. I am not a big fan of online FPS games.

The graphics were quite good, though not quite top of the line, which is understandable given its target demographic of online players. A little less CPU intensive graphics would (hopefully) provide for a better game experience online. The sound, as with pretty much all Star Wars games I've played, was significantly better than average.

What I like about this game was a notion I had about it before I got it. I'd read with considerable interest that this game would include what amounts to a flight simulator mode.... essentially X-Wing or TIE Fighter! Wow! Even with that feature though, there wasn't enough about the game that intrigued me enough to get it when it first came out.

As a shooter game, there's really not much to be said about it. It has the genre standard game modes and weapons and classes, all with LucasArts' typical Star Wars veneer. Nothing exceptional, either good or bad.

The Bad
The disappointment upon finally getting into a spaceship. I was so eager... playing an FPS game in the vein of Jedi Knight and then running up to an X-Wing, getting in it and taking off... and finding myself flying a go-kart with wings. There was no sense of speed or power (or physics, a constant problem with the Star Wars universe... but I digress).

TIE Fighter is one of my personal favorite games of all time. I was basically hoping for that to have been transplanted here. Now, since it wasn't, maybe that's biasing my opinion of the rest of the game. But that feature was the sole reason I was even remotely interested in playing it. And discovering that it was an arcade implementation rather than a simulator implementation was definitely a let-down.

The Bottom Line
This is not the worst FPS game I've played and isn't even close to the best. When it came out and was discussed in the gaming media I was glad to see LucasArts try to expand the gameplay in the Star Wars universe with the mix of styles or genres in one game. But I was disappointed in the end result. (Same thing I'd say about the space combat in Star Wars Galaxies.)

Long story short - I played it a couple of times when I got it as a gift, haven't touched it in years, and would almost bet my left big toe that I'll never play it again. It's just not my thing.

Windows · by agamer (24) · 2009

Best Star Wars Game of all time

The Good
First off, the game is actually part of Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith and I think that this is a good idea for Lucasarts getting on squeal of Star Wars Battlefront. The Insane Action is always putting you into the battlefield and taking care of Stormtroopers, Battle Droids, Heroes and Villains. The Galactic Conquest is about conquering the galaxy and be a leader like The Emperor. Campaign Mode is about the story of the legendary 501st.

The Bad
One part I don't like the most is the Coruscant battle where the 501st is trying to kill the Jedi and it's so hard to defend the Holo-books in the Library and It's impossible to kill the Jedi which they just run towards you and take you down with just one hit.

The Bottom Line
Now there is an updated version of Star Wars Battlefront 2 and it's awesome because you can be in different space battles and different planetary battles. Get this game on PC if you want to try the updated version.

Windows · by Damian Armstrong (19) · 2016

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  • GameSpy
    • 2005 – The Miguel Lopez Award for Most Awesome Lazors (Xbox)
  • PC Powerplay (Germany)
    • Issue 04/2006 - #5 Action Game in 2005 (Readers' Vote)

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The game's online servers (which were hosted on GameSpy) were scheduled to shut down on 30 June 2014, like for other Electronic Arts titles in the wake of GameSpy's total closure.

Multiplayer was restored specifically on GOG (via the Galaxy client) and Steam versions of the game on 2 October 2017.

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Game added February 15, 2006. Last modified March 14, 2024.