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  • Summary: Star Wars Battlefront lets players live out a broad array of heroic moments and intense battle fantasies of their own – firing blasters, riding speeder bikes and snow speeders, commanding AT-ATs and piloting TIE fighters and the Millennium Falcon. These battles will take place on the iconicStar Wars Battlefront lets players live out a broad array of heroic moments and intense battle fantasies of their own – firing blasters, riding speeder bikes and snow speeders, commanding AT-ATs and piloting TIE fighters and the Millennium Falcon. These battles will take place on the iconic planets of the Star Wars universe, including Endor, Hoth, Tatooine and the previously unexplored planet, Sullust. Gamers can play as the memorable characters from the original trilogy such as Darth Vader and Boba Fett. Star Wars Battlefront features a wide range of modes tailored for different types of battles, from larger 40-person competitive multiplayer to crafted missions that are played solo, with a partner via split-screen offline or co-operatively online. [EA/Lucasfilm] Expand
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 19
  2. Negative: 0 out of 19
  1. Pelit (Finland)
    Jan 4, 2016
    81
    Star Wars Battlefront looks and sounds great, and with Battlefield-class gameplay could have ruled the multiplayer galaxy. Unfortunately, at best OK-level, Battlefront-class gameplay is much too shallow to last long. And this is THE one license, which really needs a single player campaign. [Dec 2015]
  2. Nov 18, 2015
    80
    Aside from awkward performances and a poor original score, Battlefront is a master class in aesthetic authenticity. Beyond a few essential modes built for casual competition, however, Battlefront is unfocused, relying on excess game types to compensate for an absent single-player campaign.
  3. Nov 27, 2015
    79
    When it comes to generating pure Star Wars atmosphere this is a dream come true. But even that can’t hide the fact that in the end the content is fun but at this stage very limited.
  4. Nov 28, 2015
    70
    It looks great, but it is in need of more substance behind the style.
  5. Edge Magazine
    Jan 3, 2016
    70
    Any semblance of subtlety is abandoned entirely when it comes to the playable Hero and Villain characters. [Jan 2016, p.110]
  6. Nov 30, 2015
    68
    Star Wars: Battlefront is beautiful to look at, but too primitive at its core.
  7. Nov 19, 2015
    60
    Star Wars: Battlefront does a fantastic job of transporting players into the Star Wars universe for a big initial kicker, but that ultimately fades when you realize how light it is on content and game features. A textbook case of style over substance.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 62 out of 509
  1. Nov 18, 2015
    10
    Amazing star wars game. Amazing graphics and sound. Tight controls and a very unique style of play. People calling this a CoD clone or a BFAmazing star wars game. Amazing graphics and sound. Tight controls and a very unique style of play. People calling this a CoD clone or a BF clone are out of their minds! People leaving 0/10's on here need to be banned. That's not a review, it's trolling! You found NOTHING good about this game at all?

    The maps are fun, the modes are fun but they could use some more stuff. That's why i got the pass. It sucks to pay for DLC but that's the way it is, BF does the same crap so shut up! So does CoD! People here need to stop complaining about minor bs. Game has been out 1 day and people think they've played it enough to drop a 0/10 bomb on it... that's trolling at it's finest and it's why no one takes metacritic reviews seriously.

    This game does what i want it to do as a STAR WARS FAN! This is exactly what i expected. SWBF 1 and 2 were great back in the day but i DO NOT need galactic conquest or space battles. I have survival mode and i have air combat battles. What's the problem!? Who played the originals for the single player botmatch garbage anyways? Take off the nostalgia goggles folks! Those games were extremely casual btw, so stop acting like they were some MLG style game like CS. Game is a solid 8/10 but i'm dropping a 10/10 to combat all these troll idiots.
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  2. Nov 17, 2015
    7
    The game is *fun*. The gameplay is fantastic, music and sound is amazing, and it is beautiful. That said, I simply don't think this is worthThe game is *fun*. The gameplay is fantastic, music and sound is amazing, and it is beautiful. That said, I simply don't think this is worth $60 for many people. The content is super sparse. Only 4 planets and half a dozen game modes. No story, or even Galactic Battlegrounds, is a HUGE minus for me, as someone who loved Battlefront 2. Then the $50 season pass compounds this issue - the game is clearly not a complete product, do not buy the season pass.

    Just like Titanfall or vanilla Destiny, some of the pieces here are fantastic. But the content leaves something to be desired. If you have a limited budget, spend your $60 on a game that deserves it - like Fallout 4 or Witcher 3.
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  3. Dec 29, 2018
    5
    It has good graphics but that's it.

    Now for more important things, the retards at Polygon made the factually wrong statement of "The best
    It has good graphics but that's it.

    Now for more important things, the retards at Polygon made the factually wrong statement of "The best games of 2018 are under ten hours". The best games of 2018 aren't all under 10 or ten hours you factually retarded inbreds. That's fact, Octopath Traveler, Nino Kuni 2, Dragon Quest 11 or xi and Red Dead Redemption 2 are factually among the best games of 2018 and are more than ten hours, the amount of time a game takes doesn't matter and that's fact, the quality does instead and that's fact.

    Somebody who is called Cool Ghosts claims that Dragon's Dogma is "The Best game ever." No retard, it may be a good game but factually it isn't "The Best Game Ever." Not anywhere the best at all.

    Some retard who has a retarded name claimed that "GaaS (Games as a service) is an atrocity", no retard, factually it isn't necessarily an atrocity, it can be a negative if it's DRM for single player games but mulitplayer games have to be sustained. And no, I am not some two dimensional retard who believes it hasn't to be with us or against us pertaining to microtransactions. Some are fine for multiplayer exclusive games and genres, especially if it's free. They are fine to an extent if they're in mobile games. I am not "giving them ground" though retards, I think companies have to learn for themselves what's good and Idk, not be bullied by some retards online. If it's EA then go ahead and dislike them since they have shown numerous times they won't genuinely learn. Mistakes create improvement and that's perfectly fine, no the video game industry and community we have these days is not "seemingly tone deaf" like some retard would have you believe, some are yes but monetization to an extent helps guarantee the games we actually care about and are anticipating don't have monetization. That's why some mobile phone games and MMORPGs for some companies is okay, don't go nuts and it's perfectly fine. If your series is mainly an MMORPG then to an extent it's fine, be positive you don't have anything in an MMORPG that gives players an advantage. Monthly subscription or free to play it's perfectly fine, for mobile games as well. And that goes for multiplayer exclusive genres like Mobas, Hero Shooters, Team Shooters and MMORPGs. No loot boxes though.

    Another thing is the best Nintendo Switch game of the year is Octopath Traveler as well as Smash Bros. Ultimate, it's a tie, that's a fact. Nintendo would survive without Mario and Sony would survive without Naughty Dog/Gran Turismo. That's fact.

    Shadow of the Tomb Raider didn't succeed commercially and had to go on sale but that's perfectly fine mainly because there wasn't anything that would make it apparent it wasn't going to succeed. it's a mistake but that's fine.

    Now lastly to talk about Square Enix. They are factually a good company. An example of "Creator Worship" even. They are factually generally well liked by the public and their fans, that's a fact. They acknowledge their fans in the East and West but now consider the kind of games they make even more because of the overwhelmingly positive fan feedback of Bravely Default. Some braindead retards on the cancerous retarded pedophile website "TV Tropes" though would lie to you on their retarded "Darth Wiki"(A name by retards for retards) and claim it's a "Fallen Creator" example or some similar retardation, despite having it as an example of "Creator Worship" as well even though it's one or the other. They are factually retarded and the retarded braindead "Fallen Creator" example is factually wrong as well. It's factually not a "Fallen Creator" it's factually an example of "Creator Worship". FFXIV wasn't great at first? Turned around the project and made it a good game and Square Enix was thoroughly commended by players, critics and fans alike for their effort, thus making them more "Creator worshipped" then before since it is now well liked. FF The Spirits Within? That movie that almost shut down Square? ALMOST. They recovered and are now more successful then ever after merging with Enix and now have more creative capability thanks to that. That's a positive, a "Fallen Creator" wouldn't have survived that, they would've shut down and not recovered because of that mistake, but they gained more from it instead. That's a fact. A vocal minority of some retards online may or may not site them as one of the first stereotypes of JRPGs and make retarded videos about selling merchandise, that's retarded "evidence" that isn't actually evidence. What if they are seen by some retards who are undoubtedly the kind of retarded ignorant American cumsuckers(Some Americans are good, not them though) who make equally retarded and factually wrong statements, over generalizations and stereotypes about anime and manga as one of the first "stereotypes" of JRPGs? What stereotype? That JRPGs are good games? Since they are, but you retards neglected to specify that of course. There will be part 2.
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  4. Nov 23, 2015
    2
    A game that has enjoyed a very nice graphics and sound design but which is completely hollow. Highly repetitive game modes and quickly withoutA game that has enjoyed a very nice graphics and sound design but which is completely hollow. Highly repetitive game modes and quickly without interest, no solo campaign. A fast food game for less demanding players. Expand
  5. Nov 19, 2015
    1
    Hey yeah very nice great stuff you made a game you shoot things good good so like what else is there dude where is all the content battlefrontHey yeah very nice great stuff you made a game you shoot things good good so like what else is there dude where is all the content battlefront 2 had oh you just removed everything okay dude cool I'll just go play battlefront 2 then Expand
  6. Nov 29, 2015
    0
    The game looks good, and it's Star Wars. Those are literally the only two good things about it. As an actual game, it's abominable. It's soThe game looks good, and it's Star Wars. Those are literally the only two good things about it. As an actual game, it's abominable. It's so shallow that Quake 1 seems to have more depth. At least there was an actual skill ceiling with Quake 1. Character customization is ham-handed; there are no space battles; very few vehicles; it's a waste of time to play modes involving heroes if you're not a hero; the guns have too much randomness in their cone of fire; and on and on.

    If you want something that looks good and is Star Wars, you can sit in a movie theater and watch Star Wars: The Force Awakens on December 18th for 1/3rd the cost. The replay value of this game is about as good as the replay value of a B movie.

    Avoid, avoid, avoid. This game is a complete mess. DICE clearly has no idea what they are doing.
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  7. Nov 17, 2015
    0
    The lack of a campaign mode and COOP vs AI on all maps is a disappointment to me. I had bought 2 copies and promptly got a refund today. IfThe lack of a campaign mode and COOP vs AI on all maps is a disappointment to me. I had bought 2 copies and promptly got a refund today. If you want BF4 with no story mode and only multiplayer only maps then this game might interest you, but to me Star Wars is always about the story. Expand

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