Star Wars: Battlefront (2004)

 PC
Metascore
76

Generally favorable reviews - based on 34 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 24 out of 34
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 34
  3. Negative: 0 out of 34
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  1. ActionTrip
    73
    This game is good but not great. The game needed about another 3 to 6 months of development time to get some of the bugs worked out (specifically the AI and the weapons loadouts), but I have a feeling the pressure was on since they timed the game's release with the release of the original trilogy's DVD iteration.
  2. Jolt Online Gaming UK
    72
    It offers that shallow kind of fun that plays on the novelty of the experience rather than anything else. The game is undeniably well-polished, but the longevity value is a bit questionable for anything other than hardcore Star Wars fans.
  3. Computer Gaming World
    70
    Battlefront gives fans a perfectly good way to act out their fantasies of being a grunt in either of hte series' wars. [Holiday 2004, p.82]
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  5. PC Gameworld
    70
    Great for a weekend of Star Wars geekery with a bunch of friends, offering solid fun for the first four or five hours. After that, well, to impersonate Yoda: whether or not to own it you will want, only the future will tell.
  6. CPUGamer
    70
    This game frustrates where it should rejuvenate.
  7. Total Video Games
    70
    Buy with the knowledge that even the multiplayer mode can't save some environments from growing stale.
  8. GameSpy
    70
    If you're a Star Wars fan and need to have the PC version, do yourself a favor and wait to pick this up on sale once all the patches have been released; after all, any game that lets you pick off Jawas and Ewoks can't be that bad.
  9. GamerFeed
    60
    Once you get the feel of the odd controls and figure out how everything works, every one of the single player modes are a throw away.
  10. GameShark
    60
    Sadly, an impressive graphical presentation and some surprisingly fun offline gameplay (I would've preferred a more storyline-oriented campaign, but the skirmish-styled gameplay is still quite entertaining) just aren't enough to make Star Wars: Battlefront anything more than an above-average title.
  11. Adrenaline Vault
    50
    While it is fun for a short while, once the novelty wears off its lack of polish really shows through. It completely lacks innovation, doing nothing at all different than what we've seen a 100 times over by now.

Awards & Rankings

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#63 Best PC Game of 2004
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#26 Most Discussed PC Game of 2004
42
#42 Most Shared PC Game of 2004

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User Score
8.2

Generally favorable reviews- based on 203 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 155 out of 203
  2. Mixed: 39 out of 203
  3. Negative: 9 out of 203
  1. SamF.
    May 24, 2005
    10
    Everything That Made the Battlefield series a hit, but in the star wars universe! How Cool is that? Awesome game and lots of action Everything That Made the Battlefield series a hit, but in the star wars universe! How Cool is that? Awesome game and lots of action duplicating every battle in Star wars. If there is any negative it would be that this game's gameplay is exactly like BF1942 and Vietnam... But if it aint Broke...… Full Review »
  2. delta38j.p.
    Aug 28, 2005
    10
    This is the first game in star wars that you can play the best battles you normally play games that are about a jedi and its invincible in This is the first game in star wars that you can play the best battles you normally play games that are about a jedi and its invincible in this one you really probe your self fighting one army againts another.… Full Review »
  3. PasiMetaAho
    Jun 17, 2022
    8
    Really good shooter, improved upon by the next game: Battlefront 2 and then some EA dickhead shat all over the name. Free Radical should haveReally good shooter, improved upon by the next game: Battlefront 2 and then some EA dickhead shat all over the name. Free Radical should have been allowed to finish their game instead.… Full Review »
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