- Publisher: Electronic Arts
- Release Date: Nov 17, 2017
- Also On: PlayStation 4, Xbox One
User Score
Overwhelming dislike- based on 3264 Ratings
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Positive: 480 out of 3264
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Mixed: 201 out of 3264
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Negative: 2,583 out of 3264
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Nov 18, 2017Removing my review wont do it any good, metacritic, shame on you.
Do NOT give in to EA's lootbox scam, or any game for that matter.
Lootboxes in the games industry need to die, and we should not purchase any game that condones it. -
Nov 18, 2017
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Nov 17, 2017Pay 2 win or micro-transactions in paid game have no excuse, beside greedy of EA. Content it self is poor. I was playing on Beta version and few hours in official released game.
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Nov 17, 2017
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Nov 17, 2017"Gamers! My brothers of the console, keyboard or mouse! I would rather play No Man's Sky than any EA game! Let no gamer forget how menacing we are; we are lions! We vote with our wallets! Do you know what's waiting beyond Star Wars Battlefront II? Microtransactions! Here's a present EA...a middle finger...take it! it's yours!"
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Nov 18, 2017Do not buy, we need to force EA to stop this **** If we don't there will soon be no games left to play, only stupid gambling apps. Do not trust them, microtransactions will be back.
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Nov 17, 2017NO !!! Absolutley no!!! STOP RUINING OUR GAMES!!!!!!!!!!
Dice i appreciate the game youve made, but you should stand up harder to EA.
EA its over for you. -
Nov 19, 2017Even if you completely ignore the ridiculous loot boxes in the multiplayer that essentially make the game pay to win the campaign is extremely short and only took me 4 hours to complete. Definitely not worth the $60-$80
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Nov 21, 2017
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Nov 19, 2017I certainly hope EA learns from this. stupid company.
Gotta have at least 150 characters, so well here it is.
Breath of the Wild for GOTY!
Well it's actually obvious that it will be GOTY, no other game superior to it.... Game of the century would be even better. -
Nov 19, 2017
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Nov 20, 2017Even if they disabled the micro-transactions (for now) a game for $60 shouldn't be pay to win. Micro-transactions for only cosmetic items is cool though.
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Nov 21, 2017no way.. poor single player campaign, really short and poor storytelling. No way accepting pay to win with a 60USD game.. bloodsucking game developers, we must stand against these new way of gaming.
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Nov 22, 2017This is absurd!
The progression system is tied to loot boxes, and to encourage buying them, you are in for a grind fest.
Do not recommend to anyone, especially if you are a Star Wars fan like me, this is not the game you're looking for. -
Nov 20, 2017I simply don't get. Why ruin a game with such great potential by charging you at least 60 bucks and then hiding all the content behind a paywall. You have gone too far, EA. The gaming community will not stand for this. Removing the paid content and announcing it will be added again doesn't help it...like at all. EA, you will join those that tried before and fell beneath our wrath. Learn from it.
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Nov 22, 2017Absolute trash. I will never buy a game from EA, Ubisoft again. I pay to play a game, not to pay to pay to pay to pay..... Don't buy this and don't even preorder EA games again.
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Dec 7, 2017
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Dec 13, 2017Just when you think EA can't get any lower, they prove you wrong.
BRAVO.
Even the single player campaign is garbage. "Play as the darkside" except not because the MC is an annoying coward who quits the empire almost immediately. Thanks DICE. -
Nov 27, 2017DO NOT BUY UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE
Graphics look alright, Gameplay is average at best. Game is barebones and the bare minimum was done to create Star Wars themed cash milking machine. -
Nov 23, 2017What could have been a fun game has been undermined by a predatory monetization scheme and clueless suits. Do not buy this game. It will make you feel bad.
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Dec 30, 2017
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Nov 22, 2017
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Dec 12, 2017
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Nov 22, 2017Lootboxes and ingame advantages you can buy with real money have no place in a game that costs $60 dollars. I hope Disney will set a sign and take the rights for star wars away from EA.
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Nov 24, 2017
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Nov 20, 2017
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Nov 27, 2017This game is horrible. Microtransactions ruin it. There isn't enough content, to begin with. The stuff you have to buy gives you an advantage in the game. Very disappointing.
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Nov 22, 2017Good game but the worst progression system ever seen, so no fun. Pay to win will be back soon, so dont buy this game, its all about gambling and addiciton.
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Nov 29, 2017Terrible game. Same as the first one. Just a cash grab of a game thats really half a game so they can sell you microtransactions and other pay to win nonsense. Time gating and pay wall gating even worse than Blizzard's garbage. EA needs to be excised from the gaming community.
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Nov 24, 2017Stop supporting this horrible company. They keep making bad games until you stop buying them. EA symbolizes everything that is wrong with the video game industry.
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Nov 27, 2017This game was created especially to get money out of people. It bothers me that they do it with the name of Star Wars but finally the community is talking.
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Nov 29, 2017Good graphics. Boring campaign, tedious loot box structured multiplayer. All in all a less than average game. Would have given it a 3 but EA's dragged star wars through the mud & that kinda sucks, not to mention spending a full $60 on massive disappointment. Overwatch was cheaper & i play it more now than i did a year ago, non-game altering loot boxes also helped it's cause
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Nov 21, 2017I wont recommend anyone any RNG loot boxes skill progressions, obviously the p2w thing was gone offline for a while, I have to admit I love the graphics but I cannot rate this game more than 0.
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Nov 21, 2017Please, bypass this game by the side, as EA sees players only wallets, and this is sisen pass, games with Donat to win the battle, the price for the game itself. As long as EA does not become a man, no more will I buy their game
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Dec 8, 2017
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Nov 21, 2017More loot boxes? Funny thing is without EA share prices dropping and without getting a call from the Disney CEO those loot boxes wouldn't have been temporarily been disabled. How dare they tarnish the Star Wars IP in such a way.
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Nov 22, 2017Can't give this glorified casino a low enough score. While they may make changes later to make it less of a grind, the intent was obviously to rake the players over the coals. Absolutely disgusting.
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Nov 24, 2017Until they resolve the unfair progression system - this game is definitely a skip, or wait for a deep sale! If you're a fan of dull grind, then this might still be for you.
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Nov 25, 2017
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Nov 27, 2017Köszönöm ea, hogy a 2015-ös Battlefron után ismét belerúgtál a gyerekkorunkba...a 2005-ös Star Wars Battlefthoz nem is mérhető ez a valami amivel megint csak minél több pénzt akartok legombolni azokról a rajongókról, akiknek még volt egy kis bizodalmuk abban, hogy valaha egy újabb jó Battlefront játék fog készülni...ez már nem csalódottság ez már harag és megvetés...
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Nov 27, 2017No game should be this abusive to the gamer.
Even if the game had all of it's "pay to win", the reputation of being battle front 2 is in the mud.
Ironic I have a sense of accomplishment in giving this review. -
Dec 6, 2017pay to win pay to win pay to win pay to win pay to win pay to win pay to win pay to win pay to win pay to win pay to win pay to win pay to win pay to win pay to win
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Sep 23, 2019
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Dec 21, 2017
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Nov 18, 2017
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Nov 18, 2017Americans crying about prices... Developing countries paying 1/8 to 1/12 of median income for any AAA titles, yet no one cares. 1/10 is almost $200 for US.
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Nov 17, 2017EA, this is unacceptable. Just wow. Game looks great, sound is great. You have a god dang Star Wars license here, and then u throw it all away on making ppl pay full price and then adding pay-to-win free-2-play economy models. Then launch day you retract them, BUT NOT PERMANENTLY. Never again another EA title. Never. This was the last straw that broke my trust forever in you.
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Nov 17, 2017If you are at all a fan of Star Wars you will not buy this game. Mediocre story, and terrible progression in the multiplayer system. If i put hours into a specific class I want unlocks for that specific class not a box that randomly generates a reward for me. Yay an emote for a class I don't use at all. No way that EA did this on purpose to drive the sale of more lootboxes(Sarcasm). Utter trash.
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Nov 21, 2017
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Nov 17, 2017
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Nov 17, 2017
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Dec 29, 2017
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Nov 23, 2017
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Nov 20, 2017EA is the worst gaming company ever. Do they seriously expect us to play 5000 hours just to get some good characters without paying? Loot boxes are the worst and EA should feel ashamed. I will never buy any EA products ever after this. All they do is ruin my favorite hobby. And just make lowest common denominator games.
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Nov 17, 2017
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Dec 25, 2018
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Nov 20, 2017If people keep supporting These kind of Business practices, other developers will soon be the pile of trash EA is. You basically have to pay or waste your entire life to unlock Things that should be there from the start. This game is ruined and EA should be smashed into pieces to make an example. These kind of games are not welcome amongst gamers. Don't buy!
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Dec 14, 2017
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Nov 27, 2017Casual people are allowing microtransactions in AAA games. Also whales are a huge part. Its optional so its not that bad to be there. But when company starting to push hard grinding like in Free to play games its a very bad marketing move.
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Nov 20, 2017FIrst they scammed me with BF1 then they killed SW from visceral games and now they turned BF2 into a casino, i never gonna buy a game from this @ssholes again
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Nov 20, 2017the game is okay, mostly bland and uninspired, the atmosphere is okay, the controls are annoying and the micro-transactions are horrible, EA didn't stop them though, just gave the game a launch without it.
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Nov 30, 2017Boring, casual, primitive game play at all. Well, if your IQ is below 60, you gonna love this game like the monkeys do with their bananas. No point to bother anymore with this garbage.
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Nov 21, 2017Complete **** The greed has reached the ceiling. If I buy a game for 60$ I dont want to spend more money just to unlock content within that game. Microtransactions and loot boxes ruins the games, but unfortunately there are stupid people that will buy them so EA dont give a ****
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Nov 21, 2017This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Nov 20, 2017A beautiful candied exterior showered in sprinkles hides something much darker and rotten to the core. Carrying a hefty pre-order price, which I was more than happy to pay for a AAA title until realising I was ending up with all the AAA bits locked behind a paywall.
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Nov 22, 2017EA/Dice big scam and trap to waste your money, EU should ban this kind of games. Loot boxes are a way to people loose their money and this should be banned.
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Nov 25, 2017
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Dec 5, 2017EA MUST STOP microtransactions ... Greedy EA ... Just die already !!! Greed is a disease of modern world. Im not buying this trash of disrespect on US - buyers.
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Jan 17, 2021
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Nov 22, 2017It's a solid 'zero'.
Bug riddled, sales scam driven, grindy garbage deployed by EA. Instant return. Don't get it from the source that will not refund your money! -
Dec 24, 2018Can't find a game AT ALL, can't refund because I launched it more than 24 hours ago. Do NOT BUY.
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Jan 6, 2018garbage game... cant believe that brand like star wars end up in a hands of ppl like EA or disney... i rather go play amazing games like witcher 3, horizon, uncharted etc. than this soulless trash
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Jan 2, 2018Instead of creating a fun game, the game was designed to be a platform for selling microtransactions. When facing community backlash, the developers feign ignorance and promise "reworks" but keep doing the same thing anyway. As long as the money is flowing in, they really don't care about the product or the players.
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Feb 5, 2018The completely game breaking star card system ruins apotentially good game and hides game progression behind a RNG. The MP progression is blatantly engineered to create frustration and funnel players to pay for loot boxes with real money, essentially turning the game into a pay to win game.
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Feb 7, 2018Don't buy this game; it's simple as that. EA is destroying the very essence of gaming with their greedy behavior. Do the world a favor and NEVER buy any of their publications EVER again. This game is also completely average and is NOT WORTH that much.
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Mar 19, 2018
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Jun 14, 2019I gave him a second chance. Now it is worth playing, with new content and without microtransactions.
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Jul 11, 2019Legendary comeback of a game with gr8 developers who listen to their players and deliver great content
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Jan 17, 20211 point for visuals, 1 point for sound/music and one point for shoot the guy make happy. Otherwise whatever game.
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Jan 24, 2021
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Sep 2, 2020
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Nov 17, 2017
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Nov 21, 2017Please, don't buy this game. You will ruin the future of gaming! This is the first step to milking the consumer to 100% and if you buy this game you let every AAA-industry walk over the gaming customer. Be a human and don´t pay any attention to this game. It is pure P2W, Vote with youre wallet, don´t give in to the theme Star wars!
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Nov 28, 2017**** game like city wok no good food,chinese no good for me.
But seriously even without the Microtransactions this game sucks balls cause the progress is waaayyy tooo **** slow and random.... **** system **** game well done Eat Ass arts. -
Dec 8, 2017
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Nov 24, 2017Like a Freemium mobile game, except you pay $70 up front.
People who think this game should be judged separately from its monetisation methods is ignoring the fact that the game was LITERALLY designed with how to extract every single cent from players in mind. That's the CORE gameplay design. How to empty their customers' wallets.
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Nov 24, 2017Never trust EA ...they always fine a way to Your wallet. Game it self is not bad but created only for micro-transaction system. Will never again buy EA game.
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Feb 6, 2018This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Jan 13, 2018Let's make it below 1.0 guys! We can do it! I beleive in everyone!!!!!!!!!!!
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Dec 16, 2019Really great game that has really turned around since it's launch, it doesn't deserve the low rating it currently has.
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Nov 21, 2017it sucks, microtransactions aside this game is just a god awful example why branding doesn't matter, This game has almost nothing to awe over besides the visuals and sound design. Just do yourself a favor and avoid it you'll have more fun playing something else.
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Nov 21, 2017It is a speedy pewpewfest without any sort of advanced tactics or sense of presence, in glorious graphics, with a horrible horrible progressionsystem. So many missed opportunities. Not even mentioning the pay2win feature currently disabled.
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Nov 18, 2017
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Nov 21, 2017So its 2017 and now we not only have a p2w AAA game but it also doesn't have dedicated servers/server browsing, something we had figured it out in like quake 1 over 20 (TWENTY YEARS) ago......
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Nov 21, 2017
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Nov 24, 2017loot boxes and 4 hour Single player Campaign , graphics are a 10 but everything else drags it to 1. Only 2 viable games mode in multiplayer , Light saber combat is still HORRBLE, it amount to a bunch of kid hitting a piñata.
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Nov 24, 2017This game is trash and so are anyone that actually buy this game. Boycott this game and EA's micro transaction antics will go away, simple as that. These clowns that buy this game are anti-consumer and anti-gamer.
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Nov 21, 2017
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Nov 21, 2017PLEASE Do not buy this game - it's based on mechanics ,,Pay to Win" -
There is also a very poor and average plot that takes several tiring hours.
EA cuts coupons to release another DLC Let's add to that the above mentioned Pay to Win about mechanics not to mention - Electronic Arts You will not earn on us this time -
greed does not pay off
Awards & Rankings
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CD-ActionFeb 8, 2018Apart from the great Starfighter Assault mode Battlefront II is a mess of conflicting ideas, uneven mechanics and of course questionable monetization practices. DICE is facing long months of salvaging the game and the studio’s good name. [01/2018, p.32]
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Jan 21, 2018Even the tinsel of the Star Wars world cannot hide the silly story and the boring singleplayer gameplay, or the necessity to accumulate the credits in the crate hunting in multiplayer. Battlefront II pleases as a genuine shooter in the beautiful scenery, but EA should deserve a slap into the face for their mad progression system.
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PC PowerPlayJan 6, 2018There's fun to be had, but for every step towards the Light Side, there's a foot stuck firmly in the Dark Side of bad design decisions. [Issue#269, p.52]