Star Wars Battlefront

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3.6

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 1708 Ratings

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  1. UkeFox
    Nov 17, 2015
    3
    Pros:
    Pretty... Very pretty
    it's fun~ Cons: No story Feels like Call of Duty: Star Wars edition. Doesn't feel like it holds to the spirit of the first two games. No space battles. I would have loved for the inclusion of a Solo campaign or something like Galactic conquest. All you do is kill enemies with little focus on objectives. I would have loved to see Battlefront II with    Pros:
    Pretty... Very pretty
    it's fun~

    Cons:
    No story
    Feels like Call of Duty: Star Wars edition.
    Doesn't feel like it holds to the spirit of the first two games.
    No space battles.

    I would have loved for the inclusion of a Solo campaign or something like Galactic conquest. All you do is kill enemies with little focus on objectives. I would have loved to see Battlefront II with improvements not this.

    This game is a big MEH/10    … Expand
  2. Slomaker
    Nov 17, 2015
    4
    Best Casual game of the Year! Another Soulless game.
    Very good graphics quality but the game mechanics has been simplified.
    The same console disease like Fallout 4. EA ruined star wars series.
  3. fallouts
    Nov 17, 2015
    0
    Very soulless and repetitive game. They could have done way more with the star wars license and they choose to make it a BF clone. Good job EA......good job.
  4. Pecheckler
    Nov 17, 2015
    4
    On the surface this game is great. The graphics are superb as is the core action gameplay. The native support for 21:9 resolution is appreciated as it looks amazing at 3440x1440. Hero classes are reasonably balanced, as are most game modes besides walker assault. Not everyone likes the power up or card system but I feel they fit in well with the game. And the most important thing aboutOn the surface this game is great. The graphics are superb as is the core action gameplay. The native support for 21:9 resolution is appreciated as it looks amazing at 3440x1440. Hero classes are reasonably balanced, as are most game modes besides walker assault. Not everyone likes the power up or card system but I feel they fit in well with the game. And the most important thing about the game is that it runs smooth as butter and is very well optimized. Totally stable, no lag or micro-stutter, runs well on even low-spec PCs.

    Unfortunately the game has several major issues all relating to simple features missing or control scheme choices. Also the game is quite lacking in content for the price. Something that doesn't bother me but certain does for many other players. As far as gameplay issues go, the most serious issue we have on the PC is the lack of team balance, or team shuffling. Teams are never randomized and there is no way to switch teams manually. What we're seeing in nearly every match is a stacked team dominating one side game after game. For example you'll have 6 players in hero assault for hours on end with no changes on one team, while the opposing team cycles 50+ players through the meat grinder who join and leave. The number of matches where it's 10v20 or 2v6 for often the duration of the entire match is far too many. At the very least teams should auto balance with each match change. Certainly this can be done while still maintaining parties. Even if it isn't a full team balance, something is still better than nothing whilst still maintaining friends/parties on the same side.

    Other major issues include the PC control scheme for flight controls. In beta the controls were great, with direct mouse input to vehicle flight control. Very precise and a pleasure to fly. However now we're discovering that the flight controls are a sluggish joystick emulation style control. Basically flying an x-wing feels like driving a car on a sheet of ice. It's a mess. A huge mess. Most fighter squadron matches are just chat rooms of players complaining about how the beta test flight controls were better.

    Lastly we're missing common features like the ability to see players ping, or even a server browser. There's not even a way to kick or ban cheaters who blatantly use hack software... instead relying only on the automated mechanism which could take days or weeks to work. Something i'm sure we'll sorely miss in due time.    … Expand
  5. P0iS0NdaRt
    Nov 17, 2015
    8
    Let me ask you this ? what other Star Wars games audio and visuals match this authenticity !

    none. This is epic. This is most importantly FUN ! Yes it may be simple . but its fun ! How much more in depth can star wars become.

    MY biggest gripe will be lack of content - Yes they hid all this behind a paywall Season Pass. =(
  6. nathanail13
    Nov 17, 2015
    1
    I'm really disappointed. I expected at least the quality of the previous battlefront game. Everything that i liked in SW Battlefront 2 is missing here - the conquest, the bots to play when there is no one around, the space battles with entering the star destroyers. The weapons are impotent, the vehicles and the heroes are random, the maps are bad made. The whole game feels like free arcadeI'm really disappointed. I expected at least the quality of the previous battlefront game. Everything that i liked in SW Battlefront 2 is missing here - the conquest, the bots to play when there is no one around, the space battles with entering the star destroyers. The weapons are impotent, the vehicles and the heroes are random, the maps are bad made. The whole game feels like free arcade browser shooter. And this is Dice... The only good thing are the graphics. But the graphics are not everything - the gameplay is what makes the games enjoyable and this game is boring, too simple and lack content. I won't buy the season pass - sorry Dice/EA.… Expand
  7. sscott0829tw
    Nov 17, 2015
    4
    Star Wars Battlefront offers a satisfying First person shooter experience.The graphics are insane,especially endor,there is so much attention to detail and really brought the epic planets in the movies to the game.There are lots of gamemode to play,most of them are well-designed and fun to play,DICE fixed a lot of problems from the Beta,the game is now more balanced.The weapons are tooStar Wars Battlefront offers a satisfying First person shooter experience.The graphics are insane,especially endor,there is so much attention to detail and really brought the epic planets in the movies to the game.There are lots of gamemode to play,most of them are well-designed and fun to play,DICE fixed a lot of problems from the Beta,the game is now more balanced.The weapons are too few,and no weapon customization.And no campaign and space battle.Star wars Battlefront isn't a deep game for those Pro shooter players,more like a game for all kinds of player.Star Wars Fans will love this game.… Expand
  8. kingraptor724
    Nov 17, 2015
    3
    I am giving this game a 3 only for the mere amazing graphics. The gameplay is so casual and easy, I maybe Global elite in skill based fps like Csgo but Im literally going 50-10 every map while falling asleep because of the sheer casual combat thats just point and click. Your recoil, and spread doesnt even get effected by jumping. REALLY? It gets boring after the first 30 minutes, theI am giving this game a 3 only for the mere amazing graphics. The gameplay is so casual and easy, I maybe Global elite in skill based fps like Csgo but Im literally going 50-10 every map while falling asleep because of the sheer casual combat thats just point and click. Your recoil, and spread doesnt even get effected by jumping. REALLY? It gets boring after the first 30 minutes, the content isnt lacking especially for a $110 game. Theyre already talking about multiple sequels when this game isnt even finished, no server browser, only 48 players max, no clone wars, like 9 maps. ARE YOU SERIOUS. This is like a $20-$30 game. Id wait until then before buying and even then its still a bad cash grab.… Expand
  9. sfajardo
    Nov 17, 2015
    4
    Pros:
    No bugs so far
    Great graphics
    SW feeling ( sound/models/vehicles)
    No origin !
    Nice servers

    Cons:
    Generic FPS with SW theme, nothing more.
    COD style, I would like to have Battlefield style.
    Spawn campers already knows where to camp.

    Wait for a sale. I'm getting more fun from BF4

    Getting refund with origin's "great games guarantee" as I did with Titan Fall
  10. gNarNar
    Nov 17, 2015
    0
    0/10 worst game ive ever played
    EA ruined star wars.
    First of all. The game is LOCKED at 60 fps on consoles as well as pc which playing a game at 60 fps is pretty much unplayable there are only 6 heros in the game there is no campaign There is no galactic conquest there is no instant action there is no single player there is no modding there is no space battles This is call of    0/10 worst game ive ever played
    EA ruined star wars.

    First of all.
    The game is LOCKED at 60 fps on consoles as well as pc which playing a game at 60 fps is pretty much unplayable
    there are only 6 heros in the game
    there is no campaign
    There is no galactic conquest
    there is no instant action
    there is no single player
    there is no modding
    there is no space battles
    This is call of duty star wars nothing to see here
    this is not the game you're looking for hopefully no one will be tricked into buying this and just forget about this horrible buggy unplayable mess of a game.    … Expand
  11. mrklingon
    Nov 18, 2015
    0
    This will be another negative review but I want to give my view that is different from others. I preordered the game and have since refunded it, and I played a lot of the beta. Yes, a singleplayer campaign would be cool but I don't think that is the main issue with the game at all. The game itself is where it falls short.

    The gunplay needs much more depth. It's just too simple. The only    This will be another negative review but I want to give my view that is different from others. I preordered the game and have since refunded it, and I played a lot of the beta. Yes, a singleplayer campaign would be cool but I don't think that is the main issue with the game at all. The game itself is where it falls short.

    The gunplay needs much more depth. It's just too simple. The only modifiers to the guns effectiveness is reduced damage at range, to the point where if you want to to long or even medium range shooting you have to use the sniper cards. At close range most guns will kill in a few hits, at longer ranges head shots will do around 10% HP.

    I don't know why this is.

    The other main issue I have with it is the random spawns. This game is called Battlefront, but there is no actual battle front if you know what I mean. You can clear an area only to have the enemy team randomly spawn behind you and the whole thing ends up feeling very spy-vs-spy.

    I really hate the direction they chose with picking up powerups off the ground. The vehicle controls are abhorrent. Strangely it seems like the targetting reticle is not actually zero'd at certain angles/ranges for nearly every vehicle. In turrets, the AT-ST, or AT-AT I would sometimes have to put the reticle well above an enemy's model to actually hit them close up or at some angles.

    I am generally pretty above average at the games I play, and my Origin profile gave me a 3.24 KDR on Battlefront before I refunded, but the game still felt very much like a spawn-and-die affair. Even with the quickly regenerating health, your shelf-life as a trooper seems like it's always going to be pretty damn short. It just feels like a McDonalds kind of gaming experience. There just doesn't seem like a lot of room for tactics and strategy, like the game was designed to keep the skill ceiling low to the floor.

    I think it's fine to appeal to casuals but I believe every successful MP game needs to be competitive to have any longevity. Why couldn't we have the current battlefront in a casual mode and then a hardcore mode with more in-depth mechanics to appeal to the competitive crowd? It's not for lack of interest, the most popular games are always competitive and e-sport like. Even if you don't like competitive MP you can't deny that.

    Even with its current simplified mechanics, if vehicles spawned on the ground, powerups removed, classes introduced into the game and the spawn system completely revamped to eliminate the spy-vs-spy spawning, supremacy and walker assault would be far superior.

    The other modes are extremely lacking though. Most of them are way too similar to offer any real value. Heroes vs Villains could have been cool, but in my opinion why is half the team made up of essentially fodder for the heroes? It's like playing that mode you have to take turns on having fun at all. You can't just play a hero. A whole new meta game could have came out of this mode but it the effort was a pretty big fumble. There is a lot of potential to make the heros have a lot of depth and a hero vs villains mode being very fun to play, perhaps even something along the lines of a MOBA, but it falls really short. The saber mechanics are pitiful and pretty much just end in one saber hero trying to stun-lock the other through spamming. The gunning heros are far better though and Boba Fett is really fun to play. Dice could have really expanded on this but again missed the boat.

    So to sum it up, this game should have been designed both around the competitive multiplayer and casual crowd instead of just a theme-park Star Wars shooter that gets old in a few hours. This game is salvagable in my opinion with a large patch that could revamp the controls, spawns, vehicles, weapon attributes, etc - but we all know that will never happen.

    So what we're left with is a lot of really pretty Star Wars assets that will probably end up in another game at some point. Maybe then us detractors will get something we want to play.

    This game is one giant missed opportunity. Dice threw in some pretty graphics, skinner box mechanics, and a little social engineering in the hopes of crafting EA a new money tree with the Star Wars name. That's all this is.    … Collapse
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 19 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 19
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  1. CD-Action
    Feb 4, 2016
    75
    A perfect game for short sessions. It’s not deep enough to convince online shooters veterans, but it will definitely win over Star Wars fans. [01/2016, p.34]
  2. 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]
  3. 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]
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