Star Wars Battlefront II

 PlayStation 4
User Score
1.7

Overwhelming dislike- based on 8873 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,158 out of 8873
  2. Mixed: 470 out of 8873
  3. Negative: 7,245 out of 8873
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  1. FinisRonin
    Nov 27, 2017
    0
    I am a DICE fanboy! What DICE did here is absolutely impressive! The one point goes out to all the DICE devs that have to take a lot of **** due too EAs greed! I can not possible give a positive review on this. With the micro transaction removed for now, the game still remains pay to win! The preorder / delux and the 15 bucks boost pack all give a player a significant advantage in theI am a DICE fanboy! What DICE did here is absolutely impressive! The one point goes out to all the DICE devs that have to take a lot of **** due too EAs greed! I can not possible give a positive review on this. With the micro transaction removed for now, the game still remains pay to win! The preorder / delux and the 15 bucks boost pack all give a player a significant advantage in the Multiplayer modus!
    Also players were able to get crystals on the first day. and by that some players got a significant day one boost.
    Furthermore to bind the progression of the game to a random lootbox system is demoralizing at best, especially when you find out how long it will take you to unlock even the most basic things. I end by saying awesome job DICE ... And EA stop ruining good games with your corporate greed!    … Expand
  2. Zerocool1981
    Nov 29, 2017
    0
    Oh EA and Dice! SMH. i was quietly optimistic for Battlefront 2 to build on and improve the formula from Battlefront 1. The style and game play has always been there whether it be console or pc but with the modern era we are now treated to the visuals and graphics gamer's so richly deserve. Sadly what has happened is the role reversal of the the quality of the product. We are treated to aOh EA and Dice! SMH. i was quietly optimistic for Battlefront 2 to build on and improve the formula from Battlefront 1. The style and game play has always been there whether it be console or pc but with the modern era we are now treated to the visuals and graphics gamer's so richly deserve. Sadly what has happened is the role reversal of the the quality of the product. We are treated to a visual extravaganza which is stunning in 4k but there is a distinct lack in the game play. While the overall feel isn't bad it is ultimately let down by a poor single player story mode and the one thing that has one of the greatest appeals for this genre of game! The Star Wars characters. The grind is ridiculous and unless you are willing to part with lots more cash it'll take a punishing amount of time to unlock said characters.
    EA are shameless in they're feel the need to squeeze every drop of money out of their ever dwindling fan base. I for one have completely lost any appetite for their releases and returned my copy, getting a refund. its sad, what could of been one of their very few crowning glories falls flat by needless profiteering. I hope you are all happy with alienating gamer's with what could of been a world class game.
    On another note. Congratulations on Breaking a record. The lowest review score ever. You must be so proud.    … Expand
  3. S7oYaN
    Nov 28, 2017
    0
    I played the beta, looked beautiful! However, this game deserves 0 for counting on nostalgia to suck you into buying 60$ AAA title and then charge you another 60$ just to give yo a fighting chance in the multiplayer. F@#K YOU and you micro transactions and loot boxes, EA!
  4. Praditya
    Nov 28, 2017
    0
    it seems i dont have to explain why I give that low score. I hope EA understand that so many people didn't like microtransaction. 60$ is enough. I hope people undertstand that if you keep buying and support this, this trend will never stop. Dice is making a good job and then EA mess this up.
  5. Sora438
    Nov 28, 2017
    0
    I can't in good conscience support this game, despite the game itself being quite fun and my love for Star Wars. Micro transactions have no place in any full priced game.
  6. thevi
    Nov 28, 2017
    0
    Not worh it, EA kill SW games with this crap. i hope Disney give the license to a honest company..if they exist. Not buy this game for support to yourself and the game players
  7. CataClatter
    Nov 28, 2017
    0
    I am somewhat a star wars fan, have always liked their games, and I hate to see greedy business practices destroy games constantly. EA is the perfect example of ruining game producing companies and destroying a series or game in general. I will not be buying any EA games further until the company lightens up on being money hungry. Battlefront II is the perfect example of this, and whatI am somewhat a star wars fan, have always liked their games, and I hate to see greedy business practices destroy games constantly. EA is the perfect example of ruining game producing companies and destroying a series or game in general. I will not be buying any EA games further until the company lightens up on being money hungry. Battlefront II is the perfect example of this, and what seems to be the biggest backlash this company has ever gotten and for a good reason. For a $60 game (the base game of course), you aren't just paying for the game, but to either be beaten by people that spend money on loot crates/in-game currency, or to grind for hours upon hours to earn ONE of their characters. That is unacceptable and thankfully the community is seeing this and responding to horrid business practices. Absolutely **** EA… Expand
  8. GoodJobEA
    Nov 28, 2017
    0
    The core mechanics of the game are decent at best and do not justify any of the garbage that EA has implemented in the game. Besides that the servers are trash so even if you were willing to look past Battle Fronts errors you wouldn't be able to fully enjoy the multiplayer experience as it would most likely be too laggy.
  9. edran
    Nov 29, 2017
    0
    Es un pay to win, estás políticas abusivas de EA con sus micropagos son un abuso hacia el consumidor. Además es una manera de apostar ya que sus cajas son de contenido aleatorio. No recomendado.
  10. SpaceMonkey2
    Nov 29, 2017
    0
    Pay to pay is not a platform a big developer should be doing, do not support this and prevent this greedy corporation from releasing more crap like this.
  11. SebastianAle
    Nov 29, 2017
    0
    An absolute travesty of loot box ridden p2w cr@p.

    A FULL PRICED game with a f2p gambling upgrade system slapped into it, literally gaming cancer that should be avoided at all costs.

    The corrupt "critic" reviewers should hang their heads in shame over giving this pos anything higher than a 3, they are letting the public down by not acknowledging what BS this is.
  12. Siphyx
    Nov 29, 2017
    0
    Microtransactions that's all I have to say.
    The game is average at best, some bugs, not too much of an evolution from the previous one, and most of the weapons are unbalanced. Like this was not enough they've put a ton of microtransactions, well I am done with those and will not buy any more games until they stop with that.

    Boycott EA
  13. DonVitoMarco
    Nov 29, 2017
    0
    DO NOT BUY! It's a trap. It's a crap.

    EA CFO Blake Jorgensen says:
    "We're not giving up on the notion of MTX"
    "(...) Some people have more time than money, and some people have more money than time. You want to always balance those two."

    Face palm...
  14. Goisa
    Nov 29, 2017
    0
    кусок донатного говна. графику сделали хуже. никакой разрушаемости. карты прямолинейны как топор
  15. lorcanux
    Nov 30, 2017
    0
    Contempt reciprocated, EA.

    Maybe spend some money next time on - - the 3rd person character animations - boy it looks awkward having luke sprinting around with a lightsaber, Han pointing a blaster constantly at everything with his never-tiring-hand - Co-op splitscreen, in every mode, on every device (yes, PC) - Consistently good writing & voice acting for campaign - earning back    Contempt reciprocated, EA.

    Maybe spend some money next time on -

    - the 3rd person character animations - boy it looks awkward having luke sprinting around with a lightsaber, Han pointing a blaster constantly at everything with his never-tiring-hand
    - Co-op splitscreen, in every mode, on every device (yes, PC)
    - Consistently good writing & voice acting for campaign
    - earning back trust - eg. free content that's good and isn't cynically bait for yet more monetisation    … Expand
  16. TheCrimsonFkr
    Nov 30, 2017
    0
    1. Short, unimpressive single player campaign;
    2. Unballanced multiplayer;
    3. Horrible grinding (and this is comes from the guy, that plays warframe and euro truck simulator 2). Srsly, it's not even worth to try to be good in the multiplayer, you still be rewarded the same as the player on the bottom of leaderboard. 4. Greed; 5. GReed; 6. GREEEEEEEED; Not worth a full price (for me,    1. Short, unimpressive single player campaign;
    2. Unballanced multiplayer;
    3. Horrible grinding (and this is comes from the guy, that plays warframe and euro truck simulator 2). Srsly, it's not even worth to try to be good in the multiplayer, you still be rewarded the same as the player on the bottom of leaderboard.
    4. Greed;
    5. GReed;
    6. GREEEEEEEED;
    Not worth a full price (for me, at all), no matter what fanboys in the positive side of comments say.
    Search the web before considering to waste money on this game.
    Not my native language, but let it be the indication of how much this whole situation pissed me off.    … Expand
  17. EmpireArts
    Nov 30, 2017
    0
    "Some people have more time than money, and some people have more money than time. You want to always balance those two."
    -EA CFO Blake Jorgensen

    I value both my time and my money and EA is just a gaming tyrant at this point with ideologies like this.
  18. OnandOff
    Nov 30, 2017
    0
    my opinion on this game is nowhere near positive. Absolute trash. Trashier than the dump. This game is so bad it wasn't allowed into hell. lol lolollolololol
  19. friend_within
    Nov 30, 2017
    0
    This is my opinion hope it can have some impact into somebody looking to buy this game, which by al means you are entitled to do what you want with your money. But, I hope i can save you 60 dollars or what ever bundle you are looking to buy.

    Graphics: As always DICE makes a phenomenal work with textures, lighting, skyboxes, etc. Frostbite engine as always one of the best game engines    This is my opinion hope it can have some impact into somebody looking to buy this game, which by al means you are entitled to do what you want with your money. But, I hope i can save you 60 dollars or what ever bundle you are looking to buy.

    Graphics:
    As always DICE makes a phenomenal work with textures, lighting, skyboxes, etc. Frostbite engine as always one of the best game engines out there. (A part from Decima, Unreal and Unity engine)
    Though sometimes the ragdoll effect when you kill enemies can be wonky at times, but it's not as big of an issue. Now to frame rate can be an ugly issue when you are in more busy areas, looking at you consoles.

    Sound:
    They seem to deliver almost movie quality sounds with lasers ricochet in metals, wookie screams, spaceship sound effects, lightsabers, channel separations, etc. Everything is spot on amazing to be honest.

    Music:
    It is a fantastic Star Wars score while they deliver different themes to certain characters. I would've been so mad if they got this part wrong but they didn't thankfully.

    Voice:
    I'm not going to lie I was a little disappointed here, more in the writing than the delivery by the voice actors. At some point the internal conflict Iden Versio was experiencing should've been a bit more emotional and you will see that on later missions. Again it wasn't the voice actor, it was the writing which seemed a bit odd by the experiences the characters were experiencing at some times, which made them feel a bit off and anti-climatic. Also will leave you wondering why the emperor sounded like a post throat cancer operation warning video. A part from that the only issue was the writing.

    Gameplay:
    As everybody would know by now the game takes place between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens. Just to fill in the gaps of what happened during that time. I will not put spoilers, a part from that you will see the perspective of other heroes of the franchise. The story is around 5 hours if you play on the highest difficulty. The AI feels idiotic at lower difficulty levels, though at higher difficulty sometimes the issue is there at times you will encounter that the enemies will be behind cover and they will just come running straight through the middle and into your bullets leaving you wondering at why the enemy did that.
    Also this game loves the term "You are leaving the mission area".

    Here comes the juicy part Multiplayer:
    You got your different game modes including Arcade, Galactic Assault, Heroes vs. Villains, Starfighter Assault, Blast and Strike with 10+ maps to jump into. Connection hasn't been that bad even with the 40 player game mode.
    You get 4 different classes that you can choose from Officer, Specialist, Assault and Heavy class.

    Now the bad part about this game microtransactions, which are destroying the game right now. EA has programmed themselves into a blackhole of stupid. This game has no feeling of progression at all and the star cards are either boosts or abilities that you can equip that are connected to opening loot crates. This leads into a player that has spent ridiculous amounts of money into getting the top tier cards, which will make him into an unkillable god that roasts everybody in the lobby rendering team play at times stupid. The game is a true definition of pay-to-win there is no doubt about it.

    So at the end the fun factor at times it's there, but they are just trying to wrap you more into the graphics. Which will cause you to feel like "Oh man, the graphics are so cool I'm just going to play one more match, just want to experience one more thing or I just want to spend one more dollar to fully upgrade that star card."

    Which leaves me in a dilemma that it really sucks that it has come down to this. That this game is 60 dollars but it feels like every mobile title out there.    … Expand
  20. toxicbotto117
    Nov 30, 2017
    0
    the campaign isn't the best and lacks development, though i have heard they will add more to it later with DLC. But knowing EA people will likely have to cough up another 70 dollars for that let alone pay to win.

    This game isn't battlefront 2. Battlefront 2 came out over ten years ago. this game should be better known as star wars: **** you front 2
  21. Cosmiaxe
    Dec 1, 2017
    0
    Game play is fun, but progression system and loot boxes takes away the fun. No customization or personalization that seems remotely interesting. A complete disaster, maybe even the biggest flop in this year's gaming. EA is of course **** heads and will most likely re-implement micro transactions after the new star wars movie has been released and things have "cooled down" a bit. It's aGame play is fun, but progression system and loot boxes takes away the fun. No customization or personalization that seems remotely interesting. A complete disaster, maybe even the biggest flop in this year's gaming. EA is of course **** heads and will most likely re-implement micro transactions after the new star wars movie has been released and things have "cooled down" a bit. It's a beautiful game, but who cares. **** EA!… Expand
  22. SpookySkeletor
    Dec 1, 2017
    0
    The only game where tying a rubber band around your analog sticks to run in a circle is a viable means of progression that still fills the player with a deep sense of pride and accomplishment.
  23. berry-duke96
    Dec 1, 2017
    0
    To keep it short, I refuse to buy this game. The game gets a 0 because of EA deliberately trying to enforce a super heavy pay to win system in an $80 game. I have no respect for this practice, and I'm not playing the game if I'm going to be treated as a 24/7 customer instead of a player.

    You keep buying into this practice, and EA will soon charge you for individual save files.
  24. Tomberhood
    Dec 2, 2017
    0
    EA's greed is ruining this game... I truly believe that they are a bunch of hypocrites. **** EA, Dice needs to get rid of this awful publishers, no one should even pay attention to anything published by EA.
  25. tacosta
    Dec 2, 2017
    0
    Estão sujando a imagem de Star Wars!
    O jogo pode até ser bom, mas a partir do momento em que ele é vendido pelo preço cheio, e com uma quantidade grande de micro transações que impactam negativamento os jogadores que só comprarão o jogo standard, fica difícil comprar ou falar bem deste jogo.
  26. TheJAMES
    Dec 2, 2017
    0
    ea mercenaria, cheio de microtransação, so querem ganhar dinheiro a qualquer custo, quem pagar tem vantagem... a comunidade deve se unir para evitar que isso piore
  27. ANTM1
    Dec 2, 2017
    0
    I'm just another gamer that refuses to give this company my money for there practices. Progression systems should not be loot boxes, this is just a form of gambling, exploiting the young and the weak minded.
  28. fehwinters
    Dec 2, 2017
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. EA Games turned greedy, out of EA! This game is a covered F2P with P2W sells as AAA for 59.99.
    If you don't believe me just check videos of how players which donated own players which are just play the game as always. (2)    … Expand
  29. ilyazaka17
    Dec 3, 2017
    0
    Покупаешь игру,тебе пишут купи премиум,потом купи лут боксы что бы ты нагибал всех. И все ты заплатил за игру в 3 раза больше чем ожидал
  30. DoritoFan80
    Jan 10, 2018
    0
    Thanks EA , you just ruined the game with terrible loot boxes and microtransactions
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 62 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 62
  2. Mixed: 36 out of 62
  3. Negative: 3 out of 62
  1. Playstation Official Magazine UK
    Feb 6, 2018
    70
    Excellent online action offers hours of Stormtooper-shooting fun, but the so-so campaign stumbles, while cynical loot crates leave a sour taste. [Jan 2017, p.83]
  2. Gamersky
    Jan 21, 2018
    75
    Star Wars Battlefront II provides a greater ambition than the previous installment. It has powerful war scenes, a brand new single player mode, and shows a much more magnificent Star Wars Universe. But just like the Jedi should be ware of the dark side of the Force, this game also meets some similar situations, such as beleaguered microtransaction elements and character growth problems. The first 10 hours of this game is full of surprises; however, the further you play this game, the more disappointed you will get.
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  3. PLAY! Zine
    Dec 29, 2017
    70
    Although game has huge problems with p2w microtransactions, it is still a good and fun gameplay experience with stunning visuals.
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