The AT-ATs are gigantic damage sponges, and never feel like they’re really in danger.
The Rebels attempt to stop the assault with coordinated airstrikes, but the game type is so skewed in favor of the Empire that the Rebel team did not win a single one of the matches I played (five on each side).Įven the presence of Luke Skywalker doesn’t seem to do much good. That pits as many as 20 players on each side against one another on Hoth, where the Empire is attempting to overrun the Rebel base with all-terrain armored transports (AT-ATs, aka Walkers). The maps themselves are well-structured and -sized, although the game types themselves are uneven.Įspecially Walker Assault. Texture pop-in is smooth, even during 20v20 Walker Assault matches, and snow crystals are impeccably detailed: Your character’s footprints stay in the snow throughout matches. Tatooine’s survival and Sullust’s Drop Zone (a variation of Headquarters or King of the Hill) maps are bombed-out messes, and Hoth’s winter wasteland is outright gorgeous. Boss characters such as Jedi and Sith are rare in matches, and so far all you’ll see is Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader (although no matter how well I did, I was never able to play as either of them).īut what you do get to see does look fantastic, from a technical standpoint.
You’ll be able to customize your loadouts (and character appearance in the full game), but prebuilt classes and characters are nonexistent. Gone is any real semblance of story, and battles will be spread across only four planets (Hoth, Sullust, Tatooine and Endor, although only the first three are playable in the beta version). There are a few “missions” that you can play solo, but they appear at this point to be limited to standard “survival” modes, where you fend off waves of enemies as a timer runs out. The new “Battlefront,” beta or not, has a glaring lack of single-player features, but this is by design. If you’re one of the many hoping for a revival of the frankly excellent original “Star Wars: Battlefront” you’re going to be disappointed. The beta is solid, but this may not be the “Star Wars” game you’re looking for. It’s EA’s second shot at the “Star Wars” franchise, after the mildly successful “Knights of the Old Republic” online role-playing game, and the company has been promising a lot. Like many modern shooters, “Star Wars Battlefront” is having a short public beta test so fans can put some of the game’s features through their paces, while simultaneously providing technical data to the developers. “Star Wars Battlefront” is Electronic Arts Inc.’ latest multiplayer shooter video game, a revival of the “Battlefront” series originally produced by LucasArts in the early 2000s.
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