Star Wars Battlefront

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Dice has done an amazing job putting this game together. Graphically Battlefront is stunning and you are instantly immersed in the Star Wars universe with all the familiar environments, sounds, music, and characters. The game has two modes, the obvious multiplayer portion of the game and a missions section. The missions consists of solo and Co-Op training missions, Battles, and Survival modes. These non multiplayer modes can be fun and even offers a leaderboard so you can beat your friend's best times. The multiplayer portion of the game offers 10 different game modes in five different environments. The very familiar Hoth, Tatooine, and Endor are represented in exquisite detail. The other two environments consists of the sulfur world of Sullust which is only mentioned in the Return of the Jedi and the battle graveyard of Jakku from the Star Warsney film. The battles can be intense, especially when you are dogfighting in a starship. Ships can quickly come into view only to explode either by your hand or a squad mate's well placed shot. Becoming a hero in the game is another fun aspect that can be overpowering if you are on the receiving end, but at the same time it's an accepted dynamic as you roam the battlefield as one of six iconic Star Wars characters. That is no to say you can't quickly be killed if a group of enemies concentrate their full fire power on you. However getting an iconic character is not easy as they spawn randomly and you are in competition with fellow players to pick up the change token. The game also has negatives to consider. One, you just want more of the game and two is the upcoming $50 DLC. An outrageous amount of money to ask for DLC when the game is mostly just multiplayer.

Update: The DLC was not great and as of now no one plays it at all. The rest of the game modes are fairly active. The game did not last very long on my rotation of games mainly because of the same things that made the game fun made it horrible. There are people who have maximized being a hero and therefore make the game a chore at this point in the game. For example, one time our entire team was pinned down and repeatedly killing in our spawn spot by the bounty hunter hero Bossk who could just launch barrages of explosives into the spawn spot while staying just outside the opposing team's death barrier. This literally made me quit playing the game for a very long time. In hindsight this game should have been so much better then it was.