STAR WARS™: Battlefront Classic Collection

this game is buggy, dead, and abandoned. do NOT buy this game and just buy the original bf2 on sale. as of writing this it has 10x more players than this game

dont buy for pc you can buy both games for les than half and their graphics are the same

I bought this for achievements. Could have been good, but Star Wars fans are slop consumers, who let companies urinate in their mouth instead of demanding better products.

My review will only cover singleplayer, as I did not play multiplayer. These games have always been good and fun to play. But I find the port rather lazy. Some tweaks using AI for textures are nice but you can already do that with the original game and even end up with better visuals. I wish it had been more ambitious, for example actually improving the bots artificial intelligence. Also actually working on the textures not just slapping on an AI pass would have been the bare minimum if you’re charging full price for a two in one release for games that came out 20 years ago. If your resources are really so limited (lol) you could have reached out to the modders who worked for free on the BATTLEFRONT 2 mods, offered them compensation and given us a real definitive edition rather than a game that just does the bare minimum. I obviously don’t expect anything from Aspyr. I got to enjoy the game again which I liked when I was younger and that’s enough for me. Still, it’s pretty clear they’ll never make any effort for possible future ports.

So, if you're reading this, you're already aware that this game was a letdown. Was a letdown, and it has now been abandoned by the "developer". Let me first get this out of the way, Aspyr is a terrible "developer". First there was the lack of KOTOR 2 restored content mod just on the Switch (which they promised would be there on release), then there was the piss-poor state of the KOTOR 1 remake (which they lost the privilege to make, thank god), then there was this. [b]Aspyr are barely a developer - their most well known games are all "remasters" and "re-releases"[/b]. They couldn't release an original game if they tried. Okay, with that out of the way, why would I not recommend this game? 1. If you are buying this to play BF1, don't bother. This game in this "collection" is still broken in singleplayer. Certain sections of maps act as if you are trying to climb a hill on flat terrain, certain maps have un-passable areas and vehicles run like crap. Multiplayer is non-existent. Play the GOG supported original if you want to play with friends. Once again, if you are buying this for BF1, don't bother. 2. If you are buying this for BF2 singleplayer, then this part of the "collection" is solid. The campaign is the campaign (not a huge fan of it, but to each their own), Galactic Conquest AI is better than the original, AI can now play as heroes and the game has all the Xbox exclusive content (BF1 maps, Kit Fisto and Ventress). What is there not to love with all of the above? Well, the reason why all the Xbox content is in the game, is because they literally ported the Xbox version of the game for all platforms. [i]"How is this a problem?"[/i] you may ask? The UI is completely different. [i]"So how is this a problem?"[/i] you may ask again? The problem here is Instant Action. Instant Action is an absolute pain to setup. Firstly, you need to click add to add a single map, then click again to add another map, one by one. Added the wrong map? Instead of clicking on Add, you now need to click on remove for each map you want to remove. How this made it to the PC port, I will never know. Secondly, YOU CAN'T SET YOUR MAP QUEUE TO RANDOM!!! Who thought this was a good idea? Why didn't you just re-release the PC port for PC players? That has random map queues! But wait, it gets worse... [b]Ventress' addition to the game is not the original from the 2005 game... It's stolen from a modder who made a mod to add Ventress to the PC version of the game!!![/b] And if things can't get any worse, even though they did nothing with this game, even though they did a half-arse release of the game, somehow, this game takes 60gb of space to install. I don't know how they managed to make a game from 2005 this big without doing anything. It's astounding how they managed this achievement. Here is where I planned on entering point 3 for BF2 multiplayer, but Aspyr killed multiplayer before it even began. There are games with 3 or 4 players here and there, but unless you have friends who also want to buy this game, don't bother. As an Australian player, I can never find a game with good ping. Half the games are in the EU, and the others are in the states. Peer to peer games are still rough, with the handful of servers that have been available since launch being the only way to get a good experience. [b][u]The End[/u][/b] Aspyr are a joke of a developer, re-releasing Star Wars classics without putting any effort in, whilst also stealing content from other creators. Hopefully, with their parent company having broken off from Embracer (and having kept the rights to KOTOR 1), they don't go anywhere near the KOTOR remake, if it ever sees the light of day. Do not buy this game, and, if you can, do not support Aspyr.

This is a very shaky recommendation. If you're going to have a positive experience with this game, it's going to wholly depend on what you want out of it. I got this game for the native Steam Deck support and it runs like a dream. I didn't experience online multiplayer back in the day (played Instant Action and splitscreen nonstop on the PS2), and the singleplayer is just as I remember. Instant Action is still a blast, especially when you turn up the number of NPCs. The bonus maps and heroes are a welcome enough addition, and it's great to finally have Steam achievements (probably the only person to care about that, I reckon)! At the end of the day, it's still Battlefront, and I still love these games to pieces. I got exactly what I wanted out of this release. However, if you're outside my "bubble" of needs, you're definitely better off getting the original PC version of Battlefront 1 and 2. Better online multiplayer (which I wasn't even able to test in this version because all the servers are barren), better mod support... and it's also still Battlefront. Not all bugs/technical issues have been fixed in this version, either. Right now the most glaring one to me is the incorrect pitching of certain sound effects and voice lines. The victory theme is pitched too low and it bothers me. There's also the price. This game is not worth the $35. Even when it was on sale, it's still a pricey bugger. It's a duology of old games with some extra bonus content. The AI-upscaled textures don't really add anything. I would've preferred a simple resolution increase and nothing more, especially if it meant a less meaty install. The graphics did NOT need to be touched. TLDR: I recommend the Battlefront Classic Collection if you're: - Playing on Steam Deck - Only going to do singleplayer or splitscreen - An achievement hunter - ... idk man I just woke up Otherwise, you have better, cheaper options.

how the multiplayer is somehow worse than the old ports is ridiculous. the only reason I can see someone playing this over the other ports on steam is if you want actual controller support

This is a money grubbing scam. Don't buy it. No cross play, servers are dead, and no more further support or updates. there was like maybe one or two developers total working on this game and they barely made improvements. If you want better graphics go buy the original Battlefront 2 and download mods. All they needed to do was improve the graphics, make it cross play to prevent the game from dying, launch without bugs and add a couple of features. Instead they had two developers get together one afternoon throw a bunch of crap together and call it a day. If Aspyr actually cared they would have put the time in to accomplish the things I listed and this game would have been close to game of the year. I hope Aspyr loses their license for star wars. Let me state this one more time, don't buy this, this is a money grubbing scam.