STAR WARS™ Battlefront II (Classic, 2005)

the young'uns will never get it will they

I am a 4/mo baby, probably one of the youngest people playing this game. I am an only child to my parents, who are both in their 30s now. My dad got this game for Christmas from his brother, so we installed it on his computer and he started playing. By the end of the week he had 24 hours on this game. This was horrible for me, as it was already hard for me to find ways to spend time with my dad, as he is always out with his friends or just, watching Fox News. So i decided to make a Steam account and get this game to see if I could maybe play alongside him . loaded into the game, made my character and started playing but I was stuck on what you were supposed to do. I asked my dad for help and he helped me. Loved it as it was the best time had spent with my dad since my mom had died. This game has ever since brought me and my dad closer again and now we actually spend time together outside the house together as well. This game reminded me that there's fun to be had in everything, and I cant wait to make future memories with my dad.

Absolute banger. Nothing else on the market quite like it. Arguably a significant improvement from the first game in terms of pacing and the smootheness of the gameplay, albeit at the expense of factions more or less being re-skins of each other. The maps and factions are more balanced than in Battlefront I, though often still heavily favor one side over the other. The game shows its age but holds itself up quite well for a retro game; I am partial to the lack of microtransactions and the heavier emphasis on strategic gameplay in Conquest mode in contrast to the typical "shoot x number of enemies" gameplay that underwhelms me in most shooters. The online community is more alive and approachable than the Battlefront I community in my experience. With the game being as dated as it is, whether or not shots hit at all in online gameplay is a mix of skill, fortune, and ping which takes some getting used to. The modding community also grants loads of free content for the game.

什么？你说ea前线2搞内购？单人不好玩？我说这个老前线2真神了！ 10块钱你可以体验到：温度大师割草b1机器人，玉米头和手下打成一片，安恨沙鲜切向日葵，不用再忍受ea的傻逼服务器和运营操作，不用看到小丑一样的后传角色，不用再忍受dice哄小孩一样的单人模式，在这里你能在前传和正传所有激动人心的场景这里都有，还有在旧正史小说和漫画里你看不到的，只有纯粹的战斗爽，忘记ea吧，拥抱这款真正的纯粹的星球大战作品。即使过了这么多年，它依旧是我最喜欢的星球大战游戏，大战场类星战游戏的标杆。 原力日快乐，家人们。

Uh, well... it's a pretty good game. Playing this game in 2026, it really feels like something from another era, in the sense that this is a very full-featured video game. We got a singleplayer campaign, a singleplayer, uh, Dark Crusade type node-based 'Galactic Conquest' gametype? We got, 'Instant Action' (now isn't THAT a blast from the past) and there's off course the multiplayer component. Most games these days, it feels like, only have one gamemode and that's multiplayer, or it only has singleplayer, and that's that. Do one thing well, so to speak. Anyway, so what actually is this? It's like a Battlefield where you control a man, or you can hop in a vehicle and do the vehicle for a while. That's basically it. You got several different kits you can play as when a man, and they all do different things. Like, you have man that shoots gun, or man that shoots rocket launcher, or man that shoots a shotgun. This game interestingly had I suppose some sort of similar idea to Far Cry, in that engineers, who carry shotguns, need to have some reason to interact with objects and do some sort of job. And that's why they can build structures, mostly turrets, from time to time. The structure basically exists on the ground and you just LMB with your engineer tool until it exists. Similarly, when repairing stuff, if it is a completely broken turret or whatever, you basically have to rebuild it from the ground up which takes forever. The game also doesn't seem to have any real concept of like, 'our' turrets or 'their' turrets and you can seemingly interact with any health robot or ammo robot (the venerable 'gonk' droid in Battlefront 2 refills your ammo) and there's no penalties or anything, even if you're in the enemy base. So this is really a pretty janky game. Overall, I didn't mind that though, since they manage to do a lot with this game, on what feels like certainly a small budget. The music is worth noting because I noticed at some point they do what many other Star Wars licensed games did, which is just take music from the movies, and just throw it in the game without really any consideration for when it should play, or which track should play - just throw it all in there. So it's very surreal at times, hearing the heroic music from when Luke swings across a void in the Death Star with Leia, while you're playing as an Imperial Stormtrooper. The game has a reasonably strong singleplayer component, the game has a campaign which has, in my opinion, a pretty poor difficulty ramp. Every mission is kind of all over the place in how much it challenges you, and sometimes you'll just be likeh meh, this is easy and just speedrun to the end, and sometimes you'll just get destroyed. Because, the game works on a lives system, like tickets in Battlefield, where your soldiers have so many reinforcements and when that runs out, you can't respawn anymore. Except, in the campaign the enemy gets INFINITE respawns, and you get finite. This puts you on, at times, a very severe time limit. You can't seemingly control your allies in any reasonable way, since they're AI and they just do whatever, and they very often just kind of get murdered. While there aren't too many 'campaign enemies' like in some games, there are a few levels, and one notable one, where the enemy just gets help from anomalous units that are kind of overpowered. And sometimes the game kind of just spams too many of one enemy type, or at least it feels that way. Rebel snipers are an absolute curse, since they have hitscan weapons and do 80% of your life most of the time in one shot. It's not fun. There's also the Knightfall mission, wherein you kill a bunch of Jedi. Jedi are a pain to kill since it's kind of random whether they choose to block your blaster shots, or not. When they 'lock on' to you as well, they basically will not stop until they have walked on top of you and lightsaber'd you to death. This sucks pretty bad, and thanks to a part of the mission where you have to 'defend these objects' from like a dozen Jedi, or else you instantly game over, it's probably the worst mission in the game. Surprisingly, Battlefront 2 is a blend of Star Wars prequels era scenarios, as well as 'original trilogy' scenarios. The finale of the game is the Hoth battle, and it begins basically with the first battle of the clone wars, on Geonosis. So you've got, the rebellion, the empire, the separatists, and... the clone troopers, all playable in this game. Neat. The game kind of tries to have a story? I don't know if it's totally effective, but if you like 'military fiction' it basically reads like a diary of 'some guy' you never know the name of, chronicling the events that these clone troopers went through, the 501st. I have never really liked the clone trooper > stormtrooper thing, because the way it always seemed to me, is that the Empire probably hired on just regular people. Of course, I could buy there might be some clone troopers left over, but I always assumed they'd have pretty short lifespans overall. You're making a bunch of dudes to fight in a war and you don't really probably expect them to live through the end of the war or care about them, since they're clones, they are deliberately expendable. So why wouldn't there be some kind of in-built kill timer in them basically? You also don't probably want or need clone soldiers developing all of the problems that soldiers actually have to deal with in real life, like, permanent disabilities or maladies. Why would you bother preserving some 40 year old (which is approximately how old many of the 501st would be by the end of this game) when you could just clone new 20 year old dudes who are more able and more expendable? Anyway, to get away from all that, the story is reasonably effective. It's hard to call it like a 'real' story since it's mostly just some dialogue over gameplay footage, between each mission. It at least helps give some context for each mission, so that's nice. It's enough. So yeah, uh, it's a Battlefield type shooter and it's pretty fun. It'd probably be even more fun if the multiplayer was a little more active (I did see one nearly full server in the server browser so that's cool) but as it stands, the singleplayer component is pretty good, and the game runs surprisingly well. I had zero crashes, which is impressive for a game of this age, and with this level of jank.

Best Star Wars shooter of all time. The newer versions are poor attempts at recreating this magic.

it's a classic game with tons of content to enjoy vs. the one from EA with not that much and pay to win junk in it

One of the best SAR WARS games.

fun game

The best star wars game ever, there I said it. I may be a bit biased because I've been playing the game for 20 years but in my opinion its one of the greatest games of all time. The modding community is also incredible for such an old game.