11/01/05 - Star Wars Battlefront II (All except the Cube)

[schild]

I have nothing to say about this game. Nothing.

[stray]

Okay. How about the news that Sean Connery is playing James Bond again? What say you about that?

[schild]

Okay. How about the news that Sean Connery is playing James Bond again? What say you about that?

Now that, I'm ok with.

[stray]

I do a pretty good Connery impression btw.

[schild]

I do a pretty good Connery impression btw.

I do a passable Sean Connery on SNL's celebrity jeopardy if I've heard it within a month before.

I can also do a spot-on Deckard Cain from Diablo 2.

[Shockeye]

My son loves playing Battlefront on the Xbox so naturally he is asking every single day when this game is coming out.

As for myself, I may actually pick this up for the PC.

[Merusk]

It was kinda fun on the PC, just a very lousy single player implementation and flight controls from hell.  I know the SP in this will be equaly bad, so although it looks more fun I have no intention of picking it up.  Unless it plays like BF2 it's just an inferior product with the SW tags... and that's just not enough to sell me.

[Toast]

I bought Battlefront I for PC, and I was extremely disappointed. The premise is exciting for obvious reasons, but the implementation is very sloppy.

The weapons and the aiming felt sluggish and imprecise to me. The vehicles just didn't feel right. All in all, it felt like what it is...a mediocre port of an average console FPS. I was back to Battlefield within a day.

[Nija]

Apparently they used the shell of what was Battlefront 1 to make an actual game this time around. I've READ (this might not be factual) that it's possible in this game to have some kind or space/orbital battle, land on a planet, jump out and you're in FPS mode, fighting on ground. All in one level, or one level progression or whatever you want to call it.

Also there is a game mode to kill the indigenous species on whichever planet, so you can murder ewoks or gungans eternally if that's your type of thing.

[Morfiend]

so you can murder ewoks or gungans eternally if that's your type of thing.

All of a sudden, I want to buy this game.

[Kail]

It was kinda fun on the PC, just a very lousy single player implementation and flight controls from hell. 

I guess I must be weird, then, 'cause I really liked the single player implementation and the flight controls.  The multiplayer was decent, but I kept getting stuck on teams with total asshats who would sit there in, for example, our AT-AT and bounce me around with lasers until the match ended.  About half my online games were ruined by something like this, but I really liked the single player game.  There was a story mode, there was the galactic comquest mode, there was an instant action mode... none of it was mind blowing, but it was all competent, and I had fun with it.  I don't know of very many games of this style where you can actually run them offline in any kind of real single player campaign; maybe UT and the first BF1942, but that's about it.  And the game, to me, just felt a lot like Star Wars, which counts for a ton of bonus points.  You're running around and slaughtering stormtroopers by the dozen with a team of guys behind you... it just evoked the whole atmosphere of the movie better than a lot of recent Star Wars games have.

As to the flight controls, I really preferred them to those in BF.  Maybe it's because I used a keyboard and a mouse instead of a joystick, but it was WAY easier for me to set up strafing runs and hit targets with fighters in Battlefront than in BF1942.  You don't have to hold down a "go forward" button the entire time you're in the cockpit, either.  In what ways did you guys find it sub-optimal?  Just unintuitive, or because of the tiny maps, or was there some other issue I just never noticed?

As for the sequel... I dunno.  I liked the first game enough to buy it, but it weighed pretty heavily on my system, so the sequel would probably kill it dead.  I could get the XBox version, but... console FPS controls... ughhh...

[Mortriden]

I only had two gripes with the game (Battlefront 1).  The first being that the AI on your team, in Single player, was atrocious.  Seriously.  You would have something like 40 kills and the next guy has 9 (with like 15 deaths)?!  WTF Mate?  The second was the bots didn't seem to be affected by terrain.  They would gun you down with pinpoint accuracy while firing through three layers of bushes (when you couldn't even see them, just where their shots were coming from).

[bhodikhan]

It was kinda fun on the PC, just a very lousy single player implementation and flight controls from hell.

Holy crap on a UMD! If you think the controls are a pain on a console don't even think about playing it on a PSP!

Not my best PSP game purchase by a long shot.

[Merusk]

Perhaps the problem is I wan't playing it on a console.  I buy shooters for PCs, not console.  :-D