Star Wars Battlefront II (Xbox, 2005)

Battlefront II was a very looked forward to game. For those that are Star Wars fans it seemed like a very good sequel to Battlefront (atleast to me).Yet the sad truth was it has very serious inconsistonsies in gameplay. I have compiled a small list. Though I do find many thing unattractive in this game it still is very good.
-You can't go prone. This is pretty ridiculas. It realy insults war games like Battlefront. I would have to say that is one thing I can't deal with.
-Tiny maps. The "battlefronts" in Battlefront II are TINY. I don't think that tiny battlefields are very fun. I prefer giant battles. (such as Geonosis front the 1st Battlefront)
-No Heroes in Space. This would have been a very nice detail added. I would like to fight in a huge spacebattle cruisin' in the Millionium Falcon. Though it isn't a must have aspect it would have been a cool thing.
-Various innacuracies with weapons/vehicles. This annoys me. Although to common people wouldn't notice these the innacuracies are very large. (all those that no zilch of star wars will find this confusing)The clonetroopers on Geonosis have armor by rank yet that poses the problem of too many lt's or sg's. The lasers on some weapons are off by a lot... The V-wing is supposed to be a Fighter like the Arc-170 is portrayed as in Battlefront II and the Arc-170 is supposed to be a Bomber. The frigates are to weak. The capital ships are invincible. And finaly the weapon equipment of some troops are wrong.
-The things that were cool in Battlefront I that are removed. The things like Spacecraft in land battles, going prone, calling down orbital bombings, and the huge amounts of awsome maps were fun to do but removed.
-And nemurous other things.

The good things in Battlefront II however are numerous also. The award system enables players to get an edge on competetion. Space battles are heated and fun. Heroes such as Obi-Wan and Darth Vader are quite cool to play. The features on Mustafar are quite cool. Fighting on exotic planets like Felucia adds challenge. The Tattoine maps are fun and Jabba's Palace owns. The graphics and interacticity are very cool. Theres a large number of things to do in the Galactic Conquest mode.

And so in conclusion if you realy want Battlefront II get it for PC becouse people will fix it with Modifacations and Tweaks to the game. This game had great potential but it might wind up as another Lucasarts failure.

I would reccomend Star wars:Empire At War and its expansion if you like Star Wars war games. Also the Mod Ultimate Empire At War is a good addon to Star Wars: Empire At War. The link is WWW.ULTIMATE-EAW.COM however it may be down if your reading this in October.

Great game! My brother and I agree it is one of the best, if not The best, Star Wars game ever. I say this because unlike most other SW games you already know the story and who the players are, and like its predecessor you jump straight into the action to try and accomplish whichever type game you have chosen.
One addition to Battlefront II, from the original, is you get to have space battles! THis is also one of the best things about the game in my opinion. You get to fly just about every fighter bomber each side has to offer. As you engage into a space battle you can either go up against a capital ship or dogfight with other fighters, or you can even board a capital ship to try and take it out by sabotage.
You still have most if not all the original places (planets) to do battle and they have added a couple of others not found on the original such as the interior of the Death Star, which if you haven't seen the interior where the Death Star's laser is fired from, you will now.
I don't want to ramble on about what all this game has to offer, but if you really liked the first you will very much enjoy this one as well. If you haven't played either I would suggest getting this one right from the get go. Hours of fun, you know the story, great original soundtrack music, oh yeah......
YOU GET TO PLAY AS A JEDI for good, or the Dark side with jedi powers to assist.
Have fun and may the force be with you, your going to need it.

If you are a fan of star wars or the shooter genre you should really have this game. It is an amazing improvement over every aspect of the first game. Whether you are running through the game on normal and really feeling like a hero or going through the more challenging difficulties the game never ceases to be fun. You also can throw down with friends either competitively or cooperatively and that will always breath new life into the game if you are tired of going through alone.

There are 4 factions to use broken into two competing forces present in each of the two epic star wars trilogies. every team has their strengths and weaknesses but none are too over powered at all and it always really comes down to your skill as a player to turn the tide of war.

In each faction there are 6 classes and other than the antitank class it all really comes down to your own personal play style so you can really play how you chose. This ranges from the run and gun to classes more geared for support or ambush. Then if you are on your game you get to become the hero class and hack through enemies like butter.

Whether you play by yourself or with a friend there are hundreds of hours of game play available to you in the different game types and in your collection it will always be something fun to have a throw back to.

Star Wars Battlefront II was 10 times better than Battlefront I, and I truly liked part one. In the new version you can be almost any of the Jedi, Sith, or various other hero and villian characters in the Star Wars films. Also these characters have some really awesome abilities. The Jedi and the Sith can leap entire battlefields almost from end to end, and other characters have prolonged flight capabilites such as Boba Fet and Jango Fet. The weapons are pretty close to the movies, and the outfits are exact. The battlefields are nice and big also. The cool new part about Battlefront II is the space missions. Although these can get a little boring after awhile because mostly the only way to win one is to take down huge frigate starships, the one on one starfighter space duels are pretty cool. They should have made a level of only one on one fighter battles, and then I would have truly enjoyed it. Other than that, everything else in this version was superb to the first. The only one true thing that didn't work well, was the command troops options. For some reason, you click your controller to command your troops, and it doesn't seem to work everytime, so you inevitabely send in to many men at once, or retreat when it's too late. That was truly the only thing that I thought the other Battlefront I was supperior in. Other than that, Battlefront II is totally bad, and my kids loved playing it as well. Hours of fun from ages 3-adult. Hope you all enjoy this game as much as I did.

P.S. Darth Maul is the baddest character in the game, and he kicks galactic butt when he's on the field, so watch out. He's a blast to use, and the double lightsabers are hard to defeat. Have fun.

Doug

This is one of the best video games I've played in a long time. If you like Sta Wars or shooter games this is the game for you. In this game you play as the 501st Clone battalion which is Darth Vader special attack force as you play through all of the famous star wars battles as well as many new ones that expand the story line of the Star Wars series.