Peter Devaal

Not to forget the obnoxious greed infested launch of this game years ago. Star Wars: Battlefront 2 is now the perfect Star Wars battle game. They've added an impossible amount of additional content, including new game modes, new maps, new characters, new skins for troopers and heros, and a fair progression system with the 'pay to win' mechanics completely deleted from the game. Don't underestimate the power of these games as a means to build and repair the Star Wars fandom, with the addition of AI (or auto players) opponents and teammates to play with offline will ensure this game will endure long after the servers close. When the game launched, the main gameplay was a massive player 'Attack vs Defend' team game, and it wasn't nearly as fun, or environment immersing. they fixed the game by adding a game mode similar to the original 2005 Star Wars: Battlefront 2 they added a list of large, detailed, and iconic Star Wars battlefield and environment Maps where Era specific armies from all 3 trilogies battle over control of command posts across the Map. You can attack and capture enemy command posts, or you can defend and hold your command posts, or you can just mess around and appreciate the most beautiful and detailed star wars environments in a video game to date, you can play as Jedi, Bounty hunters, Wookies, Sith, Clone Commandos, and Droidikas. you can even drive speeder bikes, tanks, and walkers. Just like the Original 'Instant Action' is what they call it, a throwback to the 2005 version, and it's a fantastic new game that did not exist at launch. This is a solid large scale battle game with tanks, troops, rough terrain, emplacements, and the chaos of a war zone that's fun even if you're not into Star Wars. If they keep adding monthly improvements to this game for another year or so, it will be one of the best star wars games of all time, and yes I've played the star wars video game classics like, KOTOR, and SWBF:2(2005) Edit: I also really hope they put more effort towards the 'Galactic civil war' and the 'first order-resistance war' as most of the current focus is on the clone wars, and I understand that the clone wars is the best era to work with, considering the kinds of battles this game has to offer, and the clone wars fandom is currently the most vocal on social media, but there IS a silent majority that appreciates the empire vs rebels, and many many young people who love the first order vs resistance war. Supremacy mode for the clone war has a capital ship for the republic and separatists, that you can attack and try to destroy after you've won the ground battle, and it's a really great and fun 'tug of war' style of gameplay. but the empire vs rebels 'galactic civil war' and 'first order-resistance war' either do not have capital ships, or have very incomplete and lacking capital ships, which I really hope they go back and eventually add quality capital ships to all eras. Great capital ship maps for all eras are well within the universe of possibility and with the capital ships for all eras they could even one day perhaps add a 'galactic conquest' mode like the original game had, for offline that replaces the space combat from the 2005 original with the capital ship phase. I am so impressed and pleased with what the team at DICE have overcome and accomplished with Star Wars battle front 2, I hope the effort put into this game continues for at least another year, as there is no telling how far this game could go. This game will easily be a prized and honored installment of the Star Wars franchise as a whole that will be relevant to fans as long as the movies are.