Star Wars Battlefront II hands on preview

[TomO]

Pro-G has some hands on impressions of Star Wars Battlefront II (http://www.pro-g.co.uk/previews/pid/676/81/) for the PC, Xbox and PlayStation 2.

Anybody who spent some time on the first game may have been a little disappointed by the ship vs ship combat. Much like the problems that hampered enjoyment on the initial Battlefield title, controlling ships in the limited maps took skill and lots of practice. Even then, running out of space was too-common a problem. In order to rectify this, Lucasarts have been kind enough to include maps that are more focussed on ship vs. ship combat.

This certainly looks to be building on the last game. Star Wars fans should lap this up when it is released this winter.

[Klade]

The video preview I saw of this focused heavily on a space battle map and everyone kept talking about how its fantastic and they made sure to bring all the fantastic things from the first game into the second and how they pretty much thought everything from the first game was fantastic... they were just fantastic people..

Well at least thats what they kept saying but the ingame footage convinced me pretty quickly that this is the same game with new maps. I played the first one cause a friend of a friend had it and I'll be skipping this one alltogether.

[Commissar Rob]

I think the first one is a fun title. My son and I play quite a bit of splitscreen co-op...basically it's a geek star wars fix.

I'll probably pick this one up too. Though I might hold off until I can pick it up used or at a lower price.

[Steve_Erhardt]

I'm on board for this one. Had a LAN party at my place Saturday and Battlefront got the Lion's share of the time. I like it. At this point, my only real gripe is there weren't enough maps out of the box by far. Community made maps aren't hard to find though, thankfully; but Lucasarts really should have packed more maps in from the get-go. Ah well.