Do Not Underestimate The Power of Battlefront 2 (Star Wars: Battlefront II (PS2))

Member Name: robster113

Product:	Star Wars: Battlefront II (PS2)
Date:	16/08/06 (86 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: massive solo player, good improvement from 1st one, freedom

Disadvantages: a bit repetitive

Star Wars Battlefront 2 is another game all about war. It puts you in the midst of large-scale warfare and you get to play as different types of soldier and take control of loads of vehicles.

As with the original, it's third-person-shooting with huge armies on both sides that are in the full-bloodied thick if it. The first of the solo-modes is the Rise Of The Empire campaign that kicks off on Geonosis, the planet featured in Attack Of The Clones and, like the original you then have to fight across well-known planets that you should recognize from the films. unlike its predecessor, this campaign actually feels like you're playing through a fluid one-player story.

The make-up of the gameplay is almost identical to its predecessor as success is largely based around taking over Command Posts. New levels include Dagobah, Jabba's Palace and the Death Star also makes an appearance. You can now also play as any of the Jedi Knights.

The biggest and easily most impressive addition to the game is the new space dogfights that are not unlike playing Kedi Starfighter but more epic in breadth. You now have the opportunity to take to the stars in fighters such as X-Wings, and Tie-Fighters but the best aspect of this combat is that you can run around a cruiser's hanger on foot, then you just run up to a fighter, jump in and fly off. Best of all, you can fly into any of the enemy cruiser's hangers, park up and run around causing mayhem. Often you will have to do this as part of an objective.

As well as the main campaign mode, Galactic Conquest has made a welcome return for those that prefer a more strategic endeavor. As before you can pick which side you are going to fight for but it is very open-ended and lets you choose the order of the planets you fight in your efforts to gain galactic supremacy

I do not have the online play for this but it allows up to 24 players, which along with the same amount of bots should make for a superb online experience

Summary: Absurdly good and vastly improved over the original. It's bigger, better and brighter even without the online function. Anything that allows you to play as Darth Vader and chop down rebels with a light sabre has to be shown the respect it deserves

Summary: very good, big improvement over original