Star Wars Battlefront

I got the chance to get my hands on the full version, and I can easily say this is another quality game from LucasArts! Combine some of the best new first-person shooters with Rogue Squadron, and this is what you have here.

You get to play as either a Rebel or Imperial in various famous Star Wars locations from all the movies (and books/games too). There are different types of characters, from soldiers to snipers to special forces.

The first person controls are excellent, but I found flying the aircraft (eg: X-Wing, Tie) to be a little difficult with the mouse and keyboard, but you might get the hang of it after some practice.

You get to control various vehicles and ships too, such as X-Wings, Ties, Gunships, Speeder Bikes, AT-STs, and AT-ATs. Nothing beats driving an AT-AT in snowy Hoth bearing down on Rebel scum, watching them run as you pick them off. You feel the slowness and how heavy the AT-AT is as you drive it. On the other hand, you feel the pure speed of a speeder bike on Endor as the backgroud blurs while you fly through the forest. Great sense of speed there.

The graphics are very good. Not on the level of the newest such as Doom3, but are top notch. And you have the classic Star Wars sound effects and music tracks that are unforgetable.

If you are a Star Wars fan and a gamer, this won't disappoint.

No Ewoks were harmed in writing this review.

Want to pilot your own Landspeeder or AT-AT or blast away from your very own Tie-Fighter or X-Wing? Want to fight dozens of enemy troops, defending your command post, or go on the offensive with Jedis like Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker and Mace Windu? No problem. Lucasarts has developed a respectable conversion of what made Battlefield 1942 so popular and put you into the Star Wars universe.

Like BF1942, controls are simplistic. The left mouse fires and the right uses a secondary weapon, usually a grenade. You choose from four or five different fighter classes. These range from standard infantry with a rifle and pistol, a missile launcher carrier, a sniper, a pilot class with weak weapons but the ability to fix machines and turrets, and a class of fighter with special weapons specific to whatever map you're playing. Your fighter starts out at one of the command points you control and you progress to take out the enemy by taking out the fighters controlling an area. As you linger in an enemy zone, the enemy command center changes from red to white, meaning they can no longer spawn fighters there, to green meaning you have successfully taken over the center and can now spawn your fighters. Once all enemy command centers have been taken over, you win.

Single player mode gives you a feel for the different maps, but is pretty easy to conquer. Maps are diverse and what you would expect to see, including Tatooine, Hoth, Naboo, and Endor. Although galactic conquest gives you a few 30 second video clips as you progress from place to place, there's really no storyline. The main reason to buy this is for online play as you'll get bored with single player mode after a night or two.

Online play is the chaotic mess you expect with all the good and bad that comes with it. You can have up to 32 players online and those with broadband should find surprisingly stable gameplay assuming you're playing on a good server. System requirements are pretty lax as well. Even on a mid range system you can crank the resolution up to 1600x1200 if your video card can handle it. The familiar Star Wars score blasts from the speakers and the sound effects from the blasters and the various vehicles remain faithful to the films.

While these types of games are fun to jump into to kill an hour or two, it can get old after a while. Basically you jump into a map, kill a few, get killed, rinse and repeat. In Star Wars Battlefront, the heavy equipment tends to be a little too powerful. If you're on the ground with an with an enemy vehicle staring at you, you're done. In addition, Jedi warriors, if allowed, are practically invincible. There is (unfortunately) a lot of incentive to camp somewhere with a sniper rifle and/or man a turret and blast everything that comes your way as in both cases you'll usually last longer. My last gripe is with the controls on the X-Wings and Tie-Fighters which will take a lot of practice to get used to. This is the skill item of the game and those who master these will be able to dish out a lot of damage against inexperienced players.

Still, it's a fun game if you're a Star Wars fan. Shooting through the forests of Endor on a Speeder Bike is nice and taking down an AT-AT with a harpoon cable is a difficult, but rewarding thrill. It's certainly nothing revolutionary, but fans of the genre will find a lot to like.

I have been on the lucas arts website(www.lucasarts.com) and it gives a lot of info about this game i have also been to www.gamespot.com and found lots of info.

1.Yes it is like battlefield 1942 in that it has classes and different armies. The Rebel units will be made up of the soldier, marksman, pilot, wookiee smuggler, and vanguard. The Imperial side will have the stormtrooper, shock trooper, pilot, scout trooper, and dark trooper. the Republic forces will consist of the clone trooper, jet trooper, clone pilot, clone sharpshooter, and arc trooper. Finally, the Trade Federation units will be made up of the droideka, super battle droid, assault droid, droid pilot, and recon droid.

2. Battlefront will include over fifteen different vehicles for players to use on the battlefield. These vehicles will include both air and ground based vehicles from the movies. The following vehicles have been mentioned in press releases/interviews:

AT-STs
AT-ATs
X-Wings
Y-Wings
Speeder Bikes
Rebel Snowspeeders
Republic Gunships
Jedi Starfighters
TIE Fighters
Imperial Shuttles
Trade Federation Tanks
Tauntauns
Other vehicles from the movies are expected in addition to the above. These vehicles will also have capabilities from the movies - a Republic Gunship will be able to hold six people, and Rebel Snowspeeders will be able to launch a tow cable out of the rear of the vehicle.

3. The planets in star wars battlefront are:

Hoth
Yavin
Tatooine
Naboo

Geonosis
Kamino
that is all i know about star wars battlefront

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