STAR WARS™ Battlefront™ II

After the disastrous launch of the game, filled with some of the most unethical and exploitative microtransactions of the time, i steered clear of this game for almost a decade. But now for 4€ on a sale, i bought it and decided to give it a shot. THERE ARE ZERO MICROTRANSACTIONS NOW, NONE. The devs were able to remove all the modern gaming filth and only keep the gold. Everything is unlocked from the start, just jump into a game and start blasting and call droids "Clankers". Its some of the most fun ive had in a while, played it for 9 hours and only went to bed at 3am. Its really damn good and ignited that star wars spark and joy for me. This game honestly reminds me of that precious late 2000s multiplayer phase where multiplayer games werent reduced to microtransaction hells, filled with casinos, you just buy the game, get the whole game and play it. Glorious.

Much better now than it used to be, who would have thought that all it took to make a game better and gather more players was for EA to stop trying to monetize everything and back off? Maybe they should learn something from this.

Easily worth the $4! I had it through EGS, but I'd rather pay 4 extra dollars for it here. Game has some of the most fun gameplay in a large scale shooter. It's very casual friendly while having a high skill ceiling with heroes to master.

campaign is very short but the multiplayer is very alive even after 8 years

---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☑ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☑ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Grandpa ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☐ Decent ☑ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☑ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☑ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☑ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☐ Worth the price ☑ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☑ 9 ☐ 10

Best game of all time. Please make Battlefront 3, for the Republic.

negative review until they can prevent hackers from literally ending entire lobbies.

I bought this game a week ago not knowing what to expect. In the past 20 hours, I've had an astronomical amount of fun, and urge anyone thinking of trying this game out do while there is a lot of players active. Campaign was better than I expected, multiplayer is where this game shines. Everything is unlocked with the "Celebration Edition".

The campaign is bad. The story is a mess, filled with clichés, wasted potential, and some of the most forgettable characters in Star Wars. It feels rushed, with very weak writing. Iden Versio’s arc is especially disappointing—what could’ve been a unique Imperial perspective turns into generic Rebel fanfic halfway through. The multiplayer however holds up well. Large-scale battles, good gunplay, and fantastic Star Wars atmosphere with beautiful graphics keeps the game from feeling dated. The class system and hero mechanics add depth, and post-launch support (especially after the rough start) really improved things with new maps and modes. Overall i had fun revisiting the multiplayer all these years later but it doesn't have the staying power personally to keep me playing long term. Still a good game overall though. 7/10 (Good)

Be prepared to be put in stacked matches against max level opponents, grouped on-purpose with newcomers and low-level players, to be stomped as fast as possible. You won´t beat a max level on your own, since combat isn´t skill-based: they´re taking half as much damage as you, they´re reloading faster, they´re getting health back faster, and they have all the knowledge and every pitfall in the game under control. This game is going to be dead again soon, its own community and the way teams are organized will make sure of that. Do not trust the paid shills on social media in awe of the presentation and feel of the game, there´s no gameplay foundation to keep you engaged if you´re not already in a sunk-cost spiral. Buy it for 4€, try it, come back to this review and see if I´m lying. PS: Notice how most of the recent positive reviews for the game are either veterans asking for Battlefront III (they´re literally baiting noobs into playing so they can stomp them) or short, 5 words or less, memes from newcomers. PPS: There are hackers capable of ending matches in their favor at Phase change. You´ll be winning a match, and be presented a Defeat screen when the game progresses to the next stage. Last addendum: The comment section of this review is a perfect microcosm of the issues I talk about in the review. Denials, lies, personal attacks, but not a single actual, objective, refutal of the case I´ve presented. You, potential buyer, are free to check them and see if you want to be stuck in a dying, unbalanced game with the people on this comment section. Respect your wallet.

Cannot recommend this game because EA refuses to update it. as of the time of this review the game is being hacked and has been hacked for several weeks making it litteraly unplayable. EA refuses to spend the money to fix it but they are more than happy to take people money by selling this broken game.

Love the game but the constant issues around trying to launch through steam and now my inventory not loading, so I cant upgrade characters star cards or get rewards, is temping me to uninstall the game completely. Be warned, there are tons of issues with the game through steam

consistent issues trying to join friends lobbies through EA's janky in game invite system, I will never understand how so many pc ports have such a problem with that

Look i like this game but i have to give it a negative review due to the hacker problem. It actually makes the game unplayable and unfortunately EA does nothing to even combat it, so the game is dying. Even with the small little bump of players coming in over Star Wars day showed that they really don't cared too much. My suggestion is only buy this game when its super cheap or even go buy it from a key seller. Without hackers the game would be a 8.5/10 With hackers the game gets a 2.5/10

Game is so riddled with hackers at this point that it is pointless to play. Either i cant spawn or everyone gets teleported to the same spot on the map. Wasnt even worth the 4 bucks it cost me.

Every lobby the last few days has been unplayable because of cheaters

A cheater can join your lobby and put everyone in an unplayable state

Feels like some sort of unholy ritual to get this game to work, have the EA app running in the background and then launch from the .exe file for a game I bought on steam. Get rid of the layers of launchers

So, the simple fact that I have to have EA's shitty software INSTALLED on my computer to play this through steam is enough reason to NOT play this game. That being said, the game is fun! Good job Dice! (but EA can go uck themselves)

>amezinggggg game >ufff finally a MP game where i can have fun >man if you are casual dude who just want to shoot at stuff and dont want to deal with sweaty players >then this game will be your JAM

Load into map and die instantly. All games are stomps and not competitive.

I used to play Battlefront 1 and 2 all the time on Xbox and they're both great games, but requiring a third party launcher to play this game on PC makes this an immediate negative review. Please don't make the same mistake in Battlefront 3!

I now completely understand why this game was only $4 during the Steam Summer Sale. It was to feed new players into the meat grinder for the veteran players. Good on EA for taking loot boxes out of the game (even if it was against their will), but the system is still ingrained in the main menu as a hollow reminder of how greedy this publisher is. That's how deeply entrenched the gambling was in this game. It was the very soul of the game, and you can still FEEL the ghost of it being there because of how violently it was ripped out. Since gambling was the old player progression, what did they replace it with? They took all the upgrades out of loot boxes, but now lock all of it behind the most ugly grind. Player progression in this game is done so abhorrently that the new player experience is the worst I've entered into in a long time. As far as I can tell, there is ZERO matchmaking systems in place (probably due to how low the player count originally was at launch). As a new player with zero cards, zero weapon unlocks, and zero upgrades, you will be placed into matches with fully decked out opponents who instantly kill you at your own spawn. Not exactly my idea of a fun time. The new player experience is straight up ****ed. There is no better way of saying it. You have to grind each class to unlock individualized upgrades. Not the kind of upgrades where you trade more firepower for less accuracy, no no. Each weapon you need to UNLOCK by GRINDING in this EIGHT YEAR OLD GAME have ZERO DOWNSIDES. Literally the 2nd heavy weapon is the exact same as the 1st heavy weapon but with +1 fire rate. Meaning that as a new player you have less power, less armor/hp(?) than everyone else in this 8 year old game. My last match was a sniper's wet dream. Wide open area on a beach with some bushes/rocks to hide behind. So I pick up a sniper for the first time and BOOM, instantly dead from an enemy sniper with some insane weapon and full purple cards. I respawn, sneak around to get a strategical placement advantage on the sniper who just 1-hit KO'd me, line up a headshot, shoot annnnnnd... Nothing. He barely lost any HP. The guy instantly turns to me and BOOM, I'm immediately dead again. I look to see how much damage I did and it was only 40... Snipers have 150 hp... I did less than 1/3rd of this guy's hp with a headshot while he just 1-shots me. I've only played the game for 5 hours and I have MANY stories just like this. Something something I barely do any damage, something something enemy does a 180 turn and kills me in less than 2 seconds. Some people will argue that these kinds of power dynamics between noobs and veterans is supposed to inspire new players like me into hitting the grind so that I, too, can be the master. Well, the only thing about me that's inspired is my finger on the [Uninstall] button.

Whenever EA makes an amazing game, it's like an abusive relationship; it never starts off terrible, until one day they beat the piss out of you. So, to those of you interested in this game, wanting to pay money and get both monetarily and emotionally invested, good luck your playing odds worse than the casinos in Vegas. ( Saying this having put well over 500 hours across all platforms into this game )

You need to sink hours into being cannon fodder before you can unlock perk cards that give you marginally more damage or health. There is no fun in getting spawn camped, or mag dumping an enemy and you die from 1 bullet. Game badly needs an autobalance system. Matches are always lopsided with you on the receiving end of a level 400 Darth Maul. You need KBM to effectively shoot, and a controller to use the vehicles. Window randomly minimizes during matches. It has the Star Wars charm but the game is, by design, not fun for new players. Playing it over the Stream Sale weekend and then freeing up the 90GB space this game is wasting.

skill-based matchmaking is nonexistent, so as a beginner 80% of the times you will be paired up against some gold level virgins who play this 24/7 for some reason, and the EA launcher is so trash that i dont even have any words to comment on it, only buy this game if its on A REALLY BIG SALE and you have spare coins. 5/10 purely cause of the matchmaking

There's a cheater in almost every galactic assault game you play. Friend invites constantly have issues, and you can't send another invite without restarting the game. Whenever I try to play solo, I always get connection issues and they say to check my internet when I know for fact it's not me. I get it's an 8 year old game, but it still pulls 15,000+ players all the time. I would say this is unacceptable for a game, but it's EA so what do you expect.

I have ~60 h on EA and just bought it here for convenience. This game is peak. It got a real bad rep from how the launch was handled but they fixed it quickly and there is no better time to play it than right now. The game has a healthy player population considering its age. Get in here and show them we want Battlefront 3!

This game is a rare case of EA actually listening to the community and fixing the game. Not only they removed the microtransactions, but they also made everything on the game free/unloackable easily. It's sad to know that right after that they abandoned the game. It'sa great multiplayer, especially with the lightsaber duels and etc. Would recommend, it's kinda of addictive, and fun to play. I just wish that they put new things into the game soon.

Admittedly, probably from the sale going on at time of posting this, but hackers basically shut down literally every other lobby I tried to join. On certain maps where I DID get to play for more than a minute or two without hackers, lens flare and lighting was super obnoxious and headache inducing, if there was a setting to turn it off, I couldn't find it even turning everything down to minimum settings. Starter weapons felt underpowered, even versus normal rank and file enemy units. Didn't care enough to try to tough it out. Literally not even worth the $4 of this sale. Shockingly disappointing.

Great game, but the cheaters are out of control. Could not play a single legit Galactic Assault game because the same cheater hacked the lobby.

This game had a terrible launch, it was so bad they got sued, but the game that caused all of that controversy in 2017 isn't the same game today. Now, Battlefront is a combined arms large scale multiplayer shooter with tons of different units, gamemodes and even a co-op mode. All progression is linked no matter if it's in PvP or PvE, and there's even a singleplayer campaign with about 18 hours of content and an actually decent story. One thing I will warn about is cheating, there doesn't seem to be a mainline anti-cheat and I have been in matches where people get teleported to the center of the map and die repeatedly. It doesn't seem super common, but it can happen. So is it worth it? Absolutely, especially when on sale and it's a fun game with friends, you do have to deal with some of the jank of the EA App, but once you're in the game you don't need to worry about it.

For the last 3 days every Galactic Assault Lobby that I have played in has been hacked by a bot advertising websites to buy hacking software. The bot has been mass reported by players but nothing has been done about it. The lobbies are locked down and players are unable to move around or properly view the game. The state of Galactic Assault (the most popular mode) is absolutely unplayable as a result. I would recommend not purchasing this game unless something is done about it.

Perhaps I have the wrong mindset for this kind of game, but I was expecting something a bit more like the Battlefronts of before, or maybe even a "Battlefield"-style Star Wars game. What I got was neither. It was more like some kind of TPS Hero Arena, with a gunplay that is not bad, but leaves a lot (A LOT) to be desired. Moreover, the game has a very awkward FPS adaptation that doesn't seem to work nearly as well as it should. In fact, you are often forced into third-person because abilities and some classes can only be played in that mode. Meanwhile, TPS has its own problems, like the HUD not properly responding to objects around you, resulting in you shooting the wall while peeking from cover. The game is pretty, flashy, and battles can be very entertaining, but I found a lot of the maps to simply suck. Many are cramped mazes that are a pain to fight in because grenades are flying left and right and you can't peek for a second. And if you do, it is likely your teammate will do that as well and you will stare at their butt, unable to properly line your shots over their shoulder because of the clunky TPS view. This above is mostly adaptable, and there are good maps, or good sections of maps that redeem the game a bit. The main reason I flat out negative'd this is because, as I said, it doesn't feel like a Battlefront game. Heroes are a bit too overpowered, and they can be spammed on most gamemodes quite easily. They are not fun to fight against, and, personally, not that much fun to play as, either. The jedi/sith heroes, especially, are a case of power fantasy that often translates to pressing a button to win, or jumping around the battlefield one-shotting most troopers. The best chance an infantry player has against them is building your character for the effort, but that demands unlocking stuff, and is overall just a bad compromise. I have only played 13 hours in total so far, but the "magic" of the game has already been dispelled. This is just too arcadey for me, and if you are looking for something a bit more grounded, you will probably not like it as much either. if you are just seeking a Star Wars game in which you can shoot things and sometimes play as Palpatine to do the UNLIMITED POWER meme ad infinitum, you may have a better time with this game.

I've played through the campaign, and i liked it. the visuals are stunning, and so is the music. I also liked the story but it could have been longer. I haven't played any multiplayer/online modes yet, but so far so good. i can recommend it :)

Spent a little over an hour with the game in the background trying to move through make my EA account work. Apparently the EA account was unable to connect to EA servers. I fallowed the EA channels to fix diagnose the issue, but they were unable to diagnose the issue; only unhelpfully suggesting that I had been banned (I wasn't, I checked, and have no reason to have been banned). This review comes out of principle. I couldn't access the online functions of their game through no fault of my own, so therefore I post a negative review to tell others of my horrific product experience.

Game full of cheaters, EA doesnt care about it. You cant even report hacker.

At -90% it has 5-6 hours of story which was enjoyable and the entire game runs like a dream (in terms of fps). Idk about multi but i've heard its filled with cheaters that can spam screenshots and fill your entire pc with it and i'm not really into that.

Honestlly super frustrated by this one. I had so much fun at first that I really wanna recommend it, but it's hard to overlook the lack of updates and the jank of the different modes. Where are 1 v 1 duels? A no heroes multiplayer mode? Better spawns? So many little things add up that makes me sad because the potential this game has/had is insane and it feels wasted by a ghoul like EA.

Its super fun one game but then there is no skill based match making. Too many cheaters. I constantly go up against veterans or people level 15 with fully maxed out characters and all Tier 4 perks that seem to have to never cool their guns and have no ability cool down timers. The campaign is kinda good but super short and my personal nit pick is that you never get to see Darth Vader. Its fine and there are super in-game cinematic moments but then it goes back to over competitive sweat lobbies. Leveling up is a pain in the ass and games been out for so long you just cant have a lot of fun anymore. Only a couple of times I got really fun games win or lose.

Its fun, it really is but the campaign is so short and I am tired of games being developed just for multiplayer. They could have made an epic campaign 40+ hours but you get 6.

Eventually, the game was abandoned by developers because its designed to provide fun for players and not making money, interesting... Overall game is a peak, for it to be released in 2017 it has one of the best graphics I ever saw, the gameplay is fun until you try to play heroes vs villains (please dont). First time I got it in Epic Store I spent around 2 months playing it. For 4$ this is a masterpiece you should try. There is literally ZERO pay-to-win stuff in it, even more you dont have option to throw money into game besides buying it.

unplayable on the 7800xt due to ea not being able to launch the game. tried uninstalling and redownloading driers, deleted cache from ea, and steam, reinstalled windows, and still same shi.

If you go into this game expecting an experience comparable to Star Wars Battlefront 2 2005, you will be disappointed. It is its own game and it is very, very fun, and has a more cinematic vibe to 2005's arcade style. This game is very much worth your time, just spend some time in co-op so you can get the meta weapons (I.E. NT-242, you need that for sniper duels). Enjoy!

After many years of not caring about this game and its tumultuous life cycle, I've finally picked it up and given it a fair shake. At the price you can get it for now, I suppose the real answer to "would you recommend it?" has to be "sure, why not?". There are some very pretty things to look at here and it's clear that a lot of impressive work has gone into the technical and artistic side of EABF2; it is genuinely one of the greatest compendiums of SW reference material. I can only wish all that effort had been spent on a better game. First things first, it's difficult to even judge EABF2 fairly, since it had two major hindrances right out of the gate - the first being its ridiculous launch, which has been discussed to death and is no longer relevant, as there are no microtransactions left, leaving behind only a husk of the absurd monetisation scheme in the form of meaningless rewards you can't use anymore, since most cosmetic items are unlocked by default. The other handicap is that being part of the then-current movies' marketing, a third of its content is focused on subject matter most people would rather forget about. But putting aside these issues, what's the actual game like? "Pretty bad" would be my answer. It's quite impressive how DICE took a proven formula and added so much misguided fluff on top of it that the fun factor has been completely smothered under all of it. Conquest/supremacy, the only gamemode that really matters, was ruined by extending it with painfully tedious ship sections that, if failed, force you to play the whole round again until someone eventually wins. The game is built around unlockable abilities that you have to grind for - another remnant of the old monetisation, I would assume - which pointlessly handicap new players and don't actually offer interesting alternative playstyles, as they're mostly just direct upgrades. The battle point system is a joke, taking another simple concept and trying to make it more sophisticated only to end up with a situation where getting enough points to play as heroes is easy, but getting to actually pick them is nearly impossible, as once someone beats you at clicking around in the menus, they'll just hoard the heroes for the entire match, since DICE also ruined how heroes work - replacing the health system where your life can only be refilled with kills with one where not only is there no penalty for doing nothing, but you actually get regenerating health - there is something thoroughly depressing about seeing Darth Vader hiding behind some crates waiting for his life bar to go up. Half of the available classes feel the same, having only one proper weapon which is usually just a slight variation of the standard blaster, and no amount of hit markers, damage sounds and frantic numbers on your screen can hide the fact that the combat feels limp and unsatisfying. And on top of all that, it seems like the majority of maps are just random terrain (how many maps are just a boring forest?), lacking any real gameplay design or recognisable landmarks (the Hoth map doesn't have Echo Base? Really?). The old Battlefronts, in my eyes, had two main strengths: the first being simple, but fun gameplay built on clear and well thought-out systems. On this front, EABF2 fails completely, overcomplicating things and draining all fun from the gameplay. The other strength was the "Star Wars toybox" aspect - visiting a variety of familiar locations, driving your favourite vehicles and so on. At this, EABF2 fares better - a fair few things were made with meticulous attention of detail. And yet major heroes are missing (and Maul fights for the Empire?...), the map selection is mediocre and vehicles are now a separate class, so you can't have fun moments like having your friend man the turret of your ship or sneaking into the enemy base to steal their tanks. Ironically, the big failures could have been forgivable, if not for all the smaller ones in between them - little things like the fact that space battles have you spawn in the middle of nowhere instead of actually running to your vehicles in your capital ship's hangar. Bad design can be overlooked, but a pure lack of joy cannot. If there ever is another Battlefront game, I sincerely hope it is nothing like this.

Having a ton of fun in this game, which is currently on a great sale. If you have an HDR display, the lighting is soooooooo good! Glowing light sabers and phaser blasts light up the whole room, pew pew! Multiplayer is crazy chaotic and I decided to play the single player campaign to get some skill before jumping back into that brawl. Definitely worth the $5 I paid!

card system is poo poo and dumb and really forces players to use the best stuff to have a fighting chance especially with the hero characters. Overall I think the game is still fundamentally unfinished, while its cool to see hero and villain characters roam around with the chance of you playing as one during match, It really ruins the flow. it sucks to be doing really well holding a point and then darth vader whips a lightsaber at your head and somehow kills 5 people in the process essentially flipping the momentum 180 degrees. My other issue is the balance of content, for the empire saga part there is essentially nothing and it really sucks especially since there is a bunch of content surrounding the new trilogy that is mid at best and a snooze fest at worse. I would say play 1 but its dead.

New to the game? Good! You will not have a good time since EVERY SINGLE MATCH you will only be matchmaking against high level players, feels like a scam even on sale. Right, played some more, and on top of the horrendous matchmaking, you wont win a single game because of the abysmally dogshite map design, coupled with the players who had years to play before you, you wont ever get a single moment of enjoyment out of this dusty game. Just save your money.

The game is full of cheaters. EA doesnt care. You can't even report a cheater

a bot with the username VOSS33 joins games and bricks them. ea please get a grip and fix the game. this is beyond ridiculous