Not that it’s any different from previous games I just would’ve expect it to be a bit more tweaked by this point. Most space battles feel like filler and involve little more than locking onto a target until you blow it into tiny little pieces, and then repeating the process. isn’t going to be winning too many awards, either. The game seems much less broken if you avoid melee weapons altogether. I got a chance to bitchslap some sense into Luke as Vader, and I had no idea what the hell was going on when they locked sabers. Experience battlefronts that span ground, space and capital starships, a robust original storyline and expanded gameplay features that deliver endless replayability. I cannot believe that this game made it through QA and test marketing with this targeting system.Ĭlose combat is a joke and feels completely broken. Releasing this Fall, Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron is the deepest and most action-packed Star Wars Battlefront game ever. Plus, you lose the lock fairly easy once enemy planes turn a corner or you turn around, they are gone and you have to re-aim.
It takes forever to auto-lock onto an enemy and half the time you don’t even end up aiming at the right target. Really, the major issue is this is not the kind of game that should have only one analog control nub. And the time I got shot through a wall… need I go on? And more than a few times, my bullets seemed to have no effect on an enemy in close range. I almost went into a gangland style rage a few times after my next objective wouldn’t show up after completing the previous one. Not to mention how often there’s a game-stopping glitch.
Being able to go from the icy tundra of the planet Hoth and then blast directly into outer space to take on an Imperial Star Destroyer in an X-Wing sounds great in concept, but it needed decent core controls to be actually fun to play. There are definitely places where you can tell they tried to improve upon and innovate.
Gameplay, however, falls short of almost any expectation one could have for the series.