Star Wars Battlefront

Star wars battle front for the x-box and play station 2 took a different approach to a star wars universe game. While previous tittles put you in the role of a main character out to save to universe, battle front makes you a nameless grunt and throws you into the fray to fight against enemies on equal footing. You play as one of five classes: soldier, demolitionist, sniper, engineer, and specialist. None of these soldiers have actual names or a story to follow, but rather appeal to the style of the individual player.

In single player you can go through a historical campaign which lets you fight through the major battles of the movies in order, or you can do a galactic conquest campaign in which you fight over worlds until you win them all. In either mode you can play as either the separatists, rebels, republic, or the empire. If playing online, you can play in a number of matches which can be set to your own preferences.

Each of the worlds for galactic conquest has two maps that must be won in order to control it. Once a world has been won, you can select the bonus it offers to assist in the next battle such as healing or a Jedi hero to fight along side you as an almost unkillable NPC. You win these battles by reducing the enemy reinforcement count to zero, or by controlling all of the command posts on a map. You capture these command posts by killing any enemies near it and standing next to it while the enemy color empties from the gauge and your team’s color fills it up. The more of your team that are near it, the faster the gauge fills. You can spawn from any command post that your faction currently controls, and so will vehicles and the allies for your group. During online matches there will be a countdown period for you to respawn. If your faction loses control of the command post before you are brought back into the battle, you are returned to the map and must select another.

Whenever one side gains the majority of the command posts, the other side’s reinforcement count begins to steadily decline, making these locations very important and allowing for strategies other than simply killing larger numbers of enemies. During online matches, once your reinforcement count depletes to a certain number, NPCs will stop spawning, allowing you to perform an effective last stand which can yield surprising results. I once single-handedly won a battle when the enemy had over a hundred reinforcements, when I was the only remaining member of my side, by hovering over my last command post in a gunship and killing anything that came near me.