Star Wars Squadrons review: EA's smallest scale Star Wars title yet - but also its best - VG247

From VG247: "The best thing you can say about Star Wars Squadrons is that it completely nails the feeling of the space battles in those movies.

The physics are fantastical and dumb, but that’s the point. You can throttle up to maximum speed, boost toward and then past an enemy at ridiculous pace, then cut the engines, yoke hard to the right and perform a spacebound hand-brake turn, a drift to make Vin Diesel proud. As the nose of your fighter whips back around to face the enemy you just zipped past, you can throttle up to give chase and then let them have it: laser cannons, a barrage of locked-on missiles – whatever you’ve got until their ship disintegrates."

[SullysCigar]

Watched a bit of someone streaming this earlier on PSVR - looks great and good value...but this is EA we're talking about, so there's bound to be a sting in the tail somewhere along the line!

From what I've seen though, I'm in!

[ZeekQuattro]

I think EA is still trying to be on their best behavior with its Star Wars games at the moment. The real test will be if they can continue to do so when Star Wars BFIII releases. Lol

[Profchaos]

EA is on notice from Disney I've seen rumours that the house if mouse has been unhappy with EA and their handling if the license. The lack of games released and variety have really been a problem allegedly.

I guess when you've handled the franchise for years and only released two battlefront games it's a problem.

[NeoGamer232]

I think EA has learned their lesson for at least the Star Wars games.

Star Wars Fallen Order was excellent as well.

Rather than coming up with a constant milking business model for games they are starting to think about what business model works for a specific game.

[Tedakin]

EA shaped up with Star Wars after Disney called them and threatened to take the license away following the "sense of pride and accomplishment" debacle.

[SullysCigar]

That's interesting. Good to hear, let's hope they stay clean!

[Spartacus10]

I enjoyed the space battles in Battlefront II but I cant see myself grinding out the platinum on this. I don't get why they didn't scale the trophy requirements with the size of the game.

[CorndogBurglar]

I don't get why they didn't just make it a bigger game. 4 ships for both sides is laughable in a Star Wars flight sim. Also, the lack of game modes and only 4v4 is also laughable. Especially considering one of those modes is assaulting a capital ship.

In what world did it seem okay to make a multiplayer mode built around assaulting capital ships and only have 4 ships attacking and 4 defending lol. Even if they filled it up with bots that would still be better.

[ibrake4naps]

Think I'll get this for my rift!

[jukins]

Can wait psvr polished off all ready to go. Hopefully t flight gets support on psvr soon

[enkiduxiv]

It's times like this where I don't know what to do. I have boycotted EA for a while now and for good reason. Is it a good idea to buy their single player games when they do well or should I stick to my guns and just ignore them entirely?

On the one hand, boycotting EA won't make it go away, perhaps the idea should to reward them with the purchase when they actually make a decent product. On the other hand, EA is directly responsible for a lot of the anti-consumer trash we see in triple AAA games these days. Should they ever get the benefit of the doubt?

[CorndogBurglar]

I take the look and see approach. BF2 was obviously a cluster at launch, so I ignored it until it was free a couple months ago on PSN and it was great, now that the progreesion is overhauled and it hqs content from all the trilogies.

Jedi: Fallen Order didn't have a single piece of paid content and still doesn't. (Aside from the pre-order stuff, I believe). But everything since launch has been free. Its a wonderful game. I bought that shortly after launch when I felt comfortable that there were no microtransactions getting added.

I look at it like this: Boycott them when they deserve it. But when they take a chance and go outside of that approach like with Fallen Order, and release a game exactly how us fans have been asking for for years, we have to support it. We havr to show them that if release a game with no anti-consumer practices that they can still make money. That they have enough fans that want that to make it worthwhile to make more games like that.

If we had all boycotted Fallen Ordsr it wouldnhave failed and they would have lost money. Then they would have been able to come back and blame fans for not wanting that type of game, or saying that those types of games don't earn money. Not only that, but its already working. Squadrons has no paid content. That is a direct response to Fallen Order making them money without microtransactions. So they are already continuiing down that path, with Star Wars games at least.

Also, why deprive yourself of something you are interested in if the company making it isn't being anti-consumer? You're the one missing out at that point, simply because you took some moral high ground a long time ago that may not even be 100% relevant now for all their franchises. (Granted, they used to be and I get it. But it seems like they are trying to change. Again, with Star Wars anyway.)

[Rebel_Scum]

Boycotting in general is stupid. Dealing with absolutes is a path to the dark side. Just acknowledge that everyone makes mistakes and no one is beyond redemption. Life goes on.

[Profchaos]

The biggest games coming out of EA lately are always side projects Apex and squadrons both began life as a team of devs playing with ideas on the side

[Phoenix76]

Been waiting for something like this ever since playing the VR mission on SWBF1