Nearly 5 years after its last content update, Star Wars Battlefront II is back in PlayStation’s top downloads. What’s behind this surprising resurgence?
6 years ago, Battlefront II launched its Capital Supremacy update, adding Commando Droids, ARC Troopers, and game-changing improvements.
Celebrating 5 years of the Age of Rebellion update in Battlefront II! New weapons, reinforcements, Co-Op expansion & game improvements that shaped the experience.
What a strange article. Great game I still play it too this day. In fact I last played it on Tuesday. Completely oblivious to this update. Only ever play galactic assault and haven’t noticed any changes particularly over the years. Struggling to understand the reason why the article felt necessary enough for someone to write up..
TNS: EA abandoned Star Wars Battlefront 2 and modders have picked up the pieces, setting a rather bittersweet situation for Star Wars games.
I'll be interested to see how this looks, and props to the modders for putting in the effort, but unless they have fundamentally changed the game, I don't think this will fix the games's problems. Obviously the monetization scandal was the biggest problem, but even putting that aside, the recent Battlefront games lost almost everything special about the 2000s versions, particularly the original. BF 2015 was a little bit better than BF2 2017, which just feels like a Star Wars skin for a generic shooter.
They're definitely a bit barebones in terms of shooters, but i actually really enjoyed both games. Granted it took a long time for me to come around on the 2nd one. With how beautiful the games are, sometimes it was truly incredible how good it felt to be in the middle of a large scale war in the star wars universe.
They definitely look good, but my problem with BF2 2017 is that I never felt like I was in the middle of a large scale war. I always feel like I'm just being funnelled down corridors that happen to have a Star Wars skin.
That's what the original 2004 game got so right. Although it also has tighter, infantry only maps, it also has a number of large open maps with infantry, land vehicle, and air combat all happening simultaneously and affecting one another. BF2 2005 lost some of that because it removed many of the best maps, but it was still there to a degree. BF 2015 captured it to a degree in Walker Assault and Supremacy, but never to the same extent as 2004.
The EA games are actually good. But the bugs, especially in Jedi Survivor is the issue. Really good game behind the bugs. Hopefully the next game releases in a much better state of polish
Wish they would have enabled crossplay when the game was more active
Technically, still a fantastic looking and sounding game.
I noticed more people on my friends list playing it recently and I was wondering what was happening. Not going to lie though they kind of made me want to download it again too
This game is my go to lobby shooter lately
Great MP shooter.
I'm just sad there are not more people playing standard TDM
I'm not a fan of the bigger maps/modes