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SWBFII

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: November 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If your planning to get your kid this for christmas or whatever, you've made a good choice! This one is better than the original in some ways, but worse in others. In this one, they changed the feel of it and the atomosphere detialing, and took out osme of that "dreamy feeling" but that is made up for by the ability to swing your lightsaber around like a lunatic when you play as general grevious. Hard core fans of BF1 might not like it as much, but to new comers to the BF series, or the first person shooter style of gaming, this is a great game. Also, you can buy the first BF after you beat this one and it will be a whole new fun experience. If your worried this game is too violent, don't worry. there are no bullets, just lasers. there are no blood or guts what so ever ( unless you count sparks from a robot as blood), but if your really uptight jerk about shooting and stuff, why are you even looking at this game??? go buy some mario game instead. Even though this game is rated T for Teen, it is pretty much good for anybody over the age of 9. anyway, if you don't know a lot about SWBF, then here's how it works: you choose a map or mission, if you choose a map you choose what side you want to fight for, then you choose what unit you want to be, like a sniper, a rocket launcher, ect. then you battle it out. trying to capture command posts which are basically spawn point from which you appear back in the game if you die. This game is also more fun than other first person shooters cuz you can choose your weapon, go in vehicle and if you die it's not game over. I hope this review was helpful to you!

AWESOME GAME

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: June 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

this was truly a great game! it was one of the best games I have ever played, and was THE BEST shooter I have ever played. It's gameplay was easy and it is one of those games you can just pick up and learn to play in a few minutes, though it takes a couple of rounds to become familiar with the game, and space battles can be just a bit tricky.
PROS)

This game is compatible on probably any computer with windows. I have a 3 year old dell dimension 4600 that is even a bit slow on empire earth, and this game ran fine. In fact, it ran more than fine, loading a battle took about 8 seconds, which is VERY fast for my computer. So, you don't have to have a gaming computer for this game to work well

I like shooters, but first person (you can set it to third or first) shooters usually have missions where you're on your own, or with a few dumb marines, defeating waves of enemies (most of the time they're aliens)... BUT this game's missions were basically conquest modes (where you must take over enemy spawn points) where you had to destroy specific things and capture certain things (you also have like 32 people on your team)

The jedi were fun, with tons of different abilities, the other heroes who weren't jedi were good too

The space battles were very fun, with different classes of ships and frigates and central systems to bomb

There were tons of maps, each unique. For example, kashyyyk (that's right three y's) is much bigger than tantive IV. Each map also had unique features, such as the death star's bridge consoles you had to repair, and kashyyyk's wooden barricade. Teaser: The general favorites are hoth, geonosis, and mos eisley.

There were tons of vechicles, probably over 20, a few of them unique to a certain map. For instance, the ATTE is only found on geonosis and the ATAT and snowspeeders are only found on hoth. (I might add that the ATAT is extremely fun, who wouldn't enjoy driving an 100 foot tall behemoth that shoots huge lasers and bombs that send rebels flying)

I really like the feature of being able to repair things with your fusion cutter. When you are an engineer, you can repair any of your vechicles, health and ammo droids, and other various repairable features on the map, such as turrets and consoles that retract bridges or pull up gates(for example)Hint: you can also use your fusion cutter to slice into vechicles

CONS) please note that these are very small "bugs" and barely effect the GREATNESS of this game

The AI set on easy are too easy (they'll stop shooting at you and look at their surroundings when you're 3 feet away armed with a rocket launcher), and when you are on hard the AI in the area seem to aim precisely for you. I think there should've been a medium setting where the AI are smart, but act like normal soldiers and hit the easiest targets. This may seem like a big con, but until you beat the campaign you probably need the easy, and when you're experienced and are looking for a challenge, the hard setting is great

The story mode isn't very much of a story (while it is very fun) you can do almost the same exact things in instant action. There's no taking 5 smart clones and taking over a command point, its just a conquest battle, but you have certain objectives, like "take out those turrets soldier!" The campaign is still fun thoug, and you should play it to get to know the game and most of the maps

The graphics are very good, but not what I'd call amazing, which is fine with me, but for the more "hard core" gamer, they might not be enough. BUT!!! their is a HUGE PRO in this, this game will work easily on computers that arent very advanced or new, and it loads fast!

OVERALL:
This is a great game, and I am only a bit bored with it, after having played it probably 5/7 days a week for thes past 5 months. Playing online almost never gets old, but I suggest you beat the campaign and play on most of the instant action levels before you make those seem bad by playing with real people.

YOU SHOULD GET THIS GAME IF:
-you are a first person shooter (or just shooter) game fan, you will almost definitely like this

-you are a star wars fan you'll probably like it, and you'll like doing missions and fighting battles from the movies

-you are a videogame fan, and have played a few shooters and liked them, you'll probably like this

-you are a shooter fan, but are looking for a game with a good story and unique missions, you probably shouldn't get this game because the campaign isn't great

-you are a shooter fan (halo fans welcome) and like star wars (this is me) TWO WORDS-GET IT

DEFINATELY not as good as the original

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: June 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Battlefront 2 is {from my perspective} unrealistic.

AI: umm... the AI is really bad. The computer players are really stupid. They pay no attention to their surroundings, at all. The AI units just stand there as if admiring the scenery which makes it too easy. The game has a hard mode and a easy mode. the easy mode is really easy. The hard mode is still, really easy. The enemy is just not much of a challenge, which is why I spend a lot of time on the more challenging multiplayer {over the internet}. Another thing, Rebel soldiers take out their blaster pistols and shoot dead stormtroopers. ??????. A clear example of the AI stupidity.

Maps: The maps are kind of fun. They include a lot of episode 3 environments. I like re-enacting the clone wars. The maps, though, are a bit small and bit boring. But a really cool aspect of the game are space battles. The space maps are better than the ground maps but still lack. Basically it's two capital ships facing each other with a few frigates off to the side of the battle. it would be cool if you could land on an asteroid base or something like that. The maps are okay.

The vehicles/starships: There is definately a larger amount of vehicles to choose from than in the original battlefront. And they are cool. Here, (I think ) is where the biggest flaw in the game is stationed.

Note: before I continue, I need to state something that will hopefully make you understand why I rated this game an overall 3 stars. I am a huge Star Wars fan and has to have everything realistic, or like the movies, if you know what I mean.

The vehicles/starships continued: The biggest flaw about the vehicles are the weapons that are mounted on the ships. They are not like the movies. A Republic Gunship does not have blue lasers. ( I'm probably sounding like a perfectionist right now ). Other things are also wrong. For example, the rebellion does not have republic gunships at the time of the galactic civil war and the CIS bomber is actually a copy of Grievous' ship in episode 3. It is not a bomber.

The heroes: the heroes are, perhaps one of the coolest things in the game. You can play as villains too. My favorite villain would have to be Boba Fett. FAMETHROWER!!! My favorite hero would be ( sadly ) princess leia. I don't know, her gun is just good. Also, like I mentioned in the vehicles section, the weapons of Jango Fett are all wrong.

Let's see, I covered AI, Maps, Heroes, and vehicles. Oh ya. The units are the same as in the original battlefront just with an additional unit.

Overall: not as good as the original battlefront but descent enough. The original battlefront has everything right. The game is just a fun game to play. I don't really like it, but I would just recommend it. (not worth 50 bucks!)

This is a really great Game!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 14
Date: November 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game rocks, it enables you to be able to play as a Jedi, unlike the first one, with more planets more people to play as and my favorite the monsters. This is a game where every STAR WARS fan can get to be a jedi in action, and should get. The graphics are well tuned and well made, This game is worth getting.

The best game of 2005!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: November 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

When I first played Star Wars: Battlefront I was taken completely by surprise. I had never experienced a Star Wars game so well done before, and now LUCASARTS has made a bigger and better sequel. For those of you who enjoyed Battlefront, it is guaranteed 100% that you will like Battlefront II. The graphics are excellent, the game play is ten times what it used to be, and there are so many more new features that make it so much more fun than the original. Pick any era you want to fight in: be it the Clone Wars between the Republic and the CIS, or the Galactic Civil War between the Rebel Alliance and The Galactic Empire. Fight as a sniper, a demolitions expert, a mechanical technician, or fight as a Jedi Knight or Sith Lord. For the most part this game is great; however there are a few things that other Battlefront fans have mentioned for which I share their dislike. These few things don't have any affect whatsoever to my liking of the game, they are small minor things and nothing more. It's the bigger things that make this game what it is: Awesome!

Pros:
1. The gameplay is still excellent.
2. New story mode to keep the player interested.
3. New planets to fight on.
4. New Space Combat mode.
5. Ability to play as a hero (i.e. Boba Fett, or Obi-Wan Kenobi)
6. Some new weapons and many new Vehicles.
7. Graphics and CGI effects are much better and no longer have any lag.
8. Fewer glitches than in the original.
9. More elaborated stories that explain a lot about the movies.
10. Much more options and changes available to Instant Action. (i.e. More troops for each side, possible time/score limit, different game modes like capture the flag.)
11. More intelligent AI for the computer players, making for much more challenging combat.

Cons:
1. Learning how to dog fight in the space battles can be difficult and a little frustrating.
2. Giving orders during combat can be difficult.
3. The health/ammunition display has been changed that no longer displays how much ammo is still inside the blaster's chamber.

Overall, this is a great game and I recommend it to anyone who enjoyed the first Battlefront game. I can't really say if people outside of the fans of Star Wars would enjoy this, but if you enjoy strategy/shooter games then odds are you will like Battlefront II.

THIS REVIEW IS FOR THE XBOX VERSION ONLY.

a kid review

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 13
Date: November 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

this game is awesome! ok first off, they have a lot of new maps. the cons: they got rid of the old ones.Another thing is the space combat. u can dogfight, bomb the crap out of a frigate, bomb the internal/external systems of the cap. ship, or go inside and show your little hangar happy friends what the word army means. although fun this can get repetitive. the next point is the new jedi/sith/hero/villan guys. everyone in the hall of fame of star wars is playable. BUT REMEBER, DOT OVERUSE THEM, it gets BORING after a while.the next thing i want to talk aboutis all the new characters. they are: clone commander w/ chaingun, magna gaurd w/ lots of cool weapons, bothan spies with spying stuff like invisibility, and imp officer with rage and sonic gun. cool!next up, bf2 has GREAT graphics. they are real people for god sake! good and bad battlefront 2 is awesome.

The Original Versus the Sequel

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: July 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

As good movies are award winning and loved by the fans while their sequels often lack the genius of the original, the same can be said about the follow up to the Best selling Star Wars game Battlefront I. Sure the game is fun; it has a lot of new wacky things do to in new maps with new characters and now heroes to choose from. You can be a Jedi, fly an X-wing in space and wreak havoc on a Star Destroyer -one of my all time wishes to do as a younger kid after seeing the Star Wars Trilogy for the first time. I myself also found the game a good stress reliever to take a Jedi and completely "maul" down the field -so to speak. However, there are just some things I didn't like about it.

First off, the quality of play isn't as good as the original- in my personal opinion. The original battlefront required some strategy, plotting of your next move and which unit to select for example. Battlefront II (BFII) lacks this: all I did everytime I played was select any ol' unit, kill a few enemies here and there, select a Jedi, mow the field, the end. Of course, as mentioned, that's a great stress reliever. However, I just liked the game grind and long term fun I have with Battlefront I.

I also lagged playing some maps in BFII due to the mass amounts of added and unneeded foliage and brush on some maps; there was just too much detail for my computer to handle. You can select your options to tone that down a little I suppose, but it shouldn't be that way, not on a computer that can play Battlefront I lag and glitch free. I couldn't even play four maps because they'd either lag my computer to a memory consuming submission, or glitched up the screen completely, unable to recover without a total shut down and restarting of the computer.

I noticed how every map was redesigned or added in to decrease the time of play: some paths of older maps were shortened or eliminated, a lot of maps include small tight quarters in which enemies will quickly just kill each other in a flash, etc. I just enjoy the war-like atmosphere of Battlefront I, a wide almost epic surrounding that truly represents battles from the Star Wars movies. Battlefront II didn't quite capture that as well as the original did.. So, if you like shorter battles on smaller maps with way more Grievous-slicing-down-troopers-with-four-lightsabers chaos, and you have a computer capable of handling the mass graphics without lag or glitchy problems, go for this game.

I wonder at times: if I saw a sequel to a popular movie, not as good as the original, before seeing the first movie, would I think the same way? Battlefront II IS fun, but I'm just more of a lover of the classics that I'm already accustomed to, that's all.

An excellent game with a few holes

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: January 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

When I purchased this game, I had never played the first Battlefront, so I wont be able to comment on improvements, just features that seem important.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS- Even though this game supposedly requires a 64 MB graphics card with VS/PS, and a 1.5 Ghz processor, I am running this game on a Presario X1000 laptop with a 32 MB graphics card w/o VS/PS and a 1.2 Ghz processor. However, I have double the required ram, and the game runs smoothly. But, there are definintly some texture mapping bugs caused by lack of VS/PS, such as my soldier lacking a face and leg, or a vehicle not having sides: but this does not really affect the general gameplay. But be warned: if you dont have the requirements, there will be some bugs.

SINGLE PLAYER-
The single player mode, even though it is supposedly improved over battlefront I, is essentially the same as a multiplayer game, just a tad bit more objective oriented. In a way, this is a good thing, because the single player AI is a little less buggy than the instant action computer player AI. The single player mode also lets you explore the space combat mode in a very easy space mission, but then ups the difficulty a huge amount in the next space map. One of the coolest things about this game, both in singleplayer and multiplayer, is the epicness, and the sense of just being another soldier(with the exception of playing as a hero), uncommon is most games, where you are a special person, not the everyday soldier.

MULTIPLAYER-
In general, the multiplayer mode is decent. When you are starting out it can get very frustrating: especially in space where you constantly get shot out of the air by freakishly annoying homing missles. I personally prefer the Instant Action single player mode, which mocks a multiplayer mode with all computer players, and you choose the maps and game types. The game types are -
Conquest- The standard battlefront 2 mode: capture an enemy base, keep in under your control. Availible on most land maps.
1 flag CTF- Offered commonly on space maps, there is one flag on the map, which ever team gets it and returns it to their base wings. Particularly fun in space, as you have to essentially return it to the enemy base to score.
2 flag CTF- Teams have to protect their own flag while trying to capture the enemy flag and return it to their base. I personally prefer 1 flag CTF, as just about every shooter game you find out there has a 2 flag CTF mode.
Hunt- Teams try to wipe out native species on a planet, while the species try to survive. My least favorite mode, because in my opinion, the best thign about Battlefront 2 is the even combat, wiping out creatures just isn't like the normal game.
Assault- Basically, kill enemies, get points.
XL- Gigantic battles between two sides. My personal favorite mode.

OTHER NOTES-
-Heroes such as jedi are fun to play with, and powerful when used right, but can be killed relatively easily if not.
-The graphics aren't the best you have ever seen when in comes to people, but they definintly convey the epicness of the situation. Sitting in a hangar in space, watching ships explode, then having a missle detonate into the protective beam behind you is very awesome. Also flying along the very edge of a star destroyer in an X-wing, avoiding enemy missles while trying not to crash is the same level of awesomeness.
-Space combat is definintly one of the most fun aspects of the game, but the maps do not differ very much, and it gets repetitive after a while.
-You can switch between first and third person, and I thought, as a fan of many FPS, I would keep it in first person, but the first person graphics aren't nearly as good as the third person ones.

So, in short, this game is definintly one you want to buy if you are a fan of intense, violent FPS/ Third person shooters, or epic games in general.

Epic Star Wars Battles and the Classic Heros Make This Game Really Fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: July 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I purchased this game about 2 months ago and became addicted. There are two modes to this game there is a career mode where you are a decorated member of the 501st. This is an elite regiment of soldiers. In this mode you go around to different planets and settle conflicts and eliminate the rebel alliance or the driod army CIS. On Coruscant you get to eliminate the jedi order you know execute order 66. The other mode is more of a strtegic deal. You build armies and recruit members and conquer planet by fighting the empire. Give your troops extra ammo or health or a turret when you capture a command post. Some of these places include Jabba's Hut, Hoth, Coruscant, Dagobah, Mustafar, Endor, felucia, polis massa, the rebel ship tantative 4, and even battle on the death star. Some of the heros include Darth Maul, Darth Vader, Emperor, General Grievous, Anakin Skywalker, Count Dooku, Yoda, Mace Windu, K-AI-A mundi, Ayla secura, obi wan, han solo, princess leia, luke skywalker, and the very talented wookie chewbacca! The levels are really cool nice landscape you can change the graphics resolution and settings depending on your computers performance. Also if your a computer geek like me and have a 5.1 setup on your computer then you can choose different audio modes 4.1, 5.1, 6.1 7.1 modes. This is really cool because you can hear people shooting behind you so you know whoose shooting you. The sound effect are phenomenal. Be prepared to have a 64MB graphics card or greater to play this game i play this on a Nvidea GeForce 4 6500 128MB and an ATI Radeaon all in one 9600 128MB. I play this on a 950mhz AMD athlon and a 1.6GHz Pentium 4 and both run fine. And make sure you have at LEAST 512 RAM. There are really cool multiplayer parts to this game if you have a high speed internet connection then you can play with up to 64 people in one place which is really fun. I have to admit there are some glitches in the game where you can get into walls and pretty much shoot anyone you want to without them seeing you. The patch that LucasArts put out dosen't really doanything it just takes up more space that i can tell. But luckily you can boot people for cheating and make passwords to join certain rooms. Also antother cool multiplayer thing is LAN (Local Area Network). If you have 2 computers at your house that can play this game and they are connected on a router then you can battle each other. (This will keep the kids busy). Another cool thing is the ability to chage classes on the battlefield and there are droids to heal you and give you ammo. also the tanks are awesome especially the ones on hoth.but beware of slicers. The engineer class can slice into vehicles and that kicks you out of them. You can pick your own levels and settings about play them on the internet or by urself at home. Anyway this game is really fun and also trying to make a backup copy is really tricky and most of the time wont work BEWARE PIRATIERS!!!

Great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: August 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is really good for multiplayer, you can unlock to play as all your favorite characters, fly and drive around in SW vehicles, and so on. Highly reccomended

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