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Star Wars Battlefront II (SWB2) is not an enormous departure from the first Star Wars Battlefront (SWB1), but the differences are all positive. So what's the same, you can employ vehicles in combat in single player and multiplayer (though not as much as SWB1). You still have the ability to specialize your infantry between assault troops, snipers, anti-tank, and special troops (wookies, dark troopers, etc). Also at the writing on this review (Sept 2013), playing online directly through the game is still possible with several servers and lots of live players to play against.
So what's new:
This time you also get to fight as Jedi/Sith and against them. While they can still do enormous damage, they are not practically indestructible like in SWB1. There is a large selection of special characters that you can play during single player and multiplayer. During single player, special characters can only be played during certain parts of certain missions. You will be notified when this option is available. For multiplayer, there are different options. Some games are exclusively hero battles where light sabers rule, but you can also play as Princess Leia, Han Solo, and Boba fett. Other games allow one special character to each side at a time (again you will be notified to play the special character if it is your turn).
Fun space combat with X-wings, Tie fighters, and bombers. The space map boundaries are large which allows for fun dog fighting. You can attack the outside of enemy ships and can raid the inside with space marine raiding parties. I never really enjoyed flying in SWB1 because of the tight maps. However, there is very limited aerial combat in non-space maps. The snowspeeder on Hoth is the only one I can think of.
There are neat features that become available during missions. After you achieve certain conditions, you receive special bonuses like advanced weapons (I love the bonus rifle) and damage reduction. You also gain access to additional troops some of which I found really cool like chain gun troops, wookies, and Destroyer Droids.
The single player finally got some effort put into it. I thought the length of campaign was good. You can only play one side during the campaign, but this time the single player is not just practice time for multiplayer. The missions have objectives and the number of spawns is limited. The campaign follows the 501st legion of republic clone troopers as they evolve to stormtroopers. You basically start in episode 3 and continue into episode 6. I'm not sure if the encounters are all authentic to the series , but many of them take you to battles from the movies. While the storyline may not appeal to everyone, I thought it was well put together and was interesting to see the rebellion from the side of the stormtroopers.
So in summary, if you like first person shooter type games or Star Wars you should get this game.
Technical Note: The game played great both on Windows 7 (Intel i7, 12 GB RAM, 2GB Nvidia Video Card) and Vista (Intel Core 2 Quad, 8GB RAM, 1GB Nvidia Video Card) for me.
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I had originally played this with a friend on the original Xbox, and had tons of fun. I opted to purchase the PC version for myself, because of the "+123 Mod" which basically let all maps and game types be used together. I even had fun on the campaign, although you still stick around for the multiplayer with others or with bots (not enough games have bots!).Not anything against the game, but the seller I got it from shipped an English 4-CD version of the game from Thailand, rather than a US English DVD version or similar. I thought it was strange.
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