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Manufacturer: Lucas Arts Entertainment Co. LLC
Brand: Lucas Arts
List Price: $9.99
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Star Wars Battlefront II takes the best-selling Star Wars video game of all time one Imperial-walker step forward with all-new space combat, playable Jedi, and never-before-seen environments straight out of the Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith movie. Fans of the original Star Wars Battlefront will also enjoy an all-new single-player experience that takes players through an epic, story-based saga where every action the player takes impacts the battlefront and, ultimately, the fate of the Star Wars galaxy. Battlefront II improves upon the original game’s single-player experience with open-ended, mission-based objectives inspired from all six Star Wars films. The compelling storyline spans more than 16 new locations, many from the Episode III movie, including volcanic Mustafar and the space battle above Coruscant. All-new classic movie moments complete the Battlefront II experience, as players battle within the interior of the Death Star and visit Princess Leia’s blockade runner, the Tantive IV, as seen at the beginning of Episode IV A New Hope. In addition, at certain key moments within the battles, players can earn the opportunity to wield a lightsaber and use the Force as a Jedi. For the first time ever, Battlefront players can engage in space combat and, during the same battle, board enemy ships to attack from within. Starting on foot inside a capital ship, players can enter the starcraft of their choice and travel into space to dogfight with the rival faction. From there, they can dock within the enemy’s capital ship, overtake the ship’s command posts, man its turrets to disable its shields and destroy it from within! Or, they can simply stay inside their own capital ship and defend it from attacks and enemy fire. The choice is theirs.


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Amazon Maximum Age: 20
Amazon Minimum Age: 144
Batteries Included: 0
Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Lucas Arts
EAN: 0023272328184
ESRB Age Rating: Teen
Feature: Revamped single-player experience includes smarter AI enemies and allies, plus a greater emphasis on story told through open-ended mission-based objectives.
Format: CD-ROM
Label: Lucas Arts Entertainment Co. LLC
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
Manufacturer: Lucas Arts Entertainment Co. LLC
Model: LA32818
Platform: Windows XP
Publisher: Lucas Arts Entertainment Co. LLC
Release Date: 2005-11-01
Special Features: Dolby Digital
Studio: Lucas Arts Entertainment Co. LLC


FEATURES:

• Revamped single-player experience includes smarter AI enemies and allies, plus a greater emphasis on story told through open-ended mission-based objectives.
• New space battles allow you to dogfight in X-wings, TIE fighters, Jedi starfighters and several other starcraft, or fight it out on foot aboard an enemy capital ship.
• Special opportunities throughout the game for players to earn the ability to wield a lightsaber and use their favorite Force powers as a Jedi.
• More than 16 new battlefronts on land and in space, including many from Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith such as Utapau, Mustafar and the space battle above Coruscant
• All-new classic trilogy locations including the Death Star interior, classic space battles and the fight aboard the Tantive IV, Princess Leia’s blockade runner seen at the beginning of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope



ACCESSORIES:

• Lego Star Wars Death Star II
• LEGO Star Wars Imperial Dropship
• PC Gamer (1-year)
• LEGO Star Wars Rebel Scout Speeder


SIMILAR ITEMS:

• Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords
• Star Wars Battlefront
• Star Wars Battlefront 
• Star Wars: The Best of PC (Empire at War, Knights of the Old Republic, Star Wars Battlefront, Republic Commando)
• Star Wars Republic Commando


CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

Customer Rating:
Summary: A big mess
Comment: This here game does the equivalent of that old saying "one step forward, two steps back".

Inevitably, I'm comparing this to the original, as it is like Knights of the Old Republic and Jedi Knight in regards to sequels that do not change the engine or graphics.

Things changed from the original Battlefront including a deeper, more complex HUD. The particular units for the Clone Wars are updated (as in Clone Troopers from Episode III) and new special units alongside the old ones.

The main campaign is GOOD. It is GREAT. It is genuinely compelling. It takes the form of an old Clonetrooper telling the stories of his time in the Republic/Imperial 501st Legion, starting with the typical Clones vs Droids battles, and doing some dramatic acting and dialogue that is far better than most of that in the original movies.

It is genuinely gutwrenching to hear him talk after the Battle of Felucia, just before Order 66, saying to the effect of "Aayla Secura told us we were the absolute best soldiers she'd ever worked with. It was a good thing we were wearing helmets, because none of us could bear to look her in the eye."

The campaign also does interesting things in having Imperial Stormtroopers fight Kaminoan Clonetroopers, or Stormtroopers against CIS Droids, etcetera.


The Galactic Conquest is also changed for good and bad. For good; the map is larger and more realistic, and bonuses can be purchased with credits, as well as unit types purchased. You move your fleet into positions over worlds, and if the enemy has a fleet there, you engage in a space battle first.

A big big big plus: units can now SPRINT!

For bad; unlike in the first Battlefront, there is only one level per world, one battle to secure it or lose it.


Two new features: Space battles and heroes.

Space battles are amazing and fun, among the best of any Star Wars computer game in recent history. Pilots can either slowly destroy the enemy capital ship from external bombing, or infiltrate their hangar, and run past enemy fire to destroy their shields or life support or engines or auto-defense mechanism from the inside, or just keep to destroying enemy fighters on the outside.

Heroes: the heroes that wield lightsabers are disgustingly overpowered fun. They move amazingly fast, jump amazingly high, and kill amazingly fast. The good part is that they can obliterate dozens at once, but they can also die fairly easily, so they do not break gameplay. The bad part is that they are reduced to bloodthirsty beasts, in the sense that you are "timed" with them, and the more you take damage, the more "time" you lose, whereas you gain more "time" when you kill. If you run out of "time", the hero "dies" and leaves, but you regain them several minutes later.

Just a personal opinion, but any hero that is not Jedi/Sith/Grievous, is completely useless.



But now, the bad parts:

- BUGGY! The game is insanely buggy, in that it can randomly and very rapidly crash without notice. This happened to me a lot during space battles, while I used the boost, just to have the game suddenly drop me to the desktop as quickly as if I were closing an MSPaint file. As well, it also crashes if you play it in windowed mode and alt-tab away from the game menu. It does not crash if you pause it mid-game and alt-tab out, but if you are not on a battlefield and you alt-tab out, it will crash.


- THE ABSOLUTE WORST FRIENDLY AI EVER! On Normal mode, battles seem to tend to be an even deathmatch in which both sides would completely drain themselves out if it weren't for you. But the more you play it, the more you tend to see that your side, no matter what faction it is, is beyond retarded.

I have had control points lost because ONE enemy soldier stands upon it, while FIVE of my own soldiers stand next to it, and DO NOTHING TO THE ENEMY SOLDIER! I have seen enemy soldiers run circles around friendly soldiers, who cannot shoot it because their aim is abysmal.

Most disturbing of all: friendly soldiers ABSOLUTELY LOVE to run right in front of you while you're shooting. They absolutely LOVE to wiggle into your line of fire while you're shooting at an enemy. They love to be killed by you because they block your way while you're emptying your blaster into an enemy like a machine gun. THEY ALWAYS DO THIS! THEY DO NOT EVER NOT DO THIS!

I do not exaggerate when I say EVERY LEVEL where I am shooting at someone and a friendly unit is in front of me and slightly next to me WILL move out in front of me. Most of the time it's only once, but many times, they will KEEP doing it, or STAY IN FRONT OF ME.


- Elite mode. Something is horribly wrong with it. In the game menu, you can switch the difficulty from "Normal" to "Elite". For players like me, Normal is too easy, and Elite is too hard.

The main thing "Elite" mode seems to do is to make your troops UNTRAINED RECRUITS and to make the enemy Elite. What it basically does is render your entire army useless, and make it a quite literal "You vs All of Them" game experience. That may be fun for some players and experts, but for the most part it completely destroys the game experience.

I have played levels in Elite mode where my side has lost a battle, 150 vs 150, where I had killed AT LEAST 60 enemies by myself. And we STILL lost, and the enemy STILL had some 30 units left. This was not a one-time phenomenon, for I played the same level FOUR TIMES under the exact same circumstances and settings and bonuses, and it was the SAME RESULT EACH TIME! I murder half the enemy army, and the other half murders my entire army.

The bad parts outweigh the good parts by far too much. It's still a fun game sometimes, but as a long-lasting, high-quality game, it is a failure.


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Customer Rating:
Summary: Better than X-Box!
Comment: My grandson played this game on our X-Box so much that he wanted a copy for his desktop computer. We think the graphics and play action are better on the PC than on the X-Box. Good game!

Customer Rating:
Summary: Decent Game
Comment: This is a good game to get you started playing PC games. I got this game a couple years back and have enjoyed ever since. It isn't the greatest game out there but it makes up for that in replay-ablility. You want to fight the Clone Wars and then help the rebels... no problem, just make a list of the maps and start playing. It has 4 or 5 game types from classic conquest (capture chechpoints) to Hunt (rebels on Wampas) and yes you can play as the Wampas. The only thing is that in multiplayer anyone who has been there 5 minutes longer than you has an overwhelming advantage. Like I said, good game for casual gamers, and multiplayer is a good challenge for die-hards.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Fun Game, terrible support
Comment: This game is awesome, but on the PC it's buggy not running very well, the old maps cut out and hang almost every time. If all you want to do is the Old Republic stuff then you'll be fine. All in all quite dissapointing with Lucas Arts not planning on releasing any new updates. Tested it on 3 different computers with Vista and XP with various bugs in each.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Stormtrooper level stinks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment: The stormtrooper levels are the worst because every time you have to guard a command post, if you lose, you lose the game and must start over. If is not fair when you are on Yaven 4, because the tanks surround the security door and you can't get there with your doomsday device thingy. Every time, even when you are in the DeathStar, the prison break rebel soldiers have infinite soldiers and the stormtroopers only have fifty, which is really stupid!! I don't think it has to be that hard! Make a new version without infinite soldiers, please!!!!!!!!!!!

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