Electronic Arts Star Wars Battlefront 2 (Xbox One)

Love this game! The graphics and the actions are awesome! I wish if they make a newer version!

I have not written a review in years but even if no one reads this I feel I must get something off my chest. If you haven't bought this yet then get the deluxe edition as this gives you some really nice things. Ok so what do I think? The game does take a while to fall in love with, graphics are ace, sound is ace and the game modes are solid (fixes are on going so stop moaning) . the microtransactions were firmly inbedded in the game and now they are turned off but hopefully when all the nonsense dies down they will be back. by turning them off the only way you can get anywhere is to play....a lot and then play a lot more. this isn't a problem but when you start out its unnecessarily grindy. Ive put some serious time in and ive got vader and luke (prefer the blaster hero's really) and ive got palpatine and lando and iden and a few others all on epic. I play hero's verses villains with the idea that sooner or later I wont be able to play the character I like so I have a few fall back characters I can use. once you realise in galactic assault that if you stay alive and work as a team your multiplier goes up and so do your points...points mean heroes and that's when your tricked out characters can hit the battlefield with the basic troops. pick the star cards that work for you and this makes this easier. I have bounty hunter on epic for my heavy and assault class and this gets me faster to the heroes also I love shooting at at ats and planes so never leave home without my epic ion launcher....kills equal points and points equals heroes. now you do well on a game and you save some credits...you buy a crate and this gets you crafting parts which help you make and upgrade star cards. you get duplicate cards which gives you back some credits, or maybe you get a skill card you really need . In any case you need even the cards you don't want as this is the only way you can get to those legendary upgrades with those crafting parts I was telling you about as these are unlocked when your character or class has attained a certain level so its all helpful really. loot crates are not gambling as you know your going to get something at the end of it. its not pay to win its more pay to boost and even then most of the cards you would of got will be basic uncommen cards which as stated above are useful eventually. ive seen people spend money on this on u tube before they shut it down and they mostly just got low rank cards. some people do get lucky but hey play the game like me and get epic. some starcards have been nerfed or buffed by dice because some were too powerful (boba fetts anti hero rockets forinstants and palpatines poor stamina) . Ive seen a video on u tube with a chap killing off heroes with boba screaming pay to win boba....this cannot happen now as it wasn't pay to win it was to boost and boba was broken and dice fixed it in a patch. microtansactions are there if you want them..if you don't then DONT BUY THEM. yes you have paid 50 quid so why buy more well YOU DONT IDIOTS. just don't and play the game...its so good I promise you. microtansactions are here to stay. games have improved so much since the single players of yesterday. for all that new quality people bitch and moan they have it hard. it costs dice mega money to keep the severs running and the game playing online as sweet as it does with all the workers monitoring this product .we have to pay somewhere for their services. yes EA have very questionable ethics but their a business and they make MONEY but don't bash dice. also so many people just jumped on the band wagon and were like I hate this game it sucks. buy it, try it, don't buy any microtransations and then see how you feel. I personally would have bought some crates. if dice brought them back tomorrow and installed crafting part crates and costumes and explosive crates etc I would be there in a heart beat. you see no crates or abilities you get stop you from getting killed. you will still die on the game...a lot. now dice are too scared to bring back the micro transactions so the game that's broken without them will stay broken so thanks for that...YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!!! ok rant over...almost done. like I said if you can afford the deluxe edition then get that...it is worth it and gives you some top stuff and some of the best cards right off the bat. I didn't and I wish I did. infact the deluxe edition for me was the problem not the transactions. being bested by epic cards and guns you cant get for a while in the basic edition without working a lot for them on day 1 to 10 was demoralising and that made me want to stop playing this game. I persevered and here I am. love it. its not cod and it isn't battlefront 2015 .give it a chance. microtransactions are here. would they of helped you....yes. will it be a game changer and make you a legendary god NO NO NO. don't be the sheep and follow the herd. even the wolf had to get better at his craft.just a shame he couldn't get some microtransaction really to boost him a bit earlier lol

As described brand new

Buen juego

I received my copy of Battlefront 2 on the release date despite all of the negative comments flying around about the micro transactions, which is what I will address first. Although I think many have gone a bit over the top regarding these micro transactions, I do agree that the game was initially aimed to be a continuous money maker and I can see why parents initially didn’t want their kids playing it for obvious reasons. Notice I’m using the word “initially”. This is because Disney/EA/Dice opened their ears, realised that they had made a massive mistake and have temporarily removed the pay to win money making scheme along side some other changes to the amont of points needed to unlock hero’s etc. As a business owner myself, I can say wholeheartedly that the initial intentions were for one reason and one reason only - to make even more money from the game and I don’t really blame them. There’s nothing wrong with this, it’s what millions of businesses and companies do all the time. Unfortunately they took it way too far this time and also on completely the wrong franchise, although in their minds it was completely the right franchise (Star Wars, massive fan base = massive reach for potential micro transactions). Anyway, to draw a line under all this, they have now fixed their mistake and I shall get onto giving my two cents on the actual gameplay, you know, the thing we actually buy the game for. First of all I can’t comment on the campaign or arcade modes as I haven’t played them yet. So onto the multiplayer then. I’m finding it hard to think of the last time I played a multiplayer based game that I actually wanted to keep playing for as long as this, I’m thinking since gears 1/2, cod 4 etc. I stopped playing multiplayer based games quite a few years ago and by stopped I mean played the odd one or two every so often to test them out, but the point still stands that to me there has been a lack of multiplayer focussed games that were actually fun to play and also kept you coming back for more, until now that is. I’m not gonna lie that when I first started playing battlefront 2 I got sort of hacked off as I was frequently getting killed by hero’s and vehicles that I had no clue how to play as. I started to think that these other players had purchased these hero’s and vehicles with actual money before they removed that pay to win system and I did start to think that this was the most unbalanced and unfair game of all time. I then felt a bit embarrassed that I had completely overlooked the battlepoints system and what a system it actually is. Basically to those who don’t know how this system works, you have to actually get kills and damage vehicles etc to earn battlepoints within the match you’re currently playing. Once you have enough battlepoints you can then choose to spend them in game on either a hero (skywalker, Vader etc) or a machine (AT-AT, x-wing etc) - these choices change depending on what side you’re playing as. Once you know this you will instantly become addicted to trying to save enough points to play as a hero, which running around with a lightsaber and using the force is a rush you will want again and again I can assure you. In my mind this is an excellent system as it basically stops people camping to rack up a kill streak instead of running around and playing the game how it was intended. You can still camp up but I can assure you that it won’t get you anywhere, you need to run around and put a fair amount of effort in if you ever hope to play as yoda, Vader, skywalker etc. Because this is quite a challenging system, it gives you just enough to be satisfied but still leaves you hungry for more which is why you want to keep playing and playing. As with all games there are some negatives and this has quite annoying one to say the least. The biggest gripe for me is that you can spend most of the game trying your hardest to get as many kills as possible and saving battlepoints just to satisfy that urge of playing as your favourite hero. When you do finally get enough points, you rush to the hero selection menu to find out that apparently the max number of that hero is already in play and they can’t be selected?? This is false as I know for a fact that no one else is playing as say Vader but it still won’t allow the selection. What’s more annoying is that the average player won’t have gained enough points to play as a top hero until near the end of the match and when you’re finally allowed to choose the hero the game can end a few seconds after you spawn in. This is quite frustrating and I hope dice fix this obvious issue. I would like to add that you have to unlock certain hero’s with crystals and I unlocked Vader (the most expensive) after about 20 matches, that’s alongside purchasing a few crates as well, so there is no issue regarding the currency system and unlocking hero’s anymore. If they do decide to bring back micro transactions which they most definitely will, I am pretty sure it will be a subtle system and not one that can be classed as “pay to win”. So stop putting off your purchase based on what you’ve heard on the news lately and play this gem of a game, it’s Star Wars for god sake!