Battle Front II Review.
NOTE:This is for the PC version. Consoles may be different. Also, some players claim that the PC controls are bad and that
Quick Intro to BF1
BF1 was a Star wars FPS. The game worked alot like Battle field 1942, with spawn points that you can capture by clearing out the enemies around them and then waiting afew seconds. One you captured one, you and your team could re-spawn there and use it like the starting spawn points. The game had four factions:
The Empire, rebels, Clones and droids. there were always two factions per map, and always the smae era(You can't play clones VS empire, for example)
The game had AI bots, and up to 32 players per side. There were 4 modes. Galatic conquest which was a campaign version of the game, and there was also instant action, an open version where you would just select a map and then play it. MP, lan or online, was the focus.
The game allowed you to fly ships(X-wings, tie-fighter etc.) and use AT-ATs and other vehicles. Most of the fighting was on foot, how ever. there were jedi, but they weren't playable. The classes were as folllows:
Standard infantry (blaster rifle)
Rocket infantry(Rocket launcher)
Sniper(Sniper rifle)
pilot(Pistol, can give health and ammo, can repair ships mid flight)
Extra class(Destroyer droid, jet trooper, etc)
(Battle front II review(Broken into sections, will be finished later)
Space battles.
The Space battles are, arguably, the biggest new feature. They consist of Two capital ships(One per side) And two smaller frigates per side. The capital ships have five rooms: A hanger, which has the fighters and shuttles. the main room, which consisted of the computers for the ships larger turrets, as well as the auto defense main frame. The other three rooms had other systems such as the life support and the engines plus the shields.
All of those systems can be destroyed by boarding the enemy ship and using weapons such as the rocket launcher or a aonther heavy weapon.
The hanger has the following, using the rebels as an example.
-Bomber (y-wing)
-Light fighter (a-wing)
-All purpose fighter (x-wing)
-Shuttle(Such as the clone gun ship...don't ask...)
Each ship plays it's won role in the battle. heavy fighter with more fire powerare used to attack the larger ships, light fighters are used to attack other fighter. shuttles can act as mobile spawn points once they are landed in the enemy hanger(Which means that once you land, you have large amounts of reinforcements in addition to the 3-4 co pilots and passengers) The flight controls were pretty good, and you are best off using a mouse and keyboard rather then a joy stick(at least it think so... haven't tried using the isde winder with it yet)
The classes are smaller for space battles, just the marine(blaster rifle, plus rocket launcher) or the pilot(Smaller blaster, and a heavy weapon) there are only two modes: assault, in which you gain a certain number of points to win(Shooting down fighters, blowing up part of the enemy ship) Or capture the flag, where you take a container in space and fly it ot a certain point. sadly, the capital ships can't be completely destroyed. You can destroy the frigates, how ever.
OK, so those are the basics. now to the more interesting part. NOTE:the following is a description of a an onlinr game, not SP.
You start the game in the main room or hanger. There other players, either running to the hanger or manning the turrets. If you are a marine, You want to either take a ride in the assault shuttle or stay back to defend the ship. If you are a pilot, You should pilot the assault shuttle or use a fighter. If you are able to get past the enemy turrets and fighter, you can land in the hanger of the enemy capital ship and plant weapons on the major systems.
it's always a good idea to make sure that there are afew marines around, other wise you get gunned down by the enemy marines pretty quicklyThere are also small auto turrets, but they aren't much of a problem
the flight controls, although good, aren't quite up to the standards of older flight games such as X-wing alliance.
Most of the people online were fairly good at the game, and there were very few l337 kiddies(Though, that could change! Don't take that as a promise or anything...)
It can be annoying when you are in a shuttle and the main pilot flys into the hanger wall as you are boarding the enemy ship But to be fair, i've done that by mistake afew timesthe AI is bad too, often stealing a ship and then flying right into a wall... There goes the spawn point.
Thats it for space battles. The rest will be finished later. This is my first review, any ideas for improvement?
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Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat
) that will quickly almost destroy anything dumb enough to run ahead of the group. What i really like about the level is that you get to play as Darth Vader at some point. Nothing beats tearing your way through clumps of Rebel scum with a Light saber 
Very few made it out of the hanger.
(I had to. barely any of our ships were making it out and many of the doomed ships had pilots) and asked him to stop. didn't work...so i started a ban vote.To put it one way, The force is not with us
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