Battle Front II Review.

**Mongoose** · 11-25-2005, 23:55

Originally Posted by ColdKnight

Just got this game yesterday and I agree with mongoose up there on everything he said.

Perhaps we could get a few guys together and get a clan. I play under the name ColdKnight on there too.

My name is Matix8888.

Some comments on the campaign(You play as a clone trooper,

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

as part of the 501'st legion) The spoiler alert isn't really needed, but i just wanted to be safe

. As long as you've seen EP3, it won't be anything new.

Baiscly, it's the same as instant action, but with one difference; the maps are based on objectives. You have a very limited amount of reinforcments and you need to be fast if you expect to win. The goals are things like "Capture the north CP", "Destroy the turrets", and they don't give you much freedom. You can't, for example, destroy the turrets before you get the CP(You can try, but they won't take damage)

It can be quite annoying some times becasue you can't save mid level, and playing the same level ten times in a row might be too much for some people(Including me). Miss one objective? Too bad; Back to the start.

There are only two settings, normal and elite. The AI on your side seems dumbed down on purpose to make it harder, but the enemey AI isn't that bad. kind of cheesy IMO. There are about 18 maps that you play on. One more thing that i should add is that when you play in SP, the points oyu get add up. after you have tons of awards, you get too many bonuses and you might want to consider starting a new profile if you want to replay the campaign(Starting a new profile dosen't delete saves)

Score: 6-7/10, but BF was never really about the SP. It lost points due to:

1:Not quite enough levels.
2:Cheesy difficulty

Afew more notes on online issues i've seen...

1:When team damage is off, you can't hurt your self. that means that you can put a mine right ontop of some and they die but you don't.

2:way too many severs have player select teams. This means that their are always 15 players on one isde and 5 on the other. Very annoying. this was never a problem with BF1, What have the admins running the severs been drinking?

3: It can be hard to find a full sever with auto assign and team damage on. Luckily, there are usually afew around.

**Craterus** · 11-26-2005, 22:14

I got this game for PS2 today, and I have only played the first SP level and training, but so far, I'm really enjoying it. I'm not used to the controls yet (L1 = grenade but on most other PS2 games, it's sniper zoom. That's always annoying and I killed a few fellow squad members at the start of the first battle.) but I'm having fun.

**Alexanderofmacedon** · 12-02-2005, 04:23

I rented it with a friend when I spent the night at his house and I don't know about BF II. I probably did not play it long enough, but I don't know. After the first one, I was expecting so much more than what I got. Oh, well!

**Mongoose** · 12-03-2005, 04:27

Originally Posted by Alexanderofmacedon

I rented it with a friend when I spent the night at his house and I don't know about BF II. I probably did not play it long enough, but I don't know. After the first one, I was expecting so much more than what I got. Oh, well!

What platfrom? The main advantage that BF1 has is that some of the maps were better. Modders should be able to fix that in 6 months... i look forword to playing Rhen Var again.

**Steppe Merc** · 01-04-2006, 02:11

My little brother got it for Christmas, and I really like it. But our second controller's broke, which sucks. And a few innaccuracies bug me (the V wing should be an intercepter, it's deffenitly not a bomber). And there needs to be more different types of ships, primarily capital but also fighters (where's the Tie Defender? Or the B wing? Skipray Blastboat?). And there are a few innacuracies with the clones (wrong markings on the wrong classes). For example, the heavy trooper should be the red shock trooper seen with Palpatine, the commander should look like a commander with the ARC skirt and gear, etc.
Besides that, it's really good.

**Papewaio** · 01-04-2006, 02:32

Actually the color markings by the end of the clone wars was not uniform (pun intended). Particular units had particular colour codes... naturally the personal bodyguard of Palatine had a healthy dosage of red.

Originally Posted by Star Wars Databank

Clone troopers were fully encased in hard white armor, their identical faces concealed behind a t-shaped visor. In the first units, color-coded flashes on the armor denoted rank, with green troopers being sergeants, blue being lieutenants, red being captains, and yellow being commanders. The clones designated for command duty were specifically trained in that capacity. By the end of the war, color-designation came to signify not rank, but individual units, who often became more customized with mission specific gear and armor modifications. Units such as the Galactic Marines, the Shock Troopers, the Attack Battalion and the Star Corps had distinct armor variations that made them stand out.

**Androo** · 01-04-2006, 07:03

Like Papewaio, I got this for Xmas (for PC). I was kind of dubious about it, since Battlefield 1942 wasn't my cuppa at all. However, I gave it a try last night and, waddya know?- so far at least, I really like it. Probably because my demands for 'realism' (whatever that is) are much lower for fantasy/sci fi games.

So: should I think about picking up the original SW Battlefront? Mongoose mentioned that some of the maps are better. That alone might make it worth it, but are there any other advantages or just interesting differences? Which Jedi / heroes make an appearance? (I noted in a post above that they aren't playable- I think I might actually prefer that.)

**Papewaio** · 01-05-2006, 06:37

You can turn off heroes in the game.

Been playing a few XL games lately... rather interesting.

The linear main campaign is about the best I have seen, more due to its filling in star wars backstory and nod to fans out there.

The simple campaign system is more fun. I like deciding what to buy fleet/bonus/unit type. And then deciding which system to attack... defending Hoth against Imperial troops is a treat.

**Mongoose** · 01-05-2006, 20:45

Originally Posted by Androo

So: should I think about picking up the original SW Battlefront? Mongoose mentioned that some of the maps are better. That alone might make it worth it, but are there any other advantages or just interesting differences? Which Jedi / heroes make an appearance? (I noted in a post above that they aren't playable- I think I might actually prefer that.)

BF1 had afew things going for it. Most of the maps that it shipped with it were edit with some good exceptions(Hoth, Rhen Var, geonosis and bespin platfroms)
but since it's been out for awhile, there are some great add on maps maps.http://www.gametoast.com/modules.php...oad&file=index

For what ever reason, most of the good maps from BF1 were either cut or replaced with ones that weren't as good.

Some of them are unbalanced, but playing with 2-3 other players and trying to beat the over powerd team is fun.

But if you want to play online, BF2 is better. Mostly because almost no one plays BF1 anymore(or at least ont when i log in)

Also, alot of the Fist person views are better done, and the vehicles have a good first person mode(In BF2, they're completely gone)

Vehicles in BF1 were stronger, and probably unbalanced. It wasn't really a problem in Single palyer, but getting spawn edited by an AT-AT gets old fast.

If you don't want to wait for the BF2 mods(The First person views, huge maps weapon packs and other addons are already being planned. It'll probably be afew more months before any are released. 3 months and up for the maps though

) Then BF1 is worth it.

Neither are very close to the movies. BF1 was probalby a little more creative though. the only things theat bugs me about the units is that some classes will be the swamp trooper skin, but the others look the same as before....

**Steppe Merc** · 01-05-2006, 19:37

I know it's customized armor. But they have captian's armor as normal troops which wouldn't happen, and the Clone Commander is a Galactic Marine which has is a specific group that all has that sort of armor, but the Marine's captian would be unique.

**Papewaio** · 12-29-2005, 04:46

Got it for Xmas on PC and have been playing split screen BFII on my friends playstation... alot of fun fighting each other... sniper duals can be nasty particlularly as not all the scenary is solid... flowers for instance may block line of sight, they don't block sniper shots, which was cool when I shot my mates sniper in the side of the head when he ducked for cover.

AI is not super smart, the best it does is occassionaly having troopers that weave rapidly across the map, it will sprint across some areas, mind you I have had a bit of success shooting guys with snipers in the head as the run sidewards to my position across the map at maximum zoom.

Played a fair amount as a sniper on PS2 in cooperative split screen... however snipers do not fair very well on a lot of maps nor do they do well against other human players that move around... unless both of you have a sniper in which case the duals can be interesting...

On the PS2 we are now playing against each other in random campaign mode... the planets are going back and forth, space battles take forever and after 3 hours of constant battling we have managed to maintain the status quo of planets... just rearranged them slightly... some planets have inherent bonuses... if you attack the wookie planet and you are the imperials you can expect to see lots of wookies defending with the rebels...