Unfortunately, without giving these characters and events room to breathe, everything feels shallow it’s problematic when they’re trying to portray an elite Imperial trooper second-guessing her allegiance. Don’t get me wrong, some of those action sequences do a great job of getting my blood going: Iden scrambling in a TIE Fighter to counter a rebel attack, or Princess Leia’s desperate defense of Naboo, still ring fresh in my memory. My primary critique is that it plays like a bored teen flipping past huge swathes of a book, focusing only on the blaster-filled set-pieces that sell trailers. Considering how villains tend to be the heroes of their own story, Battlefront II had massive narrative potential. It’s a perspective rarely explored outside of literature, essentially being the Star Wars’ equivalent of World War II through the eyes of Nazi Germany.
The Empire’s time has come.”ĭeveloped by EA’s Motive Studios and Lucasfilm, the campaign promised to go “under the mask” of the Empire’s troops during the Imperial fall. Inferno Squad commander Iden Versio, an Imperial special forces operative, regards her captor with disdain, her only words an unwitting omen: “You’re right. Our single-player tale begins in captivity, handcuffed and under armed guard aboard the rebel star cruiser Invincible Faith. A single-player campaign, a dedicated space combat mode – is this the sequel fans are looking for? Underneath the controversy lies a multi-million dollar Star Wars game that supposedly addresses complaints over its predecessor. At least, that’s the sentiment that dominated in the days leading to Star Wars Battlefront II, before publisher EA was forced to temporarily disable microtransactions at the eleventh hour.
In a galaxy far, far away, even the Galactic Empire bends its knee to the loot box.
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