A fun Star Wars game. Growing up I played the second one more but this was a decent warm up. Solid maps and playing as Stormtroopers just blasting enemies away will never not be satisfying.

A shame you can't play as any heroes and the camera is a bit too up close even in third person for my liking plus the fact you can't sprint is dumb.

A Lord of the Rings game done in the style of Battlefront would be awesome.

This era of Star Wars games will always have a special place in my heart though.

Well they fumbled something as simple as a re-release of 20 year old games so here I am playing the original Xbox version and killing bots.
I think this is the first game I have memory of playing, so a lot of my love is undeniably carried by nostalgia but it was still a blast to open this up and spend some 10 hours in it. To remember that I once thought this was the peak of graphics!
It still blows my mind how well the game just works offline because of the use of bots. Simulated multiplayer matches against AI. While not matching other players, it is fun and can even be challenging, especially on higher difficulties. The maps are the highlights, I would say. Especially the ones that are exclusive to this one and did not make it over to 2, like Bespin Platforms or Tatooine.
Some issues did really bug me this time around, though. The different factions do have strengths and weaknesses, but the balance is off. The CIS have droidekas with strong shields and the mobility of the AT-STs of the Empire was more often an issue than it was a benefit. In addition, clones and stormtroopers are always more fucked on the forest maps of Yavin and Endor, since the droids and the rebels blend in more with the environment and you stick out with white armor. I'm confident those issues were somewhat resolved in the sequel, but I will see that once I move on to it.

But yeah, one of the first games I ever played, and it's still dear to my heart.

Battlefield Vietnam with a Star Wars skin.

It's dumb Star Wars sandbox fun that we always wanted as kids. It hasn't really aged well in terms of the gameplay department. Everything feels stiff and shooting things is not very satisfying. But back in the day this was really well made. A lot of good content for star wars fans.

Two eras with a handful amount of well made maps. Lots of different classes to choose from. A good selection of vehicles in every map. There's just so many ways to play, any fan of SW will find some sort of fun.

The best thing about Battlefront are how large scale the battles feel, like they were right out of the movie. You see blasters, lasers, ships, explosions all around you as you are running to your next objective and makes you feel like you're on Normandy beach. You can have a lot of fun with this one with just Singleplayer mode, but Multiplayer is also there as an option for those who want more longevity from the title.

Aged pretty badly. The classes kinda suck, you can't play as any of the heroes like you can in the sequel, and the A.I is awful. The A.I is definitely my biggest problem. Especially in the empire-rebel maps, it felt like the AI refuses to push up against the enemy and it felt like I was doing 90% of the work. The AI never helps you when it comes to capturing objectives, they're too busy doing their own thing. Today, with games like Battlefield 1 existing, I can't recommend this game, but for its time it was incredibly fun.

Battlefront isn't as good as its sequel, but its still damn good, and more simplistic. Battlefront only contains prequel content based off of Attack of the Clones as well as The Phantom Menace, but the game is such a novel concept that it still works even today. The campaign isn't anything to write home about, but it's still fun. That's the common theme with Battlefront, really. It's just fun, and that's all that matters. Galactic Conquest was a precursor of what it would become in Battlefront 2, but still showcased the potential it had as a mode while being great.

Great game overall.

Score: 86

The year is 3248. Civilisation lies in ruins. The human race is near extinction. I'M STILL SHOOTING THIS DROIDEKA HOW MANY BULLETS DO THEY TAKE FUCKING DIE. AND THAT'S IF I CAN REACH THEM IN THE FIRST PLACE, YOUR MOVEMENT SPEED IN THIS GAME IS COMPARABLE TO ME CIRCA 1998, AKA A TITTY SUCKING 1 YEAR OLD.

The game's awesome, the sprawling landscapes, intricate corridor networks and vehicle variety make the scope feel HUGE and, when you finally do find an enemy after five minutes, you find ALL the enemies, leading to frantic, adrenaline fuelled clusterfucks where the fast time to kill assures high pressure standoffs and a feeling of flow state as your momentum hurls you from enemy to enemy.

The jank elements get fixed in the sequel, meaning there's not really much reason to play this nowadays as it's literally just this game but better, but on its own merits it's fucking fire.

Star Wars: Battlefront II is one of my favorite games of all-time. I played it endlessly as a kid, and even when I got the first Battlefront second-hand later, despite having already played hundreds of hours of the second, I really didn't spend nearly as much time with the original. In the years since, I've continued to revisit Battlefront II across PC and Xbox Series X, barely returning to this first game. Having now replayed the campaigns and messed around in both Galactic Conquest and Instant Action, playing this game deliberately for the first time since I was probably nine or ten, I now realize why.

Everything that I love about Battlefront generally is here, but everything feels clumsier. The guns feel less precise, the movement feels stilted (why would I ever bother going prone), and the units are unbalanced. The Droidekas make playing as the Clones on any non-vehicle map an exercise in frustration, and the inability to do double-zoom a sniper scope as that faction is frustrating too.

There's no doubt that Battlefront simply has a different pace than its sequel - no sprint, no forwards roll, no changing classes at control points, etc. And to that end, these mechanical differences do lend a certain feel to this game than II, but it's not one I prefer. The balance just doesn't feel right to me, and the more arcade-like sensibilities of II are what put it in my top-tier.

I'm hammering in on my complaints largely just to try and articulate why there's a star-and-a-half difference between my score here and my score of the second game, which launched a year later and repurposes these bones entirely.

After all, I'd still rather play Battlefront I than most games that exist; the map selection here is great, certain units like the Dark Trooper are among the most fun in series history, the intrinsic excitement of a conquest match is pretty phenomenal. There's a reason that these games are lauded as being among the very best Star Wars games.

And yes, I am playing via the collection (on Switch). If, like me, you're just trying to play offline it's largely flawless.

i played the classic collection version they could have done a bit more work on it IMO for how heavy of a download this game is but I love that era of games I have no issue raw dawgging it.
Huge nostalgia for these games so it was nice that within probably one of the worst weeks of my life in the past few years I still got to unwind and play a classic. and It hold up well obviously game feel has come a long way lol but the sense of a war zone maps that feel big but are also small and dense enough that are always packed with players the various vehicles the sounds omg it is just so immersive in a way I feel most multiplayer games really aren't like why don't modern battlefront and hell battlefield games feel like this? is making a game that is viable for competitive play that important?