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Han Solo says: "Here's where the fun begins."

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 11
Date: October 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

As far as PSP games go, Renegade Squadron is one of the best. If you're a fan of Star Wars, it'll make it all the better. The games quite lengthy. The single player campain is pretty long, and has a great story. The multiplayer is also very addictive if you have friends to play with.

The controls have been redone since the last PSP Battlefront. I'll give a quick rundown: Joystick is for moving the character foward, backwards, left, and right. Hold down the right shaulder button to lock onto a target (It also allows you to strafe) Hold down the left shaulder button to run. Tap the left shaulder button to jump. X is fire, square throws a grenade, Y is zoom, and O is roll. There really simple and easy to use. The real treat are the flying missions. They control very smoothly, and are real joy to play.

The single player story is quite good. You play as a hired mercenary who's working for a special group known as "The Renegade Squadron", which is led by Han Solo. You're essentialy playing through the original trilogy performing different secret mission. You'll run into characters like Vader, Boba Fett, and many other well known characters from the Star Wars universe. You can even play as some of them if you're lucky.

The multiplayer can be a lot of fun. There's online play, but I sadly haven't been able to try it yet. But I do have two friends who also picked up the game. So we easily connected via WiFi and played with, or against eachother. You can make whatever type of gameplay you want. And play on which ever side you feel like. There's a lot of options and should easily please fans of mutiplayer.

Let me end it with this: Playing as Boba Fett, jet packing wherever I wanted to, and shooting flames out of my left arm all at the same time, has never put a bigger smile on my face. Easily one of the best Star Wars games to date. Thats no easy task.

Bring More To The Battlefront

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: October 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

A Long time a go there was a game for PSP called Star Wars Battlefront II a fun game but lacked in various ways, the levels were no different from the play station 2 version but cut down, meaning some parts of some levels were gone or altered which did not help the experience on the PSP.
Then Renegade Squadron came, more levels, deeper levels, an actual campaign story, ONLINE multiplayer, the controls have changed the new controls allows you to move your character with the analog stick. However the controls from last time are back with minor tweaks, good or back, overall with a positive gaming experience. When it asks you to play as a hero it won't take you out of the game, you'll take the role of that hero right then and there.
The fact that you can choose what your guy looks like, class, species, color of clothings and what he brings to attack, choose your primary weapon, secondary, grenades, and much more.
A Great improvement for Star Wars Battlefront, another great game for the PSP.

The best PSP game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is the best psp game because it takes full advantage of Graphics and the psp's features. For all you who are reading this to decide weather to buy it or not, I can help. BUY IT!!! There that should help a lot. You star wars trilogy fans, it has many weapons and vehicles not in the movies but hey, you won't find anything that sticks right to the movie. The controls at first, seem dumb but once you master them, it becomes easy to kill those pesky battle Droids. Also the sound of a Roket smashing into a AT-AT and killing it is the most satisfying thing you'll ever hear.

Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 08, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I gave this as a gift and got one as well. You can get lost in battle. Being able to use the ATAT, and all the other vehicles is great. You can also change to character from the movies.
This can be very addictive. A+++++++

An Amazing Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User

A solid game, no doubt. Even if you're not a star wars fan (but even better if you are) it's a spectacular game. The story mode may be rather easy, but the online play is amazing. It gets up to 16 player shoot em up action. The customiztion of your soldier and weapons is a nice touch. There are dozens and dozens of combinations. Once again, a true star wars game that offers hours of entertainment. BUY this for the online play.

Battlefront 2.5, now with more Han Solo

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 20 / 23
Date: October 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

As this game's lengthy title suggests, Renegade Squadron is just the latest in a long-running line of Battlefront games, which in turn owe a lot to the Battlefield WWII games. It's all about running around a virtual battlefield with different soldiers and their vehicles -- and is about as close to playing with Star Wars toys as you'll get in a video game, even more so than the Lego games. Claims that this is exclusive to the PSP are technically true, but remember that the same kind of game is available elsewhere on the PS2, XBOX, Windows, and Macintosh, in arguably better form (Star Wars Battlefront II).

The PSP already has a similar game to this, in the form of Star Wars Battlefront II (2005). That well-intentioned port pushed the PSP farther than it could go, with clunky controls, slow framerates, and local-only multiplayer, which was the kiss of death for a game primarily designed for online play. It still sold well and can be found cheaply, but Renegade renders it irrelevant. In single-player mode, Renegade Squadron is one of the first game to use the full 333 MHz of the PSP's clockspeed. In multiplayer mode, it drops to the usual 222 MHz to conserve power, but because of a few smart design choices, raw power isn't absolutely needed for a great experience.

What's new here? The biggest change is in the controls, which are greatly improved over the PSP version of Star Wars Battlefront II. When you're on the ground, you can holding down the R button to lock your sights on an enemy, letting you circle around him without losing your aim. While you're flying around in space (in X-Wing and TIE Fighters, as well as the Millenium Falcon), you can autoselect a target with one button, and pressing another will enable an autopilot to point you in the right direction. Since the autopilot follows lines of sight only, you'll still need to use your brain to maneuver the 3D objects in the space scenes. These changes are well-suited to the handheld, and while they make things easier, the tactical challenges are still present. I'd rather fight against my onscreen enemies than the controls of a game!

The other main difference between Renegade Squadron and the previous iteration on PSP is the inclusion of Infrastructure multiplayer. In other words, you can play on the internet with strangers, using a Gamespy-powered server explorer, much like the console and computer versions of the game. I didn't notice any significant lag when playing online, and there were plenty of opponents.

Other nice touches: the short (took me about 3 hours) campaign story is typical Star Wars, interwoven with events and characters from the films. You rescue Ackbar, you fake out the Emperor, and there's a lot of Han Solo fan service such as "Greedo shot first" in-jokes. Like most SW stories, it doesn't take many risks, except for the scene where you infiltrate the Emperor's home and smash up his holy relics, Taliban style. It's told with beautifully painted panels, which are partially animated (more than a pop-up book, less than a cartoon). Voiceovers and sound effects are of typically high LucasArts quality. Character customization is simple yet richly integrated into gameplay, forcing you to to choose the balance of health, firepower, speed, and other attributes based upon the needs of each mission.

If you've enjoyed other versions of Star Wars Battlefront, is this worth getting? In my opinion, the fixed controls and fully developed multiplayer makes this the best portable version of this kind of game yet. It can't compete with PC and console versions (with higher resolutions, better controls, and more robust online play with voice and keyboard support), but it's easily the best Star Wars game to come along since SWBF2. It's a great little game and if you're a Star Wars fan with a PSP, you should have it already. If you don't yet have a PSP, there's a white, slim PSP with a Darth Vader silkscreen packed in with this game, too!

Better Than Battlefront 2

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: October 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I'm not saying I'm an expert on Battlefront 2, but this game just feels right when compared to its predecessor. The graphics look a little better. Movement is smooth and fluid. Flying missions are a lot of fun. Voice acting is pretty good. The cut scenes aren't anything to write home about as they are merely photos set to music and dialogue. However, you do get to customize your character. You can also earn credits to purchase lots of different weapons. I haven't tried the multiplayer yet. I think if you are a Star Wars fan you probably can't go wrong with purchasing this game.

Best One Yet

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: October 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game soon after playing it as a rental - I really enjoyed it. You can customize your player with colors, bodies, and heads. You can also choose your own weapons and other gadgets. I enjoyed playing the infastructure mode; I am surprised it was not included in the second Battlefront game. I was surprised at how many worlds there were to play in - far more than Battlefront 2. When playing Instant Action, you can now play Hero Capture the flag. The controls took some getting used to, but now that I have them down I like them more than the originals.

It's the best Battlefront yet.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought this to play with my son and have to say I'm impressed with the game itself. The single player follows the untold stories of "renegade squadron" who are the unknown heroes behind the greatest part of the movies. As an example it was the renegade squadron that held off the empire while the rebels fled Hoth. The entire single play campaign is played from their perspectives and the levels are varied which is nice. The best part of this game is the multiplayer which is typical Battlefront style game play. Every map has numerous capture points that you'll need to hold. The more capture points you hold the faster your enemies reinforcement points lower. When you or the enemy run out of reinforcement points the game is over. The only new element they've added is the space battles which are a neat novelty. All in all a great game to play and with the online/multiplayer capabilities you'll get a lot of bang for your buck out of this game.

STAR WARS returns to the psp.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I love the battlefront series and I'm a huge fan of star wars.This game was better than I expected.One of the things about this game is that they removed the class selection.Now every one on the battle field has to choose their weapons.The selection is nice and offers allot of choices,but some good weapons,like the magna guard's bulldog RLR,have been removed.The new weapons are nice and some of them like the explosive blaster pistol,are great,while others [cough]orbital strike[cough] are annoying.It is obviously mobile which is great.You cannot select a lightsaber as your weapon,which is disappointing.When shooting a helpful auto-targeting reticle helps you aim,this is good if your a bad shot,in fact its hard to hit anything without this feature.the gameplay is nice and solid and space heroes are nice.You can even board a ship as a space hero.Now for the bad.There are four devices that don't have' endless ammo,and one of them isn't even a weapon!At first heroes lightsaber controls are confusing,they die fairly easily.And what happened to the bespin map?And as I said before some of the new weapons are useless.Nevertheless this is a great buy and a worthy game.Get this and you wont be sorry.

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