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Rushed

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 24
Date: September 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

If this game had come out 5 years ago it would have been considered good, apart from the horrible settings editor and server browser.
However battlefield 1942 came out two years ago and is still the far better game.
If you are a star wars nerd buy it, otherwise don't.

Bad CD Key, always crashes on XP SP2

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 21
Date: November 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

First off, when I tried to install this game I was treated to having an invalid CD that came with the game. After calling Lucas Arts, they confirmed that this was a known problem and gave me new one.

Buyers be warned. SW Battlefront crashes with a "Buffer overrun" error on XP Service Pack 2. If you have installed SP2, then do not buy this game.

Sorry to be harsh, but this game was RUSHED.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 17
Date: September 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I know, I know. You think I hate this game just 'cause I'm mad at George Lucas for ruining Star Wars with the prequels. I swear that's not the case. I was looking forward to this game, still not expecting it to be great, but curious about the opportunity to finally shoot ewoks, and ANYTHING from episode 1. What I got was, well...

Maybe this is a result of LucasArts laying off all their game designers and farming out their licenses, I don't know. I DO know however, that this is just a poorly and thinly veiled re-hash of Battle Field 1942. Seriously. If you already own BF1942, just go online and get the Star Wars mod for it- Battlefront's graphics are only marginally better. This game already looks 2 or 3 years old. Or like Grand Theft Auto 3. It's that bad.

Play mechanics aren't great either. Did you know that EVERY SPECIES takes two sniper shots to the head to kill, helmet or not? They didn't even bother to make different regions have different damage values. Shoot a wookie twice with a sniper rifle in his big toe- it's just as lethal and just as dumb. And the hit detection just sucks anyway. Very glitchy.

To be fair, watching bodies ZOOM through the air after (finally) being hit with a missile launcher or grenade is hilarious, and I am just writing about the PC version. Maybe it's better on a console, for once. And no, it's not my system. I can run Doom 3 with all the goodies and not even a hiccup.

We couldn't get the cinema cut scenes to work, the loading screen of CONSTANTLY zooming in on the planet is dumb and has a really irritating sound effect, and all the audio is repetitive. Plus, the score system of kills and flags captured is unoriginal, and the method of "capturing the flag" or base or whatever is really lame. Stand there. For a long time. Nice, challenging game play it's not.

Seriously, if Doom 3 is too much for your system to run and you NEED a new shooter, your cash is still best spent elsewhere. Either put it toward a new video card, or take your wife/girlfriend/mom out to dinner. Or mail it to me. Or go buy the original trilogy on DVD. But friends don't let friends pay for Battlefront.

Hello

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 94
Date: September 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Readers should be aware, the game hasn't come out and already its getting 5 stars. They will probly slap a $15-20 dollar monthly charge. Wait till the game comes out then trust reviews.

Another boring "Battlefield" expansion pack

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 28
Date: September 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game thinking it would be like Star Wars meets Unreal Tournament. Boy was I wrong. I don't care about the pretty graphics or all the vehicles I can drive/fly. This game is just another Battlefield title. I hate the Battlefield series. 0 stars.

I've been disappointed before but this was amazing

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 9
Date: September 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I didn't want to like this game, I wanted to love it. Granted, having such high hopes even before I installed Star Wars Battlefront probably set me up for failure by believing that maybe, just maybe it could have lived up to the hype and all of the possibilities that hardcore gamers/Star Wars fans had been pondering for months now, but in all honesty this was an abysmal failure even if you had lower than average expectations. The visuals are less than sharp. The audio is mind-numbingly disimilar from what we have come to expect from a Star Wars game(why don't blasters sound like blasters?!). The in game browser fro multi-player is about 4-5 years behind the times, and the options for setting up a server are excrutiatingly few. The maps are pretty nifty but very small and uninspired(go ahead...admit it. They won't take your fan club membership away). It's just a bad game.

What's to love? Well, if you are a Star Wars fan this is a new game. That's about it. Again, I wanted to like this offering, but it's nothing that it should have been and a lot of things that should have just never come to fruition.

How?! How could they even think they could not use Star Wars Universe type blaster sounds and think they could get away with it? And even if they thought they COULD get one over on fans...then WHY would they just not use the sounds we have come to expect as opposed to just lifting the sounds we've loved for so many years?

Simply Boring.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 11
Date: November 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

What can I say except this game is simply boring. The novelty of it being a Star Wars game was over in a few minutes. The graphics would be great, if it had been released a few years ago (like 5 year agos). Same with the game play. Compared to even Half Life 1 or some of the other first person shooters, this game is more like Red Faction. The game play very repetitious and just boring. The graphics are sub par. The vehicles are cool looking but that is it and driving them gets very old fast.

Save your money and try Half Life 2, UT2004, or even Half Life 1.

Wow..would be fun if amazon ever shipped me the game.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 26
Date: September 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Hmm ordered it a week ago and they (AMAZON) still haven't shipped it... Hopefully the reason is that they are going to send me a version that works..read online many of the cds are bad... anyhow..if the game is anything like 1942 i'll be happy..however hearing it locks to 20fps on online sounds scary.. oh well... maybe by xmas this will finally ship!

Unfinished

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 23 / 25
Date: September 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game was clearly rushed out the door so they could sell it the same day the trilogy was released on DVD.

The multiplayer server brower is jittery and selecting a server to join is like playing whack-a-mole (but less fun). It's a simple interface issue, but it just wasn't tested completely.

The dedicated server software is incomplete. It sometimes hangs for no reason when changing maps. Administrators of the servers have no control over the servers once they are set to run.

The gold standard for this kind of game is Battlefield 1942. A Battlefield server has about 60 customizations and functions. Most of them can be accessed from within the game while the admin is playing. The Battlefront sever have 14 options and you can only change them at the server launch. There is no way to change the duration of the maps, no way for server admins to kick unruly players, no way to force a map change, no way to select which map hte server plays next.

The failure to design a robust and easily administered server ruins the multiplayer part of this game. Last night on my server, we had a player who walked his AT-ST up to a friendly spawn point and blasted his teammates as they spawned into the map. As a server admin, I was powerless to stop this teamkilling because there is no kick function.

The single player game has its own problems. Chiefly, the bot AI is as dumb as a stone (this was also a problem with the Battlefield 1942 single player game). It kills any replayability in single player mode.

It's not all bad. The graphics are superb and the sound is cool. Once you get on the server you want, the game is going and you have a good group of players, it's a lot of fun. At least until the server hangs on a map change.

The game as it was released on 9/21/2004 is worthy of a "beta" label. It has the promise of one day being a great game is Lucasarts chooses to complete it with downloadable patches.

If you're considering buying this, I'd check to see if there has been a patch or two released my Lucasarts.

It's a souped-up version of Duck Hunt. Point and shoot.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 12
Date: November 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I love Star Wars. Lovelovelove. I was practically beating people down and running up their backs to get this on the first day it was out. So realize this review was difficult to write.

The graphics are good, but not great; faces are not rendered well (square). Backgrounds and game areas are nice, but nothing you haven't seen before.

Playwise, it's a basic point and shoot. Sure, you can choose what character you'd like to play, and what type of weapon they will utilize and how they will kill, but it's find bad guy, point and shoot. The thrill of hopping in vehicles like the ATAT and the chicken walker ATSE wears off as soon as you realize they're ungainly and slow. The joy of hopping in Tie Fighters or X Wings is lost the moment you realize the field you get to fly in is barely bigger than your computer screen (you have to fly in tight circles, so don't think of glorious dogfights or anything). Flying vehicles aren't used for much. Even taking down the mighty AT ATs is hollow (and not easy). Darth Vader or Mace Windu occasionally join the party, but they're *gasp* just square blobs with no real details and...and...and... *sob*. This should have been great. Even killing Ewoks (again, hardly any detail to them) should have filled me with glee...but it didn't.

Your job is to shoot and not think too hard. Yawn. Extremely one-dimensional, the only thing fun about this game is utilizing the multiplayer online game part of it--one click of a mouse, and you're on some server in a galaxy far, far away playing against people with names like Darth Bob--very fun and super challenging, despite their propensity to mince and dance about to prevent me from shooting them (laugh)! The real-life users mix things up a bit and make a brain cell or two activate in your head. But still, all you're there to do is point and shoot.

You want a great SW game? Then get Knights Of The Old Republic. Seriously. Battlefront isn't horrible--it was pretty darn fun for the first couple of days. But you'll quickly find it's a game you put on the shelf.

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