Star Wars: Battlefront Coming in 2015

[mad825]

How on earth can you reboot a game like Battlefront? The game has no story, plot or even any events. It's you go to this location and win.

 

[josemlopes]

For me all they need to do for singleplayer is bots and Galactic Conquest, thats all I want

 

[Ftaghn To You Too]

I'm actually forcing myself to be cautiously optimistic. I mean, it's EA and one of its Slave-Developers, but DICE has some good history and BF3 had a genuinely great game poking out from under EA's rotting hand of evil. If they're taking their time and showing proper respect to the game, it may cause me to break the rule of never buying EA games.

Or they're shoving out a Battlefield reskin to coincide with the release of the new crap movies. But I don't think my poor heart could take all of that at once, so I have to keep believing that the new movies have a chance of being good and that DICE will make a good Battlefront game.

How on earth can you reboot a game like Battlefront? The game has no story, plot or even any events. It's you go to this location and win.

The second one had an actually pretty good story mode focused on the 501st, a division of Clone Troopers that eventually became Vader's elite troops. It had some cool stuff about the period between the movies, and gave a good excuse to have story missions based around all of the important set piece battles. To be honest, the prequel trilogy was actually pretty cool as portrayed by the Battlefront games.

 

[tmande2nd]

You know they really need to let the Rebels fight the Droids, and the Clones fight the Empire.

Mostly though please just fix the freaking AI for god's sake since that is the WORST part of the series.
I cant count how many times I got killed by my own side's fire.

 

[Dark Knifer]

Good, hope that means it'll be good. I'll be happy as long as it has bots.

 

[rebus_forever]

So, EA.
Origin only? If yes it means no play for me,as someone who loved both the previous titles thatll be a shame to miss out on, hopefully by then origin will die and they will release on steam.

 

[mad825]

How on earth can you reboot a game like Battlefront? The game has no story, plot or even any events. It's you go to this location and win.

The second one had an actually pretty good story mode focused on the 501st, a division of Clone Troopers that eventually became Vader's elite troops. It had some cool stuff about the period between the movies, and gave a good excuse to have story missions based around all of the important set piece battles. To be honest, the prequel trilogy was actually pretty cool as portrayed by the Battlefront games.

Well...Whatever it was, it was forgettable and I'm sure it doesn't call for a reboot. All I was expecting from SWBF2 back then were cool set pieces...Whatever, I just hope that they keep the Battlefield 1942-esuqe gameplay.

 

[fix-the-spade]

They already have the Engine, so all they really have to do is come up with the levels, layout, and mechanics (not to mention the models) and everything should be fine. Assuming this is going to be a primarily online shooter with maybe a slight story to it?

You just described the development of Medal of Honor: Warfighter, they had two years and a ready made engine for that too, it's mostly refugees of Danger Close that are making Battlefront 3 as well.

I am filled with anticipation, positively filled...

 

[CountryMike]

"We have partnered with Walt Disney and LucasFilm to develop a whole new generation of Star Wars games for the console as well as for mobile and handheld devices,"

No PC version?

 

[Stinovitch]

I don't mind waiting that long for the game as long as it's good when it launches. I'm kind of disappointed that it will have to be played on origin and I really hate that piece of crap. Anyway I'm hoping EA doesn't screw this up and that they actually bring out a full game with maybe 1-2 dlc and not 5-6 like Battlefield 3. But that's probably wishful thinking.

 

[Mac Hussey]

My biggest worry about this game is that they will take out splitscreen. I'd love it if they left in 4 player split from BF2 (xbox) but I would settle for two player. If it has no splitscreen I won't even bother with it.

 

[ssgt splatter]

Ok, 2 things:

1). You bastards are going to make us wait until summer of 2015? Damn you all!

2). The original Battlefront 3 was cancelled during its bug-fixing crunch phase and I somehow missed that announcement?!
KILL THEM!!!! KILL THEM WITH FIRE!!!!

Ok angery time over. In all seriousness, I'm at least happy to be seeing this at all. At least I'll have GTA V and, further down the road, Titanfall to keep me entertained for now. And that's not even counting what's coming up in the first year of the Xbox one's lifespan.

 

[Sonic Doctor]

The second Battlefront had a decent story bit that focused on the 501st stormtrooper brigade. I hope there is something akin to that in BF3. But it doesn't really matter, I'll buy and play it with or without a single player component.

I hate to be optimistic though. It's so counter to EVERYTHING we know about EA and the current state of Star Wars to assume it won't blow goats. So I'll remain cautious and secretly hopeful... well maybe not secretly anymore, but you know what I mean.

I seriously hope it has a single player component, because back with Battlefront 2, I didn't have a good internet connection, and it was still a blast to play by myself. Besides, I like playing by myself on such games anyway.

In order for the game to be at least as good as Battlefront 2, it must have every single one of these things(Since SW:BF2 had them):

1.) It has to be both a first and third person shooter(I don't care what they have to do or how long it takes, it has to have both).
I played Battlefront 2 in third person mode the most, and I'm worried that they will make some stupid decision to make it only first person, because the Dice's Battlefield games are only first person.
HEAR ME DICE, you better put third person in there as well.

2.) Space battles with multiple fighter/bomber ships to fly, and in cruiser ship stations to man and repair.

3.) Massive battles, that work just fine in single player as all the other players are manned by bots.

4.) The reward of being able to play as a "hero" character: Luke Skywalker, Yoda, Vader, The Emperor, Hon Solo, Boba Fett, etc, etc, whoever else they decide to put in as a hero character. It always felt great when the outlook of the battle looked bleak, but then I got an awesome string of kills and the hero became available, and then I was able to tear through the opposing side and gain back my momentum and most of the time win. I also thought the system that the hero life-bar would go down when you weren't getting kills, but went up if you got kills. It was a good way to keep someone from permanently being the hero, but also gave them to chance to stay alive for a good bit of time.

I would say the non-inclusion of even just one of these is a deal breaker. If they exclude one, I will not get the game, because there is no good reason for them not to have everything the previous games had. Anything less is a step backwards.

 

[CrazyCapnMorgan]

What kind of bass ackwards dimension did I wake into where I'm slightly and cautiously optimistic for EA/DICE's Battlefront and cursing Capcom for its new Breath of Fire iteration?

Seriously, I think I'm going to have a couple Captain and Coke's before picking up my paycheck just so I can make sure this reality is somewhat close to the one I went to sleep in last night.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

Great! That means we won't have to hear people complaining that it was rushed out for almost 2 years!

In truth I am actually glad this isn't coming out for a while. It's been announced, which means they know people will have high expectations considering its development isn't only a rumor. Despite EA's reputation, I trust DICE will do their best.

You know, just because its EA they will find something to gripe about. Even if EA has a bad track record for some things, they still can make decent games... and are hardly worthy of worst company ever compared to other corps that truly deserve the title.
Shows you how petty some gamers can be.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

The second Battlefront had a decent story bit that focused on the 501st stormtrooper brigade. I hope there is something akin to that in BF3. But it doesn't really matter, I'll buy and play it with or without a single player component.

I hate to be optimistic though. It's so counter to EVERYTHING we know about EA and the current state of Star Wars to assume it won't blow goats. So I'll remain cautious and secretly hopeful... well maybe not secretly anymore, but you know what I mean.

I seriously hope it has a single player component, because back with Battlefront 2, I didn't have a good internet connection, and it was still a blast to play by myself. Besides, I like playing by myself on such games anyway.

In order for the game to be at least as good as Battlefront 2, it must have every single one of these things(Since SW:BF2 had them):

1.) It has to be both a first and third person shooter(I don't care what they have to do or how long it takes, it has to have both).
I played Battlefront 2 in third person mode the most, and I'm worried that they will make some stupid decision to make it only first person, because the Dice's Battlefield games are only first person.
HEAR ME DICE, you better put third person in there as well.

2.) Space battles with multiple fighter/bomber ships to fly, and in cruiser ship stations to man and repair.

3.) Massive battles, that work just fine in single player as all the other players are manned by bots.

4.) The reward of being able to play as a "hero" character: Luke Skywalker, Yoda, Vader, The Emperor, Hon Solo, Boba Fett, etc, etc, whoever else they decide to put in as a hero character. It always felt great when the outlook of the battle looked bleak, but then I got an awesome string of kills and the hero became available, and then I was able to tear through the opposing side and gain back my momentum and most of the time win. I also thought the system that the hero life-bar would go down when you weren't getting kills, but went up if you got kills. It was a good way to keep someone from permanently being the hero, but also gave them to chance to stay alive for a good bit of time.

I would say the non-inclusion of even just one of these is a deal breaker. If they exclude one, I will not get the game, because there is no good reason for them not to have everything the previous games had. Anything less is a step backwards.

agree on all this, i don't know if i will even touch online if the game is ACTUALLY good, BF2's single player aspect brought in over 1000 hours for me, i don't see why this game shouldn't be able to do the same.

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

"We have partnered with Walt Disney and LucasFilm to develop a whole new generation of Star Wars games for the console as well as for mobile and handheld devices,"

No PC version?

There will be a PC version. They already said that when they announced it.

 

[uchytjes]

First: Its a good thing that it'll take a couple years to come out. Rushed development never pans out in the longrun.

Second: This had better not become a yearly or even every other year type of thing.

Third: I trust DICE. I haven't played any of the BF games, but I hear pretty uniform good opinions about it.

Finally: Hoth map, that turn based multiplayer gamemode-type thing that was in 2, heros, and the all-heros mode. That is all.

Hoth was fairly lame to be honest, any half decent Imperial team could win in about five minutes, regarldess of the skill of the rebels.

but yes, I thoroughly enjoyed the turn based multiplayer game mode, now if we can have it online with a 24 or 32, or even pushing it, 64 players with one 'commander' on each side, fighting it out in their own little story, then this will be an immediate buy for me.


Still going to get it regardless, but without that mode I might wait a month or two to get it.

Eh, I figure the mode would work better if there was some kind of diplomatic-type thing going on. Sure, you'd get trolls raiding stuff, but it'd be better than having one random person in charge. Alternatively, I guess you could have some form of mutiny/kick feature for the commander, but that'd be abused even more than the other system.

Also, I loved Hoth BECAUSE of the Imperial bias. Also, the AT-ATs were fun to play around in.