By: Dominic Jones
The new video game Star Wars Battlefront has been met with mixed reviews at best, with many feeling that there just isn't enough content in the game. Electronic Arts CFO Blake Jorgensen, speaking at the Nasdaq Investor Conference in Europe, responded to the criticism of the new game saying,
"Star Wars Battlefront is a first-person shooter, but it is
[one of] the only teen-rated first-person shooters. We had designed it to be a much more accessible product to a wide age group.
"So,
an 8-year-old could play with his father on the couch, as well as a
teenager or 20-year-old could play the game and enjoy it. It is more
accessible. And for the hardcore, it may not have the depth that they
wanted in the game."
I think it's a shame that the response to first game from the EA era of Star Wars gaming has been so mixed. It feels like they tried to walk a line between making the game for Star Wars fans who aren't gamers as well as for gamers. Unfortunately, it seems they weren't as successful as they could have been. Hopefully the next game that's coming from Visceral will be more successful.
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38 comments:
I love the game though and I think that it is the best SW effort in years. VERY excited to see what is to come soon!!!
Imagine large scale space battles where you could fight your way to an enemy starship, and land inside where you fight your way in on foot to destroy it from the inside out. Imagine being able to pick certain planets, then choose the Era from which the armament and heroes were from, then choosing what type of battle it was (CTF, Conquest, etc). Also imagine being able to play as heroes ranging from Yoda, Darth Maul, Mace Windu, General Grevious, Luke Skywalker and much more.... THIS WAS BATTLEFRONT 2! Battlefront 3 falls flat on its face as a sequel to such a triumph Battlefront was in not just gaming, but also the Star Wars universe. Also, I find the excuse that they were trying to make it family friendly an insult to gamers' intelligence.
All of this could have been included and the same rating kept intact, and more should have been implemented to truly make it a sequel.
For this I give it a 3/10, and am embarrassed to say I payed $70 for such a pile of trash.
Imagine large scale space battles where you could fight your way to an enemy starship, and land inside where you fight your way in on foot to destroy it from the inside out. Imagine being able to pick certain planets, then choose the Era from which the armament and heroes were from, then choosing what type of battle it was (CTF, Conquest, etc). Also imagine being able to play as heroes ranging from Yoda, Darth Maul, Mace Windu, General Grevious, Luke Skywalker and much more.... THIS WAS BATTLEFRONT 2! Battlefront 3 falls flat on its face as a sequel to such a triumph Battlefront was in not just gaming, but also the Star Wars universe. Also, I find the excuse that they were trying to make it family friendly an insult to gamers' intelligence.
All of this could have been included and the same rating kept intact, and more should have been implemented to truly make it a sequel.
For this I give it a 3/10, and am embarrassed to say I payed $70 for such a pile of trash.
The gameplay is decent, but it lacks variety. I don't really buy the "made for all ages" as a reason, because that doesn't explain why there's so little content.
So many maps have really bad respawn areas, where you're likely to die before you've even oriented yourself to what's going on.
On many game modes I simply can't even get a game full enough to make it worth playing.
The game still has potential to be a good game, but they need to flesh it out, and they need to do it for free. They charged $90 for the base game here in Australia and it's simply not worth the price.
This is Battlefield: Star Wars, and NOT Star Wars: Battlefront 3. They threw out absolutely everything that made the first 2 games in the franchise successful and narrowly focused on the mindless twitch gaming and eye candy to sell their game. There's no gameplay here. This is a basic team deathmatch slugfest and nothing more.
The ADD-stricken kids out there are loving it for the most part. It's a dumbed-down Battlefield set in a Star Wars backdrop. But people looking for a good Star Wars game - like REAL sequel to the Battlefront series - are out of luck. Outside of the gorgeous graphics that capture the Star Wars universe better than any game to date, it has little to offer in terms of gameplay that hasn't already been beaten to death in a bunch of other games. Remove the Star Wars theme and make it anything from slightly futuristic combat to totally sci-fi themed, and the game would be exactly the same. There's nothing other than the graphics and locations that make this "Star Wars" in any way at all.
What's always made or broken Star Wars games was immersion and storyline - neither of which are present in this game. Epic story lines that immersed the players into the Star Wars universe and made them care about the outcome of the story is what makes a successful Star Wars game.
This game is a failed attempt to cash in on the revived popularity of Star Wars and nothing else.
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