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Is Star Wars Battlefront ii Worth Ownership Yet?

Information technology's been a turbulent launch week for Star Wars Battlefront 2.

After facing heated fan backlash, EA has already made two huge changes to its long-awaited Star Wars shooter: first, reducing the amount of credits you'll demand to unlock heroes such as Luke and Vader, and, more shockingly, completely removing paid microtransactions from the game.

With Battlefront 2's pay-to-win drama seemingly backside united states, i question remains: Is the bodily game any good? The answer is yes —
though there are some major caveats. We've searched our feelings, and here's what nosotros love and hate about Star Wars Battlefront ii.

The Skillful

The single-player campaign (by and large) delivers. Playing as Regal commander Iden Versio, you become to feel the aftermath of the Empire'due south final defeat through a four-hr campaign filled with fun, varied combat missions and incredibly lifelike cutscenes. While the entrada has some problems (which we'll explain below), its sense of sense of humor and adventure feels truthful to the films, and its thrilling final battle showcases the best of Battlefront's on-human foot and vehicular gainsay.

It'southward the best-looking Star Wars game ever. From the cantinas of Mos Eisley to the sweeping forests of Kashyyyk, Battlefront 2's environments are jaw-droppingly gorgeous, and painstakingly reverent to the movies. The game's audio pattern is equally top-notch, with beefy explosions, authentic blaster noises, and signature Star Wars scores that make every multiplayer match feel like a movie scene.

It feels great to play. Battlefront 2's gameplay is a large improvement over that of the showtime game, with more than fluid player motility and tighter, more satisfying shooting. Starfighter combat has gotten a complete overhaul, thanks to the folks at EA'due south Criterion studio giving you much finer command over how you weave your X-Wing or TIE Fighter around the battleground.

In that location'south way more than to do this time around. Whereas Battlefront ane launched in a woefully anemic country, Battlefront 2 is packed with fun things to do. The game'south varied map selection at present spans every era of Star Wars, and its multiplayer modes run the gamut from epic space showdowns (Starfighter Assault) to completely chaotic brawls (Heroes vs. Villains). Add in the unmarried-histrion campaign and a decently robust offline Arcade mode (which supports local co-op), and you've got a healthy amount of Star Wars to sink your teeth into here.

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The Bad

The progression system stinks. Even with paid microtransactions out of the picture, Battlefront ii's progression system is still a confusing, unsatisfying mess. I'd need an entire other article to fully explain it, but the long and brusk is this: You upgrade your troopers, heroes and ships via Star Cards, which are primarily obtained via the randomized loot crates you'll earn equally y'all play. This makes progression feel almost entirely luck-based. Instead of leveling upwardly a specific form or character by simply using them oft, y'all substantially have to hope you get proficient cards for them every time you open a crate.

The story way's plot is underwhelming. As I mentioned before, campaign is a boom to play. But the game's bodily story, which is beingness marketed equally your gamble to finally see things from the Empire'due south side, falls short of its promise. You spend nearly half the game playing as iconic Star Wars heroes such every bit Luke and Leia instead of as Iden — almost as if Lucasfilm and EA were afraid of devoting an entire campaign to an original grapheme. And while Iden has plenty of moments to smoothen, her story goes in a disappointingly safety management.

The game simply feels too unstable right now. EA has already made two sweeping changes to the game'southward economy before its official release, and while those were changes the community asked for, it gives the impression that any of Battlefront ii'due south key features could suddenly change on a whim.

Lesser Line

Is Battlefront 2 worth your cash? It's still as well early to say. If yous're mainly interested in the brusque entrada, you're better off renting the game or waiting for a price drop. If you plan on sticking it out with the multiplayer, you might want to agree out and run into if EA makes any improvements to the game's busted progression arrangement.

Only if y'all simply can't expect to play the large new Star Wars game, you'll still find plenty to like in its exhilarating multiplayer battles and gorgeous worlds. But know that Star Wars Battlefront 2 is constantly evolving, and that the game you come across now could look very different in a few weeks.

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Mike Andronico is Senior Writer at CNNUnderscored. He was formerly Managing Editor at Tom'due south Guide, where he wrote extensively on gaming, also equally running the testify on the news forepart. When not at work, you lot can commonly catch him playing Street Fighter, devouring Twitch streams and trying to convince people that Hawkeye is the all-time Avenger.