Should we be nervous about Star Wars: Battlefront?

Unigamesity: For years we waited for LucasArts to give the go-ahead for the third installment to arguably the most beloved FPS of the sixth generation of consoles (PS2/Xbox/GameCube). For whatever reason, it never came. Then one day, the gods smiled upon us. The day was June 10, 2013, and after years of speculation, EA announced that DICE would be re-launching the series on the next generation of consoles.

[ZodTheRipper]

DICE is full of talented developers so I'm not worried about it yet. I'm just happy that a reliable studio has taken over this franchise and judge the quality once it's finished. It may even turn out great with Frostbite and enough time.

[iamnsuperman]

I am worried. Dice is a good studio just not a great one. The problem is recently they have gone through the trend of releasing something quite buggy. It may be EA's fault but they are still a sub of EA and such are in their control (also it is being made by the danger close guys but under a new name)

Also I don't want a star wars skin of a battlefield game because it is a completely different game (which is a big worry of mine as Dice have said it will be "DICE's interpretation of what Battlefront should be")

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[Rzep]

Bullshit, maybe you just don't remember but BF1942, BF2 and every other BF was a mess on launch day and week.

People seem to think that realesing buggy games is some sort of recent problem that has to do with the "evil" publishers.

Once again, bullsheeet, games have had buggy releases since the begining of time. You can't test for everything, it is impossible for even the largest QA company to find all the bugs.

I am fine with it being an interpretation since playing Battlefront 2 these days it hurts how badly the game has aged. Anyway Star Wars with the scale of BF4? Gimme gimme.

[pompombrum]

^^ I wasn't a PC gamer back when 1942 was released however I remember the release of both Vietnam and 2 and neither had widespread issues like what was experienced in Battlefield 4.

On the day of release, it took me 1 hour and 30 minutes before I could even get into and finish a game. I had six different errors all stopping me from playing. In my nearly ten years of PC gaming, I've yet to buy anything that was broken to such an extent.. in fact, I'd go one further and say I've never even played a beta that was as bad as BF4 was on day one.

@iamnsuperman I didn't realize it was the danger close guys making it.. that's got me twice as worried as before. MoH games had great single player however the multiplayer was pretty bad and felt like a badly blended mix of call of duty and battlefield.

Truth is, with EA doing it, there is every reason to be worried. They are probably foaming at the mouths at the prospect of making a battlefield inspired Star Wars game and the all the new ways they can milk fans with it.

[Spinal]

Agree with Rzep. So many games have buggy releases. It's just normal online games can't test for everything it's impossible.

@aiBreeze, just cause u experienced a terrible launch don't assume everythin else has. I've had no problem in game an been havin a lot of fun playin. Recently purchased a Radeon R9 280x so I can enjoy it even more lol.

On topic: Dice is the perfect studio for battlefront there isn't any other game dev that can do a huge multiplayer game with vehicles an huge maps with high player counts. If you can name a dev better than dice than can do this battlefront who has proven titles with amazing huge multiplayer than please mention one.

[pompombrum]

"@aiBreeze, just cause u experienced a terrible launch don't assume everythin else has. I've had no problem in game an been havin a lot of fun playin. Recently purchased a Radeon R9 280x so I can enjoy it even more lol."

Doesn't that work both ways? Just because you didn't have any problems, you shouldn't assume they aren't widespread. The official forums were literally filled with people with problems and at least half of my friends who got the game were randomly crashing until they released the first client side patch.

[andrewer]

Indeed. I'm worried not only about EA, but the different approach DICE will take on Battlefront. Like, they will show realistic shadows, realistic lightning, realistic effects, realistic realism, and the feel older Battlefront games had will simply vanish. That's what I think will happen...And I don't know what's going to happen, but if it is FPS and not TPS, it will be BS enough for me not to buy it. The game is a TPS, so make a freaking TPS, not a money maker.

[titletownrelo]

its not a COMPLETELY different game, but hopefully they do include a mix of 1st and 3rd person views, and have heroes.

[3-4-5]

DICE releases buggy but awesome games because of EA's "deadline schedule"....

When EA wants to release a game in September.....it's releasing, weather it's ready or not.

[DeadlyFire]

DICE while they have good intentions and great talent. They do lack polishing the game. The phase for the past couple of years has been to build game get it to Beta state then release it. Day one patch final build into the game. As in some cases it has worked better in Beta state. So I question if they launch a pre-beta state to the public. Fix bugs a month later. Then it all smooths out down the road.

Either way I still love battlefield. Its always been good once its smoothed out. I expect Battlefront to be the same. If ya don't like bugs. Then buy the game 3-6 months after launch.

[FrigidDARKNESS]

Nope not at all they are using the Frostbite 3 engine for this game.

[Anonagrog]

Using an engine like Frostbite 3 only means the designers and artists have an easier time bringing their vision to reality through all the supporting FB3 tools. Whether their "vision" of what Battlefront should be is going to be any good or not to gamers is another matter.

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[reaper24]

Well since EA are the publishers, I expect 4 maps at launch. The other 16 or so will come as overpriced DLC packs, since there seem to be enough idiots who buy them at launch.

[Rzep]

BF4 launched with 10 maps, if you pre-ordered it adds up to 14 maps, all available in the 7 modes, which change the map a bit to fit the modes.

[titletownrelo]

Yo, do the game-modes from DLC transfer to all of the vanilla maps?

[pompombrum]

You forgot how they'll lock away a lot of content in battlepacks.

[Rzep]

Haven't seen anything in a battle pack that is not in the game.

[pompombrum]

Yes ingame but locked away in battlepacks which you either unlock very slowly or buy with real money. The random nature of what you get inside makes it even more annoying and is just another one of EA's creative ways to abuse something found in f2p games to make them more $$$$

[DeadlyFire]

I got all my BF3 DLC a year later for $15. It never hurts to have patience.

[Vegetarianshark]

I have a lot of faith in DICE, hopefully, EA doesn't make them rush this or turn it into a Battlefield clone.

[CanadianTurtle]

I don't think this game will be rushed at all. I mean it's releasing in late 2015 isn't it?

[Midgus]

well i am, it is defiantly going to be a re-skin of battlefield with star wars on top. please keep it true to the original. but i can see another franchise being milked too...

[Marc20110]

Please excuse my noobness but did Battlefront have a single player story mode or will this be multi only like Titanfall?

[ChipChipperson]

Well... there was a sort of single player like mode in the first and second games, but it was more like how Battlefied Modern Combat did it's single player. It just tied a almost put together narrative to it, but it was just mindless fun really. Battlefront 2 tried to tie the game into the Star Wars universe by trying to recreate certain scenes with all the available Jedi characters and the factions, but it was still all about the multiplayer like nature of the game.

[Lazyeye79]

I fear that it play like battlefield and not like Battlefront. Also if it doesn't have split-screen multiplayer then it isn't really Battlefront.

[KYU2130]

I'm not worried about the look and the feel of the game. I am more worried about the game mechanics. I don't want to end up playing Battlefield with a Star Wars skin.

[modesign]

EA recently scrapped the command and conquer franchise, lets hope they dont scrap star wars.

[ChipChipperson]

I wonder if Dice could play around with the gameplay Battlefront Elite Squadron on the PSP had. You could actually enter into both space and ground combat by taking a fighter and flying back and forth.

[Getowned]

I will be pissed if we don't get a CTF mode, I miss the hours long CTF battles from Battle Front 2 :( nothing has come close to the old SWBF2 days mp wise for me (except Natural Selection 2, *Shamelessly promotes that game cause it is awesome* but even still SWBF!!!)

I hope Dice will do a good job but still make it a Battlefront game and go in a new direction with it but still keep to its roots, Story mode with Split-screen and co-op, ability to switch from fps to tps, Online and lan MP with with a conquest,ctf, tdm, deathmatch, space battles, bots, jedi battles and more would be great while keeping some of the mp game modes team objective based, I just hope they don't re-skin BF4 or make it overly fast paced like cod(we don't need anymore cod clones that's getting boring).. ugh, I just wish Pandemic didn't go under and could make this game. I've waited so long for this game to release and I'm very worried about it, I don't want it to become just another fps I want it to be Starwars BattleFront not battlefield or cod, I just want the game to stay close to its roots and improve upon them, I hope dice can do that, but i'm worried. man, SWBF 1 and 2 were such great games back then, lots of things to do and fun to play, I would go weeks with out that game ever leaving my ps2 or pc.