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Star Wars Battlefront II |  | From: Lucas Arts Entertainment Co. LLC
Category: Video Games
List Price: $9.99
Buy New: $9.30
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Seller: greatstuff53
Rating:  88 reviews
Sales Rank: 1710
Format: CD-ROM
Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows XP
Genre: shooter_action_games
ESRB: Teen
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Jewel Case
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.5 x 1.5
Dolby Digital
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: 100722
Model: LA32818
UPC: 023272328184
EAN: 0023272328184
ASIN: B000AAL4HI
Release Date: November 1, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Revamped single-player experience includes smarter AI enemies and allies, plus a greater emphasis on story told through open-ended mission-based objectives. | | • | New space battles allow you to dogfight in X-wings, TIE fighters, Jedi starfighters and several other starcraft, or fight it out on foot aboard an enemy capital ship. | | • | Special opportunities throughout the game for players to earn the ability to wield a lightsaber and use their favorite Force powers as a Jedi. | | • | More than 16 new battlefronts on land and in space, including many from Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith such as Utapau, Mustafar and the space battle above Coruscant | | • | All-new classic trilogy locations including the Death Star interior, classic space battles and the fight aboard the Tantive IV, Princess Leiaâs blockade runner seen at the beginning of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope |
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Product Description
With Sid Meier's Civilization IV History As YouKnow It Is History.Product InformationStar Wars Battlefront II takes the best-selling Star Wars video game of all timeone Imperial-walker step forward with all-new space combat playable Jedi andnever-before-seen environments straight out of the Star Wars: Episode IIIRevenge of the Sith movie. Fans of the original Star Wars Battlefront will alsoenjoy an all-new single-player experience that takes players through an epicstory-based saga where every action the player takes impacts the battlefrontand ultimately the fate of the Star Wars galaxy. Battlefront II improves uponthe original game’s single-player experience with open-ended mission-basedobjectives inspired from all six Star Wars films. The compelling storyline spans more than 16 new locations many from the EpisodeIII movie including volcanic Mustafar and the space battle above Coruscant.All-new classic movie moments complete the Battlefront II experience as playersbattle within the interior of the Death Star and visit Princess Leia’sblockade runner the Tantive IV as seen at the beginning of Episode IV A NewHope. In addition at certain key moments within the battles players can earnthe opportunity to wield a lightsaber and use the Force as a Jedi. For the firsttime ever Battlefront players can engage in space combat and during the samebattle board enemy ships to attack from within.Starting on foot inside a capital ship players can enter the starcraft of theirchoice and travel into space to dogfight with the rival faction. From therethey can dock within the enemy’s capital ship overtake the ship’s commandposts man its turrets to disable its shields and destroy it from within! Orthey can simply stay inside their own capital ship and defend it from attacksand enemy fire. The choice is theirs.Product FeaturesGet ready for the Rise of the Empire. Wage an epic conquest across thegalaxy.&nb
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 Best Star Wars game there is August 25, 2010
Peter H
On the box, I believe it says that this is the best selling Star Wars out there. You can't find it much cheaper and better than on Amazon. Great deal with dozens and dozens and dozens of hours of play.
Back to Basic May 5, 2010
A. Parrish
Purchased game to replace lost game, neat that it was all on one disk instead of having to install four. We have many Star Wars games but we had to have this one again.
star wars battlefront 2...a great game September 6, 2009
Robert McCloud (USA)
i bought this game before i bought the first battlefront, thinking it would be better. in many ways, it is. it has great graphics, and the gameplay is very realistic. however, i was dissipointed with the lack of land vehicles. also, the ability to be jedi is cool, but the jedi are very hard to use, seeing as thier attacks are not that realistic. overall, it is a decent game, but i would advise buying the first battlefront before you buy 2, as it is much harder.
 A big mess July 1, 2009
Andariel Halo (Phenomynouss@hotmail etc is my e-mail)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
This here game does the equivalent of that old saying "one step forward, two steps back".
Inevitably, I'm comparing this to the original, as it is like Knights of the Old Republic and Jedi Knight in regards to sequels that do not change the engine or graphics.
Things changed from the original Battlefront including a deeper, more complex HUD. The particular units for the Clone Wars are updated (as in Clone Troopers from Episode III) and new special units alongside the old ones.
The main campaign is GOOD. It is GREAT. It is genuinely compelling. It takes the form of an old Clonetrooper telling the stories of his time in the Republic/Imperial 501st Legion, starting with the typical Clones vs Droids battles, and doing some dramatic acting and dialogue that is far better than most of that in the original movies.
It is genuinely gutwrenching to hear him talk after the Battle of Felucia, just before Order 66, saying to the effect of "Aayla Secura told us we were the absolute best soldiers she'd ever worked with. It was a good thing we were wearing helmets, because none of us could bear to look her in the eye."
The campaign also does interesting things in having Imperial Stormtroopers fight Kaminoan Clonetroopers, or Stormtroopers against CIS Droids, etcetera.
The Galactic Conquest is also changed for good and bad. For good; the map is larger and more realistic, and bonuses can be purchased with credits, as well as unit types purchased. You move your fleet into positions over worlds, and if the enemy has a fleet there, you engage in a space battle first.
A big big big plus: units can now SPRINT!
For bad; unlike in the first Battlefront, there is only one level per world, one battle to secure it or lose it.
Two new features: Space battles and heroes.
Space battles are amazing and fun, among the best of any Star Wars computer game in recent history. Pilots can either slowly destroy the enemy capital ship from external bombing, or infiltrate their hangar, and run past enemy fire to destroy their shields or life support or engines or auto-defense mechanism from the inside, or just keep to destroying enemy fighters on the outside.
Heroes: the heroes that wield lightsabers are disgustingly overpowered fun. They move amazingly fast, jump amazingly high, and kill amazingly fast. The good part is that they can obliterate dozens at once, but they can also die fairly easily, so they do not break gameplay. The bad part is that they are reduced to bloodthirsty beasts, in the sense that you are "timed" with them, and the more you take damage, the more "time" you lose, whereas you gain more "time" when you kill. If you run out of "time", the hero "dies" and leaves, but you regain them several minutes later.
Just a personal opinion, but any hero that is not Jedi/Sith/Grievous, is completely useless.
But now, the bad parts:
- BUGGY! The game is insanely buggy, in that it can randomly and very rapidly crash without notice. This happened to me a lot during space battles, while I used the boost, just to have the game suddenly drop me to the desktop as quickly as if I were closing an MSPaint file. As well, it also crashes if you play it in windowed mode and alt-tab away from the game menu. It does not crash if you pause it mid-game and alt-tab out, but if you are not on a battlefield and you alt-tab out, it will crash.
- THE ABSOLUTE WORST FRIENDLY AI EVER! On Normal mode, battles seem to tend to be an even deathmatch in which both sides would completely drain themselves out if it weren't for you. But the more you play it, the more you tend to see that your side, no matter what faction it is, is beyond retarded.
I have had control points lost because ONE enemy soldier stands upon it, while FIVE of my own soldiers stand next to it, and DO NOTHING TO THE ENEMY SOLDIER! I have seen enemy soldiers run circles around friendly soldiers, who cannot shoot it because their aim is abysmal.
Most disturbing of all: friendly soldiers ABSOLUTELY LOVE to run right in front of you while you're shooting. They absolutely LOVE to wiggle into your line of fire while you're shooting at an enemy. They love to be killed by you because they block your way while you're emptying your blaster into an enemy like a machine gun. THEY ALWAYS DO THIS! THEY DO NOT EVER NOT DO THIS!
I do not exaggerate when I say EVERY LEVEL where I am shooting at someone and a friendly unit is in front of me and slightly next to me WILL move out in front of me. Most of the time it's only once, but many times, they will KEEP doing it, or STAY IN FRONT OF ME.
- Elite mode. Something is horribly wrong with it. In the game menu, you can switch the difficulty from "Normal" to "Elite". For players like me, Normal is too easy, and Elite is too hard.
The main thing "Elite" mode seems to do is to make your troops UNTRAINED RECRUITS and to make the enemy Elite. What it basically does is render your entire army useless, and make it a quite literal "You vs All of Them" game experience. That may be fun for some players and experts, but for the most part it completely destroys the game experience.
I have played levels in Elite mode where my side has lost a battle, 150 vs 150, where I had killed AT LEAST 60 enemies by myself. And we STILL lost, and the enemy STILL had some 30 units left. This was not a one-time phenomenon, for I played the same level FOUR TIMES under the exact same circumstances and settings and bonuses, and it was the SAME RESULT EACH TIME! I murder half the enemy army, and the other half murders my entire army.
The bad parts outweigh the good parts by far too much. It's still a fun game sometimes, but as a long-lasting, high-quality game, it is a failure.
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Better than X-Box! March 10, 2009
Morris Simon
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My grandson played this game on our X-Box so much that he wanted a copy for his desktop computer. We think the graphics and play action are better on the PC than on the X-Box. Good game!
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