http://www.lucasarts.com/games/swbattlefrontii/

Not much yet, but there's supposed to be more coming today...

Did you like the first one?

i loved the first one. it felt more like war than BF1942 and vietnam, IMO. which is weird cause those are based on actual events.

Meh you play the first one you get the jist of the second one in this case.

I just couldn't stand the AI. Some of the worst AI ever implemented in a AAA game IMO.

I thought it was cool how you could take any vehicles you wanted and go anywhere virtually... and you could kill your own team members... pretty much anything but the AI were a bit dumb at times.

I just hope they include more than 5 maps. I would also like a more realistic Hoth, with about 5 to 7 AT-ATs, 12 snow speeders, and make their blasters effective against the AT-ST. Also make the shield generator either the final objective for the Empire, or provide some kind of benefit for destroying it/saving it, like more troops/vehicles for the Empire if it gets destroyed. Something other than "oh we destroyed one extra spawn point."

I also hope they make the stationary turrets more effective, since getting into one is suicide. You're a totally stationary target with a low rate of fire, with slow projectiles that are a little more powerful than regular blasters. Make the gun effective.

I also wouldnt mind bigger maps. They felt so small in the first one and only took a long time to walk through on foot because the characters are so slow. Get into an X-wing and you can cover the whole map in 3 seconds.

I wrote up a summary of PC Gamer's article on one of the other threads, I'm too lazy to find it :p

Coolest part about BFII? Space combat...

What would be really cool is if they made the Space Combat coincide with teh ground combat. Like, for instance, if the XWings take down the star destroyer in space, it would make it harder for the enemy troops to, i don't know, send troops down or something.

probably a better example is if you take down the shield generator on teh ground, it's a lot easier to take down the ship in space.

Is it actually going to be possible to pilot the ships this time?

It was barely possible flying at 1/3 speed in BF.

Yeah. If they could implement rogue squadron like space-combat......this game could be awesome.

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Piloting the ships themselves is not the problem, IMO. I think the maps were too small.

I concur, imagine the Battle of Endor where the success of your death star attack (I think it is mentioned that the battle of yavin will be playable) depend on your ground forces' ability to take out that Death Star shield generator.

I wish they would get rid of that stupid bloom effect they have on everything and use the processing power to toss some decent graphics.

I'm pretty sure that's what they're going for this time.

And you can board and capture capital ships, and there will be space-only objectives.

The concept was great, but I heard that the first one had dumb AI, poor graphics, and certain lacking elements that called for major patch revisions.

I hope it is more objective-based. I would like to see something along the lines of Enemy Territory + vehicles + Star Wars. Then again, that is just me.

Also, they should have some customization of the classes, as to different weapon configurations and skins. This is something that probably won't happen.

One thing on the main site (I guess LEC has an official site for this title now) that suprised was the fact that BF was the "bestselling Star Wars game of all time." I was expecting it to be one of the JK's or KOTOR.

Gahh! They're using the same crappy engine! It looks terrible. Typical! Developing for the lowest common denominator, the console. I can't wait till the next gen consoles come out.

I'm not sure the platform is to blame for the graphics, myself.

I liked Battlefront's graphics. The characters felt nice and solid. All in all, Battlefront was an awesome game. I played it for a long time and got a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I can't wait for the sequel, which I will definately get. Battlefront was a good game, but I don't play it constantly (Like, oh, say, CoD.)

Ha ha. I feel kinda dumb. I thought it said "SW Battlefront III" for a minute. That would be an odd move for LucasArts.

Well, I never played BF1, though I heard it was pretty buggy. Maybe 2 will be better.

Or maybe I'll buy BF1, because when BF2 comes out, 1 will be(possibly) cheaper. . .hmm. . .

That would just rock. I believe some of the maps to work that way. One of the maps I saw and read about in PC Gamer was the Tantive IV raid from ANH. Looked promising in that regard.

Unreal Tournament Assault mode, anyone?

Am I the only person excited about the whole "you get to play as a jedi" thing?

The jedi thing better be very very limited. Like one jedi per team, like in BF 1, and obviously they cant be invincible. Unless maybe they redo the Geonosis battle, then a few Jedi is acceptable.

I have other games for when I want to be a jedi.

But I do agree with Snake.

Yeah but I always wanted to be a jedi in a big battle like that.

Certain maps should have "mass Jedi" enabled, ie the Geonosian arena (not saying it's in there, but a lot of people are talking about it)

I liked the idea, but the game doesn't have that feel that would accompany a serious objective-based game mode. UT2k4 Assault felt like FFA with some slight reason to be killing and jumping and fragging around and around a certain place. Most goals were to just stand on a pad until a door opened or just blow something up . . .

On the other hand, Onslaught is awesome.

Maybe...but the separatists wouldn't have mass jedi capabilities. They would have to get some massive non-jedi bonuses on that level just to keep it from being a total slaughter.

Well how about their team is roughly four times as large as the jedi?

I guess this is as close as it'll get to a new Star Wars X-Wing game.

That sounds like one hell of a bonus to me.

And where's the rebel bonus on hoth to compensate for the At-At walkers? I rest my case.