The lasers will ricochet around you, creating a feeling of immersion that is so strong, you’ll feel like you’re a kid in the cinema again, watching the original, masterpiece trilogy being shown.
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Okay, as for me, I’ve been playing the game since late last night and I am enjoying it so far, but I do have several nitpicky nits to pick. Running around maps, capturing pods and taking on enemies all feels great. This ability will be one of a number of useful items such as a rocket launcher, a team shield or a Republic Starfighter.
If you’re like me, you’re probably itching for the chance to get home so you can fire off your blasters once again.
In Drop Zone, teams of imperials and rebels are fighting over escape pods that contain important information. Word on the Internet is the game was surprisingly fun in the closed beta. They can give you an edge and let you leap a tall obstacle, but they’re not going to dominate.
This is in part thanks to an interesting loadout system.
Actually, what you’ll first notice is just how good the game looks, a lot of which comes down to a new rendering technique, Physical Based Rendering (PBR). It also has online and split screen co-op options, although the online is only for friends and has no matchmaking.
It’s at this point you realise that while this might be called Battlefront it really has nothing in common with the old LucasArts games, except that they’re both Battlefield clones set in the Star Wars universe. There are three modes that you can play on beta.
What this all means is that Battlefront offers an easy way in for newcomers, but a deeper, more hardcore angle for those that want it, thanks to the level progression.
In this day and age, microtransactions are rife in the gaming industry. In Star Wars: Battlefront, weapon fire is impossible to ignore.
What is the Star Wars Battlefront beta? We must admit, we were very happy with how DICE have decided to make it feel balanced no matter what method of transport you’re using. Those figures we were playing with at the beginning of this piece?
Being on the side of the Republic, our task was to take down several checkpoints and each time we did it would deactivate the AT-AT shield for two minutes. We could only afford the Transformers knock-off MASK figures.
To make matters even worse, gamers have also started complaining about rubber-banding and disconnection issues on Xbox One.
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PS4, Xbox One and PC players all have open access to the game’s teaser, letting you sample multiple modes, maps and weapons.
