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Post by Vroom Vroom on Oct 10, 2015 18:55:03 GMT -6
I played a bit of the beta, an hour or so, on the Xbox One and while it is a little better than what I thought it was going to be, I am overall unimpressed. I realize that it is a beta, so not all the features and stuff are present, but I really would have liked to have at least been able to have seen how characters were customizable. One decision that really confounded me is that to get a ship you have to pick up a power-up token, you'll then have an animation to where your character radios in air support and your view switches to that of a tie or x-wing. It would have been way cooler if there had been a hangar that you could enter them through on one of those capital ships in the background. Another complaint is that there is no map or spawn point selection (this could be different for other modes, I was only able to play Walker Assault and the single player survival mode). Spawning is horrible! It is completely random and sometimes it chooses the worst place to spawn you, like in front of an AT-ST without any allies around. I don't really know how heroes work as I haven't got to play one yet, but they were easy to kill. I killed Luke and Vader the first time I saw both of them, Luke with blaster bolts and Vader with a thermal detonator while I distracted him with blaster fire (I'm probably the only asshole crazy enough to face Vader head on with a blaster and win). Based off of what I played, I feel like it should have been a digital title that charges $20 or $30 (this is funny, because the last attempt at a Battlefront game by LucasArts planned to do that: starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Wars:_First_Assault ). The fact that I feel like going back to playing Far Cry 4 (what I was playing before the beta finished downloading) is telling of my feelings on the game. The online, vehicle controls and blasterplay was all smooth though, I'll give it that. In summation: I wish we had got this game instead: (well we did, Battlefront: Elite Squadron, but I mean for consoles and not just the DS and PSP). Had to rub salt in the wounds with that old trailer. I saw surface to space footage and was so hyped for this game. Oh what could have been. Yep, that was the Alpha footage of it to boot. I can't help showing that trailer, I'm proud of the work that Pandemic did, even if we'll never get to play it  |
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