Star Wars Battlefront 2 Beta: 4 Ups & 7 Downs
1. The Massively Improved Reward System
And finally, Battlefront 2 does a fantastic job of rectifying the first game's rather irritating reward system, whereby hero and vehicular pickups were just randomly found scattered around the map, granted more by luck than ability.
Thankfully BF2 changes this completely, as players will rack up points over the course of a round which can then be used to purchase heroes and vehicles to wreak havoc on the opposite team.
You can certainly argue that this means that the best players will simply get more tools to tear things up, but it's certainly more rewarding to gain control of Darth Maul because you've been ably playing the objective or racked up a huge killstreak, than because it just fell into your lap.
For everything Battlefront 2 seems to be doing wrong, at least EA and DICE have made a few smart choices. Now comes the waiting for the final consensus.
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