10 Reasons You're Wrong About Star Wars: Battlefront 2
2. The Actual Gameplay Is Really Enjoyable
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Battlefront II won't be making its way onto the competitive circuit anytime soon, but that doesn't make it any less compelling.
While DICE's other FPS series - Battlefield - boasts a greater level of depth and nuance in its multiplayer, the studio's Star Wars offering still manages to persist by capturing the sense of enormity as Battlefield does. You're meant to be a cog in the machine of a massive confrontation, so that by the time you do start influencing the battle, it feels particularly rewarding.
Yes, it may still have the same problem of players sitting at the back of the map with a sniper not playing the objective, but when it gels together, it is so much fun. Plus, with the addition of squad-based gameplay, Battlefront has finally made it easier for players to interact with their cohorts, coordinating little moments of genius to influence the cacophony of large-scale engagements.
If you love Star Wars, and have friends to play with, then you're going to really enjoy Battlefront's latest iteration. It's impossible not to.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
