14 Things We Learned From Gamescom 2017

10. Star Wars Battlefront II's Starfighter Assault Looks Awesome

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After 2015's Battlefront didn't quite serve up the aerial mayhem Star Wars fans were craving with its fairly lackluster Fighter Squadron mode, Battlefront II clearly aims to rectify this with a far more involved mode called Starfighter Assault.

Gameplay footage and impressions out of Gamescom suggest that Burnout developer Criterion Games has done a fantastic job developing this portion of the game, a more comprehensive, objective-based starfighter mode that likely won't be abandoned quite as fast as Fighter Squadron was.

It seems that EA has listened to those vocal complaints about the "original" Battlefront's scarcity of content, and looks set to deliver a package bursting at the seams.

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