Star Wars: Battlefront - 10 Shocking Moments From The E3 Demo
8. Bots Are Back
Ah yes, another staple of the Battlefront of old. Bots are coming back for EA's reboot and it's a great thing to hear, especially since it holds major nostalgia factor for those who were raised on Battlefront back in 2004. The reason this feature is so significant is due to the fact that when Battlefront first dropped, the majority of players didn't have access to a high speed internet connection, nor could they care little for online play as it existed to begin with. Most got their fun from Battlefront playing split screen with a friend taking on dozens and dozens of bots rather than duking it out with players over X-Box Live. The decision to include bots is one made with old fans of the series in mind, and shows that offline play still has a place in a medium largely dominated by multiplayer combat.
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.
