Star Wars Battlefront 3: 10 Ways To Make The Perfect Sequel
7. Greater Variety With Co-Op
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Co-op may not be a focus of the new Battlefront titles, but if you had the old games and weren't around for the early days of Xbox Live, it was basically what Battlefront was known for.
Teaming up with your buddies to coordinate a Galactic Conquest campaign was the absolute best, and made for all sorts of amazing stories to tell if you found yourself up against a decidedly tricky enemy force. Co-op was even brought back for the 2015 Battlefront reboot, but it was effectively just a horde mode with little depth, while the mode took years to come to Battlefront 2, by which point some sizeable improvements had been made.
Co-op did what it said on the tin for Battlefront 2, supplying players with an enjoyable if not repetitive experience for players to relive certain Star Wars battles, but it still lacked depth. It needed something more.
Intricate co-op modes are hard to come by these days, but something with a bit of narrative would go a long way. Same goes for a mode that wasn't just 'attack/defend' the objective. Give players something a little more intricate next time, and co-op could be a highlight, rather than just a neat diversion.
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.
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