Star Wars Battlefront DLC: 10 Specific Things Fans Demand
9. Space Battles
If there's anything DICE's reboot is missing, it's space battles. Sure, we may have the much loved Fighter Squadron mode to dabble around with for a few rounds, but its current state of unbalance combined with the fact there are only four ships to use (six if we count the Millennium Falcon and the Slave I) means that the mode is fast losing its appeal.
Taking this premise and propelling it into space would be just the remedy it needs to cement it as a mainstay in every player's playlist, especially if inspiration was taken from not just the films (Return of the Jedi's final space battle is begging for a game adaptation), but the old games as well. Sabotaging an enemy's capital ship was always great fun, and taking that experience to the current-gen would enthral fans both old and new. Taking into account Battlefront's efforts to invoke nostalgia it's rather odd space battles didn't actually ship with the game.
The trench run from the Death Star, the Falcon outmanoeuvring TIE Fighters in an asteroid belt, the opening to A New Hope - all of these are constantly cited as being among the best scenes of the original trilogy - it only makes sense to emulate them.
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.
