The Force Is Strong With This One

I picked up Star Wars: Battlefront II this weekend. It was on sale because of May the 4th, though it looks like EA may be writing the game off as a loss and moving on. Which is a shame, because so far it looks like a stellar game. I had stayed away when it launched because I had been kind of turned off by the multiplayer only aspect of Battlefront I. Not the fact that it was multiplayer only, but that the shooter itself wasn’t quite what I wanted. I had trouble shooting, figuring out whether or not I should be using first or third person, and other problems with the core game itself. I haven’t tried the multiplayer in Battlefront II yet, just the Arcade mode while the game was loading, and then the first couple of missions in the single-player campaign mode.

Strangely enough, I’ve been rewatching the movies lately, in a run-up to watching The Last Jedi again. I started with Rogue One, which led nicely into A New Hope and had just the night before finished Return of the Jedi. The campaign in Battlefront II starts with the Battle of Endor at the end of Return of the Jedi, so I feel like I’m playing a part in the story that I’ve been watching so far.

This time around, I found Rogue One to be a much more pleasant lead-in to the original movies. I don’t really like the prequels. I come from a generation where Star Wars meant the first movie in the series. We didn’t start calling it A New Hope until it became the fourth movie. There was so much of the past of those original three movies that was left unsaid, and we filled it in with out imaginations. I don’t think the prequels ever had a chance to stand up to the worlds we had built in the twenty some odd years since the original was released.