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Star Wars: Battlefront Preview

Joe "OuTkAsT-1" Topolnisky

2004-02-20 00:04:00.0


GamesRadar has kicked up a preview on LucasArts' upcoming action title, Star Wars: Battlefront. Here's a clipping:

Their willingness to experiment within the formula belies a canny eye for what works in multi-player gaming. In any online shooter, the chance to rise above the melee, whether it's in a WWII Spitfire in Battlefield 1942 or one of Halo's banshees, is a profoundly liberating experience. As is screaming out of the sun, hurling volley after volley of laser death into your fleeing opponents. But if vehicles are handled badly, it can be disastrous - just look at Counter-Strike's abysmal vehicles. Happily, Jim has it all worked out. "We're looking at each map and choosing which vehicles make most sense. Obviously, the X-Wing will be available on more than one map, but we're not going to stick it in every map. The jungles of Yavin is our smallest level, and it's really more of an infantry battle. Endor's an enormous forest, and not really appropriate to aircraft. You don't see them in the movies, and they wouldn't really work in the context of that map, flying above the trees. Endor's really all about the AT-STs and speeder bikes, whereas Tatooine is mostly desert, and it's dominated by X-Wings and TIE-Fighters."


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