I will try to make this my last SW:BF2 post, but that said, it is the greatest. In "Campaign" or story mode (otherwise known as Reign of the Empire), and as a member of the 501st Battalion I have:
- Trained on Geonosis at the start of the Clone Wars from Episode II. Way cooler than the first Battlefront game.
- After enjoying the classic Star Wars title crawl, captured a component for the future Death Star's laser beam on that cool eerie snow and roads over nothingness planet during the beginning of the end of the Clone Wars.
- Fought crazy Episode II beasties and got to fight as the foxy blue Jedi Master on the freaky flower planet.
- Gotten my ass handed to me trying to get past a crazy space battle sequence ala Episode III. Crazy.
- Fought alongside Yoda on Chewbacca's planet in that crazy Episode III battle.
- Done the whole "kill General Greivous" thing.
- Stormed and destroyed the Jedi Temple as the new Darth Vader, and a bunch of Jedi.
- Crushed Naboo and assasinated the Queen who's been harboring fugitive Jedi.
- Put down a Droid rebellion, the last droid rebellion, on that Volcano Planet.
- Put down a Clone Trooper rebellion in the rain engineered by the albino cloners from Episode II. This was cool because it explained why the Stormtroopers from the original movies don't sound like Jango Fett (the Emperor had to use different clone samples to mix up the homogenized clone ranks). Groovy and crazy.
- Been rechistened a Stormtrooper of the Empire after the fall of the Republic, still in the 501 st, now called Vader's Fist. So much fun...
- Pacified a Rebel prison break on the Death Star in a sequence that takes that awesome set and matte paintings from that original masterpiece and renders them in 360 degree PS2 clarity. It blew my mind. Hard.
- Tracked the Death Star plans to a Rebel base on the planet where Luke and Leia are born and where Padme dies (sad), and destroyed the base. Harder.
- Eventually captured Princess Leia's Blockade Runner, put down the Rebels and the Princess. Taking her down was hard, even as the ruthless Darth Vader (in the suit!). Crazy detail oriented in the missions required to finish the board, and crazy hard.
- And after taking down some of the Yavin 4 fleeing Rebel fleet (for Hoth?) now I'm slogging on Yavin 4's surface trying to exact revenge for the destruction of the Death Star. Nuts.
This game is the bomb, the Star Wars sensory overload even more maxed out than the fine first Battlefront. Crazy fun, and I know there is more to go. Indeed, the fellows do love getting their destruction on, especially considering in one mode you can fight as either a Hero (Jedi, Han Solo, Leia, etc.) or Villain (Sith, Fetts, Grievous) in a bloodless bodycount free-for- all set to a swell soundtrack that includes some Star Wars nuggets disregarded as a result of the Special Editions.
I cannot get enough of it.
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