It has been close to five years since the controversial Star Wars Battlefront 2 launched on PS4. Back in November 2017, all that was to be said of this fun multiplayer shooter was that it was an unbalanced mess, marred by the intrusive inclusion of microtransactions and pay to win elements. It sprouted the ongoing gambling debate, and while EA was quick to remove or mute most of its controversial aspects, the damage had already been done.
If you haven’t touched Battlefront 2 since those fabled days, you would be forgiven for thinking it remained that way. After all, there wasn’t much of a spotlight on the title, outside of some concurrent tie-ins with the then-running trilogy of Star Wars sequels. However, across the span of three years, Battlefront 2 went on to receive 25 free content updates, including new maps, modes, and characters.
We’ve been checking out Battlefront 2 this week to ask whether the game is worth playing in 2022 — and if there is anyone to play with. You can check out our full thoughts over on the Push Square YouTube channel.
In it we also discuss the potential of a sequel. EA has put a considerable amount of effort into keeping its videogame interpretations of Star Wars alive, with Respawn’s Star Wars Jedi Survivor only just revealed. Would you like to see Battlefront 3? What do you think of Battlefront 2 in its current form? Let us know down in the comments!
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I supported the game since the start, and it only got better, specially with the reimagined progression system. Lot's of amazing content. When Dice stopped releasing updates, the game was in a very fulfilling state, with a staggering amount of characters, stages, modes... I'm a huge Star Wars fan, and I played this game to death.
Only stopped when I moved on to others of my backlog, but I still see people playing it in my friends list.
Just recently started playing with a few friends and been having a blast, I don't care about the SW IP but the gunplay in this game is really fun, a whole lot better than what I expected it to be.
Will dig it out and give it another go.
My most played game on playstation. I play many other games,but always come back to this for a few rounds of heros vs villains. I'm average at best, but it is quite fun. I dont use the exploits like some, but many others don't either. It is also not toxic like many can become. There are a few bad apples of course, but they are few and if too bad you can always jump to another battle. I rarely play the other modes. They really did a great job of improving everything since the beginning. I would love another. I can only imagine what they could do on ps5.
CO OP mode is tone of fun, i wish they made space fight with co op.
I have the game digital and i play few matches every month, i can't live without hearing blaster and tie fighter.
Played it a bit last year and it was alright.
There was a bug in multiplayer where some games, no one would be able to do damage to the enemy team, so everyone was just running around shooting in the air. Maybe they've fixed it by now?
I dropped it after the release the fixed it but i didnt care anymore. For me its a lot easier because i dont have special feelings towards the Star Wars.
Very much worth it even if you play solo as Instant Action is a thing in it for solo players. You can get it dead cheap now and the pack that contains all the skins is always on offer.
Battlefront 2 is excellent. I enjoyed it so much to the point I had to max it out not just on ps4 but pc and xbox also.
I haaaaaaaaaaaaaated DICE's first Battlefront, and avoided BF2 at release, but ended up getting it free on EGS last year and gave it a shot and was so, so glad I did. I still don't like that it doesn't have ADS, but once I got used to that I had an absolute blast with it. It's a real shame they had to launch with so many issues and a truly disgusting microtransaction scheme, because underneath all the crap is a really, really great Star Wars game.
Some of my favorite battles in H vs V is when without talking everyone figures out to pause and just 1v1 and take turns as people watch. Quite fun and friendly
After FFXIV and Destiny, this is probably my most played game. I hope somebody will take up the challenge to give us a BF3, now that anybody can develop Star Wars games.
Behave. Battlefront 2 has been worth it for years.
lol seriously even if i won the lottery i would not sign up to a live service game. 😂
It’s the best Star Wars single player I’ve played. It was short though and in reality not even that good it’s just with Star Wars games the bar is very low
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