STAR WARS Battlefront II

November 17, 2017ShooterESRB T

Available on

PC PlayStation 4 Xbox One

Genres

Shooter Adventure Action

Overview

About STAR WARS Battlefront II

Star Wars Battlefront II is a first- and third-person shooter set across all three eras of the Star Wars saga. Players engage in large-scale ground and space battles using class-based soldiers, reinforcements, vehicles, and iconic heroes or villains from the franchise. Multiplayer modes span maps drawn from locations across the films, while a single-player campaign follows an original story set between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens. The game launched in 2017 amid a major loot box controversy that led to the removal of microtransactions and a complete overhaul of its progression system, after which it received years of free content updates that substantially expanded its offerings.

Story setup

Iden Versio commands Inferno Squad, an elite Imperial special forces unit, during the final days of the Galactic Empire. After witnessing the destruction of the Death Star at the Battle of Endor, Iden receives orders to carry out Operation: Cinder, the Emperor's posthumous command to devastate loyal Imperial worlds as punishment for his death. When the operation targets her own homeworld of Vardos, Iden and her squadmate Del Meeko refuse to stand by while civilians are slaughtered, abandoning the Empire and defecting to the Rebel Alliance. Now fighting alongside the New Republic, Iden must confront her former allies, including her own father and the vengeful Gideon Hask, as the war races toward its conclusion at the Battle of Jakku.

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At a glance

Released: November 17, 2017
Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
Genres: Shooter, Adventure, Action
Play modes: Single Player, Multiplayer, Co-op, Local Couch Co-op
Age rating: ESRB T
Time to beat: ~8 hours
Multiplayer: By platform

Media

Screenshots

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Playtime

How long to beat

Player-reported completion times for STAR WARS Battlefront II.

Rushed: 5hoursMain story only
Typical: 8hoursStory plus some extras

Estimated from 5 player reports — a small sample, so treat these as approximate.

Playing together

Multiplayer by platform

How STAR WARS Battlefront II supports playing with other people, broken down per platform.

Multiplayer capabilities for STAR WARS Battlefront II by platform. Capabilities with no published information are marked "not documented".
Platform	Local	Online	LAN	Split-screen	Co-op campaign	Drop-in/out
Xbox One	Yes, up to 2 players	Yes, up to 40 players	No	No	No	No

Supported (a number is the player cap)
Not supported
Not documented for this platform

Content

Age ratings

How rating boards around the world have classified STAR WARS Battlefront II. Open a board for its content descriptors.

ACBM

CEROC

Violence

ESRBT

Violence

GRAC15+

Violence

PEGI16

Violence

Jump into the boots of an elite special forces soldier, equally lethal on the ground and in space, in a new Star Wars campaign that spans over 30 years and bridges events between the films Star Wars: Return of the Jedi and Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

USK16

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Coverage

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Best LAN Party Shooter Games for PC

#14

The spectacle is real. Watching a Star Destroyer come in during a Heroes vs Villains round on a big monitor at a LAN gets a reaction from people who weren't even playing. Instant Action mode with bots fills out sessions when you're short on warm bodies, and the controls are readable enough that non-shooter players can participate without embarrassing themselves. What keeps it out of the top ten is that it's more of a private-session approximation of LAN play than the genuine article. The setup involves EA infrastructure that adds friction, and the LAN practicality score reflects that. Fun crowd-pleaser though, especially for a Star Wars crowd.

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