Star Wars Battlefront Beta Discussion Thread [Rate the beta]

[Nate4Drake]

^{Star Wars Battlefront feels like a PS2 game, in the best way possible.}

 

"The first day with a game is often the best day with a game.

It’s the honeymoon period, a time when things you’ll soon take for granted look dazzling and new. It’s also a dangerous time. Trying to form a meaningful impression without much experience is like entering a hive filled with scum and villainy. You have to be on your guard.

Still, my first few hours with Battlefront’s multiplayer beta on PlayStation 4 left me supremely impressed. This game is stunning. Yes, I know that my eyes can deceive me, that I shouldn't trust them. But dang. In 2015, developer EA DICE knows how to make a gorgeous game on the PS4.

I noticed the attention to detail first. The way weak Stormtroopers fumbled around and fell after a few shots from my blaster, just like they should. There's Admiral Ackbar’s ship in the skybox, just like it was in Return of the Jedi. And the way the snow on Hoth sparkled as I ran through it legitimately made me smile.

I kept noticing it all, impressed by the level of detail. I swear, at one point, a Stormtrooper I was shooting stumbled and fell in a way that felt so familiar to me that the animation must have been cribbed from a movie. EA DICE’s Frostbite engine powers Battlefront, just as it powers the developer’s Battlefield series. It does the universe graphical justice in a way this longtime fan of the galaxy far, far away has been fantasizing about for what must be decades.

Battlefront, I imagine, is what happens when people like me who grew up loving Star Wars get to make their contribution to the universe.

Star Wars Battlefront’s multiplayer beta contains the thinnest of slices of the final game, and it’s too dangerous to extrapolate from my first few hours how much I’ll enjoy the full experience.

I can’t imagine that I’ll get tired of looking at it, though."

http://www.polygon.com/2015/10/7/9471805/star-wars-battlefront-beta-impressions-preview

Can't wait my friends !