[Review thread] Star Wars: Battlefront

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Chazore said:

Sixteenvolt420 said:
Needs single player to sell as well as they want it to.

And yet galactic conquest mode for the 501st was basically the same as regular conquest and sold well and COD is played more for it's MP than it's SP and mostly the same for Halo, Planetside, Planetside 2, TF2 and plenty more MP games. It's still going to sell well without SP like other MP only games have done before. SP games aren't the one type of games that sell a ton.

Would be totally nice if they did throw in an SP campaign or even an MP one but as things stand they are going with a simplistic MP approach to gain both the casual and dedicated crowds and it's working well so far.

That said I don't think it's worth paying £80+ for MP only content though, paying the standard £35-40 should be enough which is why I'm going to wait for a price cut like I did for Titanfall and other MP/SP games.

Mostly, perhaps. But a large proportion of Halo fans do like the campaign, the story, the characters, the lore. As you know I'm not an Xbox guy but I know quite a few Xbox fans and they are all Halo fans and they all play the SP campaign. And part of the reason Halo 5 seems to be doing poorly relative to past main sequence hHalo games is the disappointing SP campaign. Most reviews say the MP for Halo 5 is as good as Halo has ever been for MP, so it's not like the MP quality is holding it down.

Battlefront could have been a very interesting SPp campaign especially if they made you a character who starts out with no alignment and makes choices that lead them to either join the rebels or the empire, or even remained neutral or become an outlaw/mercenary/bounty hunter.

Fact of the matter is CoD is still the biggest selling FPS game, ever, and they still make an effort to put in a SP campaign. Why would they do that if they thought the games would sell as well and be more profitable without it? Activision and it's CoD minion studios know that an SP campaign helps with sales.