The campaign in SW:BF2 has very high production values вЂ“ great graphics and music and voice work, like youвЂ™re watching and playing in a Star Wars movie. SW:BF2 has a campaign what begins as a glorious campaign. As an old timey gamer, IвЂ™m fascinated by the way games were all about the single player campaign way back when, but then gradually the single player campaigns were phased out in favor of multiplayer, at one point resulting in a number of games with little or no single player content at all, and now it seems to be phasing back in again. Unlike the previous Battlefront, SW:BF2 has a single player campaign. IвЂ™ll finally add that IвЂ™m over 500 words into this review, and have yet to mention one word about how the game actually plays. So my best-laid plan of avoiding any press about Star Wars Battlefront 2 was wrecked before I even got the game installed on my hard drive, and that press was not kind, and I canвЂ™t uncook that egg (or put that toothpaste back into the tube, or whatever home-spun homily you would care to apply) and put my brain back into a state before I had heard everything IвЂ™ve heard about the game. The very thing I mentioned fearing in my most recent Call of Duty game review, and EA has already gone and done it. To their detriment, they somehow felt that $60 for a game was not enough that they wanted to also fleece gamers with a universe of microtransactions (some of which were not very micro) вЂ“ an accusation that has been levied against EA in the past if IвЂ™m not mistaken. To EAвЂ™s credit, they have been quick to respond to such complaints, both reducing the amount of grinding necessary to get the best upgrades and removing the entire real world money side of the game, though they say (warn) that they will be bringing it back at some point in the unspecified future. There was also something about loot crates maybe (or maybe not) providing powerful upgrades, which (again due to the real world money thing) resulted in the Belgian (or maybe Brazilian, or perhaps Belarusian вЂ“ one of those вЂBвЂ™ countries) government to declare it unregulated gambling.

That last bit about the real world money naturally resulted in howls about players paying to win, providing a new layer of inequality to an existence that perhaps has enough income inequality built into it already. Battlefront 2 has further complicated my life by allowing players to purchase upgrades either through an apparently stupendous amount of grinding or with real world money. In a related note, wow, my friends cannot spell. I also have a lot of friends who are gamers, who send me quick chat comments like вЂњThe nu Star Wars game sux donkey ballz!!!вЂќ even if I ask them not to. Game reviews are everywhere on even regular news sites, often with spoiler-y, unclever headlines like вЂњNew Star Wars game fails to use the forceвЂќ (Thank you, CNN.com). Simply avoiding game review sites is no longer good enough. You had to actually go to the trouble of connecting to the interwebs with a dial up modem to actively seek out other gamer opinions. In the early days of gaming, this was pretty easy. I should probably begin by saying that, as a rule, I try and avoid reading any reviews or engaging with other gamers or looking at forums where I might come across game comments which could influence my review.

The Ugly: Ridiculously imbalanced multiplayer games. The Bad: Campaign is short and narratively awkward. The Good: Authentic Star War-zy graphics and sound.

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