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SEE RETAILER SITE FOR DETAILS.There are lessons of brilliance in Star Wars Battlefront 2, not just the dramaFeb 3, 2021 - EurogamerStar Wars Battlefront 2, it turns out, is really quite good. I've been playing - the new one, this is - a little obsessively over the last week, an obsession launched about three-and-a-bit years too late as far as poor DICE is probably concerned, and one which I feel a little guilty about, not least because I got it for free. Battlefront 2 was handed out for free for about a week on the Epic Games store in January, you see, and it's also bundled in with a Game Pass Ultimate subscription, thanks to the recent inclusion of EA Play with that, too. The result has been a late, but seemingly quite sustained second wind. Servers are full, and quite nicely balanced, with the end-of-round scoresheets showing everything from max-level players with 60-plus kills to low-level newbies holding their own. On PC at least, people are quite chatty, via the in-game feed, in that very Battlefield kind of way, and unlike Battlefield it's quite chill, as far as multiplayer shooters go - because Battlefront 2 is quite a chilled game. "Quite good" and "quite chilled" - I feel like I'm underselling it. Battlefront 2 is ace. It's a proper just-how-I-remembered-it job, building the big, headliner multiplayer matches around the beats of silliness and exaggeration: choke points, rockets, obscene amounts of lasers. Total, joyous, balanced carnage. There's a trick borrowed from an unexpected source here, in the way Battlefront 2 is set up to win you over not with nostalgia, which can be cheap, but by evoking actual, specific memories or specific emotions you last had in childhood. It's all about recreating the schoolyard role-playing games you might have played, the silly felt-tip drawings of massive, droid-army battles, the fantasies of heroism, inspired most vividly by the prequels, purposefully childish themselves. This is Hitchcock. For him it was using tricks of light and shadow to make some fear come to life, like the innocuous toy on the bedroom dresser that seemed so spooky in the night. Or it was using the conceits of plot to mimic the thrills of hide and seek. Using the grand, imaginative fear of the unknown. It's not the same, obviously - but also it kind of is. It's the same trick, used another way, and it works. Hitchcock! In Star Wars Battlefront 2! Read more EA forging ahead with Star Wars titles despite end of exclusivity dealFeb 3, 2021 - EurogamerA few weeks ago we heard that after a long, long period of Star Wars games being made exclusively by EA, Ubisoft studio Massive Entertainment is working on an open-world Star Wars title, signalling that EA's 10-year exclusivity deal with Disney will not be extended. Despite this, it seems EA still has a number of Star Wars projects in the pipeline - and has no intention of slowing down. In an earnings call last night, CEO Andrew Wilson said EA's Star Wars titles had made "over $3bn (£2.2bn) in net bookings" and had sold a total of 52m copies. Mobile game Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes is a franchise worth $1bn (£733m) alone, and Wilson highlighted that EA had created a portfolio of other successful Star Wars titles including "Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic ... Battlefront, Jedi: Fallen Order and most recently, Squadrons. "As we've established the very strong part of that franchise, you should expect that we will continue to invest in those as well as some new experiences across platforms for the future," Wilson said. "...I don't think you should imagine that the fact that some other people will build some Star Wars games is going to change our commitment to that IP or our ability to build the appropriate number of games." Read more Star Wars Battlefront 2 servers are still struggling with an influx of new players courtesy of Epic's giveawayJan 17, 2021 - EurogamerUPDATE 26/1/21: 19 million players took advantage of Star Wars Battlefront 2's Epic Games Store promotion, EA revealed last night. No wonder those servers struggled. We don't always hear how well an Epic Games Store freebie has done - but it's likely EA will be pleased by these numbers. Here's hoping these new recruits help fill the game's multiplayer lobbies for the foreseeable future. "Thank you so much for the continued support, even after our final content drop!" EA wrote. "We'll watch your careers with great interest!" Read more Star Wars Battlefront 2 is next week's Epic Store freebieJan 7, 2021 - EurogamerEpic Store's weekly video game freebies keep on coming, and next up is DICE's space shooter Star Wars Battlefront 2, which will be free to download starting Thursday, 14th January. Star Wars Battlefront 2's highly anticipated launch in 2017 was, of course, forever tainted by the controversy surrounding its pay-to-win monetisation and loot box systems - both so roundly criticised that publisher EA and DICE ultimately reversed course, dramatically reworking the game's progression system and shifting to cosmetic-only microtransactions instead. With those changes complete, it was far easier to appreciate the strengths of DICE's shooter, which, as Eurogamer's Martin Robinson pointed out in his initial review, was always capable of some genuinely dazzling moments of action, despite its unnecessary fussiness. "When it clicks into place...there's nothing quite like it," he wrote, "and all the drama and dubious decisions made elsewhere shouldn't eclipse DICE's often incredible achievements". Read more These Star Wars games are 60% off for Xbox and PC playersDec 15, 2020 - EurogamerThe EA Star Wars Triple Bundle is here, and it's down from £90 to just £36 if you're buying on the Microsoft Store. It comes with Star Wars: Squadrons, Jedi: Fallen Order and Battlefront 2, as well as special upgrades for the latter two. The three games offer distinctly different takes on the Star Wars experience. Squadrons is all about space fighter combat, Fallen Order is about being a lone jedi roaming the galaxy, and Battlefront 2 is about being one soldier among many in vast battles. Something for every kind of Star Wars fan, at least until somebody makes a Cantina management sim with optional arm dispensary. What with these games being linked to your Microsoft account, it means you'll be able to play them both on a PC or on your Xbox, assuming your account is linked to both. Not only that, but all these games will work fine on both the Xbox One and Series X/S! And if you're still interested in getting the latter, don't worry - we've got all the available stock and discounts on Xbox Series X/S right here! Read more New Battlefield game will arrive next holiday "with never before seen scale"Nov 6, 2020 - EurogamerI know what you're sat there thinking: when is the new Battlefield game coming out? Oh you weren't? Well nevermind, you're here now. The new Battlefield game is coming out in holiday 2021, also known as the Christmas shopping period, which probably means November. "DICE is creating our next Battlefield game with never before seen scale," said CEO Andrew Wilson during an earnings call overnight (transcript by Seeking Alpha). Read more Put a Conquest Mode in everythingJun 20, 2020 - EurogamerConquest Modes, I truly believe, are the best thing to almost happen to video games. There was a weird, brief time when it looked like they might happen around 2005, seemingly off the back of a wave of appreciation for Total War, when they started popping up in everything from other RTS games to the original Star Wars Battlefront 2. But then - poof! - gone. I would very much like them to come back. It's taken me a while to realise but conquest modes are often the secret ingredient to some of my most beloved games, home to my most beloved pre-adolescent memories. Not to be confused with the tickets-and-control-points Conquest mode in Battlefield, which is fun but not what I'm on about, the conquest mode I'm talking about is where you get a big, often slightly silly layer over the top of the "actual" game itself, in the form of a map with regions or planets or whatever that you strategize over capturing, and fight over down on the real-time ground itself. A metagame, if we must use that word: a driving, continuous reason to keep playing the game, but essentially one that is also a game itself, as opposed to just a path of XP unlocks or a paid-for pass. A favourite of mine - if we're excluding Total War, which is sort what you get if you make an entire series of conquest modes, where the mode itself is fleshed-out and maximised to its logical conclusion - is the one that came in the Dawn of War: Dark Crusade expansion, which frankly had no right to be so good. The story here, if you chose the Space Marines, is that you've landed on some xeno planet and just about every other intergalactic race (there are seven of them) just happens to show up as well. If you play as the Necrons, it's a bunch of rowdy neighbours moving in and waking you up. If you're the Tau then apparently you think this planet's yours. Everyone's here, basically. Orks! Imperial Guard! Chaos! More! For some time since, quoting the hyper-committed narrator's "...and then the Eldar came!" has been a running joke with friends. Read more