Electronic Arts, DICE, and Criterion Games have announced that Star Wars: Battlefront II has officially gone gold.
This means the game’s development and code is finalized and ready to be put onto game discs, for distribution. Featured above, a new launch trailer was released to celebrate the games new development milestone.
Here’s a rundown on the game, via EA:
Embark on an endless Star Wars™ action experience from the best-selling Star Wars HD video game franchise of all time. Experience rich multiplayer battlegrounds across all 3 eras – prequel, classic and new trilogy – or rise as a new hero and discover an emotionally gripping single-player story spanning thirty years.
Customize and upgrade your heroes, starfighters or troopers – each with unique abilities to exploit in battle. Ride tauntauns or take control of tanks and speeders. Use the Force to prove your worth against iconic characters like Kylo Ren, Darth Maul or Han Solo, as you play a part in a gaming experience inspired by forty years of timeless Star Wars films.
Key Features:
- A new hero, a story untold. Jump into the boots of an elite special forces soldier in a powerful new Star Wars campaign that bridges events between the films Star Wars™: Return of the Jedi™ and Star Wars™: The Force Awakens™.
- The ultimate Star Wars™ battleground. Experience a multiplayer universe unmatched in variety and breadth. Up to forty players fight as iconic heroes and authentic-to-era troopers, and in a massive array of vehicles as battle rages through the galaxy.
- Galactic-scale space combat. Star Wars™ Battlefront™ II features a space combat system designed from the ground up with distinct handling, weapons and customisation options. You can pilot legendary starfighters in high-stakes dogfights with up to twenty-four players and forty AI ships.
- Better together. Earn rewards, customize your troopers and heroes and bring the upgrades you earn to the online multiplayer battleground.
- A reason to play every day. Each season brings fresh, new downloadable content, available to all players***. With exciting new locations, characters and quests, you can take part in a connected universe and be rewarded as an active member of the Star Wars: Battlefront II community.
- Master your hero. Create your own unique hero with customizable character progression. Equip ability modifiers to adapt and modify your character’s core powers to add lethal effects, helpful status boosts or tactical assistance to counter any opponent on the battlefront.
Star Wars Battlefront II is launching across PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on November 17th.
Madbrainbox
October 31, 2017 at 11:45 amFuck EA and their horrible fleecing practices.
Mr0303
October 31, 2017 at 1:33 pmAnd people thought that the prequels were the worst possible thing that could happen to Star Wars.
Neojames82
October 31, 2017 at 1:52 pmJust download Battlefront 2 (Classic), you’ll almost for sure have more fun than in this game…
Squirrel on crack cocaine.
October 31, 2017 at 2:18 pmEpisode 7 was crap, Rouge One was crap, Battlefront 2015 was crap, this will also be crap. I’m done with Star Wars for now and that includes the new film.
OldPalpy
October 31, 2017 at 2:32 pmThey’re utter shit but so inconsistent with the original films that’s easy to ignore them that isn’t so with this new trilogy where your favorite characters are brought back as old depressed losers who didn’t accomplish shit as everything repeats itself.
Captain Vidya
October 31, 2017 at 3:00 pmThe Force Awakens was worse for the series than the prequels almost purely because, while the prequels had midiclorians, at least the prequels didn’t make the character development of Han, Luke and Leia as well as the efforts of the rebellion in the original trilogy COMPLETELY MEANINGLESS. You might as well just go from the prequels right to the sequel trilogy.
And that doesn’t even begin to mention how terrible all the characters except Kylo are.
OldPalpy
October 31, 2017 at 3:09 pmBut those movies weren’t progressive enough so fuck em gotta replace em with a cheap clones that check off as many CURRENT YEAR boxes as possible while making sure to ruin the films that came before it.
TheOnceAndFutureKing
October 31, 2017 at 4:09 pmBesides the obvious SJW bullshit, it also seems like the writers/directors of these films completely forgot about interesting character development when they made Rey a Jedi Master with no character flaws or any kind of weakness whatsoever.
Mr0303
October 31, 2017 at 4:53 pmYup. The new ones are actually worse.
Mr0303
October 31, 2017 at 4:53 pmDon’t forget about MaRey Sue.
OldPalpy
October 31, 2017 at 5:11 pmOn top that being some Abrams mystery box bullshit that will probably never be explained it allowed them to create right out of the gate the most powerful and special SW protagonist ever who just happens to be female gee wiz I wonder why’d they do that :^).
Mr0303
October 31, 2017 at 5:57 pmFuck Disney for making it non-canon. It included some really important events like the destruction of the clones on Kamino.
Neojames82
October 31, 2017 at 6:28 pmYeah…hate that Disney pretty much axed the whole EU thing, it was a stupid move.
TsukuyomiMagi99
October 31, 2017 at 7:35 pmThanks EA, I actually had an interest in this game till you fucked it up.
TsukuyomiMagi99
October 31, 2017 at 7:40 pmThat was exactly my problem with The Farce Awakens. She was more tech savvy than Han cause reasons? Could master the force cause reasons? Could defeat a more experienced Sith cause reasons? Luke had to earn his status this mary sue bitch gets everything handed to her.
braneman
October 31, 2017 at 9:32 pmEA has an exclusive license for Star Wars games.
Tubsiwub
October 31, 2017 at 11:11 pmI’m confused as to why these aren’t Battlefront 3 and 4.
They aren’t remakes, as far as I can tell.
TheOnceAndFutureKing
November 1, 2017 at 12:42 amShe literally fixed the Millennium Falcon in a Fonzie style by just touching it, despite having 0 piloting experience, and she holds her own against a Sith Lord who has had years of training, while shes only held a lightsaber for a total of five minutes in her life. Her story arc is already complete, she is just a plot device now for action scenes.
Luke had to wait till the end of ROTJ until he could competently fight, and even then he wasn’t OP.
Madbrainbox
November 1, 2017 at 3:50 amBy doing that they also axed one of the best characters in SW: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/61dd614efc70adfc973a8c1a4d882f40df92e9d149dc87d0f898188517297047.jpg
bdp
November 1, 2017 at 9:40 amgoing gold doesn’t seem to mean anything anymore since damn near every game has a day 1 patch now
OldPalpy
November 1, 2017 at 2:07 pmAnd the space otter https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/dc4e3aeb13a66a137915e87a02bfbb0845242a42be5c93954ccc6f156450016c.jpg
JohnnyCageFan2
November 1, 2017 at 9:47 pmWhy is that bitch’s (it is a girl, right?) helmet so fucking big? She looks like a fucking bobble-head at the end of the video.
OldPalpy
November 1, 2017 at 11:04 pmChrist you aren’t kidding it’s terrible, it’s like they didn’t bother to scale the helmet to her head it’s either that or they just make it freakishly huge so there is no chance of the head clipping through during animations like that.
LibidinBoy
November 2, 2017 at 10:21 amLet me introduce you to her father
http://screeninvasion.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/spaceballs-darkhelmet.jpeg
ProxyDoug
November 2, 2017 at 11:19 amReminds me of a script made by a fan of a 4th Matrix film in which was revealed that in reality, the machines were put into a Matrix of their own to prevent them from destroying mankind, which. I thought that was the line no new writer should cross, you should never disrespect what gives gravitas to your universe.
JohnnyCageFan2
November 3, 2017 at 12:35 pmHah, never considered EA to be lazy with graphics. Here I thought it was just a poor design choice. Makes me wanna know now what she put on her head during the mo-cap sessions.