If that’s not enough worthiness for your Steam library, it’s also stupidly cheap as of writing (until May 7) at $3/£2, so picking up the base game is an inexpensive first step. While EA thinks about that (”don’t hold your breath,” says my Force-powered 8 ball), 2005’s Battlefront 2 still hosts a small but fiercely dedicated community and a legion of intricate mods. A smooth launch and low bug count wouldn’t hurt, but hey, we’re PC gamers-let’s toss modding support right on top of the pile. Ten years has been quite the wait.īeyond jetpacking Rebel rocket troopers and anti-aliased Endor tree bark lies a fleet of expectations. There's still months to go before DICE’s Frostbitten reboot of grand-scale Star Wars-fare hits monitors, but the (carefully choreographed) bits seen so far are exciting stirrings of trading hot laser, lightsaber, and explodey death in both familiar and new worlds.
