Guys, I get it: Sheev is from Naboo. It's important to him for all zero of those scenes after Phantom Menace where he goes there. I didn't propose blowing up the planet, just the palace where the rebels are located.
sheev WAS on Naboo in Phantom Menace, just right at the end most likely as a formality when the humans and gungans make peace with each other and he makes moves on keeping an eye on Anakin
When I was a kid, my friend and I would sit at the back of the map and let all our AI drain our tickets. After that the enemy would come for our last capture point and we would sit back there and pretend we were having some amazing stand off for the planet. Good times man, good times.
@@Flint_Inferno I started playing this game solo long ago and its on prof those games where if you just sit down with h a group of friends and take five Minutes you can come up with all kinds of crazy stuff to do.
I would purposely play CTF with my brother (same team) on Polis Masa so both sides have infinite spawns. Then we would trap ourselves with the flag by the ammo and health droid in the vehicle bay and spam grenades down the hallway killing anything that moved till we were over run. We would get so many friendly and enemy kills that the kill counter count would reset to zero. This would go on for hours. I miss it a lot.
Trust me. Pick Hunt. Pick Endor. Make max reinforcements and no time limit. My god it'll be so many grenades every where you'll develop PTSD, of laughter!
@LoveSosaJay I always had my father to play BF2 with back in the day, ugh it was SOOO much fun it was one of our favorite games to play together the other being CoD WaW
"The AI is bad" That's an understatement. I once couldn't find any of my allies anywhere. Curious, I gave up the fight and searched for them. One guy runs past me, followed by a stream of others. "follow me, I know a shortcut!", he says. He runs to the room with a giant pit in the death star, jumps, and dies. I stand there and watch as a stream of troopers follows right behind him. I probably still have the screenshot somewhere.
I had the same suicide troopers on the Death Star map. It almost softblocked me from completing the campaign because my units decreased so much by jumping off.
i remember the maps being much bigger on the ps2. They probably felt that way because i paid attention to every pixel tried explored the entire map. memories.
Galactic Conquest is a fantastic idea. I still play it regularly to this day and it kills me that DICE didn’t revisit this. A modern day touch-up of this concept with online play would be great.
DICES new battlefront also doesn’t have enough maps for it The original barely had enough maps for galactic conquest But the new ones maps were built asymmetrically Also the space battles in the original would be the same place with a different planet that was probably the same Image in a different color Meanwhile the news ones are hand crafted to make it possible to weave through the stilts of kamino Performing the trench run on fondor And going straight through the ship in the Unkown regions I like the maps but there’s only 2 No more no less Offense and defense
I really miss Galactic Conquest and am disappointed that DICE didn't bring it back for their Battlefront games, but at least i can always play it on classic Battlefront 2.
I remember playing pvp irl on my console. That was a lot of fun. A real slog because both of you are smart enough to buy multiple fleets and spam fortify reinforcements.
I'll never forget my first battle on Hoth. Being able to hop in a snowspeeder and attack the giant AT-ATs head-on; so freaking cool. Made me feel like I was actually playing the movies. Will always hold a place in my heart.
It’s such a well done map for the time imo. Brutally hard on either side, lots of room for creativity (snowspeeder capture of the imperial outpost) and lots of set piece, trench assault battles contesting each Control Point, with an awesome variety of vehicles. Moreover, if you lose certain CPs the mission can become unwinnable increasing the stakes in each fight.
Same man. My dad took me to bestbuy and there was a star wars bf 1 setup for the ps2. The Hoth level was already there and I was rebels and I immediately hopped into the snowspeeder and eventually crashed into the AT-AT. That shit was so awesome. Later he bought me a ps2 and the game and spent most of my time until highschool playing bf1 and bf2.
Me and my older brother would get in one together, he would fly and I manned the harpoon gun. The first time we wrapped an AT-AT was the coolest thing I could have imagined.
@Spoods Noodle Doodles no it’s your copilot. As soon as you leave the shuttle, the copilot is moved to the pilot seat. What you need to do is take off and land multiple times. It will force all passengers and crew to leave the ship.
The Bothans were terrifying in that game. Imagine an invisible foe vaporizing the hell out of you, while you can't even run away as the screen turns red.
My brother would always play as this class. I still have the sound of "bububababubububububababubaba--auuuugghhhh" stuck in my head from the OG Xbox days.
How did the devs think space battles weren't good? They're literally the best! Flying into an enemy command ship, sneaking around and trying to destroy the shields from the inside and fighting your way out by stealing an enemy ship and booking it back to your command ship. So much fun
I've never been a fan of them, and its easy to imagine having these portions of the game skippable in the story mode was for the folks who didnt like that gameplay as much.
I remember when my brothers and I, when we were still little kids, found a way to walk outside of the ships. It required pretty precise landed of any given fighter/bomber/mobile base halfway inside and outside of the ship's hangar. You know you did it right when you hop out of the vehicle and you're on the outside of the shield. Course, if you jumped off the ship you were dead af. But you could still walk on the bottom rim of the ship, and if you timed it right and hit just the right spot, you could get onto the other ships (I think this was dependent on the map).
I'm surprised you didn't mention the fourth strategy for space battles and my personal favorite: manning the guns of your battleship. This game is one of the very few that offers that authentic space battle experience of taking a small part of a dynamic system.
One extremely cheesy way to win every space battle in Galactic Conquest was the sabotage bonus. Every single enemy ship starts out the hangar hamstrung and burning which pretty much ensures your AI will curb-stomp the match every single time.
I like to use supply bonus since it allows you to start with 7 time bombs every time you spawn, which is enough for the shields and then either the life support or engines while you're inside
I remember the morning my parents called me into their room and my local news was talking about the game and it's release date talking about how the graphics have improved and the scale of the game hyping it up further, it was the coolest thing I ever saw growing up that my news was hyping a game for me. My parents surprised me with the game the day it came out, and even to this day it is one of my favorite memories from growing up in an anti game area with anti game parents, the love of the franchise let them see why I loved playing the games and my dad even joined in some in split screen. GOOD TIMES!!
I loved this game as a kid. You could literally do anything in the game and feel like you were making an impact for your team. So many different roles/strategies.
The beginning of the Tantive IV mission always gives me a laugh because you lose like half of your troops in the first 10 seconds because like 30 grenades get tossed inside the starting room
Yeah. Killed me many times. In fact, there was no choice. Either you go forward, get outgunned & killed. Or you stay put & get blown by thermal detonator. Great odds.
I mean, the attacker is always in a weaker position and takes heavier losses, because the defender can prepare defensive positions with heavy firepower - to spam grenades on close enemy formations is quite logical from the rebels perspective.
0:03 That 1 second of music was all I needed to remember the entire first 501st entry. "My first day as a member of the 501st....it was hot, it was sandy, chaotic. Nothing at all like the simulations on Kamino. Of course that's pretty much the way it was for all of us, wasn't it? All that breeding, all those years of training. It doesn't really prepare you for all the screaming or the blood, does it? Frankly, I'm still amazed we ever made it through the first hour, never mind the first day."
What I remember about battlefront 2 is... is how epic it was. During the release of the final star wars film, a game called battlefront 2 was discreetly released on ps2. It was a beautiful time. We all remember how it was, the instant action, playing as our favorite heroes or villains, witnessing the end of the republic through the eyes of the 501st. Are there any doubts this was the prime of star wars gaming? Perhaps, but no one has said a word against that idea. Not when 2005 came, not when revenge of the sith released, and not when we booted up battlefront 2 for the first time. Not a word.
I think water levels have some of the best maps in games on occasion. But I get what you are saying and I agree in some games they can be frustrating to no end.
Dagobah sucks but I found the perfect strategy to doing really really well. There's a tree with a health and ammo droid next to it and you can just use it as cover and kill all the enemies swarming point 3. Still have a screenshot from when I has 102 kills and 0 deaths
Dagobah sucks in singleplayer but its my personal favourite map in multiplayer. The price for the worst map in the game has to go to Polis Massa. Its called meat grinder for a reason.
@@EddieMorphling I know this might sound weird but I both dreaded yet loved Dagobah and Polis Massa. I lost on those 2 levels more than all others combined yet I couldn't help but feel amped whenever I won. The hallways and outside sections of Polis Massa were death traps and the water and tunnel command posts on Dagobah were suicide yet holding them required me to play differently than I usually did.
I know a bunch of people who really liked being super overpowered in SWBF2, but I always liked the idea that I was just an insignificant trooper on a battlefield way bigger than I would ever be. Biggest problem I had was the 300 kills at the end of the game.
Same here. Most of the time played as an ordinary trooper with rifle & 3 grenades in a pocket, ended up with at least 20+ kills in each battle and rank of major in a profile. 😂
I much prefer games where it's not a power fantasy, but sadly all new games are power fantasies and the old ones that tried not to be had such bad AI that it was too easy
Funny, I remember not being that good at the game, but feeling like I was not alone and that despite my poor skills I could still actually have a chance at winning the game were what did it for me. Hearing all this stuff about it being a power fantasy didn't make too much sense.
11:39 One of the weaker heroes? Not on that map. See, blaster bolts cannot penetrate the surface of water. But, lightsabers work perfectly well underwater. Since yoda is so short, he can crouch under the water and become untouchable by anything but grenades. Then, he can just kill any droids who pass through the water. If none happen to come in, he can use Force Pull to bring them to him.
Yeah Yoda is one of the best units against regular infantry and one of the worst against other Hero units universally. The map doesn't play a huge role in that imo
i remember having this for ps2 and playing it so much that Temuera's in game audio broke and would get stuck a few seconds in so everytime i played the campaign i would just hear "troopa" over and over for like half a minute at a time. I still have the copy just to show people im not crazy, fantastic game. 10/10
@@jessefrantsen4185 I didnt know this could happen, but explains so much from my childhood. I had to buy two copies of Star Wars Lego 1, Nickelodeon: Battle for Volcano Island (Or Something like that), and Simpsons: Road Rage, and I never knew why or really thought about it til know. Drunk mind blown.
I remember a copy of WWE Smackdown 2 I had on ps1, I dropped the game taking it to a friends house, and the disc came out and landed on the road. After that, none of the sound in the entire game would work anymore, but the rest of the game works absolutely fine.
Yes, the cover nodes were part of the map, as a level designer on the game I can attest to that. The node was placeable by the level designer, and had range of attraction, direction to face, kneel or stand, weapon, time to stay and direction to leave in. All weighted, so there was some randomness. I personally placed 750 nodes on Endor, 4 on every tree and cover, to face at least four directions and have the right stance for the direction faced.
Hi! Big fan of literally anyone who worked on this and the original Battlefront game. Just wanted to say you and the rest of the Pandemic team are responsible for some of my generations greatest memories playing video games in our childhood. I still play the game to this day, and still find it one of the most enjoyable and replayable experiences in gaming. Are there any other development insights that a level designer might be able to share here?
@@_draxin_0514 Thanks! There are lots of things that are important in level design, but continuing on the subject of cover I mentioned, one thing that is super important in shooters is the synchronization of terrain heights and player character height (in games with explicit cover, as opposed to run and gun games). In games with cover systems, there is normally a set 'half' cover height (you shoot over) that either the normal crouched gunline can shoot over, or the pop up gun line can do the same over the cover (if there is an explicit shoot from cover command). There is also standing cover that behaves the same, except you don't crouch. So there is normally three cover types, crouching, standing and 'round the corner' (at edge of the wall or half cover). It is possible to tie the crouch height to the terrain you are in cover with, allowing variable half cover heights, but most games tend to have a standard cover heights for terrain, and also the player character tends to have the same height when standing and crouching to better mesh with this. The Division 2 has a really well developed system of cover, with an explicit 'go into cover' command, with a lot of control options to fine tune the behavior, and the ability to move along a cover line, and pop up or around with a lot of precision; I really like the implementation. Different game do it differently, but what I mentioned above still holds true to a large extent. The art is where the cover is placed, the distance between covers, and the fire lanes it creates. I'm sure this is well known to most and yourself, but it's worth thinking about and exploring the idea and mechanics of cover, and it can be helpful in playing certain games better as you can deduct this design principle rather easily when you are looking for it.
It is my imagination, or did the AI actually did destroy them with the tow cables in the first Battlefront? I have the visual image of seeing the AI do it, but it can be my imagination playing tricks on me.
@@alberum8442 No, they actually did with pretty good precision too. When they did, you'd have to aim down and pray you can hit them good timing with the main guns or bye bye AT-AT
@@BPKPhoenix Thanks! I barelly remember a lot from the Battlefront games. I remember that I enjoyed them, and some experiences, but again, a lot of time has passed and I am unsure of some things I remember.
When I was younger, I loved playing this to the point I gained over a thousand awards in several areas just so that I could have the beam rifle and auto-repair on vehicles among other things any time I wanted. Super fun times. I still miss those times.
I recently bought this game on steam out of nostalgia and ended up playing it all the way through (even getting legendary on all my career medals) 3 times in a few months. This game is one of my favorite single player games of all time.
It's crazy how games from my childhood with graphics that "aren't so great" looked life-like to me as a kid. This game holds so many memories of Mos Eisley Heros vs Villains with friends at 1 in the morning
Not really as much. Graphics can't get much better really. I'm sure the numbers can go up by infinity but for us since the 360 it's not become much better
My older brother had this game when I was like 5 and every time he was done, I’d make my own save, and I’d play galactic conquest till 2 am, there was one day I actually played till the morning and I got yelled at but I was so happy that I won like 3 times and felt so powerful when I was the clones. I thought they were always the good guys when watching the movies so I felt like I was untouchable. This was my childhood and I recently bought the game on my Xbox because we had it on the ps2, it was worth the nostalgia trip.
Playing up-to-4-player couch multiplayer with the XBox version of this game is one of my fondest nostalgic videogaming memories. What an absolute blast of a party game. How we managed to play a 4 way split-screen shooter at RCA-cable standard definition on maybe a 35" TV is a mystery to modern me, but never seemed to be a problem as a kid.
@@buschtrout1499 if you have 2 xboxes yes! If you have more you can go even further to 16 players. Max 4 players per console, but you could even do 16 xboxes so everyone has it's own screen (no splitscreen).
Fuckin' ay it's a power fantasy. Controlling Vader while plugwalking through Echo Base while his soundtrack is playing can be construed as nothing BUT a power fantasy.
Jesus Christ you’ve unlocked some next level nostalgia in the deepest recesses of my mind. From the menu SFX going ‘boopaloop’ when selecting an option to the way the super battle droids flip when you twat them with a lightsaber
The reason the cell block riot was an embarrassment was because elite shock troops let the Operational Security of the most important weapons platform in the Empire get breached by unarmed prisoners, with their 'success' being killing the escaping Jedi who had previously been captured, destroying one of the few remaining sources of Jedi knowledge available to the Sith when fixing their screw up. Also, the Narrator didn't retire before Endor, the implication is that Endor retired him...
Just remembering the intense levels you had to play at to win as the empire on Dagobah. Like some next level aggression. Also on Polis Masa needing to be some sort of SOE operative drop behind enemy lines if you were to have a chance of kicking the rebels off that rock
Yeah there were some serious palm sweating choke points on that level where you had very little time to clear and push forward before the next wave came.
You can't set up a puppet government in Theed if you orbitally bombard Theed. Plus, it's Palpatine's home. He probably wants the place looking as clean as possible. He's not gone full Operation Cinder yet.... or ever. Because that was a new canon plot point.
Me and my friends played this a ton back in the day. I still remember the time on Dagobah when one was playing sniper for the rebels, missing his shots, and when he finally lines up a good one and pulls the trigger it turns out a fucking Bothan Spy was stealthed right in his crosshairs and it takes the shot right in its dome. I'll never let him live that one down, dirty traitor.
2005 was one of the greatest years for Star Wars video games ever: in the span of a single year we got Battlefront II, Republic Commando, Lego Star Wars and Episode III.
games getting worse instead of better is still so bluddy odd to me , hopefully we're just at a low point , and some good ones do come out, even if they are mods of other games
It pains me how much Disney completely ignored the canonical relevance of Republic Commando and made it except for Delta Squad and Clone Commandoes in general non canon.
I loved playing as the Wampa's on Hoth... very difficult at first, but super fun once you got the hang of controlling these massive creatures. ^_^ (and the Ewoks.) least favorite was the Gungans, I love Jar Jar Binks. but his faction in SWB2 was awful. :(
Hunt: Hoth There's othing more satisfying than clawing scores of rebels with your hoard of ice monsters, and nothing more terrifying than mag (tibanna gas cartridge?) dumping a wampa as it lumbers toward you and having to reload when it's at half health and you know your pistol will be useless.
They did droidikas so well in Battlefront 2. I remember playing it often in the game, and once you got set up, the opposing players would all scatter to partial cover because you were that strong once your shields were up, perfectly lining up with their strengths and weaknesses from the films.
Love the game, played it a decade later and still loved it. Still, it's nice to see a genuinely honest retrospective with the game. You highlighted equally the good and the bad. Nailed it with the power fantasy aspect too!
Still got this downloaded on the 360, hasn’t stopped being fun to this day. Also love how in-depth you went on this game. Learned new things I never knew before watching.
@@amuroray9115 Dude, Disney canon is non-canon. The sooner we accept that. The sooner Disney will pull a 180 once it becomes blatently clear that nobody will pay for an insulting product.
@@Green-Raccoon777 people will continue to pay for whatever they enjoy. That includes Disney products. It’s easier if you to accept reality that Disney has control over what’s canon. By law. Take it from me. I don’t like the sequels at all and wish to god they could have been done better. But I also know I need to move past it. There’s not much that can be done. Even if the sequels were retconned, you won’t be able to film a new trilogy with Carrie Fisher anymore. It’s such a shame
I have a fond memory when I was younger playing galactic conquest as rebels on Kashyyyk, however I ran out of tickets, but luckily didn't purchase wookies as an units which allowed me to be backed up by them and I sat on the walls sniping and chirping away at the enemy until victory was achieved. I really love those moments where your the last man standing against the entire enemy team and winning only by the skin of your teeth.
The golden age of Star Wars games indeed. KOTOR, Bounty Hunter, Republic Commando, and Battlefront were all incredibly good. Teenage me literally burned out an XBOX and wore out a chair (yes really) playing these (Bounty Hunter was on GameCube oddly). I adored Jango Fett and his clones at first sight. The fact that this game let me play as OG clone troopers kept me in a state of euphoria for quite some time. Honorable mention to the Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith games. They weren't as good as the aforementioned, but I still had some solid fun with them.
In hero mode Count Dooku was the best. There was a glitch that allowed him to kill at half the time of the others with Force Choke and Lightning at the same time. Usually you could only use one Force power at a time.
Man, I totally forgot his might power, sometimes I saw 4 Jedi on him and when I looked back (I used to play with Jango) only he was up with some power ups around him...
Same. It added much more substance to Order 66. The jedi and clones fought and suffered together, so imagine the clones' reaction when they heard that the jedi "betrayed" them and the Republic. They had to battle their feelings and bonds as they put down their former leaders, and there were times when some of them even decided save or hide the people they had come to see as friends. The chip is such a lazy writing tool that basically sums it up to "bad guy pushes button, army turns bad."
@@YormanGina I get your point to a degree, but you would have to struggle to to come up with another reason why the clones suddenly turned like they did without presenting some form of mind control. And it is also spitting on the Fives finding out about the chips arc, soooo...
@@BigDictator5335 It's corny because it was meant for kids but what I liked about it was the extensive world building and contextualization of Anakin's Edgelord nature
This was my childhood. I remember it being hard but I thought it was because I was shit. I tried playing the multiplayer recently because I never had the chance to when I was a kid. It was just full of cheaters:(
The AI going to cover part is actually a part of the clone wars and movies. If the cover is already full the clones would literally stand in the open ( look at the battle for kamino episodes in the clone wars once a clone died another clone would run and take his place even if it was in the open ). I found that really cool😂 idk why
The best strategy I found with the bookcase defense part was to play as a engineer and defend a few select cases while repairing them as they are damaged with the splicer.
I COME FROM THE FUTURE! Battlefront Classic Collection came out. The online is broken and everyone is angry. However, the whole situation brings light to Battlefront. This video made a mistake by using the word “singleplayer”. It’s not that the singleplayer was a section of the game, but rather SINGLEPLAYER WAS THE GAME! Hell, most of this video was a casual playthrough of the BF2 campaign, which back in the day you would play 1 time and move on to instant action/Galactic Conquest 24/7! And finally, because of modern gamers having modern gaming opinions… this whole situation has people praising BF2 EA and insulting original BF2. WE COME FULL CIRCLE! ⭕️ THE CYCLE IS NOW COMPLETE, WHEN I MEET YOU I WAS THE LEARNED, NOW I AM THE MASTER!
I remember spending untold amounts of hours as an engineer playing this and just roll, then shoot, roll, then shoot... out of ammo? drop a pack... roll, then shoot... roll, then shoot lol
I remember playing this when i was younger, i would play LAN with my dad and sisters. Loads of fun, later bought it on steam when i was older and played the campaign a couple times.
You could drive the AT-AT to the back of the Hoth map to help out with the objective. You'll put that "All Terrain" to the test during that climb up the hill lol.
With the Engineer's bomb, it will move from your body with the same velocity you have when you press the button. So if you sprint, jump, then press the button, you can throw a controllable bomb.
If you held the button, look from down to up with your camera, then release, you would throw the bomb upwards. So if you walked and did it you could throw the thing pretty far.
Bought this game the night it released for original Xbox. Came home and me and my brother played until the sun came up. Such a good fucking game. Just pure fun. Years later when the pandemic hit, me and my brother would get drunk and play this all night yet again. There was a 2-3 month period where we just drank vodka straight, eat potatoes (we were broke), and played BF2. Over time we tried to play a whole game without dying once. Loved the tension. This game is so good that it played a major hand in ignoring the collapse of the world due to Covid, and I kind of miss it sometimes.
Republic vs. Droids in Polis Massa is a crapshoot. The AI insists on running out the airlocks. Droids don't need oxygen, but my fellow clones drop like flies in minutes. Very rage-inducing when it's the last goddamn planet I need to conquer.
Games like Battlefront 2 are so good specifically because they can't be remastered. Any attempt wouldn't be the same, because you can't remaster the memories you made from the original...
He was my favorite class by far. The primary gun was really satisfying but it also set up kills for the pistol making it easier to get that amazing reward Jango pistol.
Great review and we’ll put together! I played this game for years and I mean YEARS! I had thousands and thousands of the end of Mach medals that made me seem like a fully fledged Jedi to my friends when they would come round and i would make us play haha! I would say battlefront 1 and 2 defined my gaming experience as a child and I don’t think anything else’s could rival them. It’s been fun reliving it with your review!
Regards to the comment about the Naboo campaign mission, I'm reminded of a line from the Starship Troopers book by Heinlein made in reference to the Mobile Infantry; "There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships or missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes so widespread, so unselective that the war is over because that nation or planet has ceased to exist. What we do is entirely different. We make war as personal as a punch in the nose."
What I love about this game, is the nostalgic memories that came with it, kinda wholesome that almost all of us had similar experiences and can relate to a time period where life was simple.
Same, my first game for PSP There’s no movie-tied campaign, just random operations on the Conquest maps (plant bombs there, defend that) and the Orbit Battles are even more bland, but the Conquest is the same, and it was freaking amazing
the actual best strat in space is to get into the main enemy ship and destroy their auto turret system, thats most kills of any space battle and guarantees victory
“This visual glitch happens when you zoom.” I’ve played 2 versions of this game. The PS2 version, and the Xbox One port. Neither of those have it as far as I have experienced.
Star wars: Battlefront 2 was my favorite battlefront game, always will be. Growing up as a loner kid, playing it was fun. The grand strat mode led me to playing turn-based, real time tactics games like Total War, Civilization, Stellaris, etc.
I still remember picking it up on release for £20 down at my local GAME store, me and my best friend who lived down my road would go to the newsagents get some sweets then get back and set off on our Galactic takeover! I still don't know if there was ever a save feature, so we ended up never finishing a Galactic run as it'd take us too long. What an amazing game though.
Like you have to be baiting or making shit up to fit in, because that game constantly offers for you to save. There's no way in hell you wouldn't know unless you can't read.
And Jesus dude, it's a good hour or two to finish a galactic conquest, they aren't that long? How could you have never finished ONE? You're a fake and a fraud.
@@leadedbison1997 you're literally the funniest sad sack Ive come across today, and it's 20:19 😂 I did exactly this, minus the lollies, but me and my friends never saved, would never even think of it, and it never made any difference to the game.
I remember how much me and my brother loved playing this game growing up. Galactic conquest was our favorite and we enjoyed the all of it. We always played republic clones (coolest faction) I always played as sniper and he played engineer. Space combat was fun too. I would bomb the ships from the outside while he went inside to get rid of the turrets and engine.
Battlefront 2 might be my favorite Starwars game of all time! I loved this review, it was very nostalgic for me as I haven't played the game in years. You were spot on with everything you said, ESPECIALLY Dagobah! Dagobah separated the men from the boys! Its always such a hard fight; I remember my BEST moments came out on Dagobah because it pushes the player SO hard!! Great game, great video, thank you!
For me I loved this game so much because it was a huge method of bonding between my brothers and I. Battlefront 1 and 2 were amazing to have in my childhood. And thank you for this nice video.
I'm glad that the simulated characters in this simulated videogame think the simulated combat is like the simulations in the simulated movies. It helps make it feel less simulated.
watching this video, none of the gameplay is super recognizable to me, which is expected since although i've played the game, i was *at most* 7-8 years old the last time i did. however, the SOUNDS--the specific blaster sounds, the voices, and most of all the little blips from menu selections--my brain clung on to those sounds, and they really bring me back. i think even completely out of context, even though the last time i played the game was at kindergarten-age in my now-passed-away great aunt's basement (theyve even sold the damn house), i could still 100% recognize that menu blip sound as being from Star Wars: Battlefront II.
Guys, I get it: Sheev is from Naboo. It's important to him for all zero of those scenes after Phantom Menace where he goes there. I didn't propose blowing up the planet, just the palace where the rebels are located.
Imagine being named Sheev
sheev WAS on Naboo in Phantom Menace, just right at the end most likely as a formality when the humans and gungans make peace with each other and he makes moves on keeping an eye on Anakin
@@contestleader2721 "after Phantom Menace where he goes there"
The rebels were in Theed. The Empire wanted to radically destabilize the government, not kill the imperial sympathizers in the city.
If they bomb a city they just make the rebellion grow. Especially early on in the empire
When I was a kid, my friend and I would sit at the back of the map and let all our AI drain our tickets. After that the enemy would come for our last capture point and we would sit back there and pretend we were having some amazing stand off for the planet. Good times man, good times.
I thought I was the only one that did that.
Yoooo I only started doing that recently, but man is it fun!
@@Flint_Inferno I started playing this game solo long ago and its on prof those games where if you just sit down with h a group of friends and take five Minutes you can come up with all kinds of crazy stuff to do.
...I never thought of that and my life feels lesser for it
@@certain_sloth It is lesser for it
You throw a grenade that kills two of your own men.
Allies: We need more troopers like you!
I would purposely play CTF with my brother (same team) on Polis Masa so both sides have infinite spawns. Then we would trap ourselves with the flag by the ammo and health droid in the vehicle bay and spam grenades down the hallway killing anything that moved till we were over run. We would get so many friendly and enemy kills that the kill counter count would reset to zero. This would go on for hours. I miss it a lot.
Trust me.
Pick Hunt.
Pick Endor.
Make max reinforcements and no time limit.
My god it'll be so many grenades every where you'll develop PTSD, of laughter!
to be fair half the time you ARE better off without teammates
@LoveSosaJay I always had my father to play BF2 with back in the day, ugh it was SOOO much fun it was one of our favorite games to play together the other being CoD WaW
"The AI is bad" That's an understatement. I once couldn't find any of my allies anywhere. Curious, I gave up the fight and searched for them. One guy runs past me, followed by a stream of others. "follow me, I know a shortcut!", he says. He runs to the room with a giant pit in the death star, jumps, and dies. I stand there and watch as a stream of troopers follows right behind him. I probably still have the screenshot somewhere.
I had the same suicide troopers on the Death Star map. It almost softblocked me from completing the campaign because my units decreased so much by jumping off.
lemmings.
plottwist his shortcut was to death
@@YuiFunami Sad times. It was better for them to do it themselves than to die in battle.
@@Ahzafera rebel scum are pretty brutal, look at how they shoot bodies
I loved this game. I remember the maps had “hidden” details like the trash compactor in the death star. Memories!
i remember the maps being much bigger on the ps2. They probably felt that way because i paid attention to every pixel tried explored the entire map. memories.
And the rancor in Jabba's palace! Seriously, if you fell down the pit, there was an actual rancor there to grab you and eat you alive
@@RyoooPTyou could get away from it although it was somewhat difficult lol
Galactic Conquest is a fantastic idea. I still play it regularly to this day and it kills me that DICE didn’t revisit this. A modern day touch-up of this concept with online play would be great.
True but they would have needed to add more depth to the galactic mode, it lacked even back then. :)
DICES new battlefront also doesn’t have enough maps for it
The original barely had enough maps for galactic conquest
But the new ones maps were built asymmetrically
Also the space battles in the original would be the same place with a different planet that was probably the same Image in a different color
Meanwhile the news ones are hand crafted to make it possible to weave through the stilts of kamino
Performing the trench run on fondor
And going straight through the ship in the Unkown regions
I like the maps but there’s only 2
No more no less
Offense and defense
I really miss Galactic Conquest and am disappointed that DICE didn't bring it back for their Battlefront games, but at least i can always play it on classic Battlefront 2.
Try empire at war
I remember playing pvp irl on my console. That was a lot of fun. A real slog because both of you are smart enough to buy multiple fleets and spam fortify reinforcements.
I'll never forget my first battle on Hoth. Being able to hop in a snowspeeder and attack the giant AT-ATs head-on; so freaking cool. Made me feel like I was actually playing the movies. Will always hold a place in my heart.
It’s such a well done map for the time imo. Brutally hard on either side, lots of room for creativity (snowspeeder capture of the imperial outpost) and lots of set piece, trench assault battles contesting each Control Point, with an awesome variety of vehicles. Moreover, if you lose certain CPs the mission can become unwinnable increasing the stakes in each fight.
Same man. My dad took me to bestbuy and there was a star wars bf 1 setup for the ps2. The Hoth level was already there and I was rebels and I immediately hopped into the snowspeeder and eventually crashed into the AT-AT. That shit was so awesome. Later he bought me a ps2 and the game and spent most of my time until highschool playing bf1 and bf2.
@@Materialist39 good for it time?....no no fam....its still great
Me and my older brother would get in one together, he would fly and I manned the harpoon gun. The first time we wrapped an AT-AT was the coolest thing I could have imagined.
The like counter is at 501, must. . . Not . . . Touch it
I grew up playing this game constantly with my brothers, so many good memories
ps2 splitscreen pain
Same but I only had 1 brother.
Same but I only had one brother.
@@peterhall4216 same.....now I play it on my Xbox one....BTW better on that
Good times! I had two little brothers that always played this game with me.
[AI pilots their own shuttle into the hangar wall]
"Just like the simulations."
Huh same
"Just like the Japanese"
@Spoods Noodle Doodles no it’s your copilot. As soon as you leave the shuttle, the copilot is moved to the pilot seat. What you need to do is take off and land multiple times. It will force all passengers and crew to leave the ship.
14:24 for the bookcase defence bit, I would always switch to an engineer since they can actually repair the bookcases when they get damaged
And the shot gun is just really good.
I was today years old when I found this out...
@@bigz4339 you can actually repair a broken bookcase and it will need to be destroyed again to lose.
i failed that mission several times when i was a kid and even now i am still having a rough time with this mission. thanks for the tip
@@Direbeetus But doesn't it take like a really long time to repair it?
The Bothans were terrifying in that game. Imagine an invisible foe vaporizing the hell out of you, while you can't even run away as the screen turns red.
this
Spy gaming.
My brother would always play as this class. I still have the sound of "bububababubububububababubaba--auuuugghhhh" stuck in my head from the OG Xbox days.
Then you realize, the Empire did nothinf wrong when killing the Bothans
@@SudrianTalesno
How did the devs think space battles weren't good? They're literally the best! Flying into an enemy command ship, sneaking around and trying to destroy the shields from the inside and fighting your way out by stealing an enemy ship and booking it back to your command ship. So much fun
I've never been a fan of them, and its easy to imagine having these portions of the game skippable in the story mode was for the folks who didnt like that gameplay as much.
@I dont know Galactic Conquest kinda highlights how fast they get repetitive. Real easy to have the enemy fleet run into yours turn after turn.
@I dont know all new games get boring fast. Can't think of a single new game that even comes close to being as fun as this game was.
I remember when my brothers and I, when we were still little kids, found a way to walk outside of the ships. It required pretty precise landed of any given fighter/bomber/mobile base halfway inside and outside of the ship's hangar. You know you did it right when you hop out of the vehicle and you're on the outside of the shield. Course, if you jumped off the ship you were dead af. But you could still walk on the bottom rim of the ship, and if you timed it right and hit just the right spot, you could get onto the other ships (I think this was dependent on the map).
@@Animalace3
I've never heard of this! I'll have to try it out
I'm surprised you didn't mention the fourth strategy for space battles and my personal favorite: manning the guns of your battleship. This game is one of the very few that offers that authentic space battle experience of taking a small part of a dynamic system.
So i just tested that out during a space battle and i caught up a near 100 point advantage from the AI.
probably because he never did it, he has a hard time winning galactic conquest, he's not good at it
I LOVED doing that. And the AI was smart enough to start strafing you, it felt awesome.
Also manning your ENEMY battleship guns is quite fun. For some reason, AI ignores you even if you shoot at its ship.
My brother would always drop me off inside the enemy ship I'd blow up the shields then after I died I would man a fighter and he would bomb the ship
One extremely cheesy way to win every space battle in Galactic Conquest was the sabotage bonus. Every single enemy ship starts out the hangar hamstrung and burning which pretty much ensures your AI will curb-stomp the match every single time.
Unless you’re playing imperials over yavin, for some reason tie pilots won’t get into ships on that map
And then while you're taking out systems And Engine in the Fleet Your transport gets destroyed and guess what........
I like to use supply bonus since it allows you to start with 7 time bombs every time you spawn, which is enough for the shields and then either the life support or engines while you're inside
The problem was that you get so few credits for winning a space battle that you'd be making a loss with sabotage
I remember the morning my parents called me into their room and my local news was talking about the game and it's release date talking about how the graphics have improved and the scale of the game hyping it up further, it was the coolest thing I ever saw growing up that my news was hyping a game for me. My parents surprised me with the game the day it came out, and even to this day it is one of my favorite memories from growing up in an anti game area with anti game parents, the love of the franchise let them see why I loved playing the games and my dad even joined in some in split screen. GOOD TIMES!!
Always glad to hear these kinds of memories
What is this “parents” you speak of?
I loved this game as a kid. You could literally do anything in the game and feel like you were making an impact for your team. So many different roles/strategies.
The beginning of the Tantive IV mission always gives me a laugh because you lose like half of your troops in the first 10 seconds because like 30 grenades get tossed inside the starting room
Yeah. Killed me many times.
In fact, there was no choice. Either you go forward, get outgunned & killed. Or you stay put & get blown by thermal detonator.
Great odds.
Yeah... every time I see the scene in the movie, I got serious PTSD, thinking 'that is not how the things really went' :D
This would always get me hyped 🤣😅 but God damn you had no choice but to die in that starting room.
I love that with nostalgia goggles on such stupidity is 'charming' in my eyes and just makes me wanna play it more lol
I mean, the attacker is always in a weaker position and takes heavier losses, because the defender can prepare defensive positions with heavy firepower - to spam grenades on close enemy formations is quite logical from the rebels perspective.
"We lost a command post. Fight for it."
I love the Imperial announcer's stilted delivery of this line; pure nostalgia.
This was before EA and Disney... before the dark times.
Before the (corporate) Empire....
excute like number... 66
"Before the dark times, before the EAmpire."
Star Wars propaganda taught us the fall of the empire, but in reality the Empire was victorious.
@@magicfexer3474 EA isnt that bad, they can at least write a decent story... Disney on the other hand...
0:03
That 1 second of music was all I needed to remember the entire first 501st entry.
"My first day as a member of the 501st....it was hot, it was sandy, chaotic. Nothing at all like the simulations on Kamino.
Of course that's pretty much the way it was for all of us, wasn't it?
All that breeding, all those years of training. It doesn't really prepare you for all the screaming or the blood, does it?
Frankly, I'm still amazed we ever made it through the first hour, never mind the first day."
heheihihohoheihi breeding heiheirhoerhihohohoho
501st Journal: “Nothing at all like the simulations”
Every other clone in the game: “JUST LIKE THE SIMULATIONS”
What I remember about battlefront 2 is... is how epic it was. During the release of the final star wars film, a game called battlefront 2 was discreetly released on ps2. It was a beautiful time. We all remember how it was, the instant action, playing as our favorite heroes or villains, witnessing the end of the republic through the eyes of the 501st. Are there any doubts this was the prime of star wars gaming? Perhaps, but no one has said a word against that idea. Not when 2005 came, not when revenge of the sith released, and not when we booted up battlefront 2 for the first time. Not a word.
I instantly started reading this in the 501st narrators voice. Nice.
@@andrewpandrew7786same here.
"Degobah is the worst ground battle"
At this point it's basically a contest between swamp levels and water levels for worst level type in video games.
I remember enjoying the water levels in commander keen, that dopefish was rough though.
I think water levels have some of the best maps in games on occasion. But I get what you are saying and I agree in some games they can be frustrating to no end.
Dagobah sucks but I found the perfect strategy to doing really really well. There's a tree with a health and ammo droid next to it and you can just use it as cover and kill all the enemies swarming point 3. Still have a screenshot from when I has 102 kills and 0 deaths
Dagobah sucks in singleplayer but its my personal favourite map in multiplayer. The price for the worst map in the game has to go to Polis Massa. Its called meat grinder for a reason.
@@EddieMorphling I know this might sound weird but I both dreaded yet loved Dagobah and Polis Massa. I lost on those 2 levels more than all others combined yet I couldn't help but feel amped whenever I won.
The hallways and outside sections of Polis Massa were death traps and the water and tunnel command posts on Dagobah were suicide yet holding them required me to play differently than I usually did.
I know a bunch of people who really liked being super overpowered in SWBF2, but I always liked the idea that I was just an insignificant trooper on a battlefield way bigger than I would ever be. Biggest problem I had was the 300 kills at the end of the game.
Same here. Most of the time played as an ordinary trooper with rifle & 3 grenades in a pocket, ended up with at least 20+ kills in each battle and rank of major in a profile. 😂
Same in swbf1 I'd play the basic droid with a shitty pistol to make myself feel like part of the Droid tide.
I much prefer games where it's not a power fantasy, but sadly all new games are power fantasies and the old ones that tried not to be had such bad AI that it was too easy
@@coomingnotgoing904 kinda random but you might like the game project zomboid,if you like zombies.
Funny, I remember not being that good at the game, but feeling like I was not alone and that despite my poor skills I could still actually have a chance at winning the game were what did it for me. Hearing all this stuff about it being a power fantasy didn't make too much sense.
11:39
One of the weaker heroes? Not on that map.
See, blaster bolts cannot penetrate the surface of water. But, lightsabers work perfectly well underwater. Since yoda is so short, he can crouch under the water and become untouchable by anything but grenades. Then, he can just kill any droids who pass through the water. If none happen to come in, he can use Force Pull to bring them to him.
"Watch those wrist rockets!" but as a playstyle.
Yoda Greenma male grindset
Your timestamp is weirdly off. It's at 13:47.
Actually, nevermind, maybe Patrician edited the video, 'cause it seems like a bunch of people's timestamps are off.
Yeah Yoda is one of the best units against regular infantry and one of the worst against other Hero units universally. The map doesn't play a huge role in that imo
i remember having this for ps2 and playing it so much that Temuera's in game audio broke and would get stuck a few seconds in so everytime i played the campaign i would just hear "troopa" over and over for like half a minute at a time. I still have the copy just to show people im not crazy, fantastic game. 10/10
same
Haha! I have two copies for ps2. Had to buy a second as I played it too much. Then I saw it on Xbox 1 store and couldn't resist.
@@jessefrantsen4185 I didnt know this could happen, but explains so much from my childhood. I had to buy two copies of Star Wars Lego 1, Nickelodeon: Battle for Volcano Island (Or Something like that), and Simpsons: Road Rage, and I never knew why or really thought about it til know. Drunk mind blown.
I remember a copy of WWE Smackdown 2 I had on ps1, I dropped the game taking it to a friends house, and the disc came out and landed on the road. After that, none of the sound in the entire game would work anymore, but the rest of the game works absolutely fine.
Troopa
Yes, the cover nodes were part of the map, as a level designer on the game I can attest to that. The node was placeable by the level designer, and had range of attraction, direction to face, kneel or stand, weapon, time to stay and direction to leave in. All weighted, so there was some randomness. I personally placed 750 nodes on Endor, 4 on every tree and cover, to face at least four directions and have the right stance for the direction faced.
Hi! Big fan of literally anyone who worked on this and the original Battlefront game. Just wanted to say you and the rest of the Pandemic team are responsible for some of my generations greatest memories playing video games in our childhood. I still play the game to this day, and still find it one of the most enjoyable and replayable experiences in gaming. Are there any other development insights that a level designer might be able to share here?
@@_draxin_0514 Thanks! There are lots of things that are important in level design, but continuing on the subject of cover I mentioned, one thing that is super important in shooters is the synchronization of terrain heights and player character height (in games with explicit cover, as opposed to run and gun games). In games with cover systems, there is normally a set 'half' cover height (you shoot over) that either the normal crouched gunline can shoot over, or the pop up gun line can do the same over the cover (if there is an explicit shoot from cover command). There is also standing cover that behaves the same, except you don't crouch. So there is normally three cover types, crouching, standing and 'round the corner' (at edge of the wall or half cover). It is possible to tie the crouch height to the terrain you are in cover with, allowing variable half cover heights, but most games tend to have a standard cover heights for terrain, and also the player character tends to have the same height when standing and crouching to better mesh with this. The Division 2 has a really well developed system of cover, with an explicit 'go into cover' command, with a lot of control options to fine tune the behavior, and the ability to move along a cover line, and pop up or around with a lot of precision; I really like the implementation. Different game do it differently, but what I mentioned above still holds true to a large extent. The art is where the cover is placed, the distance between covers, and the fire lanes it creates. I'm sure this is well known to most and yourself, but it's worth thinking about and exploring the idea and mechanics of cover, and it can be helpful in playing certain games better as you can deduct this design principle rather easily when you are looking for it.
19:50
“DEATH BEFORE DISHONOUR,
BANZAAAAAIIIIIIIII!”
- Some Rebel, probably.
I bought a PS2 just for this game. Battlefront 2 *is* my childhood.
You could've gotten it on PC for 10 bucks. Plus PC has mods.
@@xboxed720 you can also get it on sale for like $3
@@AustenHilton Facts
I did the same thing for dbz tenkaichi and budokai. Already got this gem on an original Xbox. Much love
@@xboxed720 PC version doesn't have split-screen or co-op.
Luke Skywalker: Use your tow cables!
Other pilots: I'm gonna pretend I didn't hear that. 19:48
Kamikaze it is
It is my imagination, or did the AI actually did destroy them with the tow cables in the first Battlefront? I have the visual image of seeing the AI do it, but it can be my imagination playing tricks on me.
@@alberum8442 No, they actually did with pretty good precision too. When they did, you'd have to aim down and pray you can hit them good timing with the main guns or bye bye AT-AT
@@BPKPhoenix Thanks! I barelly remember a lot from the Battlefront games. I remember that I enjoyed them, and some experiences, but again, a lot of time has passed and I am unsure of some things I remember.
When I was younger, I loved playing this to the point I gained over a thousand awards in several areas just so that I could have the beam rifle and auto-repair on vehicles among other things any time I wanted. Super fun times. I still miss those times.
I recently bought this game on steam out of nostalgia and ended up playing it all the way through (even getting legendary on all my career medals) 3 times in a few months. This game is one of my favorite single player games of all time.
It's crazy how games from my childhood with graphics that "aren't so great" looked life-like to me as a kid. This game holds so many memories of Mos Eisley Heros vs Villains with friends at 1 in the morning
Imagine if kids that grew up with Red Dead Redemption II would say the same thing when they get older.
Not really as much. Graphics can't get much better really. I'm sure the numbers can go up by infinity but for us since the 360 it's not become much better
13:31 Tusken raiders in Dune Sea were always awesome. Taking them out quickly was the key to winning that map.
I always did that. Hopping with my dudes on skiff and going for their cp.
I always stayed away from that area so my guys wouldn't get eaten by the hentai monster.
BF1 was absolutely goated. Superior to 2 in a lot of ways.
I selfishly wish this video was longer. I’ve probably listened to the Morrowind video for over a total of 90 hours
Mmmm yummy long form content
Nah there just isn't enough to talk about.
We're not all autistic
@@aceman0000099 lmao
My older brother had this game when I was like 5 and every time he was done, I’d make my own save, and I’d play galactic conquest till 2 am, there was one day I actually played till the morning and I got yelled at but I was so happy that I won like 3 times and felt so powerful when I was the clones. I thought they were always the good guys when watching the movies so I felt like I was untouchable. This was my childhood and I recently bought the game on my Xbox because we had it on the ps2, it was worth the nostalgia trip.
I laughed straight out at " _Rebels have an interesting strategy_ ".
I love this game so damn much.
Playing up-to-4-player couch multiplayer with the XBox version of this game is one of my fondest nostalgic videogaming memories. What an absolute blast of a party game.
How we managed to play a 4 way split-screen shooter at RCA-cable standard definition on maybe a 35" TV is a mystery to modern me, but never seemed to be a problem as a kid.
The giant reticle in this game definitely helped.
@@freighttrain6932 don't forget the really heavy strong autolock
You can connect multiple xbox's to lan this game, the consoles are very cheap nowadays and one of the easiest to hack and put any game on it.
@@harmleyten4 do you know if you can lan for 8 players?
@@buschtrout1499 if you have 2 xboxes yes! If you have more you can go even further to 16 players. Max 4 players per console, but you could even do 16 xboxes so everyone has it's own screen (no splitscreen).
Fuckin' ay it's a power fantasy. Controlling Vader while plugwalking through Echo Base while his soundtrack is playing can be construed as nothing BUT a power fantasy.
Men only want one thing and it's fucking awesome
Jesus Christ you’ve unlocked some next level nostalgia in the deepest recesses of my mind. From the menu SFX going ‘boopaloop’ when selecting an option to the way the super battle droids flip when you twat them with a lightsaber
The reason the cell block riot was an embarrassment was because elite shock troops let the Operational Security of the most important weapons platform in the Empire get breached by unarmed prisoners, with their 'success' being killing the escaping Jedi who had previously been captured, destroying one of the few remaining sources of Jedi knowledge available to the Sith when fixing their screw up. Also, the Narrator didn't retire before Endor, the implication is that Endor retired him...
Yo that's narly
Just remembering the intense levels you had to play at to win as the empire on Dagobah. Like some next level aggression. Also on Polis Masa needing to be some sort of SOE operative drop behind enemy lines if you were to have a chance of kicking the rebels off that rock
Yeah there were some serious palm sweating choke points on that level where you had very little time to clear and push forward before the next wave came.
You can't set up a puppet government in Theed if you orbitally bombard Theed. Plus, it's Palpatine's home. He probably wants the place looking as clean as possible. He's not gone full Operation Cinder yet.... or ever. Because that was a new canon plot point.
Actually palpatine hated naboo quite a bit
Me and my friends played this a ton back in the day. I still remember the time on Dagobah when one was playing sniper for the rebels, missing his shots, and when he finally lines up a good one and pulls the trigger it turns out a fucking Bothan Spy was stealthed right in his crosshairs and it takes the shot right in its dome. I'll never let him live that one down, dirty traitor.
You can repair the Bookcases as long as they're not destroyed.
This game was decades ahead of it's time still one of the most fun games I've played and dwarfs the new battlefronts in comparison
2005 was one of the greatest years for Star Wars video games ever: in the span of a single year we got Battlefront II, Republic Commando, Lego Star Wars and Episode III.
games getting worse instead of better is still so bluddy odd to me , hopefully we're just at a low point , and some good ones do come out, even if they are mods of other games
It pains me how much Disney completely ignored the canonical relevance of Republic Commando and made it except for Delta Squad and Clone Commandoes in general non canon.
When I was little I used to love the “hunt” modes.
Same here, that was something special
I loved playing as the Wampa's on Hoth... very difficult at first, but super fun once you got the hang of controlling these massive creatures. ^_^ (and the Ewoks.)
least favorite was the Gungans, I love Jar Jar Binks. but his faction in SWB2 was awful. :(
Hunt: Hoth
There's othing more satisfying than clawing scores of rebels with your hoard of ice monsters, and nothing more terrifying than mag (tibanna gas cartridge?) dumping a wampa as it lumbers toward you and having to reload when it's at half health and you know your pistol will be useless.
@@AragonBattleBorn Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds treated the Gungans better.
@@Guillidan lol right!!! had a full faction, and tech tree and everything. ^_^
All the sounds are so nostalgic. That's it. I'm breaking out the Playstation 2.
Or you can get an Xbox one or series x and download the game
They did droidikas so well in Battlefront 2. I remember playing it often in the game, and once you got set up, the opposing players would all scatter to partial cover because you were that strong once your shields were up, perfectly lining up with their strengths and weaknesses from the films.
Love the game, played it a decade later and still loved it. Still, it's nice to see a genuinely honest retrospective with the game. You highlighted equally the good and the bad. Nailed it with the power fantasy aspect too!
Still got this downloaded on the 360, hasn’t stopped being fun to this day. Also love how in-depth you went on this game. Learned new things I never knew before watching.
You should upgrade to Xbox One. It has the long lost DLC from the og Xbox
I spent so much time on galactic conquest. The good ol' times
"we don't find the Death Star plans because Kyle and Jan Ors err-" um based BASED
?
@@Tralby19 Kyle Katarn and Jans Ors.
They were the ones who found the Death Star plans in the old EU. But they’re not canon anymore
@@amuroray9115 Dude, Disney canon is non-canon. The sooner we accept that. The sooner Disney will pull a 180 once it becomes blatently clear that nobody will pay for an insulting product.
Please, finish the quote. Fuck Disney's fan fiction.
@@Green-Raccoon777 people will continue to pay for whatever they enjoy. That includes Disney products. It’s easier if you to accept reality that Disney has control over what’s canon. By law.
Take it from me. I don’t like the sequels at all and wish to god they could have been done better. But I also know I need to move past it.
There’s not much that can be done. Even if the sequels were retconned, you won’t be able to film a new trilogy with Carrie Fisher anymore. It’s such a shame
I have a fond memory when I was younger playing galactic conquest as rebels on Kashyyyk, however I ran out of tickets, but luckily didn't purchase wookies as an units which allowed me to be backed up by them and I sat on the walls sniping and chirping away at the enemy until victory was achieved.
I really love those moments where your the last man standing against the entire enemy team and winning only by the skin of your teeth.
The native wookies appear on Kashyyk even if you purchased the wookie warrior unit
The golden age of Star Wars games indeed. KOTOR, Bounty Hunter, Republic Commando, and Battlefront were all incredibly good. Teenage me literally burned out an XBOX and wore out a chair (yes really) playing these (Bounty Hunter was on GameCube oddly). I adored Jango Fett and his clones at first sight. The fact that this game let me play as OG clone troopers kept me in a state of euphoria for quite some time. Honorable mention to the Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith games. They weren't as good as the aforementioned, but I still had some solid fun with them.
In hero mode Count Dooku was the best. There was a glitch that allowed him to kill at half the time of the others with Force Choke and Lightning at the same time. Usually you could only use one Force power at a time.
Man, I totally forgot his might power, sometimes I saw 4 Jedi on him and when I looked back (I used to play with Jango) only he was up with some power ups around him...
They say home is where your heart is
My home must be the cursed corner on Naboo
God, that footage really got to me
There was no "cursed corner", you could be killed from anywhere because streets were filled with fire. Especially, when queen and jedi showed up. 😂👍🏻
@@PadawanSerg 9:55
I spent 90% of my childhood playing this game. I’m so happy someone is making a video on it!
I love when the rebel A.I. just shoot at stormtrooper corpses, they even look at living stormtroopers like "Yeah! I killed your friend! You see that?"
"DIE! DIE! DIE!"
"I'm gonna take you down, plastic boy!"
It's actually kinda funny just how bloodthirsty the Rebels' battle lines could get.
@@jacksimpson8529 *“Don’t get up!”*
Idk about y’all but I def prefer the previous canon without the inhibitor chips
Same. It added much more substance to Order 66. The jedi and clones fought and suffered together, so imagine the clones' reaction when they heard that the jedi "betrayed" them and the Republic. They had to battle their feelings and bonds as they put down their former leaders, and there were times when some of them even decided save or hide the people they had come to see as friends. The chip is such a lazy writing tool that basically sums it up to "bad guy pushes button, army turns bad."
@@YormanGina I get your point to a degree, but you would have to struggle to to come up with another reason why the clones suddenly turned like they did without presenting some form of mind control. And it is also spitting on the Fives finding out about the chips arc, soooo...
@@tazzioboca TCW was garbage
@@BigDictator5335 It's corny because it was meant for kids but what I liked about it was the extensive world building and contextualization of Anakin's Edgelord nature
@@LeviForWaifu i don't care if it's corny. The worldbuilding was already done and TCW retconned it. That's why it's garbage.
This was my childhood. I remember it being hard but I thought it was because I was shit. I tried playing the multiplayer recently because I never had the chance to when I was a kid. It was just full of cheaters:(
Yeah, people making cheap shots...
nostalgia right in the veins
The AI going to cover part is actually a part of the clone wars and movies. If the cover is already full the clones would literally stand in the open ( look at the battle for kamino episodes in the clone wars once a clone died another clone would run and take his place even if it was in the open ). I found that really cool😂 idk why
The best strategy I found with the bookcase defense part was to play as a engineer and defend a few select cases while repairing them as they are damaged with the splicer.
I COME FROM THE FUTURE!
Battlefront Classic Collection came out.
The online is broken and everyone is angry.
However, the whole situation brings light to Battlefront.
This video made a mistake by using the word “singleplayer”.
It’s not that the singleplayer was a section of the game, but rather SINGLEPLAYER WAS THE GAME!
Hell, most of this video was a casual playthrough of the BF2 campaign, which back in the day you would play 1 time and move on to instant action/Galactic Conquest 24/7!
And finally, because of modern gamers having modern gaming opinions… this whole situation has people praising BF2 EA and insulting original BF2.
WE COME FULL CIRCLE! ⭕️
THE CYCLE IS NOW COMPLETE, WHEN I MEET YOU I WAS THE LEARNED, NOW I AM THE MASTER!
I remember spending untold amounts of hours as an engineer playing this and just roll, then shoot, roll, then shoot... out of ammo? drop a pack... roll, then shoot... roll, then shoot lol
I remember playing this when i was younger, i would play LAN with my dad and sisters. Loads of fun, later bought it on steam when i was older and played the campaign a couple times.
You could drive the AT-AT to the back of the Hoth map to help out with the objective. You'll put that "All Terrain" to the test during that climb up the hill lol.
its back baby
"We've lost a command post."
"We Control a Command Post."
We've lost a command post."
Ah, my childhood. Thanks for covering it. I guess I wasn't the only who hated Dagobah.
With the Engineer's bomb, it will move from your body with the same velocity you have when you press the button. So if you sprint, jump, then press the button, you can throw a controllable bomb.
If you held the button, look from down to up with your camera, then release, you would throw the bomb upwards. So if you walked and did it you could throw the thing pretty far.
I played this by myself because I never had Xbox Live, and it still was incredibly fun. I was always top score, too.
Bought this game the night it released for original Xbox. Came home and me and my brother played until the sun came up. Such a good fucking game. Just pure fun.
Years later when the pandemic hit, me and my brother would get drunk and play this all night yet again. There was a 2-3 month period where we just drank vodka straight, eat potatoes (we were broke), and played BF2. Over time we tried to play a whole game without dying once. Loved the tension.
This game is so good that it played a major hand in ignoring the collapse of the world due to Covid, and I kind of miss it sometimes.
Republic vs. Droids in Polis Massa is a crapshoot. The AI insists on running out the airlocks. Droids don't need oxygen, but my fellow clones drop like flies in minutes. Very rage-inducing when it's the last goddamn planet I need to conquer.
this game was my childhood I want an official remaster so bad
Games like Battlefront 2 are so good specifically because they can't be remastered. Any attempt wouldn't be the same, because you can't remaster the memories you made from the original...
The late game campaign shows why the Dark Trooper is so good, quick lateral mobility.
He was my favorite class by far. The primary gun was really satisfying but it also set up kills for the pistol making it easier to get that amazing reward Jango pistol.
This game on PS2 was some of the best gaming experiences of my life
the sudden jedi spawning really got me so did the kamikaze snow speeders🤣
Great review and we’ll put together! I played this game for years and I mean YEARS! I had thousands and thousands of the end of Mach medals that made me seem like a fully fledged Jedi to my friends when they would come round and i would make us play haha! I would say battlefront 1 and 2 defined my gaming experience as a child and I don’t think anything else’s could rival them. It’s been fun reliving it with your review!
This game and Republic Commando were the best Star Wars games ever made
And kotor?
And Dark Forces. And Jedi Outcast. And Rebellion...
And Rogue Squadron!
Also, Episode 1 Racer :D
jedi academy?
This game was a significant memorable chapter of my childhood
Regards to the comment about the Naboo campaign mission, I'm reminded of a line from the Starship Troopers book by Heinlein made in reference to the Mobile Infantry;
"There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships or missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes so widespread, so unselective that the war is over because that nation or planet has ceased to exist. What we do is entirely different. We make war as personal as a punch in the nose."
What I love about this game, is the nostalgic memories that came with it, kinda wholesome that almost all of us had similar experiences and can relate to a time period where life was simple.
This is the last game I played with my dad before he passed… great memories man
This game is one of my first ever games I had on the ps2. Even beyond nostalgia this game is fucking classic
Same, my first game for PSP
There’s no movie-tied campaign, just random operations on the Conquest maps (plant bombs there, defend that) and the Orbit Battles are even more bland, but the Conquest is the same, and it was freaking amazing
the actual best strat in space is to get into the main enemy ship and destroy their auto turret system, thats most kills of any space battle and guarantees victory
I found ‘05 BF2 in the used bin at game stop a few years ago for $10. Ran perfect and had the booklet. Score.
“This visual glitch happens when you zoom.”
I’ve played 2 versions of this game. The PS2 version, and the Xbox One port. Neither of those have it as far as I have experienced.
Star wars: Battlefront 2 was my favorite battlefront game, always will be. Growing up as a loner kid, playing it was fun. The grand strat mode led me to playing turn-based, real time tactics games like Total War, Civilization, Stellaris, etc.
I remember every map as I'm seeing them as a 23 year old. I used to play this when I was 7 c': great times
I still remember picking it up on release for £20 down at my local GAME store, me and my best friend who lived down my road would go to the newsagents get some sweets then get back and set off on our Galactic takeover! I still don't know if there was ever a save feature, so we ended up never finishing a Galactic run as it'd take us too long. What an amazing game though.
It literally offers to save after every battle dude, there's no way you didn't know. It actually offers two different saves, back to back.
Like you have to be baiting or making shit up to fit in, because that game constantly offers for you to save. There's no way in hell you wouldn't know unless you can't read.
And Jesus dude, it's a good hour or two to finish a galactic conquest, they aren't that long? How could you have never finished ONE? You're a fake and a fraud.
@@leadedbison1997 you're literally the funniest sad sack Ive come across today, and it's 20:19 😂
I did exactly this, minus the lollies, but me and my friends never saved, would never even think of it, and it never made any difference to the game.
@@WhyForWhatNow okay and
I remember how much me and my brother loved playing this game growing up. Galactic conquest was our favorite and we enjoyed the all of it. We always played republic clones (coolest faction) I always played as sniper and he played engineer. Space combat was fun too. I would bomb the ships from the outside while he went inside to get rid of the turrets and engine.
Battlefront 2 might be my favorite Starwars game of all time! I loved this review, it was very nostalgic for me as I haven't played the game in years. You were spot on with everything you said, ESPECIALLY Dagobah! Dagobah separated the men from the boys! Its always such a hard fight; I remember my BEST moments came out on Dagobah because it pushes the player SO hard!! Great game, great video, thank you!
For me I loved this game so much because it was a huge method of bonding between my brothers and I. Battlefront 1 and 2 were amazing to have in my childhood. And thank you for this nice video.
I played this on PSP and years later found out that there was so much more to the game than I had previously thought.
I used to have a PSP, but I own Classic battlefront 2 on Steam nowadays.
I will say, the engineer class is always super good when the going is tough, mainly for their ability to repair health and ammo droids.
I still have this on PS2, and it's still enjoyable.
I'm glad that the simulated characters in this simulated videogame think the simulated combat is like the simulations in the simulated movies.
It helps make it feel less simulated.
watching this video, none of the gameplay is super recognizable to me, which is expected since although i've played the game, i was *at most* 7-8 years old the last time i did. however, the SOUNDS--the specific blaster sounds, the voices, and most of all the little blips from menu selections--my brain clung on to those sounds, and they really bring me back. i think even completely out of context, even though the last time i played the game was at kindergarten-age in my now-passed-away great aunt's basement (theyve even sold the damn house), i could still 100% recognize that menu blip sound as being from Star Wars: Battlefront II.