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In the first stage, Separatist Droids escort an MTT to the gates of the Royal Palace. Naboo is the Galactic Assault map available in the beta. The exception to that is when one comes crashing down to the ground in the middle of a shootout, sending both sides scattering in a fiery explosion.

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ThereвЂ™s little point in picking them, however - itвЂ™s got the same problem as the Battlefield series where aerial fights are too removed from whatвЂ™s happening on the ground, with jets that move too fast to target infantry. Vehicles are bought with the same Battle Points that you can spend on special classes and heroes, and include flying vehicles.

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Galactic Assault is the gameвЂ™s flagship mode, offering 40 player matches with a full roster of vehicles and heroes available to buy. ItвЂ™s a vast improvement on the first game, where whoever got to play the hero was just whoever happened to be closest to where the power up spawned. Hero units have been folded into that system as well, and are expensive enough that I could only afford to play as them once in a round if I chose to save up for them. The special First Order trooper carries a flamethrower which is disappointingly underpowered, even compared to a normal class. Separatists get super battle droids, and the clones and rebels can play as wookies. ItвЂ™s similar to the system that the 2005 game used, except you only get one life as them rather than unlocking a class for the whole round.Д®very army can spend their points on a jetpack toting aerial trooper, as well as a unique special unit. Fighting alongside your squad earns you more points than if you go solo, which works as a greater incentive for teamwork than other games usually manage because those points can be spent on spawning as special classes.

You can no longer spawn on a squad partner, and are instead assigned a new squad each time you respawn. The way your armour gets spattered with mud and burn marks is another nice touch. I put it down to the way Dice have dialled up the reaction animations, with laser blasts and explosions that send the models sprawling backwards from incoming fire. ItвЂ™s hard to make a laser feel like it has as much impact as a bullet, and the game still falls short of providing the visceral thrill that firefights in Battlefield or Call of Duty do - but it's so much closer now.

Most importantly, the shooting feels satisfying in a way that it just didnвЂ™t before. Heavies have access to protective shields and chain guns that slow their movement, while assault troopers are equipped with shotguns for short range charges. The star cards work in a similar way to how they did before, providing abilities that can be activated on a short cooldown, but now they cement the different roles of the various classes. Every class has a different type of gun, which already makes for far more interesting shootouts than when everyone wielded minor variants on the same assault rifle. Battlefront 2 improves on every system, from the addition of separate classes to better thought out star cards. The floating power ups that Alec said were the gameвЂ™s вЂњanswer to everythingвЂќ in his Battlefront review have been entirely done away with.

IвЂ™ve been playing in the beta, and IвЂ™m happy to report that while Battlefront 2 surpasses the audio visual spectacle that was the only exceptional feature of the first entry in the series, it's also a deeper and more interesting game.

Birds flutter around the lush vegetation on Naboo and Takodana, and explosions scatter dust and dirt everywhere as laser fire lights up the battlefield. Star Wars Battlefront 2 can make the same claim as its predecessor: youвЂ™ve never seen Star Wars looking this pretty outside of the movies.

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