Star Wars Battlefront II is the poor apprentice of the original game...
Its not all bad though as the graphics have been vastly improved from the original title. The levels look pretty good when you think of the other games Lucas Arts have brought out but sadly its not enough to save the game.
The sound has also been improved vastly from the original game in all areas which along with the graphics show that Pandemic, got it half right but just like the graphics, it just is not enough to save the game.
The gameplay is were Battlefront 2 is brought down to it's knees and unlike the first game, sucks out all the fun that I had playing Battlefront 1 for many hours a day, for many months. The gameplay has been dumbed down for what many online players would call noobs in a desperate attempt to boost sales by targeting the younger audience. The vehicles that hampered the first game return even more overpowered and the space levels are a big letdown with the flying controls being the worst criminal of this dumbing down factor as the flying takes no skill. This time you press a button to do a fancy move instead of doing it manually and then to top it off, you can constantly hold down the fire button to spam rocket after rocket. There are even attacks that poison, the other players so now cowards who perform hit and run attacks are rewarded. Another big problem is how the darktroopers has been ruined by giving them the lighting gun after many people asked for that weapon to be removed totally from the first game when the clone pilot unit had it. To finish it off, adding in Jedi and Siths among other special units just caters to the average 10 year old.
The AI has been improved to go along with an actual single player, which the first game did not have but the story is not that good and the AI aren't that clever.
Overall the franchise has gone backwards on so many level but most importantly, the game has lost its fun factor. Many other players from Battlefront 1 agree with this assessment and stopped playing it early on and since most are clan players that could mean less clans or clan servers for people to play on.
A poor sequel to a now ruined franchise, which will struggle to see the day of light again, if they ever intended to make a 3rd game in the franchise.