I've been playing this game for a while now, and it's time to write a review.
I was so excited for a new generation Star Wars themed Battlefield game. This game is everything that I could possibly want regarding visuals and sounds, and everything I could possibly NOT want regarding game play.
For starters, it CAN be fun to play (for about 1 minute out of every 60). That's due to the Star Wars nostalgia. The graphics, characters, music, environments, and sounds are magnificent. But the fun quickly devolves into frustration after a few rounds of crappy gameplay, which causes me to hit the eject button and move onto something that isn't so frustrating I want to kick an old person in the face.
The bad: EVERYTHING except the theme of Star Wars.
Weapons: awful. Most of them are useless. It takes way too long to kill someone. And hip firing yields such higher damage that using scopes is actually a BAD tactic. The game is a hip firing mess, because even if you miss 75% of your shots you'll still kill someone faster than using your scope and missing with 25% of your shots. FACEPALM. Everyone has resorted to hip firing because of this, unless they camp up on top of a mountain with a sniper rifle. Grenades can hit an opponent directly in the chest and not kill. The "smart rocket" isn't smart at all (9 out of 10 times it doesn't do what it's supposed to do).
Map Design: gorgeous, but way too wide open. Your chances of survival are strictly luck based. You are forced to run across a massive open field and just pray you don't get shot, only to re-spawn way in the back and sprint endlessly to be shot again. AD INFINITUM.
Vehicles: cool vehicles, garbage system. There are tokens placed randomly around on the map. Getting into a vehicle is purely based on luck, unlike previous Battlefield games with bases and vehicles placed on each one. You see a vehicle token, you sprint for it only for a teammate to pop up and take it away, leaving you vulnerable to enemy fire, which gets you killed.
HEROES/VILLAINS: Very cool...but AWFUL set-up. Like vehicles, they pop up randomly and rarely. The person who his lucky enough to spawn near one (or vice versa) will then end up being the top player. LUCK. PURE LUCK.
Game Modes: not bad, actually, although whoever decided to turn the expansion pack into a series of maps for which you cannot choose a game mode should be fired and banned from the programming business. Why do I have to play crappy game modes if I want to check out the new maps?
Team/Squad: ABSOLUTE CRAP. There is no squadding up. You can't even spawn on your teammate when they are "in danger" (low health). How about you morons let me decide if I can spawn on a teammate or not? And there is no team communication. I'd like to be able to use my headset and talk to other players without having to establish a friend connection and then connecting via console. This is a TEAM GAME that does everything in its power to deter from team-based gameplay. There are virtually no rewards for helping team members out like there was in the Battlefield games. More below regarding the rewards/upgrades system.
Rewards/upgrades: This is one of the biggest detriments to the game. In order to upgrade and make your weapons more powerful you are forced to play game modes you don't like and perform functions that aren't fun or integrated into objectives. In other words, the system forces players to play for themselves rather than for the team. The game is a chore if you want to level up your arsenal and unlock new weapons.
STATS: another God-awful decision. Since this game obviously panders to the CoD crowd, everyone cares about their K/D ratio. No one wants to play on behalf of the team. "OH NO! MY K/D RATIO!". The highest K/D in a game is almost always the top player on the losing team.
Battlefield 1, 2, and the Bad Company games are still infinitely more fun than this. Dice couldn't have done a poorer job with this one. They want to make money, and the CoD crowd is where it's at. I get it. But that won't stop me from pointing out this game is crap. If the next one is anything at all like this heaping sack of trash I won't be touching it.
The classic rhetorical question arises every 15 seconds while I play this game: WHAT WERE THEY THINKING? How could something that looks and sounds so much like Star Wars be as much fun as PLAN 9 From Outer Space? JESUS CHRIST this is one God awful pile of shit.