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Luke and Vader would deflect all blaster
fire targeted at them automatically. Even
explosions didn’t do any damage, although
they would throw them into the air.
That was my game. I’d load up Bespin:
Platforms, a series of interconnected
floating… well, platforms. The clue was in
the name. I used to camp at the end of one
of the bridges, holding off the enemy. Then
when Vader or Luke arrived (depending on
what side I’d picked) I’d try to blow them

BATTLEFRONT: LOOKING FORWARD AND
LOOKING BACK

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ideogames used to be for kids.

By Ross Brown
The first Battlefront was great, I loved

over the edge to score a kill. Hours of fun.
That was good. I enjoyed playing my
mini game-within-a-game and Star Wars:
Battlefront was a stellar game overall.
Battlefront II was just plain brilliant though.
I was a student when Battlefront II came

Then we grew up. We’ve been

it. I wasn’t really playing multiplayer much

out, living in a house share with three other

playing games for...wow, it must be

when it came along, so spent most of my time

guys, all of whom loved gaming. We’d been

about 30 years now. That’s a long

playing single-player against bots. Actually, I

retroing it up until then, mostly playing Mario

time. You might be one of those

had one very specific game I liked to play.

from the first gamer generation, and maybe you’ve
played hundreds of games in that time. You might
not be that old, and have less years under your belt.
Doesn’t matter. Whether you’ve played a dozen

Before playable Jedi Knights were
introduced in the sequel, you could have AI

Kart, Snowboard Kids and Perfect Dark on the

Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader join the battle.

N64. Battlefront II was the first game to get us

They were almost unkillable. Almost.

all playing modern (for the time) technology.

games, or 500 games, you can probably count on
We generally played four-player co-op against

one hand the titles that left their mark on you, the
ones that left the most important memories. Not
ju st because they were great games, but because
they had a real impact on your life at the time.

DID YOU KNOW?
The word “ewok” is never said out
loud in any of the Star Wars movies.

the AI. Sort of. My housemates were a bunch
of untrustworthy shits you see, so each game
we played was uneasy alliance as we waited for
the inevitable betrayal by one person that would
plunge things into an orgy of chaos and team-

Star Wars: Battlefront II did that for me.

killing for the rest of the game. Great times.
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