Battlefront II: The Prequel not the Sequel Era
January 14, 2017
Star Wars Battlefront was a huge release back in 2015, with its sequel game to be released later this year by publisher EA and developer DICE. The game is slated to be featuring the newest set of films by Disney, Episode 7 and 8. Although this is exciting, it also could be a missed opportunity.
The life of a video game, meaning the updates and downloadable content (for typical EA games), is about one year. Battlefront’s last DLC was released in December of 2016, a year and two months after the release of the game. It’s DLC was released alongside the Star Wars Anthology film ‘Rogue One’ which featured maps and two characters from the movie.
If EA and DICE were to release the next Battlefront based on the sequel era of movies, it would only have content from episode 7 and 8. It would not have content from episode 9 since that does not release until 2019, two years after the release date of episode 8. That is why Battlefront II should focus on the Prequel era. The game would be released later this year in 2017 then have a full year of DLC content with its last DLC featuring content from the Young Han Solo film that is reportedly taking place during or shortly after the prequel era. This would then line up perfectly with Battlefront III releasing alongside Star Wars Episode 9 and subsequently featuring Episode 7 and 8 in the game.
What content could be featured:
The Prequel era has so much content to be used and explored from the three films to the television movie and show. If EA and DICE follow the same model as before then there would be three heroes and villains for the start and then one of each would be added in with the four DLCs.
The heroes featured on the initial release could be Padme Amidala, Anakin Skywalker and Yoda. The three Villains featured on the initial release could be Count Dooku, Chancellor Palpatine and General Grievous. Then of course is the four DLC packs which the first could be Naboo and release Darth Maul and Qui Gon Jinn.
The second DLC could feature Obi Wann Kenobi and Jango Fett with maps from Geonosis and Kamino. The third DLC could feature Kashyyyk and have Chewbacca and Cad Bane (the bounty hunter from the clone wars TV show). The final DLC could feature the young Han Solo and whoever the main villain is in the film.
There are numerous types of clone trooper and droid variants as well as ships and vehicles that could be featured. There are also many Heroes and Villains that could be released for added characters from the clone wars TV show. Here is a list of potential Heroes and Villains that were not mentioned above.
Heroes:
Ahsoka Tano
Mace Windu
Kit Fisto
Plo Koon
Luminara Unduli
Ki-Adi-Mundi
Villains:
Asajj Ventress
Savage Opress
Aurra Sing
Embo
Rake Hardeen
Mother Talzin.
Tanner • Jan 30, 2017 at 1:27 am
I also think that there should be a prequel battlefront before the they do the force awakens. The prequel films would make a good
game in battlefront
Dean • Jan 17, 2017 at 7:58 pm
I completely agree with this article. If EA was smart, they would hold off on doing a Sequel Trilogy Era Battlefront until the films are actually complete. Very unwise for them to ignore the mountains of available content at their disposal. I would rather play Clone Wars content than Resistance/First Order which (at the moment) would just be a reskin of the Galactic Civil War.
Brian • Jan 15, 2017 at 3:00 am
Yeah, except that the only characters from the PT films that anyone besides the geekiest of geeks is familiar with are almost universally hated. It’s just not an era that sits well with most people, because of how it was handled on film.
They should have made a Battlefront OT Part One, and a Battlefront OT Part Two. They could have milked yet another year’s worth out of it, AND not have to release a Sequel Trilogy game in mid stream.