It's Jedi Knight meets Battlefield 1942 and it's coming soon from LucasArts!!
Read about it here!! (http://www.gamespy.com/previews/january04/swbattlefront/index.shtml)
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Star Wars Battlefront gives you the chance to play as a soldier in intense multiplayer battles with up to 32 people. Choose your allegiance and pick a soldier from one of four different armies. Fight on ten legendary planets and use a variety of weapons and vehicles, including X-wings, snowspeeders and AT-ST’s. Keep your wits about you and victory may be within your reach. Experience the chaos of battle as you fight the greatest wars in the Star Wars universe.

i think this looks pretty good. Most Star Wars games are.

Is it an online, Halo style shooter? Is that the idea?

Yeah, pretty much.

Originally posted by smeagol wants fishess
i think this looks pretty good. Most Star Wars games are.
by the way... I take issue with this.

Until recently, most Star Wars games were mediocre to pretty bad.

As evidence, I present FORCE COMMANDER

Or, check out the old Star Wars ripoff of Master of Orion. The name escapes me. Star Wars Galaxy or something like that.

I just skimmed through the article. Will you be able to use the vehicles and ships?

What about X-Wing and DF2: Jedi Knight?
They were both classics. X-wing pretty much started the whole space sim genre.

I've played a lot of Star Wars games but DF2: Jedi Knight was the only one I've bought.

and did you forget about:
http://lucasarts.com/products/naboo/images/subpage/art.jpg

and:
http://www.cyberkids.com/cy/so/ga/images/jarjar.jpg

Originally posted by FilmHobbit
by the way... I take issue with this.

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Or, check out the old Star Wars ripoff of Master of Orion. The name escapes me. Star Wars Galaxy or something like that.

I believe your talking Rebellion? I actually own that game and still enjoy it. But I will agree, its a mini-version of Master of Orion. Was Ok.

I enjoyed JKII, fun game. And it's original, Dark Trooper. Doom meets Star Wars. Oh, and X-Wing was an awesome flight simulator game.

Those are the ones I've played and enjoyed. Never touched any of the rest simpliy because they looks too arcadish.

The X-Wing/Tie Fighter series are some of the best games made EVER.

After that, Lucasarts did not put out one GREAT game until Knights of the Old Republic. They had a lot of lousy ones and a few mediocre ones in between.

That especially applies to every game in the Dark Forces series, even Jedi Outkast... which I LOVE as multiplayer but is absolute SHIT singleplayer.

Puzzle games are LAME ASS and that's all DF ever has been. sucks the fun right out of the experience and keeps you from really being immersed in the Star Wars universe.

Best Star Wars Games EVER:
1. X-Wings/Tie Fighter
2. Knights of the Old Republic
-------- droppoff to mediocrity
3. Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds
4. Jedi Outcast
5. The rest of the Dark Forces crap
6. Rogue Squadron
------- dropoff to garbage
8. everything else.

Rebellion is a HORRIBLY FLAWED and buggy game. The fleet combat locks up and doesn't even work right. It could have been mediocre but bugs made it dreck. :(

I think what I really meant to say was that compared to most movie games, Star Wars ones tend to be better.

Originally posted by smeagol wants fishess
I think what I really meant to say was that compared to most movie games, Star Wars ones tend to be better.
Compared to Star Trek games I guess you're right.

Has there ever been a really good Star Trek game?

Star Fleet Command is pretty good, but suffers from being 2D.

Elite Force is pretty cool. Ever play that, Hobbit?

Originally posted by smeagol wants fishess
Elite Force is pretty cool. Ever play that, Hobbit?
Yeah a little. It's so so.

Originally posted by FilmHobbit
Rebellion is a HORRIBLY FLAWED and buggy game. The fleet combat locks up and doesn't even work right. It could have been mediocre but bugs made it dreck. :(

I have never had a single combat lock up on that game. Honestly, when I examine it, there's only one bug I ever encountered, and it was minor and easily corrected.

::Shrugs:: Note, I'm not defending it as a great game, I just wanna put out there that my experience of it was quiet different from yours.

I know at least 5 other people who bought it and we all had the same problems. You were very lucky.

Even when it was working the fleet combat system was POOR. Ambitious, but POOR.