Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron

by LucasArts

Product Features

• Commandeer trademark Star Wars vehicles and spacecraft from the Empire's TIE Fighters to the Rebel Alliance's X-wings, as well as AT-RTs, LAATs, Imperial Transports and Droid Fighters.
• Outfit your character like never before. Dictate their battle weapons, armor, species, gender, appearance and physical strengths including hundreds of unlockable items and bonuses.
• Battle friends in intense four-player skirmishes on the Nintendo DS and DSi.
• Play classic characters like Luke Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Kit Fisto, Darth Maul, Count Dooku and Boba Fett, plus new characters from the Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed video games.
• Battle on some of the most iconic Star Wars planets and locations from the feature films, all with multi-layered battlefronts, such as Tatooine, Endor, Yavin 4 and Hoth through 11 campaign levels.

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001CBBYKQ
• Product Dimensions: 5.7 x 4.9 x 0.6 inches ; 3 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: November 3, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,049 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Platform: Nintendo DS

Amazon.com Product Description

Star Wars Battlefront is back and bigger than ever on the DS and DSi. A third-person shooter, Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron is the deepest and most action-packed Star Wars Battlefront game ever. Experience battlefronts that span ground, space and capital starships, a robust original storyline and expanded gameplay features--including 4-player multiplayer support--that deliver seemingly endless replayability. Story and Gameplay The storyline of Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron concerns the two clone trooper brothers X2 and X1. Clones created using Jedi DNA, they were originally designed to aid in Order 66, the great Jedi purge set in motion by Chancellor Palpatine as a pretext to establishing the Empire. However, X2 chooses to foresake this path and instead joins the rebel alliance, standing opposed to his brother, X1, who remains aligned with the dark side and the plans of the revealed Darth Sidious. An evolution of the Battlefront experience. View larger. Gameplay Levels and Features Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron allows players to engage in combat on multiple levels where every action matters. On the ground players fight both on foot and utilizing a variety of vehicles, units and weapons, while an assortment of Rebel and Imperial craft takes the fight into space, with brief cutscenes between levels creating a seamless experience. Whether on the ground or in the air, the player's combat stats have direct consequences on the overall outcome of battles. The game also features multiple game modes and features, including: class-based gameplay, where you take advantage of numerous character classes, each with their own specialized weapons and tools; Heroes and Villains Mode, where you play as favorite characters from the Star Wars universe; and 4-player multiplayer support via a Nintendo DS Wi-Fi connection. Key Game Features Fight on an expanded battlefront that spans multiple layers of action – start the fight on foot, commandeer a vehicle and dogfight in space, and land your craft on and fight in capital starships – your actions in each area directly affect the outcome on others. Take the lead role in an engrossing, never-before-told storyline that puts you in the middle of the action of the most memorable battles spanning the entire Star Wars saga and beyond. Unique class-based gameplay on the DS/DSi let you take advantage of numerous character classes, each with their own specialized weapons and tools and even the ability to carry a lightsaber into battle. Feel the rush of combat with 4-player multiplayer matches via a Nintendo Wi-Fi connection. Let loose your inner Jedi or Sith in the special "Heroes and Villains" mode where you can play classic characters like Luke Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Kit Fisto, Darth Maul, Count Dooku, Asajj Ventress, Boba Fett, plus new characters from the Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed video games. Battle on some of the most iconic Star Wars planets and locations from the feature films, all with multi-layered battlefronts, such as Tatooine, Endor, Yavin 4 and Hoth through 11 campaign levels. Commandeer trademark Star Wars vehicles and spacecraft from the Empire’s TIE Fighters to the Rebel Alliance’s X-wings, as well as AT-RTs, LAATs, Imperial Transports and Droid Fighters. Screenshots: Fight on foot. View larger. And into space. View larger. 4-person multiplayer. View larger. Class-based combat. View larger.

Product Description

Star Wars Battlefront is back and bigger than ever on the PSP (PlayStation Portable) system and Nintendo DS! Releasing this Fall, Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron is the deepest and most action-packed Star Wars Battlefront game ever. Experience battlefronts that span ground, space and capital starships, a robust original storyline and expanded gameplay features that deliver endless replayability. Fight on an expanded battlefront that spans multiple layers of action. Start the fight on foot, commandeer a vehicle and dogfight in space, and land your craft on and fight in capital starships. Your actions in each area directly affect the outcome on others. Take the lead role in an engrossing, never-before-told storyline that puts you in the middle of the action of the most memorable battles spanning the entire Star Wars saga and beyond. Massive amounts of replay value and customization ensure that every battle you take part in is unique and different!

Customer Reviews

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14 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Ok till you beat the game., December 12, 2009

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Micheal Hunt (Hellbourne) - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron (Video Game)

You begin playing this game as a stormtrooper named X1 (or X2) both X1 & X2 are the first storm troopers in the Star Wars universe, or something like that, and you are given missions (stages) to run through and complete. In the first few stages you are playing during the time of Star Wars Episode 1, and progress through each chapter of the trilogy to beyond Return Of The Jedi where as you progress your skills get better and better where you start as a weak like storm trooper and eventually become a Jedi Knight. Tho the missions are not part of what is seen in the Star Wars saga, as you are not in control of Luke Skywalker or anyone like that. This is kind of like "Shadows Of The Empire" where you are in control of someone else that is more an unseen storyline from the movies.

Most of the gameplay is a type of birdseye view of your character where you run him around to blow away the bad guys and reach certain areas of the stage. You also obtain 4 different sets of weaponry, where you have your main weapon that does not run out of ammo, and you have a secondary weapon that does more damage then the regular one, but has limited ammo, as well as another weapon that is usually a bomb of some sort. As you graduate through the game, you unlock these weapons where there are markers in the game that you can switch between these weapons as various different objects from the 4 sets of weapons are needed. However, by the time you have finished the game, this method seems almost useless and annoying making you wonder why you cant just toggle through the 8 weapons, 8 alternate weapons and 8 alternate bombs/ect.

There is also stages where you are in control of an X-Wing, Speeder or Snow Speeder and things like that, where you simply just fly around and shoot tie fighters and turrets and things in space.

There is more to the game play then that, but I think that is enough info for this review.

So is the game any fun?

For a nDS game, it's not bad. But like many of these kind of games, it falls into that well known class where it is fun/ok while you are playing it, but once you beat the game, there is no replay value due to lack of options to keep you interested. The things you unlock in this game besides weapons ect, are completely useless. there is a gallery to view the still photos you see during the campaign of the game. And about 17 achievements to earn that are worthless and unrewarding. Some of the achievements are pretty pathetic, actually, most of them are. Achievements like kill 20 storm troopers, advance to this level, and things like that make no sense as you have to defeat all the storm troopers on the stages or else the gates and doorways for level progressing won't work anyway, so why bother to make that an achievement when it's something that will happen anyway? weather you want it to or not. It may as well have achievements like "you turned this game on" - "You used the A button" - "You farted during gameplay". Those things are just not very well thought out.

The other thing is once you have beaten the game, there is no desire to replay the whole thing again. And there are no new modes, levels, weapons, or anything at all to unlock once the game is completed. And even worse, there is no level select when you beat it either. If you want to go replay a mission, you have to start a campaign again and start from the beginning.

I have no idea about wifi or 2 player modes, I have only played 1 player and have no desire to check those modes out.

So, if you plan to check this game out, coughROMScough is your best bet. If you want to buy it, well, if you are a die hard Star Wars fan and just have to have it, then ok, but if you are thinking this might be a fun game to try, then I suggest you do not pay a lot for it. It will only take you about a day or two to finish the whole thing, and you will be disappointed in the lack of replay value that is next to none.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars game fun, but too easy, November 14, 2010

A Kid's Review

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron (Video Game)

The game is preety good, it has a good storyline. But the game is too easy. I completed nearly half the game after school. I don't even know why its rated teen. My younger brother watches me and doesn't get scared. Al in al the game is great, but just too easy.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Do NOT listen to all the lies!!!!!!!!!!, August 18, 2010

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Blessed with 4 - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron (Video Game)

I got this game, and, while in the mail, I worried if I should have got it, if I wasted my money, that kind of stuff. Well It came, I opened ,and I loved it! You NEED to get this game!

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