Star Wars Battlefront 2 - Then vs Now (Which is BETTER?) Part 1

With soo many great star wars games, the Original Battlefront 2 is regraded as the best. But its remake has become an amazing game over recent years. Has the remake of Star Wars Battlefront 2 made the original Irrelevant? Is everyone nostalgically biased when comparing the 2 games? Lets find out!

In this Part we compare the core gameplay of the 2 games to see which is actually better!

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[Hero_of_Sinnoh]

Love all the comments! Be sure to watch the full video before critiquing a point

[hardcorehuman]

To me the original just has a style and immersion that the newer games just can’t capture despite the graphics and gameplay “improvements”

[xxkbxx]

The original battlefront 2 will probably be the best Star Wars game I’ve ever played it was so much and there’s so much to do you never got bored playing it

[theyoungcentrist]

Classic BF2 and the battlefront 2 made by Dice has it's pros and cons. For instance, the heroes in Dice Battlefront is better than how they were in the original battlefront 2. But I do like the feature of vehicles spawning on the maps better than spending battle points to play as a starfighter, a AT-ST and a TX-130.

[TheZamaron]

OG has some things that makes it so much better, the new one is awesome for how canonically accurate it is and the higher level of detail, the maps are amazing and feel realistic. But the old game is better gameplay wise as it has more diverse feeling units, much more content to play, and for the battles it actually has a strategic element to it. The remake feels like you just spawn in and do your best against the enemy and hope you get lucky with enough points to get the unit you want like a vehicle or hero, sure you can hop out of a vehicle, but the downside is that is soon blows up, so it;s best to pick your vehicle and fight till you die anyway. While the OG you can have ore strategy to it by seeing where the CPs are at and either solo or in multiplayer try to coordinate with your friends, or solo you can often be a shifting factor based on how you aproach an engagement. For example an enginner/pilot is best class if you choose to use mainly a vehicle as you can slowly heal it while driving, or if it's taking too much damage attempt to find a safe place to go, hop out, then repair it. They also act as medics and ammo suppliers. But they are often the weakest having only a shotgun for close combat. Each units felt unique and had a useful role, and again in solo how YOU choose to aproach a battle can often determine victory or defeat. In multiplayer having a friend means you can hop into avehicle with ultiple seats. Often I'd apporach a CP and one would stay int he vehicle to provide support while one attampted to capture the CP. THe fact that how many CPs you owned would effect your reinforcment count also gave some strategy, the less CPs means your troops will be more concentrated on yor CPs makingn them easier to defend, but having more means your troops are more spread out, thus it's easier to lose CPs. Essentially do you try and go on the offensive to take as many as you can and get and advantage id sucessful, or do you try more defensive and work to keep at least half the CPs, and so your game then becomes more skill based. Overall the game has more factors allowing actual strategy rather then simply throwing yourselves at the battle and hoping you win.

[rodentRoundup]

Playing the classic BF2 online today is terrifying. The only two classes played are sharpshooter and engineer. Everyone it just one-shotting each other with sniper rifles, or using an aim-flick technique to throw det-packs down hallways and nuke choke-points. It has been refined down to a slaughterhouse.
Yeah we thought it'd be fun to play it online just like old times but nah, we were not ready for this new age of warfare.

[wings]

Being able to board other ships in space battles in the og game is sick

[brendan]

If EA BF2 had galactic conquest like the original, I would probably never play the og again as much as I love it tbh.

But sadly they never brought it over, so it feels a bit lacking on solo/splitscreen action to do

[dantefredul]

I can't agree with the new version having "just as fluid movement". The rolls and he janky jedi/melee attacks do not feel good at all. And the diversity you supposedly get with all the customization goes away in the 1st minute of every battle because points are actually REALLY easy to get, and everyone jumps to the same few specialist classes and plays more or less the same way - save for that new guy you run into once a week that plays officer and sticks to it willingly just to help the team (that's me).

Also, not touching on the reward bonuses, like the Precision Pistol from Gunslinger feels wrong. Those points/kill bonuses were a big part of the game too. In the new game you pretty much ALWAYS want to upgrade to a specialist class - but in the original, those bonuses were an incentive for those that were great at the character they put hard work into - or were just really good at.

I also am just very dissatisfied with the space battles, as that was a huge part of the original game for me - it's what made me think the original Battlefront was just "a cool little game" while the sequel was awesome.

All that being said - I really wish there was a way to mix the maps. I always wanted Bespin in old BF2, but i want Mygeeto, Mustafar, and the old Kashykk in the new game. There's nothing wrong with most of the new maps. There are just some that are way worse than others - but that's how it was in the original. None of you can convince me that Felucia on PS2/360 was a great map. Straight dogwater. The new Felucia is laughably better - even if it feels way too big sometimes.

[FilmProductions]

I think the biggest critique with Battlefront 2 2017 is that the developers at Dice were arrogant and didn't realize that OG Battlefront was essentially a Star Wars reskin of Battlefield. If they had just given us Battlefield 1 with a Star Wars aesthetic it would've been perfect.

[radicalcentrist]

I played the new one only for a little bit, it didn't keep me hooked. I guess there's just more beauty in simplicity.

[Coleskywalker]

Both games are good in their own way, but if battlefront 3 fully got released it would be over, because bf3 would have the high ground

[Sangth]

Why the new Battlefront games didn't allow for multi-person vehicles is beyond me.

[jaceshoop]

Personally they are both great in different ways

[dokutah]

The galactic Conquest and full space battles are what makes the difference to me

Sure the classes and customization in the new games are better, but the loss of those features kills it for me

Sure you get to fight on the capital ships in the new games but it’s basically just another map instead of an actual battle to get to the ships in space

[JohnnyGobs]

One of my favorite childhood memories is all the Saturday nights I would spend with my old man setting up a map playlist with our own story and cranking the reinforcements up so the battles would last a long time. Or my favorite being on opposite teams so I can camp his last spawn with an AT AT on hoth.😂 ah good times. Lol I still play this game and Jedi academy on the regular tho.

[definitelynotacrab]

One point as to why the original 2 will always be better.

IN GALACTIC CONQUEST

[giannicolamatteo]

Vehicles spawning on maps makes more sense than having battle points in way, because the vehicles had set numbers and would just respawn when destroyed so you wouldnt run the risk of the map beeing flooded with tanks , sure youd be waiting for it to respawn but its better to wait in game while takeimg potshots rather than sitting in a menu for ages only to have some lucky noob take it and die causing you to wait even more

[jarrodedson]

To summarize it up in my opinion no, this game is still amazing....to me EA battlefront 2 hasn't held up

[invaderIRK]

Being a player of the original 2005 Bf2, I Still prefer the new Bf2 that Dice made. After all the Love Dice put into fixing and updating everything about it, It Brought to life everything I imagined doing when I was a kid playing the original.

The original bf2 was my favourite starwars game for a very long time. But the remake is just that good!