Unlike the last game, the multiplayer also incorporates a familiar four-class system of 'Assault,' 'Heavy,' 'Officer,' and 'Specialist' and further refined specialty classes, vehicles, and heroes depending on the faction. The system was quickly disabled and eventually overhauled to a linear progression system in the 2.0 patch. Published by EA and primarily the work of DICE, Battlefront II also features a single player story made directed by Motive Studios, and offline arcade and split screen modes for consoles.Īlthough the game lacked a season pass, the incorporation of microtransactions that allowed players to gain an advantage in gameplay upon the game's release was a huge subject of controversy (prompting government-level responses against gambling by Belgium, the Netherlands, and the US State of Hawaii). The successor to 2015's Star Wars Battlefront, Star Wars Battlefront II brings the first- and third-person action shooter gameplay to the wider Star Wars universe, incorporating the Clone Wars of the original games and the First Order - Resistance War of the new trilogy. First-Person Shooter, Third-Person Shooter