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Darth Maul Lives!
by: DarthMaul431
date posted: Jul 18, 2005 6:57 PM
My Hopes for Battlefront II (or any other Battlefront sequels)
This past Christmas I finally got to play Star Wars Battlefront. I had already played the X-Box Demo that was included on the Original Trilogy DVD Bonus Disk, and I couldn't wait to play more. When I finally did get the game I couldn't put it down. I loved being able to explore all of the worlds from the movies (and then Rhen Var from the EU). Now that Battlefront II is expected to be released in the coming year, here are the improvements, changes and additions I hope Lucasarts makes to the sequel (some of these ideas though are definitely not going to be in the game):

1. Starfighter Control - Since Starfighter battles are supposedly one of the prime features in the sequel, I hope that the ability to fly starfighters will be better. In the last game, the flight controls were definitely not the best. I hope that they could work more like the controls of the Rogue Squadron games from Nintendo.

2. New Factions and Inter-Era Play - In the first Battlefront, there were four factions (Galactic Republic, Confederacy of Independent Systems, Galactic Empire, and the Rebel Alliance) that were divided into two different eras (Clone Wars, and Galactic Civil War). During gameplay you could only have factions battle the other factions of that era (for example, you could be the Confederacy against the Rebels). For Battlefront II, if there were to be any new eras/factions there would be the Old Republic and the Sith Empire for the Sith Wars Era and the New Republic and the Yuuzhan Vong for the Yuuzhan Vong War Era. And I always thought it would be cool to have one faction of all Mandalorians and didn't belong to any era. And you could be able to be any faction and battle a faction from any era you like.

3. New Planets/Maps - If there were to be any new locations (I won't mention any confirmed ROTS locations such as Utapau and Mustafar) there would be:

Coruscant
- Streets and the 500 Republica complex (Key Areas: Senate Chamber, Outlander Club)
- Jedi Temple (Key Areas: Council Chamber, Room of a Thousand Fountains)

4. Map Evolution - I thought this was a cool idea, having the same map look different depending on what Era you are playing in. For example if Coruscant Streets/Senate was played during the Clone Wars Era, it would look like it does in the films, but if it was played during the Yuuzhan Vong War Era, it would look like the way it did when the Vong transformed it into Yuuzhan'tar. It would be cool for all of the planets to "evolve" in that sort of way. Another example could be that maybe Hoth wasn't always frozen. Maybe it would look the familiar way it does in the Galactic Civil War Era but maybe a bit more warmer and full of life in the Sith Wars Era.

**I'll update with more ideas as I can think of them. Feel free to post your own ideas**