The problem with Star Wars in general is “ bad guy is bad” and build the stories around the revels instead of the universe. I want a story where the empire is the good guy, showing why so many people sign up to be part of it, even more seen the rebels being terrorist and the real bad guys to the empire and the galaxy.
I have never been a fan of multiplayer games, but man, this game has me hooked. I am busy with my 3rd campaign playthrough (bumped up the difficulty), but it is the 5v5 Dogfight mode that got me addicted. I absolutely love it. Especially the asteroid field. I agree that the Yavin map is not that fun. With my PSVR and Thrustmaster Hotas 4, this game really is the realization of a fantasy I have had for decades...I grew up on Star Wars, Buck Rogers, Battlestar Galactica and The Last Starfighter. I remember laying on my back and looking at the stars in the back of our station wagon as a child when we had to drive somewhere at night and imagining that the back window was my cockpit window...And now I sit at work every day waiting for the horn to blow so I can get home and jump into the cockpit of my beautiful little A-Wing....
I would love to be able to CHOOSE to be a bad guy// How come so many think everyone has to be the so called good guy.. Isn't the bad guys the good guys in their way of thinking.
@@ansonpang910 there are services with way more value like playstation now and xbox gamepass. Playstation now is 60$ a year and you get games like bloodborne, resident evil 7, metal gear solid v, final fantasy xv, littlebigplanet 3, doom, the last of us remastered,hitman 2, dead cells, hollow knight and way more
is this similar to rouge squadron 2? I enjoyed that game. I bought it day one. Played it a lot as a kid. The unlocks seemed endless. Or does it play like battlefront 2 ship levels? Ill prob pick it up anyways.
Neither. Think the old X-Wing and TIE Fighter PC games. It's a Starfighter Simulator, not an arcade action game (which both the whole Rogue Squadron series and BF 2's starfighter assault are)
A real classic game for sure! Friend had it on his PC. But... Afterburner Arcade: Stick, throttle,Trigger, missile/bomb, start game, eject coin 1, eject coin 2. 3 buttons (for flight). X Wing: Alliance has over 100 controls, if the pilot wants to be picky.
Bought this game last night and spent 45 min playin on PS4 VR before I threw up... literally.... nerveless I did enjoy it a lot because I've been playing SW games since the early 90's (Rebel Assault, TIE Figher .... ) and this game really makes you feel you are actually there until yeah... you throw up because you loose the sense of time and space.
This game is not arcady in ANY way. and DEFINATELY does NOT cater to all players. its an insanely hard game with a high skill cap. It's not "accessible" like you say.
I don't know this doesn't look that appealing to me bc it just look like the star fighters mode from battlefront and that was bad so this just looks like a full game of that
I thought that when i first heard it was coming out trust me man its not its amazing way better than starfighter assult ur ships dont pop in 5 seconds of being in a match for a start so much fun to play with freinds yeah people say there not much content but tbh its early days yet its good for a laugh and the vr is deff a game changer
Reasonable score. I see it also as 7/10 game: good, but not great. I’ll just keep flying and exploring in Elite. Also can’t wait for Microsoft Flight Simulators Xbox release.
@wesley lol Developers latest update in October says: “The release date has not been announced yet. We will share more information regarding the Xbox release in the future.” But hopefully it is sooner than later in 2021.
the biggest issue for me......no DLC content. which has been confirmed, so i don't feel that it will have a long, popular shelf life, but will be played by hardcore SW flight gamers, which is fine. I just wanted more ships, maps, the MF, etc...
Since its free on the ps store for this month, I decided to give it a shot. Its a good game. Not great or fantastic...just good. I mean I'm having some fun playing it, but if it was on my game rack, I would pull something else out to play. I'd rate it as a 3.8 on a 0 to 5 scale
Those rapid fire lasers are not very Star wars. =/ They need to fix the fire rate. Also that speed boosting doesn´t belong here. Love old X-wing games but this looks awful.
@@Darthadios For the authentic just stick basic layouts onto the ships and don't overclock anything. No boost or different weapons. At that rate the combat is just a slightly more complicated battlefront, which is much more limiting
Oh, that's right, Star Wars is totally white. Lando Calrissian, Mace Windu, etc just got their skin darkened. No, it doesn't "take you out of the universe" at all, that's an obvious lie to excuse your outright racist bullshit. There are and ALWAYS HAVE BEEN minorities in Star Wars. You don't like that? Then Star Wars isn't, and has never been, for you. Good luck with your tiny little racist world.
So there are fewer races in the galaxy than there are on earth? How does that make sense? Is outer space only for white Americans and English thespians?
Would understand if said something about the Game Cube game, but the N64 game looks like shit even compared to that. It's hard to take you seriously when saying shit like this. Anyway, this is not an AAA game.
7/10? Fucking absurd. This game shines on VR. Easily 10/10 with VR. 12/10 with VR and airplane controllers for pc. And a super solid 9/10 and I don't review games much. Super missed opportunity GameSpot. Pathetic.
You’re the one that makes it an issue. It doesn’t impact the gameplay in anyway. I suggest looking inward and asking yourself why seeing women or PoC in the Star Wars universe bothers you :) And the thing is that if you play the game you will see that there is a balance there. Just play the game and enjoy it.
Oh no, there's non-white people in the game! It must be some cultural marxist conspiracy! It couldn't possibly be that people that aren't white actually exist or anything!
You gave FIFA21, a game that is basically copy-pasted every year and filled with gambling a 8/10 and you give THIS a 7/10?! ...GTFO this is why no one takes game journalism seriously!
For me they should make the starships look more faster, but that is minor, an effect here and there would resolve. Anyway im not giving one penny to EA ever again so i guess i wont play it.
@@samhyatt4863 guess im not, missing out an generic game that will last for a couple of months and die? No, thank u, going to spend my money on cyberpunk and Genshin Impact, that's a no brainer for me.
Matheus Junqueira i mean the game is a hardcore, team based competitive game, so it definitely wont die out within the first few months. not to mention how fun the game is. even Shroud has been streaming squadrons quite a bit since its launch.
Matheus Junqueira yeah just do a little more research on the game. the skill ceiling is insanely high. and that isn’t really an opinion thing. if you start to try and get really good at the game you’ll realize how much skill it takes to actually be a good player
Hey everyone, get a load of this! This guy thinks the Rebel Alliance/New Republic are communists. Have you ever seen someone blurt out their stupidity so readily?
Why oh why do SW games’ campaigns always have to show us someone defecting? Let the bad guys be bad guys for once, this is getting so predictable
It happens on any side of every war ever
It happens in the prologue. The rest of the imperial campaign everyone is perfectly happy being the bad guy.
and not even “let bad guys be bad guys”
Imagine if they were humanized as a unit for the empire? That would be so cool
@@DanielLopez-fj9yz It does, but it's starting to become an overused trope in SW games. It was the same thing in Battlefront 2
The problem with Star Wars in general is “ bad guy is bad” and build the stories around the revels instead of the universe. I want a story where the empire is the good guy, showing why so many people sign up to be part of it, even more seen the rebels being terrorist and the real bad guys to the empire and the galaxy.
It makes you FEEL like Starwars.
2:31 You missed the setting that allows granular power diversion.
hands down one of my top fav game specially in vr. We need a No Man Sky verson of star wars
I have never been a fan of multiplayer games, but man, this game has me hooked. I am busy with my 3rd campaign playthrough (bumped up the difficulty), but it is the 5v5 Dogfight mode that got me addicted. I absolutely love it. Especially the asteroid field. I agree that the Yavin map is not that fun. With my PSVR and Thrustmaster Hotas 4, this game really is the realization of a fantasy I have had for decades...I grew up on Star Wars, Buck Rogers, Battlestar Galactica and The Last Starfighter. I remember laying on my back and looking at the stars in the back of our station wagon as a child when we had to drive somewhere at night and imagining that the back window was my cockpit window...And now I sit at work every day waiting for the horn to blow so I can get home and jump into the cockpit of my beautiful little A-Wing....
Thats great... makes me want a VR just to play this!
The game deserves way better score. def a 9/10 game for me and reviewers who played in VR all give it a 10/10 for vr.
does this require a controller or does a keyboard and mouse set up have good functionality?
Bought the game and keyboard and mouse works just fine, although you really need to turn the mouse sensitivity down to nothing.
VR is the only way to play this.
its a better way to play but def not the only way. its still super fun without vr
@@samhyatt4863 I was worried about this since I really can’t afford VR or HOTAS right now...
Gabriel S yeah still 100% worth the $40. I dont have either and ive been having tons of fun even just using xbox one.
So almost no mention of how the VR feature is actually a game changer. Great job Gamespot...
Gonna buy soon. Do a lot of people play still?
I just bought it today. Epic Games Store SALE!!!!
I would love to be able to CHOOSE to be a bad guy// How come so many think everyone has to be the so called good guy.. Isn't the bad guys the good guys in their way of thinking.
I'll wait to buy in a year when its 5$ or free on ps+
missing out
Get ea play
@@ansonpang910 why would he buy a service for only 1 game that he dosnt care about that much
@@y0av359 cause ea play have on of the best value in gaming industry
@@ansonpang910 there are services with way more value like playstation now and xbox gamepass. Playstation now is 60$ a year and you get games like bloodborne, resident evil 7, metal gear solid v, final fantasy xv, littlebigplanet 3, doom, the last of us remastered,hitman 2, dead cells, hollow knight and way more
I'm really gonna miss watching reviews done by Edmond 💔
did he die?
@@danacoleman4007 lol no. He's no longer working for Gamespot
edmond tran is as professional as ever
Wasn't he laid off?
is this similar to rouge squadron 2? I enjoyed that game. I bought it day one. Played it a lot as a kid. The unlocks seemed endless.
Or does it play like battlefront 2 ship levels?
Ill prob pick it up anyways.
Neither. Think the old X-Wing and TIE Fighter PC games. It's a Starfighter Simulator, not an arcade action game (which both the whole Rogue Squadron series and BF 2's starfighter assault are)
@@chrisallen9638 will prob pick it up.
Rouge Squadron? Is that about a bunch of dancers from the Moulin Rouge? 😂😂
*Rogue
From what I've seen, I think this game deserves an 8 but that's just me
If you have VR and a flight controller, this game is a solid 10/10
Bye Edmond. See you around somewhere?
The re routing the power is like the combat in elite dangerous
The original afterburner game had more buttons and switches on the screen than a modern day star wars game.
A real classic game for sure! Friend had it on his PC.
But...
Afterburner Arcade: Stick, throttle,Trigger, missile/bomb, start game, eject coin 1, eject coin 2.
3 buttons (for flight).
X Wing: Alliance has over 100 controls, if the pilot wants to be picky.
Bought this game last night and spent 45 min playin on PS4 VR before I threw up... literally.... nerveless I did enjoy it a lot because I've been playing SW games since the early 90's (Rebel Assault, TIE Figher .... ) and this game really makes you feel you are actually there until yeah... you throw up because you loose the sense of time and space.
I still have the games you referred to in the beginning and personally I miss those days on microsoft game platforms
this game underestimates my pronounce
Great review! Loving this game
Good review!
This game is not arcady in ANY way. and DEFINATELY does NOT cater to all players. its an insanely hard game with a high skill cap. It's not "accessible" like you say.
It's a hell of a lot more arcadey than actual hard core flight games....
Just because it's your first flight game doesn't mean it's the be all end all
Harder than ace combat? Even that can be arcadey.
I don't know this doesn't look that appealing to me bc it just look like the star fighters mode from battlefront and that was bad so this just looks like a full game of that
You’re greatly mistaken its very different! I held off on it and just bought it. Love this game a lot!
I thought that when i first heard it was coming out trust me man its not its amazing way better than starfighter assult ur ships dont pop in 5 seconds of being in a match for a start so much fun to play with freinds yeah people say there not much content but tbh its early days yet its good for a laugh and the vr is deff a game changer
Way better than Starfighter Assault. Your hull can take damage for one thing. Plus you have control over your ship (shields, speed, lasers).
Great review
I bought this game solely for vr. It's always great when a game supports that feature properly.
Reasonable score. I see it also as 7/10 game: good, but not great. I’ll just keep flying and exploring in Elite. Also can’t wait for Microsoft Flight Simulators Xbox release.
@wesley lol Developers latest update in October says: “The release date has not been announced yet. We will share more information regarding the Xbox release in the future.” But hopefully it is sooner than later in 2021.
Love that stuf
It's a great game with some issues
the biggest issue for me......no DLC content. which has been confirmed, so i don't feel that it will have a long, popular shelf life, but will be played by hardcore SW flight gamers, which is fine. I just wanted more ships, maps, the MF, etc...
@@damonmcfarland9364 100% agree with you there.
@@damonmcfarland9364 Wait, you *want* EA to get up to their usual shenanigans?
Almost 15 minutes of review and the most important aspect in this game (VR) are not mentioned.
Are you guys really a channel about videogames?
Can you play ai in the multi player missions
Can you just play this on a ps4 not vr?
yes
Since its free on the ps store for this month, I decided to give it a shot. Its a good game. Not great or fantastic...just good. I mean I'm having some fun playing it, but if it was on my game rack, I would pull something else out to play. I'd rate it as a 3.8 on a 0 to 5 scale
Note to self: GS score is 7.
Game is just flying I’ll wait for the next Star Wars game
Isn't this a repost?
Damn this Review is late as hell
Great Simpsons cut in there
where?
Man you guys just reviewing this kinda late yeah?
Star Wars Squadrons really makes you FEEL like someone who regrets spending money on another EA game.
Wait so it's just Tie Fighter but with less features.
But with all the modern advancements and spectacle.
If this game got a seven then the last of us part should be a fucken 5
5 out of 5 maybe.
@@The_Wailing_Doom good joke
Boo boo Joel's widow
Nice to see a review that is not 5 minutes!
Finally a good game from EA
Milford men !
yo its me
Is the gender locked for either faction character?
I read you guys fired Jess? Is that true?
Wish they didn’t scrap the force unleashed 3 would’ve been way better than this
Those rapid fire lasers are not very Star wars. =/ They need to fix the fire rate. Also that speed boosting doesn´t belong here.
Love old X-wing games but this looks awful.
Wanna complain about each laser and phase that wasn't explicitly mentioned in star wars book issue 693?
@@hyperx72 You probably never seen the movies ? I want it to be authentic. And it´s current state it´s not.
@@Darthadios
For the authentic just stick basic layouts onto the ships and don't overclock anything. No boost or different weapons.
At that rate the combat is just a slightly more complicated battlefront, which is much more limiting
It fits Star *Wars* better than Star *Trek*
I feel like there no difference between the SWBF2 space bartles
Sorry but there are soooo many minorities, takes me straight out of the universe...
@Lando its okay, you can have your opinion and i can have mine ;)
Oh, that's right, Star Wars is totally white. Lando Calrissian, Mace Windu, etc just got their skin darkened.
No, it doesn't "take you out of the universe" at all, that's an obvious lie to excuse your outright racist bullshit. There are and ALWAYS HAVE BEEN minorities in Star Wars. You don't like that? Then Star Wars isn't, and has never been, for you.
Good luck with your tiny little racist world.
So there are fewer races in the galaxy than there are on earth? How does that make sense? Is outer space only for white Americans and English thespians?
Played for five minutes, uninstalled and will never play anything ea ever again
Why
Yeah why exactly?
7/10
Thanks god is not for the switch
Why do the graphics look so 2002ie? Like the graphics quality barley beats Rogue Squadron on N64.
Would understand if said something about the Game Cube game, but the N64 game looks like shit even compared to that. It's hard to take you seriously when saying shit like this.
Anyway, this is not an AAA game.
beyblade burst turbo
Jedi fallen order 2 please
What it do bebe
7/10?
Fucking absurd.
This game shines on VR. Easily 10/10 with VR. 12/10 with VR and airplane controllers for pc.
And a super solid 9/10 and I don't review games much.
Super missed opportunity GameSpot.
Pathetic.
Reviewer totally ignoring racial check boxes here.... LOL
You’re the one that makes it an issue. It doesn’t impact the gameplay in anyway. I suggest looking inward and asking yourself why seeing women or PoC in the Star Wars universe bothers you :) And the thing is that if you play the game you will see that there is a balance there. Just play the game and enjoy it.
Oh no, there's non-white people in the game! It must be some cultural marxist conspiracy! It couldn't possibly be that people that aren't white actually exist or anything!
Plain and deadend game. Simple about nothin in term of balance and logic. Crap and forget.
You gave FIFA21, a game that is basically copy-pasted every year and filled with gambling a 8/10 and you give THIS a 7/10?! ...GTFO this is why no one takes game journalism seriously!
You think Star Wars Squadrons is a better soccer game?
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First
stoped gamespot review lmao
For me they should make the starships look more faster, but that is minor, an effect here and there would resolve.
Anyway im not giving one penny to EA ever again so i guess i wont play it.
you're missing out then...
@@samhyatt4863 guess im not, missing out an generic game that will last for a couple of months and die? No, thank u, going to spend my money on cyberpunk and Genshin Impact, that's a no brainer for me.
Matheus Junqueira i mean the game is a hardcore, team based competitive game, so it definitely wont die out within the first few months. not to mention how fun the game is. even Shroud has been streaming squadrons quite a bit since its launch.
@@samhyatt4863 its far from being an hardcore game, but everyone has its own tastes.
Matheus Junqueira yeah just do a little more research on the game. the skill ceiling is insanely high. and that isn’t really an opinion thing. if you start to try and get really good at the game you’ll realize how much skill it takes to actually be a good player
The 'fascist empire' or the communist 'Rebel Alliance'..? Two sides of the same coin.
Hey everyone, get a load of this! This guy thinks the Rebel Alliance/New Republic are communists. Have you ever seen someone blurt out their stupidity so readily?
🦉 Han Solo shot first. Clearly ANTIFA.
I've always liked gamespot's reviews, but they've just gotten too darn long