today they just announced that they are re-releasing battlefront 1 and 2 in a compilation with 64 player multiplayer cross platform play. Its a great day to be a star wars fan
Not crossplatform *Crossgen* Meaning PS5xPS4 and Xbox one x Xboxe series x/s I was sad to learn that but I’m not spitting on the idea of getting back the command post!
@@bradleyjenkins2271 I keep seeing different reports saying it's CrossGen and Cross Platform so I guess we just have to wait to get more info. "Just like the simulations."
@@bradleyjenkins2271 cross play is cancer so it's a good thing it's not cross play. Cross platform at least means not dealing with PC on console so it's fine
@@TheIcemancometh13 all the info is available It’s crossgen as mentioned on Gameranks and multiple other reputable websites Crossplay would break the game considering the decades of PVP that pc has been doing
Battlefront 2 is often more remembered because of its Heroes mode, Space battles and Episode 3 maps, but Battlefront 1 was where it all got started. Battlefront 1 is pretty simple when you look at it, but that simplicity made it fun. You weren't one of the big name heroes, but just a regular rank and file soldier on the ground. Other than the Droidekas being unbalanced and the Starfighter maps being too small for dogfighting, I still hold good memories about this game. To be fair, I played the hell out of Bespin platforms and the Dune Sea with my friend and his brother over a LAN connection. Good times for sure.
@@Makocat Bespin platforms was such a crazy map. If there wasn't enough chaos in the sky, there would be some crazy fighting along the center portion of the map.
I remember the Bespin platform level being one of the levels where Jedi and Sith hero’s could be “killed”. The ai with the players help would just start pelting them with grenades until one of the explosions sends them flying off the platform. Granted they respawn a few seconds later but it was always fun on single player to be like “here’s what I think of your immortality!”
You can always kill heroes, they just had a fuck ton of health and regen. I killed darth vader on the cloud city map with my entire team when he got stuck in a corner
I cannot emphasize how amazingly good the original SW battlefront 1 and 2 was and it still holds up to this day. I still do a galactic conquest from time to time it's just that good.
Switching from 1st person to 3rd person instantly with a press of a button will always be my favourite. It also had cockpit view for vehicles which the second game sadly lacked on console
If you played this on console you were a fool. This was the era for PC gaming and the consoles were garbage. Not even modern mod support... which you need with these old games the majority of the time
I absolutely LOVED the Bespin clouds level on this game. Those corridors were chaos and so much fun, so much slaughter. It's my favourite level in all of the battlefront games for that.
Unlike other corridor shooter video games, the bottle necks here were really fun there because of the big grenade chucking sending soldiers and droids into the skies. Jetpacking added a lot of movement and if that failed then a Starfighter could land behind enemy lines.
Man this makes me feel old. You can only imagine how many hours I poured into this game. First on ps2 then on PC. I have so many fond memories playing this game both by myself and with friends and family.
Here's a cool little thing most people didn't know but if you used the Clone pilot with his shock rifle you could actually kill the Sith because it has a slight aoe damage to it, I have killed Count Dooku with the clone pilot and it felt like a tremendous achievement.
What holy shit I never knew that, I thought the only way to kill Heroes was forcing them off a map or running them over with speeders. I might boot BF1 on steam later to try that out haha.
@@jacobgale4792 For real I remember at the corner of my eye to see one of the villains getting killed with that weapon and I wanted to test it out, it took a long time but yeah you can kill them if you are using the Clone pilot with the shock rifle have it fully charged and then challenge yourself to kill a Sith.
I personally prefered SWBF1 over SWBF2. I know most people loved the crazy power trip SWBF2 gave you, but something about the original where you're just a nameless soldier and not some special supersoldier just resonated with me better. Plus the immensely powerful and almost unkillable jedis/sith were so terrifying
This game such a gem for me as a kid. One of the few games my old man and I would play. We don't really play anymore since our interests in games have diverged quite a lot and he's busier than he used to be. I still have extremely fond memories of this and the sequel though.
That is my favourite Battlefront game!!! Maps are even better than in the others!!! The only concern I have is the super battle droid replacing the regular droid class
I unironically come back to these games every now and then. Idk why, but I find it so much more immersive than the modern iterations. Like I'm always getting real into it, talking aloud to my AI teammates to rally them and stuff, screaming at near miss dodges of grenades, crying MAYDAY when I start going down in a starfighter... It's a lot of fun
My favourite memory of this game is the Rhen Var level with the clones. It was always this tight game where the droidekas would bottleneck and blast through the tunnels and my friends and I had to take the vehicles and try to clear the command posts on the other side before the tunnels were overrun. I do remember the balancing feeling off in the first one. The droidekas were OP once they got shields up, but it was fun to have to play around that.
Nothing can beat the charm of the original Battlefront. Shooting Gungans and Ewoks, flying around Bespin, driving awesome vehicles, and going to the pub with your favorite heroes like Vader. And with the game being re-released with its sequel will bring whole new life to this amazing game.
I personally enjoyed the first battlefront more than the second - I can understand why most people liked the second more, but I thought the first was the right amount of content without starting to feel a bit "busy"
Damn... i remember the online experience like it was yesterday. Got this as a gift on PC. Most people were really friendly unlike other (current) games. Before gamespy shutdown, the community was split between versions 1.0 and 1.2 . The former was more focused on balance and people were only allowed to play snipers and rocket launchers (pilots and specials were the deal breaker, regular soldiers just sat at the back), the latter was more tolerant. Also, the mods were extraordinary for the time.
Now that ya brought this up. I'm reminded that this decade I managed to pick this game up yet again and have had a blast with it. Especially when playing as separatist troops
Hey man I’ve been watching your vids for a while now and I just want to say that I really enjoy them and the quality is excellent. You provide a nice depth to your story telling and your humour is on point! This video especially took my back to memories of me and my younger brother sneaking downstairs at 2am to play a Hoth battle against each other when we were 12 and 10. Good times man. Keep up the excellent work! ☺️
I loved finding out how to kill said invincible Jedi. You knock them off the ledge. At least I think that's how we did it. It was so many years ago I don't even remember. I think It had something to do with a tank. I loved the sniping sections, especially the one on cloud city. Good times
Small correction: the jedi aren't invincible, they have the health bar system used in bf2, but it doesn't deplete as fast over time and it's so high that you hardly ever can kill them. The easiest way I used to do it was with the heavy class, place mines in a line cause they always beeline to you, and once they set off the mines, blast them with rockets until they either fly off the map, or their health timer runs out
What a game. My love for the Star Wars franchise deepened tremendously after playing this and the sequel. They made me think about the soldiers fighting the titular wars and not just the Jedi and Sith. Obviously, the graphics don't look that great now, but back then I felt immersed on the frontlines of the galaxy. When you think about it, it's kind of nuts that the sequel was better in pretty much every way when this one was as solid as it was. But that's a topic better suited for BF2's 20th anniversary video! Also, shoutout to Pandemic Studios for making some of the best games of the early 2000's. Battlefront 1 & 2, Destroy All Humans 1 & 2, Army Men: RTS, Mercenaries 1 & 2, and The Saboteur, to name a few. I suppose a lot of those are hard to find and play now, but if you can, give them a shot!
I remember EA BF was the first game I got for my Xbox One and man was I disappointed. Being a kid where your parents would NEVER pay for online and having a game that's %90 online felt like a kick in the balls. Especially since I loved the Battlefront Series
It was downhill for battlefront after og battlefront 2 2005 imo. Thats not to say that the new EA bf2 is bad (never played) but I think the original are still much better
I think the main problem is that EA went into it too hard trying to rebalance it as a multiplayer game, whilst the first games treated players as mature enough to do whatever the hell they wanted no matter how over-powered. Starfighters and andd vehicles kill everything? Let it, it's a sandbox experience. The battle is so big that after a while, I'd want to bail out the vehicle and go back on foot to find the action again or nearest outpost.
@@skycloud4802 They did the same with Battlefield. In the early Battlefield games grenades had maybe a 10 foot blast radius, of which 5 was lethal, you could take out like half a dozen people at once! Balance is a bit more important when it comes to PVP, but even online I only ever played such games on PVE servers. Personally I'd love to see a Battlefield/Battlefront like game that is combined with an RTS, you deploy and command the units from above, but can also take direct control of them at any time as an FPS. Battlestations Midway/Pacific actually did this, but only for naval/air combat.
Thanks for starting off the new year covering this classic Star Wars game, Flandrew! Never played this, but i loved og battlefront 2 back in the day, had so much fun playing it! Can't wait for that video!
A friend of mine in college will regularly play this game. We don’t get tired of it. Probably one of the best games ever, as it was one of my first video games
Its been a while since I suscribed and up until this day I have no idea how I reached Flandrew channel, maybe the algorithm? I dont know, but how glad I am of that. This is one of the few channels where I actually watch every weekly upload, and I am grateful for that. Excellent channel and best regards from Mexico!
I played SWBF2 2005 before I discovered and remembered to play BF1 2004 I played BF2 2005 back in High School during the weekends, back when I was only able to play single player. I grew up playing this along with Halo CE, COD1,2, Battlefield 1942 and 2, Empire at War. And it still impact me till this day, I still prefer single player games compared to multiplayer games. Those were the good ole days
I had so much fun playing this with my friend. I remember the day it came out and we went over to his to play it. The newer Battlefront games just don't hit as hard as this did.
I love rebel NPC's having their own names - Rayce Farrelle once saved me from Vader in Bespin. And some characters share surnames, so you can imagine brothers signing up to fight together!
Great video! One small correction - the Xbox version doesn’t restrict you to just instant action in split screen, it also lets you play galactic conquest
I need to get into this game. I got it a few years ago for my PS2 because Battlefront 2 splitscreen was my childhood and I hope you make a video about that one too
Flandrew, I love your videos! Seeing a new one in my feed just brings a huge smile to my face. In the mid 2000s I played Jedi Outcast, Jedi Academy, KOTOR, Republic Commando and BF2. I got BF2 at launch on PC and then later in 2007 I got the Renegade Squadron white PSP with both BF:RS and BF2, and across both PC and PSP I must have had well over a thousand hours on BF2, but I never even tried BF1 (Despite even owning it on GOG now! Cursed be those sales!) One thing that amazed me across SW media was how consistent Kashyyyk always appears. I understand that BF2 and RC devs had access to RotS, and before it was always based on the Holiday Special look, but I always found that surprising considering how universally hated the HS is. I remember reading Heir To The Empire after seeing the prequels and in the beginning Luke is on the balcony of the Imperial Palace on Coruscant looking towards some great mountains - I’m sure they retconned this somehow.
Battlefront 2 definitely made some improvements but there are certain things about the original I love, two maps for each planet being the best part of this game imo.
Another great things about Battlefront 1 that I never see anyone talk about was that the color palette was much more colorful than the drab environments we got in Battlefront 2. I also missed the starfighters on the ground maps too, even if the planetary dogfight spaces were too small for starfighters.
I didn’t like how bf2 didn’t add in flying vehicles into the maps outside of space combat and hoth. It was due to the new flight systems. I don’t hate it but it made maps like Geonosis and Kashyykk feel like small even though the battles were large in the large in movies.
AWESOME games, but I just wish I was old enough to actually HAVE the hype for this... Being excited for a new game sounds awesome lol. I was born in 2002 so the first Star Wars movie (not including the animated Clone Wars one) I saw in theaters was The Force Awakens. I just woke my brother up to play his Xbox until he eventually gave me it and upgraded to an Xbox 360 which I didn't for a couple years haha. I played both of these games SO much and still do! Battlefront 2 also has so many cool mods that Battlefront 1 simply doesn't have at all. I'm a console player but I play Battlefront 2 on my laptop because it's old and low end enough and has so many hours worth of content due to mods! I just wonder what it would have been like to be excited due to marketing like what was said in this video 😅
I grew up playing Battlefront II for PC, which I received as a Christmas present, though I never finished it's campaign until I got to play the PS2 version years later. For the first Battlefront, I remember having good times playing it with my cousin, who had it for his PS2, but to be honest I really hope we get the Battlefront II video since it's the great one for me. Great video as always!
I remember how broken the Droidekas were but there was a funni bug they had where on the docks map (Kashyyyk I think?) theyd drown while in ball mode trying to get to the beach haha
Great video, I only got the chance to play this once got an Xbox 360 in December 2006 and was blown away by the scale of it. Being able to participate in battles from the movies as a regular soldier and use a variety of vehicles made the game addictive. On the opening Naboo level I would usually just use the tank to kill the Gungans and the Droid gunship on Kashyyk. It was the best Star Wars game up to that point and before that I played Rogue Squadron: Rogue Leader, Rebel Strike, Attack of the Clones and Bounty Hunter on the Gamecube. It is clearly overshadowed by Battlefront 2 but this game did a great job of laying the foundations for it's sequel.
Awesome video! Small thing, the galactic conquest mode does have split screen on the console versions. I played that a good amount with friends back in the day. You could play on the same team or against each other.
Whoa, those devs made Full Spectrum Warrior? I freakin loved that game, it was so unique. I haven't really seen anything like it since. It was like real time xcom.
Love the video, and the game, played lots with my dad, also at 9:02 in Hoth you can harpoon the AT-ATs yourself if you react quick enough changing the seats
Played the classic battlefront 1 and 2 on the xbox crystal back in the days... Such nostalgia. The feel of battlefront 1 is better, with blaster bolts that explode, proper shockwaves that throw people about and cockpit view when in vehicles. Not to mention being able to go prone. Battlefront 2 is also one hell of a game. Had to download both on steam and have a play through. The medal system in Battlefront 2 is pretty neat.
Oh, yes! I might have played the second one first, but finally getting to this one I just couldn't help but love it. Especially the Rhen Var maps. They became my favourites of the franchise pretty quickly. And the mods! Oh, so many great levels to find! Such as a Mario Kart battle course. Truly brilliant times.
I think a video comparing all PSP/DS Battlefront is a good idea. Their feature and map differences. Even besides the quality of life lacking from 2 (2005) I still prefer 1 (2004). The galactic conquest is not as good sure. The locations are I find besides the new in 2. Yes the class system isn't. The visuals are great. The classes do have limits and no space combat which 2 does well. The killing yourself to swap classes too ah old elements we never have to encounter nowadays. XD Both Jet troopers or unique classes were always nice to see what they did. The references are great, the detail. No swap feature of Battlefield 2 Modern Combat but still. Yes Hoth in BF1 is better than 2. Even if the expanded era of Hunt mode in BF2 is better but still the detail or ships. City/platforms for ships are interesting. The fight on the platforms is a very faction based back and forth constantly. Then Var cave level stuff. Gungans and Ewoks yep. The AI aren't great they do get stuck in Naboo behind the gate at least in BF2 I think they still do in BF1. The Rhen Var cave and other locations also show the bad AI. but it is still a tough game. The droideka are cool but yes tank controls/vehicle controls and yes odd deaths. Jabba's palace on Xbox/PC is cool. I got the Xbox version physical a fortnight ago and it was worth it. Even though I own it on PS2. I miss not being able to use the regular droids outside the tutorial Naboo levels as it's super battle droids otherwise but oh well. I love Platforms, Yavin 4 Temple, Rhen Var and other locations missing from BF2. The lacking galactic conquest multiplayer and more is something but they fixed it in 2 but it's fine even if lacking. PC servers are cool but not surprised it has a smaller support. The loading times for the Xbox version on One X is awesome, the transition is cool in general the presentation is great. PS2 was fine for it. Got the Xbox OG version to compare as had the PS2 version for years and got it cheap BF2 was more expensive and I don't need both versions and I prefer BF1 more to replay the campaign or maps in it than 2 and it's maps/quality of life I can leave. Galactic conquest sure is a step up in BF2 and the campaign eh I didn't like it that much the tasks are fine but more boring and the BF1 campaign yes is just maps but not got that typical campaign structure and tutorial do these things to the map which yes would be more interesting and the story but I just didn't care for it. Kind of like Unreal tournament the map matches (only it has more mode types than just the conquest or regular faction fight ones) approach was just more compelling of BF1 to me then BF2's typical campaign do these tasks. Even the missions in PSP was fine. The sounds are still good. The weapon and controls work great. I do think the strafe movement is like modern games eh. I hate strafe in modern games. Gears onwards, Last of Us, Order 1886, God of War, I am struggling to think of third parties because I don't play those big ones I do AAs that don't have it but either way. Other games it's on all the time. Yet Ratchet has it optional for combat and platforming to TOGGLE AS A CAMERA MODE yet these others have it all the time. Forced drafting sucks even if the game has no platforming it sucks to move. Wish it was more like that. The ragdoll is fine. The game is still fun. Also I enjoy Clone Wars 2002. Yes yes it's a Episode 2 game but it came before the Battlefront games and same frv so I think it's good in some of its UI.
One of my all time favourite gaming memories is being an Arc Trooper and standing in the troop loader part of the drop ships and just watching the battle below.
One of my favorite games ever! I played sooooo much instant action (and some online multiplayer before the servers shut down) on PS2. SWBF and SWBF 2 are games I could play 4ever
I hope your next video is on the sequel! That was my favorite game growing up. Never played the original but I'm gonna get it now since it's only 10 bucks on steam.
This game was everything for our generation. In Russia, where I was born and raised, there were no 'Gamestops', and most games were distributed on pirated discs, while the Internet was very expensive then to download games. These pirated discs usually combined 4-5 games. We constantly exchanged these discs, and the Battlefront disc was a particular hit. There were so many warm moments while playing Battlefront. We would get together after school and play for hours, laugh, try to beat the Geonosis mission on hard (it was hell). There was so much laughter from the ragdolls, the soldiers were constantly tumbling over from the explosions (I think this is what makes the first part more lively than the second). How we defended the coast of Kashyyyk and tried unsuccessfully to blow up the shield generator on Endor. We also constantly tried to get into the victory shot. When the game ended, the camera "stopped" at one of the angles of the map, and if we got into this angle, then the emotions were also immense. There was no accessible, cheap and fast Internet in Russia then, as I said, and we constantly speculated after school what the third part of Battlefront would be like, whether there was one at all. What emotions did I experience when on some random website I found information that a game was being developed (of course, nothing came of it in the end, only a couple of games on PSP). This game is simply synonymous with my happy childhood. Some of my friends with whom I played the game had already left Russia, some died in the ongoing war, and some simply disappeared into everyday life. Thank you for reminding me of the happiest period of my life through the game.
I, personally, felt like the first game was for the most part the "better" version. Mostly because the second game did a lot of things, but their novelty wore off. The Battle Points system in two giving you unlocks, unlocking classes over the course of the game for "balance", giving you heroes, etc was neat but over time I found them mostly overpowered. The Award Weapons were especially egregious. I feel like BF1 was good by virtue of "less is more". For what it was, it did it well. Although there are a lot of things that still made 2 really good (galactic conquest was very well done). But also, there were so many maps in 1 that I wished were ported over into 2.
Both games were so awesome and Jedi Hunt on Eisley was hilarious. I loved how I could set up my own scenarios in free mode where you could choose what planets you want to do and what order I always do the prequel planets, and then the original trilogy planets, so would go through the timeline in order it would take about 2 to 3 hours to play.
Your comments on the space battles and boarding enemy ships is really astute. ➡️The ability to attack, board enemy cruisers , destroy ships support systems kept the game fresh enhancing player longevity. I especially enjoyed the ability to operate consoles 🖥️ on your capital ship that controlled lasers turrets to defend your capital ship from fighter craft 🛸 Just so many enjoyable levels of gameplay within the space battle scenarios!
I got this in the "Star Wars: The Best of PC" 2006 physical bundle for my birthday one year. That was a truly fantastic gift and possibly video worthy.
short answer, yes it's still good
Same goes for the sequel battlefront 2 2005
@@aamirrazak3467 more so for battlefront 2
It really chuffing is
Short answer: yes
Long answer: yyyeeesss
I loved it for ps2 n psp
today they just announced that they are re-releasing battlefront 1 and 2 in a compilation with 64 player multiplayer cross platform play. Its a great day to be a star wars fan
Not crossplatform
*Crossgen*
Meaning PS5xPS4 and Xbox one x Xboxe series x/s
I was sad to learn that but I’m not spitting on the idea of getting back the command post!
@@bradleyjenkins2271 I keep seeing different reports saying it's CrossGen and Cross Platform so I guess we just have to wait to get more info.
"Just like the simulations."
@@bradleyjenkins2271 cross play is cancer so it's a good thing it's not cross play. Cross platform at least means not dealing with PC on console so it's fine
@@usrevenge Crossplay would increase the player pool and longevity of the multiplayer. Most games you can turn it off anyway.
@@TheIcemancometh13 all the info is available
It’s crossgen as mentioned on Gameranks and multiple other reputable websites
Crossplay would break the game considering the decades of PVP that pc has been doing
Battlefront 2 is often more remembered because of its Heroes mode, Space battles and Episode 3 maps, but Battlefront 1 was where it all got started. Battlefront 1 is pretty simple when you look at it, but that simplicity made it fun. You weren't one of the big name heroes, but just a regular rank and file soldier on the ground. Other than the Droidekas being unbalanced and the Starfighter maps being too small for dogfighting, I still hold good memories about this game. To be fair, I played the hell out of Bespin platforms and the Dune Sea with my friend and his brother over a LAN connection. Good times for sure.
BF1 had some really awesome maps that weren’t in the sequel, like Ren Var citadel, Dune Sea, Bespin platforms and Kashyyk Islands
Bespin platforms is the best map in the game hands down. The shootouts in the bridges to gain control over the center area were intense.
@@lordhenrywotton95 I wish those maps had been reused in battlefront 2. That would have been fantastic.
@@Makocat Bespin platforms was such a crazy map. If there wasn't enough chaos in the sky, there would be some crazy fighting along the center portion of the map.
I bought 2 before 1 and played both given that each had maps that the other didn’t. So to me, I kinda view them as one game.
Who’s watching this after they made a collection edition?
Hell yeah.
Yep 😂 I'm so happy.
Yep
Ready to play battlefront on my switch 😎
@@Jonny312.nice to see 4 year olds getting the chance to experience greatness
I remember the Bespin platform level being one of the levels where Jedi and Sith hero’s could be “killed”. The ai with the players help would just start pelting them with grenades until one of the explosions sends them flying off the platform. Granted they respawn a few seconds later but it was always fun on single player to be like “here’s what I think of your immortality!”
Agreed. Also on other maps I think you could run them over on speeder bikes or something.
You can also just land a ship on their face or push them into the Sarlacc. Nothing like seeing Vader awkwardly flail around in it’s tentacles.
Are you me?
You can always kill heroes, they just had a fuck ton of health and regen. I killed darth vader on the cloud city map with my entire team when he got stuck in a corner
@@dennisthebodeau8700no he most likely despawned due to low ticket count
I cannot emphasize how amazingly good the original SW battlefront 1 and 2 was and it still holds up to this day. I still do a galactic conquest from time to time it's just that good.
Switching from 1st person to 3rd person instantly with a press of a button will always be my favourite. It also had cockpit view for vehicles which the second game sadly lacked on console
If you played this on console you were a fool. This was the era for PC gaming and the consoles were garbage. Not even modern mod support... which you need with these old games the majority of the time
@@bldontmatter5319 I was 5 years old mate
@bldontmatter5319 calm down man I was like 9 or 10 at the time
@@bldontmatter5319 wtf doesn’t have modern mod support? Most of this game’s mods are sadly lost to time anyway.
@@expendableindigo9639We have new ones though, I just saw a Raxus Prime mod with 200v200.
I absolutely LOVED the Bespin clouds level on this game. Those corridors were chaos and so much fun, so much slaughter. It's my favourite level in all of the battlefront games for that.
Unlike other corridor shooter video games, the bottle necks here were really fun there because of the big grenade chucking sending soldiers and droids into the skies. Jetpacking added a lot of movement and if that failed then a Starfighter could land behind enemy lines.
"Ah, Lord Vader, lead the way. And of course he goes straight to the pub."
Bro I spat out my coffee
Man this makes me feel old. You can only imagine how many hours I poured into this game. First on ps2 then on PC. I have so many fond memories playing this game both by myself and with friends and family.
I played on Xbox but same otherwise!
I'll be 34 this year. What's even real anymore.
Here's a cool little thing most people didn't know but if you used the Clone pilot with his shock rifle you could actually kill the Sith because it has a slight aoe damage to it, I have killed Count Dooku with the clone pilot and it felt like a tremendous achievement.
What holy shit I never knew that, I thought the only way to kill Heroes was forcing them off a map or running them over with speeders. I might boot BF1 on steam later to try that out haha.
@@jacobgale4792
For real I remember at the corner of my eye to see one of the villains getting killed with that weapon and I wanted to test it out, it took a long time but yeah you can kill them if you are using the Clone pilot with the shock rifle have it fully charged and then challenge yourself to kill a Sith.
Order 66 really had no exceptions- you love to see such dedication.
Wow Great timing, they just announced an OG Battlefront Collection for consoles
I ADORE this and the sequel so much! I loved playing it growing up! So hard to believe its 20 years old!
Same I loved playing battlefront 2 back in the day as a kid. I can’t believe it and the original were made that long ago
@@aamirrazak3467 we are getting old!
It's harder to believe that "growing up" was 20 years ago now.
@@crazydinosaur8945 yeah it’s a painful and sad feeling
I personally prefered SWBF1 over SWBF2. I know most people loved the crazy power trip SWBF2 gave you, but something about the original where you're just a nameless soldier and not some special supersoldier just resonated with me better. Plus the immensely powerful and almost unkillable jedis/sith were so terrifying
Totally agree, this really captures the essence of the difference between the vibes in 1 vs 2
I actually killed dooku once used a thermal detonator to blow him off of bespin
@alexanderhancock3727 I would use orbital strikes when Darth Vader was near a cliff on that second snow planet...name escapes me
I remember the first time I saw Count Dooku drop dead from sustained blaster fire I was shocked. I didn’t think it was possible!
@@BoooozleRhen Var maybe?
This game such a gem for me as a kid. One of the few games my old man and I would play. We don't really play anymore since our interests in games have diverged quite a lot and he's busier than he used to be. I still have extremely fond memories of this and the sequel though.
That is my favourite Battlefront game!!! Maps are even better than in the others!!! The only concern I have is the super battle droid replacing the regular droid class
Honestly tho this one having the Dune Sea map and a better Geonosis map easily makes it better than the second to me
... and the Dice BF2 (which isn't that bad but not as good as expected )@@V3r0nicle
I unironically come back to these games every now and then. Idk why, but I find it so much more immersive than the modern iterations. Like I'm always getting real into it, talking aloud to my AI teammates to rally them and stuff, screaming at near miss dodges of grenades, crying MAYDAY when I start going down in a starfighter... It's a lot of fun
Well. This video Dropped at the right time!
This year is also 20 Years since Star Wars was first released on DVD.
Star wars battlefront demo or trailer was with Star Wars Trilogy DVD 2004 I think. Then Revenge of the Sith had the same with Star Wars Battlefront 2.
My favourite memory of this game is the Rhen Var level with the clones. It was always this tight game where the droidekas would bottleneck and blast through the tunnels and my friends and I had to take the vehicles and try to clear the command posts on the other side before the tunnels were overrun. I do remember the balancing feeling off in the first one. The droidekas were OP once they got shields up, but it was fun to have to play around that.
The Loading Screen alone is enough to induct this game into the museum of history.
Nothing can beat the charm of the original Battlefront. Shooting Gungans and Ewoks, flying around Bespin, driving awesome vehicles, and going to the pub with your favorite heroes like Vader. And with the game being re-released with its sequel will bring whole new life to this amazing game.
Can't wait to try this game in March. I was just a toddler when the first two games released and never got to try online.
The vibe and scale I feel was the best out of all the Battlefront games imo. Everything just felt right with this game and still does today.
Crazy to think they are rereleasing this now😂 good stuff
I personally enjoyed the first battlefront more than the second - I can understand why most people liked the second more, but I thought the first was the right amount of content without starting to feel a bit "busy"
Damn... i remember the online experience like it was yesterday. Got this as a gift on PC. Most people were really friendly unlike other (current) games. Before gamespy shutdown, the community was split between versions 1.0 and 1.2 . The former was more focused on balance and people were only allowed to play snipers and rocket launchers (pilots and specials were the deal breaker, regular soldiers just sat at the back), the latter was more tolerant. Also, the mods were extraordinary for the time.
Words cannot describe how excited I am for the re-release in March!
I still play Battlefront on the PS2.
I'll break out my old Xbox to play this gem every once in a while. Got it on Steam too which is nice to play.
It’s coming back, let’s GOOOOOOOO
Now that ya brought this up. I'm reminded that this decade I managed to pick this game up yet again and have had a blast with it. Especially when playing as separatist troops
Hey man I’ve been watching your vids for a while now and I just want to say that I really enjoy them and the quality is excellent. You provide a nice depth to your story telling and your humour is on point! This video especially took my back to memories of me and my younger brother sneaking downstairs at 2am to play a Hoth battle against each other when we were 12 and 10. Good times man. Keep up the excellent work! ☺️
They are releasing this and Battlefront 2 (2005) in March 2024 on Switch, PS4 and PS5 with new content and online multiplayer!!
I loved finding out how to kill said invincible Jedi. You knock them off the ledge. At least I think that's how we did it. It was so many years ago I don't even remember. I think It had something to do with a tank.
I loved the sniping sections, especially the one on cloud city.
Good times
Small correction: the jedi aren't invincible, they have the health bar system used in bf2, but it doesn't deplete as fast over time and it's so high that you hardly ever can kill them. The easiest way I used to do it was with the heavy class, place mines in a line cause they always beeline to you, and once they set off the mines, blast them with rockets until they either fly off the map, or their health timer runs out
God I played so much of this as a kid. So many fond memories with family and friends. The og SWBF will always be a GOAT for me.
What a game. My love for the Star Wars franchise deepened tremendously after playing this and the sequel. They made me think about the soldiers fighting the titular wars and not just the Jedi and Sith. Obviously, the graphics don't look that great now, but back then I felt immersed on the frontlines of the galaxy. When you think about it, it's kind of nuts that the sequel was better in pretty much every way when this one was as solid as it was. But that's a topic better suited for BF2's 20th anniversary video!
Also, shoutout to Pandemic Studios for making some of the best games of the early 2000's. Battlefront 1 & 2, Destroy All Humans 1 & 2, Army Men: RTS, Mercenaries 1 & 2, and The Saboteur, to name a few. I suppose a lot of those are hard to find and play now, but if you can, give them a shot!
Mercenaries 1 is honestly such an amazing game.
This one is timeless. Look what EA did to the franchise.
Honestly I don't think EA will ever reach the peak of what the first two Battlefront games have created either.
I remember EA BF was the first game I got for my Xbox One and man was I disappointed. Being a kid where your parents would NEVER pay for online and having a game that's %90 online felt like a kick in the balls. Especially since I loved the Battlefront Series
It was downhill for battlefront after og battlefront 2 2005 imo. Thats not to say that the new EA bf2 is bad (never played) but I think the original are still much better
I think the main problem is that EA went into it too hard trying to rebalance it as a multiplayer game, whilst the first games treated players as mature enough to do whatever the hell they wanted no matter how over-powered. Starfighters and andd vehicles kill everything? Let it, it's a sandbox experience. The battle is so big that after a while, I'd want to bail out the vehicle and go back on foot to find the action again or nearest outpost.
@@skycloud4802 They did the same with Battlefield. In the early Battlefield games grenades had maybe a 10 foot blast radius, of which 5 was lethal, you could take out like half a dozen people at once! Balance is a bit more important when it comes to PVP, but even online I only ever played such games on PVE servers.
Personally I'd love to see a Battlefield/Battlefront like game that is combined with an RTS, you deploy and command the units from above, but can also take direct control of them at any time as an FPS. Battlestations Midway/Pacific actually did this, but only for naval/air combat.
Thanks for starting off the new year covering this classic Star Wars game, Flandrew! Never played this, but i loved og battlefront 2 back in the day, had so much fun playing it! Can't wait for that video!
A friend of mine in college will regularly play this game. We don’t get tired of it. Probably one of the best games ever, as it was one of my first video games
Congratulations you're a prophet
This aged well lol
Its been a while since I suscribed and up until this day I have no idea how I reached Flandrew channel, maybe the algorithm? I dont know, but how glad I am of that. This is one of the few channels where I actually watch every weekly upload, and I am grateful for that.
Excellent channel and best regards from Mexico!
I played SWBF2 2005 before I discovered and remembered to play BF1 2004
I played BF2 2005 back in High School during the weekends, back when I was only able to play single player. I grew up playing this along with Halo CE, COD1,2, Battlefield 1942 and 2, Empire at War. And it still impact me till this day, I still prefer single player games compared to multiplayer games. Those were the good ole days
I had so much fun playing this with my friend. I remember the day it came out and we went over to his to play it. The newer Battlefront games just don't hit as hard as this did.
Played it again the other day after a few years. Spent hours on it and got another session planned in a few days! Great game and still holds up
Funny thing is that the heroes are not invincible, but it takes 4 minutes of juggling them between tanks or running them over with speeders to kill em
or off the map
I love rebel NPC's having their own names - Rayce Farrelle once saved me from Vader in Bespin. And some characters share surnames, so you can imagine brothers signing up to fight together!
Battlefront 2 had a mode that was essentially space Risk, and I loved it. I was hoping the new one was a remake, but it wasn't :(
Great video! One small correction - the Xbox version doesn’t restrict you to just instant action in split screen, it also lets you play galactic conquest
Great video, SWBF1 is awesome, had a lot of fun playing the Republic as a Jet Trooper.
And now it gets brought to PS4 and PS5 so we can relive it, what a time to be alive!
I need to get into this game. I got it a few years ago for my PS2 because Battlefront 2 splitscreen was my childhood and I hope you make a video about that one too
I practically grew up with this game. Thank you--this was a huge nostalgia trip!
Flandrew, I love your videos! Seeing a new one in my feed just brings a huge smile to my face.
In the mid 2000s I played Jedi Outcast, Jedi Academy, KOTOR, Republic Commando and BF2. I got BF2 at launch on PC and then later in 2007 I got the Renegade Squadron white PSP with both BF:RS and BF2, and across both PC and PSP I must have had well over a thousand hours on BF2, but I never even tried BF1 (Despite even owning it on GOG now! Cursed be those sales!)
One thing that amazed me across SW media was how consistent Kashyyyk always appears. I understand that BF2 and RC devs had access to RotS, and before it was always based on the Holiday Special look, but I always found that surprising considering how universally hated the HS is. I remember reading Heir To The Empire after seeing the prequels and in the beginning Luke is on the balcony of the Imperial Palace on Coruscant looking towards some great mountains - I’m sure they retconned this somehow.
Wow, I’ve been watching a lot of Original Battlefront content lately so this video came at a great time!
Battlefront 2 definitely made some improvements but there are certain things about the original I love, two maps for each planet being the best part of this game imo.
Thinkin bout that, I honestly do wish the second game continued with that map format.
Another great things about Battlefront 1 that I never see anyone talk about was that the color palette was much more colorful than the drab environments we got in Battlefront 2. I also missed the starfighters on the ground maps too, even if the planetary dogfight spaces were too small for starfighters.
@@V3r0nicle Same here
I didn’t like how bf2 didn’t add in flying vehicles into the maps outside of space combat and hoth. It was due to the new flight systems. I don’t hate it but it made maps like Geonosis and Kashyykk feel like small even though the battles were large in the large in movies.
My main issue with BF2 was the addition of gattling guns and the V-wing has a shotgun fire for no reason. Like why 💀💀💀💀
Obviously… An absolute classic 🔥
AWESOME games, but I just wish I was old enough to actually HAVE the hype for this... Being excited for a new game sounds awesome lol. I was born in 2002 so the first Star Wars movie (not including the animated Clone Wars one) I saw in theaters was The Force Awakens. I just woke my brother up to play his Xbox until he eventually gave me it and upgraded to an Xbox 360 which I didn't for a couple years haha.
I played both of these games SO much and still do! Battlefront 2 also has so many cool mods that Battlefront 1 simply doesn't have at all. I'm a console player but I play Battlefront 2 on my laptop because it's old and low end enough and has so many hours worth of content due to mods!
I just wonder what it would have been like to be excited due to marketing like what was said in this video 😅
Your videos are improving. You are really coming into your own unique style.
Love the classic content ! we need more creators like you !
I grew up playing Battlefront II for PC, which I received as a Christmas present, though I never finished it's campaign until I got to play the PS2 version years later. For the first Battlefront, I remember having good times playing it with my cousin, who had it for his PS2, but to be honest I really hope we get the Battlefront II video since it's the great one for me. Great video as always!
I remember how broken the Droidekas were but there was a funni bug they had where on the docks map (Kashyyyk I think?) theyd drown while in ball mode trying to get to the beach haha
Great video, I only got the chance to play this once got an Xbox 360 in December 2006 and was blown away by the scale of it. Being able to participate in battles from the movies as a regular soldier and use a variety of vehicles made the game addictive. On the opening Naboo level I would usually just use the tank to kill the Gungans and the Droid gunship on Kashyyk. It was the best Star Wars game up to that point and before that I played Rogue Squadron: Rogue Leader, Rebel Strike, Attack of the Clones and Bounty Hunter on the Gamecube. It is clearly overshadowed by Battlefront 2 but this game did a great job of laying the foundations for it's sequel.
This is the most nostalgic video I've ever watched.
Probably my favorite loading screen of all time. Another banger Flandrew!!
I never played Starwars Battlefront. Im here just cause I like to listen to your voice. Keep it up bud!
It's very calming ^_^
Awesome video! Small thing, the galactic conquest mode does have split screen on the console versions. I played that a good amount with friends back in the day. You could play on the same team or against each other.
Between this and the 2nd one, I sunk thousands of hours into playing. It was so much fun when I was younger to just play this game for hours.
I still play this game like crazy on PC
Whoa, those devs made Full Spectrum Warrior? I freakin loved that game, it was so unique. I haven't really seen anything like it since. It was like real time xcom.
Love the video, and the game, played lots with my dad, also at 9:02 in Hoth you can harpoon the AT-ATs yourself if you react quick enough changing the seats
This was a amazing game I just had 1 complaint and that is that it took me several hours to beat The Geonosis single player campaign
Played the classic battlefront 1 and 2 on the xbox crystal back in the days... Such nostalgia. The feel of battlefront 1 is better, with blaster bolts that explode, proper shockwaves that throw people about and cockpit view when in vehicles. Not to mention being able to go prone. Battlefront 2 is also one hell of a game. Had to download both on steam and have a play through. The medal system in Battlefront 2 is pretty neat.
this game was my childhood man and got a lot of kicks out of the jokes you made!
I went back to this like 6 months ago, ever since I've been addicted to Battlefront 2's MP, man it's good even now.
Great video with a lot of OG vibes o7
"Fun fact" The jedi and other heroes can be killed by catapulting them of the map using landmies or running them over using the Endor landspeeders.
Or on maps with starfighters, you can land on them.
Or by landing on them... pretty sure I've knocked them out of bounds with grenades clipping them through building walls in several maps as well.
You released this video at the right Time!
Oh, yes! I might have played the second one first, but finally getting to this one I just couldn't help but love it. Especially the Rhen Var maps. They became my favourites of the franchise pretty quickly. And the mods! Oh, so many great levels to find! Such as a Mario Kart battle course. Truly brilliant times.
I think a video comparing all PSP/DS Battlefront is a good idea. Their feature and map differences. Even besides the quality of life lacking from 2 (2005) I still prefer 1 (2004). The galactic conquest is not as good sure. The locations are I find besides the new in 2. Yes the class system isn't. The visuals are great.
The classes do have limits and no space combat which 2 does well. The killing yourself to swap classes too ah old elements we never have to encounter nowadays. XD
Both Jet troopers or unique classes were always nice to see what they did.
The references are great, the detail. No swap feature of Battlefield 2 Modern Combat but still.
Yes Hoth in BF1 is better than 2. Even if the expanded era of Hunt mode in BF2 is better but still the detail or ships.
City/platforms for ships are interesting. The fight on the platforms is a very faction based back and forth constantly. Then Var cave level stuff.
Gungans and Ewoks yep.
The AI aren't great they do get stuck in Naboo behind the gate at least in BF2 I think they still do in BF1.
The Rhen Var cave and other locations also show the bad AI. but it is still a tough game.
The droideka are cool but yes tank controls/vehicle controls and yes odd deaths.
Jabba's palace on Xbox/PC is cool. I got the Xbox version physical a fortnight ago and it was worth it. Even though I own it on PS2.
I miss not being able to use the regular droids outside the tutorial Naboo levels as it's super battle droids otherwise but oh well.
I love Platforms, Yavin 4 Temple, Rhen Var and other locations missing from BF2. The lacking galactic conquest multiplayer and more is something but they fixed it in 2 but it's fine even if lacking.
PC servers are cool but not surprised it has a smaller support.
The loading times for the Xbox version on One X is awesome, the transition is cool in general the presentation is great. PS2 was fine for it. Got the Xbox OG version to compare as had the PS2 version for years and got it cheap BF2 was more expensive and I don't need both versions and I prefer BF1 more to replay the campaign or maps in it than 2 and it's maps/quality of life I can leave.
Galactic conquest sure is a step up in BF2 and the campaign eh I didn't like it that much the tasks are fine but more boring and the BF1 campaign yes is just maps but not got that typical campaign structure and tutorial do these things to the map which yes would be more interesting and the story but I just didn't care for it.
Kind of like Unreal tournament the map matches (only it has more mode types than just the conquest or regular faction fight ones) approach was just more compelling of BF1 to me then BF2's typical campaign do these tasks. Even the missions in PSP was fine.
The sounds are still good. The weapon and controls work great.
I do think the strafe movement is like modern games eh. I hate strafe in modern games. Gears onwards, Last of Us, Order 1886, God of War, I am struggling to think of third parties because I don't play those big ones I do AAs that don't have it but either way.
Other games it's on all the time. Yet Ratchet has it optional for combat and platforming to TOGGLE AS A CAMERA MODE yet these others have it all the time. Forced drafting sucks even if the game has no platforming it sucks to move. Wish it was more like that.
The ragdoll is fine.
The game is still fun.
Also I enjoy Clone Wars 2002. Yes yes it's a Episode 2 game but it came before the Battlefront games and same frv so I think it's good in some of its UI.
One of my all time favourite gaming memories is being an Arc Trooper and standing in the troop loader part of the drop ships and just watching the battle below.
One of my favorite games ever! I played sooooo much instant action (and some online multiplayer before the servers shut down) on PS2. SWBF and SWBF 2 are games I could play 4ever
A+ content as always!
So many awesome memories. Played it so much in singleplayer, splitscreen and online, always a lot of fun.
I hope your next video is on the sequel! That was my favorite game growing up. Never played the original but I'm gonna get it now since it's only 10 bucks on steam.
omg, I’ve recently fell into a battlefront rabbit hole on yt, and suddenly Flandrew makes video of it ❤
This game was everything for our generation. In Russia, where I was born and raised, there were no 'Gamestops', and most games were distributed on pirated discs, while the Internet was very expensive then to download games. These pirated discs usually combined 4-5 games. We constantly exchanged these discs, and the Battlefront disc was a particular hit.
There were so many warm moments while playing Battlefront. We would get together after school and play for hours, laugh, try to beat the Geonosis mission on hard (it was hell). There was so much laughter from the ragdolls, the soldiers were constantly tumbling over from the explosions (I think this is what makes the first part more lively than the second). How we defended the coast of Kashyyyk and tried unsuccessfully to blow up the shield generator on Endor. We also constantly tried to get into the victory shot. When the game ended, the camera "stopped" at one of the angles of the map, and if we got into this angle, then the emotions were also immense.
There was no accessible, cheap and fast Internet in Russia then, as I said, and we constantly speculated after school what the third part of Battlefront would be like, whether there was one at all. What emotions did I experience when on some random website I found information that a game was being developed (of course, nothing came of it in the end, only a couple of games on PSP).
This game is simply synonymous with my happy childhood. Some of my friends with whom I played the game had already left Russia, some died in the ongoing war, and some simply disappeared into everyday life. Thank you for reminding me of the happiest period of my life through the game.
Good stuff as always. Kudos
Happy 20th Anniversary Battlefront. They'll never replicate your awesomeness like you did on the PS2.
As someone who replays BF2 very often, maybe once per year, i should get back to BF1 too sometime.
I, personally, felt like the first game was for the most part the "better" version. Mostly because the second game did a lot of things, but their novelty wore off. The Battle Points system in two giving you unlocks, unlocking classes over the course of the game for "balance", giving you heroes, etc was neat but over time I found them mostly overpowered. The Award Weapons were especially egregious. I feel like BF1 was good by virtue of "less is more". For what it was, it did it well. Although there are a lot of things that still made 2 really good (galactic conquest was very well done). But also, there were so many maps in 1 that I wished were ported over into 2.
Both games were so awesome and Jedi Hunt on Eisley was hilarious. I loved how I could set up my own scenarios in free mode where you could choose what planets you want to do and what order I always do the prequel planets, and then the original trilogy planets, so would go through the timeline in order it would take about 2 to 3 hours to play.
Your comments on the space battles and boarding enemy ships is really astute. ➡️The ability to attack, board enemy cruisers , destroy ships support systems kept the game fresh enhancing player longevity. I especially enjoyed the ability to operate consoles 🖥️ on your capital ship that controlled lasers turrets to defend your capital ship from fighter craft 🛸
Just so many enjoyable levels of gameplay within the space battle scenarios!
The grenade spamming on bespin platform is insane 😮
Great video! It feels like a missed opportunity not to release a remastered version for the Playstation....
I got this in the "Star Wars: The Best of PC" 2006 physical bundle for my birthday one year. That was a truly fantastic gift and possibly video worthy.
i love watching these video essays over the original star wars battlefront games
That loading screen "music" takes me back
Great video. It's still great. 💙❤️