Star Wars: Battlefront (2004)

Star Wars: Battlefront is a first/third-person shooter video game based on the Star Wars film franchise. Developed by Pandemic Studios and published by LucasArts. It was released on September 21, 2004, for PlayStation 2, Xbox and Microsoft Windows.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) You have two different eras of Star Wars history to choose from, the Clone Wars (Republic versus CIS) and the Galactic Civil War (Galactic Empire versus Rebel Alliance).
 * 2) Each team has 5 different classes to choose from, each built a different way. You have the standard soldier that is the most well balanced, but there is also a heavy trooper that launches rockets, a marksman that works best at long range, and a technician-like class that wields a shotgun for close quarters combat. Each team also has a special class that has its own unique strengths and weaknesses.
 * 3) Weapons and vehicles are fun to use. On the side of the guns, they all have different stats such as fire rate and damage that makes all of them unique. On the vehicle side, the ground vehicles are great for making mayhem on the ground and the starfighters feel great to fly. They can also be used in different ways such as using a speeder to run over enemy soldiers.
 * 4) Fun campaign.
 * 5) A good selection of maps to chose from that represent many different locations from all six films. In addition, some of the maps are exclusive to the game and aren't featured in the sequel, like the Lar's Homestead map.
 * 6) Some of the maps feature indigenous factions that will either aid one side or attack both sides and even have their own command posts, such as the Gungans aiding the Republic on the Naboo map. Some don't aid the one side and are neutral, like the Tuskin Raiders.
 * 7) Factions have hero characters like Luke Skywalker on the Rebel Alliance or Count Dooku for the CIS to fight side-by-side with the soldiers in battle and are super powerful. They can even do battle with each other, and you can even view them duel and aid them such as watching Luke and Vader duel.
 * 8) * As a matter of fact, the first 3 missions of the campaign involve only fighting factions like this.
 * 9) While not as big as its sequel's, it has a big modding community and is still played and supported to this day.
 * 10) The Xbox version got an extra map as DLC called Jabba, which can still be played with the Xbox One backwards compatibility mode or even a modded original Xbox.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) While the campaign is fun, it's mostly the same as the instant action.
 * 2) There is only one way to play the game (Known as "Conquest" in the later games) and there are no other modes like "Capture the Flag".
 * 3) Despite being able to fight with heroes, you can't play as the heroes which is a little disappointing.
 * 4) There's no way to sprint, making movement feel slow at times.
 * 5) Fighting Droidekas (Destroyer Droids) can be quite annoying, as their shields are very tough.

Trivia

 * This game released on the same day as the DVD set of the original Star Wars trilogy, which included an Xbox demo of Battlefront on the bonus disc.