To compliment Star Wars Battlefront's masterful recreation of the movie franchise's iconic visuals, every laser blast, AT-ST lunge and lightsaber swing transports you straight back into the movies. The game even allows you to unlock characters and models to create virtual dioramas, which gives you a better look at the digitized Star Wars designs than the game's fast-paced game modes will afford. From the painted plastic of the 80's Stormtrooper helmet to the prop circuitry in an X-Wing's cockpit, DICE has created an incredible array of high-quality assets that'll likely see use in other Frostbite engine Star Wars games EA has planned. DICE is keen to show off the lengths they went to when detailing the game's various models, placing random objects into the menu screen for you to examine more closely. Regardless of the technical balancing act, Battlefront captures that nostalgic, unique Star Wars feeling with impeccable authenticity. When you combine this with Battlefront's minimal anti-aliasing, the game's impressive art direction and detail can suffer from jagged edges and blurry models - perhaps revealing how far the current-generation consoles are already behind the latest PC hardware. Usually, resolution doesn't present itself as much of an issue, but given Battlefront's impressive level of detail you end up with characters, props, and environments reduced to pixelated squiggles more rapidly than they might in a smaller-scale shooter. On Xbox One, Battlefront runs at 720p, sacrificing resolution to maintain a stable 60 FPS framerate. DICE's homage to Star Wars is a treat for fans and newcomers alike. The Frostbite engine has really come into its own between Battlefield 4, Dragon Age Inquisition and now Battlefront. Capturing Star Wars Star Wars Battlefront setting, visuals and audioĭespite the well-documented resolution disparity between the Xbox One and PS4 versions, Battlefront is incredibly beautiful, detailed and majestic, boasting impressive draw distances and environmental density. Still, there's a persistent, nagging feeling that Battlefront could've been so much more, and I expect DICE and EA know it. Battlefront has a responsibility to the Star Wars audience beyond that of a typical FPS game, and in that respect DICE has performed extremely well with the game's design and execution. Criticisms of Battlefront tend to miss the point when it comes to gameplay.

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