Star Wars Battlefront II: Celebration Edition

Blaster fire, lightsabers, and roaring starfighter engines collide across the full cinematic sweep of the Star Wars saga. Star Wars Battlefront II: Celebration Edition is a large-scale action shooter that lets you fight for the Republic, Empire, Rebels, Resistance, Separatists, and First Order on film-famous planets such as Hoth, Naboo, Endor, Geonosis, and Starkiller Base. Its tone is unapologetically blockbuster: one match can be a grounded infantry firefight, while the next becomes a hero duel beneath explosions and orbital dogfights. The included single-player campaign follows Imperial special-forces commander Iden Versio through the turbulent years around the Empire’s fall, giving the package a story-driven counterpoint to its multiplayer focus.

Matches revolve around capturing objectives, eliminating opponents, earning battle points, and spending those points on stronger reinforcements, vehicles, starfighters, and legendary heroes. Troopers come in distinct classes with customizable weapons, star cards, and equipment, while specialists such as jetpack troops, Wookiee warriors, Sith, Jedi, and bounty hunters dramatically change the flow of battle. Galactic Assault and Supremacy deliver the biggest multi-stage conflicts, Heroes vs. Villains centers on character combat, and Starfighter Assault takes the action into space; co-op missions and Instant Action also offer more approachable ways to play against AI. Hero abilities demand timing rather than pure aim, whether players are deflecting bolts with Luke, choking enemies as Vader, or picking targets apart with Han Solo’s blaster.

What separates Battlefront II from more simulation-minded shooters is its exceptional audiovisual presentation and immediately readable, arcade-style combat. Maps feel designed around memorable Star Wars fantasies—charging alongside AT-ATs, riding tauntauns, storming capital ships, or dueling with a lightsaber in a crowded command post—rather than strict military realism. Celebration Edition unlocks a huge wardrobe of hero and trooper appearances, emotes, voice lines, and victory poses, although it does not include cosmetics released after December 2019. Players who want Battlefield-scale objectives with the accessibility of a console shooter will find plenty to enjoy, while dedicated Star Wars fans get an especially rich roster spanning every major film era.