When you earn a certain number of points in a match, the hero character is unlocked, and you’re given the option to respawn as the hero. The other major addition to Star Wars Battlefront II is the ability to play hero characters like Jedi. Hero characters are also playable in the game, but they aren’t quite as fun as you think they’d be. The only thing that changes is which planet you’re orbiting or what game type you’re playing, whether it’s assault or some form of capture the flag.

There are basically two major capital ships, a bunch of fighters buzzing around them, maybe a couple of smaller frigates, and that’s it. If there’s a downside to the space maps it’s that they feel pretty similar, as far as setup goes, to multiplayer matches. The array of infantry types on space maps is limited to just pilots and marines (with pilots being able to repair their ships in flight, and marines having a rifle for better hand-to-hand combat), but fighting inside of an enemy ship is pretty cool, as is stealing their own fighters. If you’re crafty enough to land a troop transport inside an enemy fighter bay, you’ll be awarded with a spawn point there for as long as that ship survives. You can attack their vulnerable parts from the outside using larger fighters like TIE bombers or Y-Wings, or you can attempt to land inside their fighter bay and blow the ship up from the inside out with a marine landing.

The best part of the space combat is trying to bring down the huge capital ships. The sense of scale between the ships is great, as is the rush you get from trying to shoot down other fighters. Playable in both single- and multiplayer modes, the space combat maps enable you to jump into small starfighters, fly out of the fighter bay of capital ships, and dogfight in outer space as naval combat rages between massive star destroyers, frigates, and the gnatlike fighters that buzz around them. The biggest improvement made to the standard vehicle-infantry combat combination is the addition of the new space combat maps in Battlefront II. Space combat is arguably the best new feature in Battlefront II.

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