Star Wars: Battlefront

Star Wars: Battlefront is a shooter game developed by Pandemic Studios and released in 2004. It was published by Aspyr Media. It is available on PlayStation 2, Xbox, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Zero.

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, science fiction and warfare. It supports multiplayer and includes co-op. Local play supports 2 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.

Star Wars: Battlefront is the 119th of 334 entries we hold in the Star Wars series. It arrived 9 months after Star Wars: Starfighter. The next entry was Star Wars Trilogy: Apprentice of the Force in 2004. Its critic score of 73 is almost exactly the series average of 71. The highest-rated entry is Angry Birds Star Wars II at 100.

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Star Wars: Battlefront holds a critic score of 73 out of 100. That places it above 49% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 3 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 77, across 368 votes.

The minimum specification calls for 1.8 GHz, 1 GB RAM and 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 9 and 256 MB VRAM. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 3GB.

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Star Wars: Battlefront launched on 17 September 2004, within three weeks of Counter-Strike: Source, Rome: Total War, Fable and Burnout 3: Takedown. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Counter-Strike: Source, Rome: Total War, Fable, Burnout 3: Takedown.

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