A Great Game for a Action Sci-Fi shooter.
The controls are the console shooter standard; left stick for moving forward, back and strafing, right for looking up, down and turning. The game also features auto aiming, which helps when strafing enemies. L2 and R2 switch between weapons while L1 and R1, are used for triggers. When in battle, you can give out orders to your squad in battle using the D-pad
Once you start the game, you create your profile, setup controls and select an era. There are three single player game choices. The first two are Historical Campaign and Galactic Conquest; both of them have a selection of missions with the various factions from the Rebel Alliance to the Galactic Empire that are spread across the star wars universe from. Historical Campaign features two eras to choose from Clone Wars, which is set in episodes 1, 2 and the, as yet unreleased 3rd movie or Galactic Civil War, which is set in episodes 4, 5 and 6.
In Galactic Conquest mode, players choose a side and fight from planet to planet until they control every planet. Each of the planets offer there own advantages, such as giving you a powerful Jedi ally, or disabling the enemy's vehicles. When you attack a planet once, it puts the planet into contested status on the planet selection screen, while winning two battles will claim them. Winning a battle can be achieved by either killing every enemy troop on the battlefield, or claiming every command post. Claiming command posts will also add new places you can respawn if you are killed.
The aforementioned battle rules apply to every game mode. The last single player mode is instant action. In this mode, you can select a battle of your choice or select several battles to play through in the order of your choice.
The various planets of the Star Wars universe have been recreated well in this game, with large environments. There is not much wild life to speak of, however, this is made up for in the one hundred plus enemies on the battlefield at once. Of course having so many soldiers fighting at once makes the gameplay rather chaotic, preventing the gameplay getting repetitive but, at the same time making it easy to be shot in the back, if you are not careful. To help guide you through the confusion developers Pandemic included a radar system with your troops marked green and the enemies marked red.
When it comes to the vehicular combat, this game has every almost vehicle from the Star Wars franchise available to use, from the Speeder bikes to X-Wing fighters. As would be expected, some can take more damage than others can and the larger vehicles like the Imperial Walkers move rather slowly but dish out some major damage on anything they attack, while smaller vehicles like the speeder bikes move fast but are much weaker in terms of fire power.
When selecting a soldier to control you get a choice of between about three to five different soldiers depending on the level you are playing. They usually consist of a soldier with a rapid-fire weapon, rocket launcher, grenade launcher, a plasma grenade and a sniper; all of them have a pistol and a few grenades. The only real difference in playing for the different factions comes in the form of the vehicles. For example, playing as a Rebel will give you easy access to Speeder Bikes and X-Wing fighters, while playing as a Galactic Empire soldier will make the Imperial Walkers easier to access.
Unfortunately, there are some small AI issues in this game. At one point, I saw a storm trooper trying to walk through a wall in a cave leading to a battlefield, presumably trying to get to an enemy soldier.
The music in Star Wars: Battlefront sounds as though it were taken straight from the movies, as is the case with almost, if not every modern Star Wars game released. The effects are also standard Star Wars laser and explosion sounds and why change the classic sound effects.