It's getting there.
Battlefront 2 comes in with some new additions and improvements over its predecessor, aside from new locations and a new unit type. First off, the game features an actual single player campaign. This campaign follows the infamous 501st Legion from its beginnings to just before the start of the original trilogy. The campaign takes players through all the maps and locations. While that may sound somewhat the same as the Historical Campaign seen in the first Battlefront, Pandemic keeps the action fresh by including some different game types along the way. Another addition to the series is the inclusion of space battles. Each space battle begins with the two opposing factions at either end of the map in capital ships. The capital ships are the main target for these battles. To aid players in doing knocking off these mighty vessels are a pethora of new fighter types in addition to the ones that make their return from the first Battlefront. There are now three types of fighters; assault, bomber, and interceptor, along with one transport for each of the factions. There are two ways to destroy a capital ship. The first, the old fashion way, is to just hammer it with bombers and destroy all the sub-systems. The other way is to land a force of marines in the said ship and destroy it from the inside. Space battles are a nice addition, but after a while, they do become a little boring as the gameplay is exactly the same. Other than the single player addition and the space battles, Battlefront 2 adds heroes to the chaos. Now you can enter battle as Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, Boba Fett, and others. Heroes were included in Battlefront, but not in playable form. To make things a bit harder to gain access to heroes, players can only become them once they achieve a set amount of points and are the best on their respective team. The hero that each player becomes depends on the location. But as cool as it sounds, there is a problem with the heroes, that being that they are very powerful, and it takes some thinking in taking a hero down, especially if they're a jedi.
Battlefront 2 also manages to include some hefty improvements over its predecessor. The biggest change is the balancing. The first Battlefront suffered from balancing issues that included an imbalance in the troop types for each faction and the unbelievable toughness of the land vehicles. This time around the troop types are more balanced a new system. At the start of each battle, only four of the available six (there is one new troop type) can be chosen by the player at the start. Once the battle has progressed, the other two type will unlock. The two types that aren't available at the start are the two unique units. The vehicles in Battlefront 2 have been toned done so that the anti-armor troops won't have to unload their entire load to take down one AT-ST or gian speeder. The last improvement comes in the galactic conquest. In the first Battlefront, the galactic conquest was one of the single player modes where players could choose which planet to attack, on their way to controlling the galaxy. To make things more interesting, each planet contained a specific power-up once controlled that could be taken into battle that included power up weapons, radar jamming, and periodic regeneration. All these return, but instead of picking a planet to attack, players have to move their capital ship to get the planet they wish to attack. This also brings the space battles into play, which will actually become the bulk of the battles. Otherwise the new galactic mode is the same as the previous one, but with more planets to attack of course.
Overall, Battlefront 2 is a nice improvement over the first, but still has its share of problems. The space battles, while nice to add, become rather boring with its lack of freedom. The heroes while cool, are a little too powerful for some maps. But even with all this, the balancing issues have been solved, and the Battlefront series is poised to break out.