


The size of the Hoth map in Battlefront’s Walker Assault mode, on the other hand, feels appropriately sprawling. Trials are the missions that will replicate iconic moments from the Star Wars films. I don’t know how big the AI battles will be, but it’ll be interesting to see how those compare against classic single-player Battlefront.

According to DICE, matches in the final survival mode will last for 15 rounds, which is good-even my first time playing the game, and being a poor shot with the controller, my co-op partner and I had no trouble blasting through six waves in 10 minutes.īattlefront producer Craig Mcleod told me that Survival is one of three one-or-two player modes the others are Trials, which are more scripted, story-based missions that teach you some basic gameplay mechanics, and Battles, which pit you against the AI (or a friend's AI team) in larger-scale encounters. My co-op partner and I had to survive in a Tatooine canyon while waves of Stormtroopers came to kill us.Įach wave or two introduced some new enemies, like more heavily armed and armored troopers, sniper troops, jumpjet stormtroopers, and AT-STs. Series fans will be happy to know that AI enemies are back, though in the six wave survival matches I played, they show up in smaller groups of half a dozen or so at a time, not the map-filling droves that once covered older Battlefront multiplayer maps. Survival mode is one of Battlefront’s single-player/co-op modes meant to supplement the larger multiplayer versus modes, and is as straightforward a “Horde” mode as you can get.
