What’s new in Star Wars Battlefront 2’s multiplayer

DICE overhauls Battlefront’s heroes, space combat and more DICE’s original Star Wars Battlefront was designed with the goal to give Star Wars fans a chance to live out their own personal battle fantasies, but this year’s sequel dreams bigger than that. Rather than focusing just on George Lucas’ original trilogy, Star Wars Battlefront 2 is targeting Star Wars fans young and old. At Star Wars Celebration today, Electronic Arts and developers DICE and Motive Studios revealed that Star Wars Battlefront 2 will feature battles from Star Wars’ three cinematic eras: the original trilogy, the prequels and the recently launched sequels.

“My first touchpoint [with Star Wars] was the original trilogy,” said Bernd Diemer, creative director at DICE. “But there are so many kids whose first experience with Star Wars was the prequels. ” Naturally, there are some relatively new Star Wars fans whose introduction to the series is Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

They’re being catered to in Battlefront 2 as well. With Battlefront 2, DICE is giving Star Wars fans access to planets, weapons, characters, gadgets, ships and more “from all eras. ” Players will be able to battle AT-ATs and Snowtroopers on Hoth while riding tauntauns or flying Snowspeeders; fight TIE Fighters and Star Destroyers in an X-wing; and play as heroes like Darth Maul, Rey, Kylo Ren and Yoda.

And while playing as iconic characters like Darth Vader or Luke Skywalker will once again be a big draw in Battlefront 2, DICE also wants players to feel heroic playing as a rank and file trooper, whether that’s a Rebel soldier, a First Order stormtrooper or a Trade Federation Army battle droid. Electronic Arts Star Wars Battlefront 2 Diemer said DICE had to “do a little deconstruction” about what’s exciting about stepping into a Star Wars battle. “What gives you goosebumps about stepping onto Hoth?

” he said. “What elements do we need to have? Your blaster, your lightsaber, your ship, your family … the Force — one thing that stood out to us was there’s a chance for everybody to become a hero… “Multiplayer, at…