Star Wars: Battlefront is fun because it is ‘Star Wars’

The Star Wars universe has proven how compelling it is over the years, but now it’s showing that it can even make a stale game genre feel fresh.

After a few hours with Star Wars: Battlefront, all I want to spend several more hours playing it. And that’s for one clear reason: It’s so very Star Wars. By that, I don’t just mean that developer DICE has nailed the look and feel of that cinematic world. It definitely has with its film-perfect  re-creations of Stormtroopers, blaster rifles, and AT-STs. But Battlefront also works wonderfully as a game because of the elements of Star Wars that DICE has decided to focus on. The shooter game underneath the space-opera skin benefits from blaster fire and the mythology George Lucas put in place more than 35 years ago in a way that makes it feel distinct and even better than recent Call of Duty and Battlefield releases.