Next week the latest addition to the biggest game franchise for Star Wars is coming out. Star Wars Battlefront – Renegade Squadron isn’t just an expansion of the popular Battlefront series that has ruled my XBox since it’s release, it’s a whole new ball game… for yer hands.
Even though the Star Wars Battlefront games are built on the first person shooter design, they feel more like a cross between an amusement park ride and playing men with yer chums when you were a little tyke.
Rebel Soldiers and Stormtroopers litter the field of combat like table scraps as a seemingly endless supply of replacements continue the battle for supremacy. The second Battlefront game introduced space combat, something that I suffered a deep learning curve from, but in the end got through it and now can show my enemies a few maneuvers like a pro.
While gamers anxiously await the next installment for nexgen systems, this new version for the handheld Sony PSP is more than ready to sate that hunger for excitement.
Trailer
Taking place directly after the Battle of Yavin from Episode IV (or Stah Waughs as the kids in my neighborhood always called it), the game follows the adventures of an elite commando squad lead by the unlikely rouge Han Solo. Assisting Solo in the formation of this rag-tag group is a former compatriot of his, a brand new character named Col Serra (pictured right).
Unlike the two previous games, this version of Battlefront allows players to fully customize their character right down to uniform colors and insignia.
In addition to the single player story mode, there is the ever popular instant action mode and of course multi-player which allows for 8 vs. 8 over both Galactic Civil War (original trilogy) and Clone War (prequel) eras.
Also new to the franchise in the vehicle combat arena are two battle tanks, a TIE Defender, plus the Millennium Falcon and Slave-1!
Players will spread havoc over all the familiar classic trilogy territories including Endor, Hoth, Yavin and in instant action or multi-player mode the maps of Saleucami (for the first time ever), Mygeeto, Mustafar, Naboo, Geonosis and Kashyyyk are available.
Interview
A special bundle is available with a Darth Vader image imprinted on the PSP itself, bundled with a copy of the Renegade Squadron game. It looks pretty sweet, doesn’t it? Already I’m anticipating having fun at the bank, doctor’s waiting room or doing husband duty as my wife shops for clothes, fighting the republic as best as I can.
I owe General Dodonna that much, don’t I?
On Amazon:
Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron
PSP/Battlefront Bundle
