Star Wars Battlefront 2 Screenshots

http://www.shacknews.com/screens.x/starwars_battlefront2/Star+Wars:+Battlefront+2/1/050405/screenshot_0027.jpg

The stormtrooper's head... is upside down

Why is everyone surprised?

The people behind the franchise know that millions of nerds will lap up anything and everything Star Wars. It just has to have the Star Wars name on it. Ergo, no need to spend money on engines, talent, etc.

It's a good example of how fanboyism (once it gets the kind of mass of a Star Wars of Star Trek) actually leads to the production of inferior product. The developers are simply under no pressure to make a good product because it's going to sell well anyway and the point here is to make money. Making games is incidental.

Something to keep in mind; this game is primarily targeted at PS2, which Battlefront looked phenomenal on for a PS2 game. Unfortunately, developing for the lowest common denominator, and not taking the time to polish up the PC and Xbox versions means that they suffer somewhat. Battlefront is what it is. Not for the hardcore (which most of you are), but you can't argue with almost 3 million copies sold.

Every one of those screenshots looks like 5 years ago. Really really crappy.

Looks like Dark Forces. Gah

THat and the textures on those star destroyers are painful :(

Ugh, I'd hoped that PC games would stop looking like this after the visual delights of Doom3 & Farcry etc. I can taste the blandness of these graphics in my mouth - it's like soggy cardboard or woodchips filling my mouth, scraping my teeth, cutting my tongue, choking me, I can't breath, Jesus.

Why is this being made?

bloom will solve all problems!

i really did not like the first one, it seemed to me to be a really crappy version of star wars "battlefield 1942" ... and i mean really really crappy.

Good Lord. The only good SW games are still KOTOR and Xwing or Tiefighter. STOP THE INSTANITY!

I saw the game at celebration 3. Your seeing wrath of the console for large multiplayer action games. It was running on the XBox there.

But the concept behind it rocked, you can get in a ship on a star destroyer, and fly over and dock on a corvette and fight inside with no loading seemlessly.

Maybe that is why the graphics take a hit.

You graphics whore :-p

I find it funny that Lucas protects the starwars franchise with great effort and a lot of sueing. While they release games that look like this. egh.

Oh my god. What the fuck is going on? Can't they find someone at least partially competent to create the graphics for this game? This looks like a bad game from 2003, I can't believe they have the balls to release these screenshots. These screenshots show such bad craftsmanship and art direction I am starting to think maybe they were released by detractors of Lucas games.

WAAAARNING! TOOOO SHORT PRODUCTION CYCLE for these kind of games.
What the heck are they doing?

i liked the first battlefront... actually played it yesterday

Is the game in Big Head Mode or something in these shots?

God the interior fight is a horrible screenshot. Someone should be fired for allowing that out. Could you show a worse moment? I really am not a nit-picker but this is really really bad and deserves comment.

1. Stormtrooper head pulled off shoulders
2. Animators sharing skeletons so wookies are not big, they just have big heads. Try body-scaling.
3. Particle effect of blast hitting the floor has crappy alpha and is low-res.
4. Virtually no interior lighting, as only objects and characters cast shadows.
5. Space crates... shrug.
6. Guys at the end of the hall all bunched up looking dorky.
7. Jaggies galore. Try taking screenshots with AA on.
8. Stormtrooper arm is clipping at bicep/shoulder.
9. Stormtrooper left knee has no backface on some polys.
10. Animation has stormtrooper holding his gun too far down the barrel.
11. Stormtrooper left foot is detached and broken or something.
12. Stormtrooper left foot is clipping through the ground.
13. Flat white textures for the ceiling. WHA????

Ok, i'm not even an art guy and i can spot all of this.

Needs more Doom 3 Engine:
http://doom3.planet-multiplayer.de/images/news/nx01_april_.jpg

Wait, wait.... space combats? Sweet.

Needs more Xbox 360 style graphics.

Is it just me or is the grahics in this game kind of crappy

i don't give a shit for this game unless the space combat scenes play out like Tie fighter. That is to say, like a "simulation" star wars game.

...Which it won't, so i'll go back to my corner and weep some more.

w00t. Jedi Knight Expansion!!

Hey, that's not nice, my little brother drew that and it took him a good half hour

wtf, the stormtrooper models in Jedi Knight 2 looked 10x better than this crap, and that was on the Q3 engine. In 2002.

Haha! Anyone notice that the stormtrooper's head looks like it's resting on the butt his rifle? Kinda funny because whoever greenlit a sequel to BattleFront must have their head planted firmly up their ass.

Lucasarts should just give us Tie FFighter 2 and stop dicking around with this bullshit :(

X-Wings are piloted by ghosts!

If Lucas made a dollar for every crappy game, he'd be a billionaire! Oh, wait..

Meh.