It's now been a few weeks since the Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection arrived on Xbox, and unfortunately it's suffered quite a lot of negative attention so far. In particular, issues with the game's servers led to a rough launch back in March, culminating in a pretty disappointing Metacritic average of 53 for Xbox (61 for PS5).
Here at Pure Xbox, we gave the Battlefront Classic Collection a "Not Bad" 6/10 in our review following some post-launch testing, which is a shame because we actually had more positive impressions about it prior to release!
"If you’re not in it for online play, and only want to participate in solo play and local multiplayer (or you simply want the original experience), we would argue the affordably priced backward compatibility versions are still more than enough. If you are really eager to relive the online battles of yesteryear on an even bigger scale though, the Classic Collection is the (only) way, so hopefully Apsyr can overcome these launch issues."
Things do seem to have improved since the release of the game's first patch recently, with a variety of features added back into the game and server issues cropping up less regularly, so hopefully that'll continue in the future.
Anyway, how are you personally finding this collection so far? Is this your first time with the old Star Wars Battlefront games, and what do you think of them if so? Alternatively, if you've been playing Battlefront for decades now, is the Battlefront Classic Collection worth its arguably high price tag? Let us know in the poll and comments below.
How Would You Grade The Battlefront Collection So Far? (387 votes)
- 10/10 (Outstanding)
- 9/10 (Excellent)
- 8/10 (Great)
- 7/10 (Good)
- 6/10 (Not Bad)
- 5/10 (Average)
- 4/10 (Poor)
- 3/10 (Bad)
- 2/10 (Terrible)
- 1/10 (Abysmal)
- I haven't played it yet, but I will!
- I haven't played it yet, and I probably won't
We'd love to hear your first impressions about this new Star Wars Collection in the comments!
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I've read a lot of mixed reviews about this game, mostly not great comments either. But I am a huge Star Wars nerd, so will definitely try it at some point.
Is it too much to ask for something Star Wars related to actually be great anymore?? Who'd have thought the prequel series (as well as Rogue One) was the last time Star Wars gave us something to be proud of 😐
I have the OG xbox disc for battlefront 2 and still play on my series x from time to time. One of my all time favorite games. I can only speak for my self, but I have no need for this new "collection" .
@ironcrow86 Andor was quite good. And so are the Jedi games by Respawn.
The dev came on here to vote 10/10
@ironcrow86 I love Jedi: Fallen Order, it’s a fantastic game in my opinion. I haven’t played Survivor yet, but I bet that’s also good.
Honestly been an absolute blast. And gave me what I wanted from my OG Battlefront 2. Higher frame rate and controller support. All while getting rid of that awful Vaseline glaze that was over everything.
Being able to play XL modes on console is amazing.
I do wish they had made some fundamental changes like adding Battlefront 1 maps to 2, and adding vehicle huds to the second.
Also using the 2 player split screen the PS2 had instead of the four player split screen the OG Xbox had is just silly.
Given the og version are still better to play. They still have lots of work to do the hoth space map still has broken graphics
It's decent. Not the best, not the worst. I think people are always going to hate on stuff this big, especially remasters, reboots, remakes, etc. While there were some pretty big missteps like using a modders work, promising to not use it and then using it anyway, I feel like it's enjoyable as long as you're not nitpicking small. I had a blast playing it years ago and I'm still having fun with this one.
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