New Battlefront is PSP-exclusive

By Robert Purchese Published 11 May, 2007

Hans off.

Activision's confirmed that the new Battlefront game is PSP-exclusive and will be available in the Christmas period.

Renegade Squadron is in development at UK studio Rebellion, and will feature 11 single-player missions, support for 16 of you to duke it out online, or the option for up to eight of you to compete in ad-hoc multiplayer.

It'll follow the adventures of Han Solo as he travels the galaxy assembling his team of scoundrels. You'll be able to explore all your favourite Star Wars locations, meet familiar characters and utilise machinery from different planets - like Darth's TIE fighter and the Millennium Falcon.

Customisation comes in the form of 100 points that you can dish out into health, agility, speed, weaponry and items - on top of species, body, uniform and insignia selections.

The action will be recorded through leaderboards and pages of statistics, and it looks like we also might be treated to a capture the flag mode.

Expect assets to tumble in soon.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (21) Latest comment 5 years ago

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  • spongebob #1 5 years ago

    I am saying this once again: PSP has some really nice games coming and the games library on it is already fairly impressive, yet as a games machine, it lets me down. It's not even nice to hold it when you're playing. A shame, really.

  • thesnowman #2 5 years ago

    As nice as this is, when the hell are Lucasarts going to announce KOTOR 3

  • Cloudane #3 5 years ago

    I echo spongebob's comments.

    The PSP has slowly but surely started to sit quite nicely with the DS over the past year or so and continues to be supported despite low-ish software sales. I do wish Sony would re-design the PSP to be a much more comfortable handheld (soft curved edges please) and allow the CPU to use the FULL 333MHz!

  • Vin #4 5 years ago

    Wicked pun, that.

  • warthog2k #5 5 years ago

    @thesnowman - would be nice if they made KOTOR2 work first...

  • dadrester #6 5 years ago

    Cloudane... 333MHz is used for the psone emulator, iirc.

  • SBfistfun #7 5 years ago

    shit game with bad controls

    Just call me psychic....

  • thesnowman #8 5 years ago

    @warthog2k Couldnt agree more, KOTOR 2 was dire compared to the first one. Heres hoping that Bioware will do it again, but I wont be holding my breath.

  • david78 #9 5 years ago

    The PSP really is starting to come into it's own. I don't like when people call it a failure. I t clearly isn't. It's by far from dominatiing, but it took a large chunk from nintendo's 99% handheld share.

  • miiiguel #10 5 years ago

    I second spongebob...
    It isn't a confortable console to play with. Clumbsy design, I guess + lame controls.

  • Aretak #11 5 years ago

    I've actually never seen the problem with the PSP's design. I think it's pretty comfortable to hold, and I like the analogue nub.

  • Hughes. #12 5 years ago

    I found the last PSP battlefront to be a rather jerky unsatisfying affair, but then I didn't rate the full console version much either, much preferred the first game. If they can make it more like Battlefront and less like Battlefront 2 I'll be happy. PSP owners certainly expect a higher level of presentation with the quality of the competition in its library now.

    16 player infrastructure play sounds very good though.

  • SBfistfun #13 5 years ago

    "16 player infrastructure play sounds very good though."

    Me predicts jerky madness

  • mingster #14 5 years ago

    I actually find it more comfortable to use than the DS

    And have no problem with the controller

    It has much better library of games than the DS if you include all the emulators including PS1 emu

    Plus with hacked firmware letting you run Pimstreamer , PSPradio etc... its a cracking handheld

  • chupachups #15 5 years ago

    PSP exclusive... until it's released on the PS2


    "The PSP really is starting to come into it's own. I don't like when people call it a failure. I t clearly isn't. It's by far from dominatiing, but it took a large chunk from nintendo's 99% handheld share."

    I agree, but Sony and their hardcore fans in the press are at least partially to blame for stirring up the stories that the PSP would dominate the market. If they'd been a bit more humble and not used phrases like "Walkman for the 21st Century", people wouldn't have been so disappointed when it was outsold by the DS.

    Sony set the bar way, way too high. Nintendo has seen off competition from Sega, Atari and all other handheld makers, all of whom released handhelds with far superior technology to Nintendo's. It was sheer stupidity to expect Sony to just waltz straight to the top when Nintendo had such a solid track record for winning in this field.
    Edited by 1 at 12/05/07 @ 00:07

  • dirigiblebill #16 5 years ago

    'It was sheer stupidity to expect Sony to just waltz straight to the top when Nintendo had such a solid track record for winning in this field.'

    Every company bullshits about its products. The last thing your investors want to hear is a press release along the lines of 'nggh, it could go either way really, the competition's pretty tough, and we don't have the brand powaah we do in the living room- I dunno, maybe twenty percent of the market?" Investors like confidence, not bloody common sense.

    The whole 'crap PSP design' thing eludes me. I've never had any trouble with mine.

  • ratso #17 5 years ago

    psp needs only one thing : 1 functional analog stick to replace the nub

    then its absolutely perfect

  • Lov3 #18 5 years ago

    Do you pay a guy specifically to come up with the subtitles for your news articles? If so, he needs a raise.

  • steoc4 #19 5 years ago

    I find the PSP really comfortable to use myself. Far more comfortable than my DS Lite, though it's not as pocket-friendly. I'd only bring it out with me if I've a bag to throw it in (I usually do)

    But yea, it's got great games and it feels good to use. I much prefer it to my DS, but it depends what games you're into I guess.

  • chupachups #20 5 years ago

    "Every company bullshits about its products. The last thing your investors want to hear is a press release along the lines of 'nggh, it could go either way really"

    Well, they do in their adverts but they don't in their official statements to investors. Companies have to be fairly honest in those kinds of documents because if they're not then the shareholders will lose confidence in the long term.

    Nintendo predicted they would sell 6 million Wiis in their first year, but they've already sold them in the first three months, so they were clearly being extremely cautious about how much success they'd promise to their investors.

  • dirigiblebill #21 5 years ago

    @ chupachups

    Fair point. So did Sony tell its investors the PSP would 'waltz straight to the top' back in 2005, then? Links if you've got them please :)