SW Battlefront: Elite Squadron dated

By Robert Purchese Published 16 October, 2009

DS and PSP outing in November.

Activision has announced a 6th November release date for Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron on DS and PSP.

The highlights include fighting on ground and air during the same battle, plus a new story about a clone called X2 who has Jedi Master DNA. He was born bad but turned good. His brother X1, however, is still bad to the bone and is the game's main antagonist.

Up to 16 of you can fight online on PSP, picking your favourite Star Wars heroes or creating your own to do battle with and customise as you go. The DS game supports four people online and offers a selection of pre-made characters only.

We're sorting a Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron video for Eurogamer TV now.

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  • viper_h #1 2 years ago

    All well and good, but where's Battlefront 3??

  • bad09 #2 2 years ago

    I saw SW Battlefront on the headline and my heart skipped a beat at first, then saw it was this silly handheld one. :(

    Get on with BF3 LA, I don't want a gimped version of one of my fav online games!!!!!!!!

    (Those wanting real battlefront remember BF2 is only 12 quid on steam and unlike the Xbox version people are still playing online.)

  • bratmandu #3 2 years ago

    Lucasarts, regarding SW:BF

    1) Give development over to DICE

    2) Get Battlefront 3 out on PC and Consoles.

    3) Ignore the 'new' trilogy.
    Edited by 1 at 16/10/09 @ 13:36

  • hidden_asbestos #4 2 years ago

    I hope they use the same cutscene style as in Renegade Squadron. Those are fantastic.

  • GordonCaladan #5 2 years ago

    So you're saying it's antiquated before it's even released..?

  • FladgeMangle #6 2 years ago

    This got me thinking. Now that the PSPgo exists and digital delivery is firmly entrenched in the PSP canon (although judging by this weeks PSN updates you'd think Sony has forgotten about it already) how about a bit of DLC?

    I'd love to play the Ultimate Sith Edition content on my PSP Force Unleashed.

    Anyway, back on topic.. The Battlefront space/ground crossover looks excellent, although Kotaku raised a few concerns over the sensitivity of the switch and the apparent disabling of it at arbitrary moments. Still looking forward to this. It might even get me off Monster Hunter FU in a way that IL-2 Sturmovic utterly failed to.

    Linkgasm - [link url=http://kotaku.com/53 81970/star-wars-battlefront-elite-squadron-preview-im-a-tota l-space-case
    ]http://ko taku.com/5381970/star-wars-batt...[/link]

  • Golgo #7 2 years ago

    @Area88

    Don't comment, then, you cock!

  • YourMessageHere #8 2 years ago

    @ GordonCaladan

    I too hate that "Game X dated" phrase, and regularly misread it as exactly that. American English running riot again. "Game X given date" is clearer, more correct and takes about 1ms longer to read, but has FIVE MORE CHARACTERS so is obviously not permitted.

  • Nephirion #9 2 years ago

    a new story about a clone called X2 who has Jedi Master DNA

    i thought you couldn't clone a jedi? considering how powerful Jedi's are, you could easily destroy the empire purely by producing a few thousand cloned Jedi >.
    Edited by 1 at 17/10/09 @ 20:10

  • FladgeMangle #10 2 years ago

    Who knows what you can do now in George's infantile re-imagining of the Star Wars universe?

    Maybe the baby clone got accidentally injected with some midichlorians while being poorly looked after by a clumsy yet hilarious amphibian... sigh.

  • YourMessageHere #11 2 years ago

    There's nothing to say you can't clone a Jedi, lots of the good expanded universe stuff (the trilogy by Timothy Zhan that kicked off the whole EU and Dark Empire to name IMO the best) uses this as a plot point. The problem isn't that anyone ever said cloning a Jedi wasn't possible, it's that no-one can adequately explain why it's taken this long for anyone to stop ignoring the idea and deal with it. Perhaps more to the point, why is there a plot in a Battlefront game? I thought the whole point of Battlefront was Star Wars historic battle wish-fulfillment. But I suppose just like the expanded universe, SW games went off the rails long ago.

    EDIT: redundant extra word is redundant.
    Edited by 1 at 19/10/09 @ 15:00