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Star Wars: Battlefront Fighter Squadron mode gameplay footage

X-Wings! TIE-Fighters! Millennium Falcon! And more.

DICE has shown off a first look at Star Wars: Battlefront's aerial combat mode, Fighter Squadron.

Footage shown during EA's Gamescom 2015 press conference showed off dogfights between X-Wings and TIE-Fighters.

An Imperial Shuttle, Boba Fett's Slave I and the Millennium Falcon are also included.

These aren't space battles - DICE was careful to explain that the levels will take place above planet surfaces but still within the atmosphere.

It's also unclear how much freedom to explore you will have within each scenario.

20 AI ships will be in action at once, DICE concluded.

Here's how it looks:

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