It is fanservice at its most disappointing.
If you wondered what Luke Skywalker got up to in that hazy interim – before he became a hermit on the Shetland Isles – Battlefront II has you covered: turns out he was fighting oversized cockroaches in a damp cave. The story exists to fill in the gaps between the original Star Wars trilogy and the events of The Force Awakens. It hits all the familiar beats of a Star Wars movie – a planet-hopping, spacefaring tale of family and atonement told from multiple perspectives. Her father also happens to be her commanding officer, heading up the Empire’s rebuilding efforts after the destruction of the Death Star. That obsession with detail extends to the story of its all-new campaign mode, in which you play as Iden Versio, a special forces operative who works for the Empire. Much like Star Wars Battlefront, Star Wars Battlefront II nails the sights and sounds of the space epic films, creating an authentic audiovisual assault for fans of whirring lightsabers and the stomp of towering AT-ATs. This is true of the original trilogy, it is true of the new trilogy, and it is even true of the prequels, with Anakin’s slide to the Dark Side ignited by his love for the mother of his children – and, presumably, his hate for sand. Whether it be Luke Skywalker’s realisation that he fancies his sister, or finding out his dad is space Hitler, the themes of bonding with lost relatives and the redemption of estranged loved ones is always at its heart.
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