How is it possible to fumble the bag this hard? How did we get here? At a certain point it takes active effort to release something as bad and lazy as this. I am almost convinced that it isn’t even laziness but an act of self-sabotage; like how they could have left some of the DLC characters re-using other character’s animations but instead went and stole the work of a modder’s custom animations.

These games were finished and pretty polished, and certainly didn’t take up anywhere near the file sizes as they do now. Even knowing the textures were upscaled to 4K, how does that end up with 60~ GBs of data? Even on Nintendo Switch, this thing takes up 34 GBs of data— more than Mortal Kombat 1 on Switch. I have not heard of a new engine being utilized so I may be wrong but how did all these new bugs get here?

This release has left me with more and more questions, and this is quite possibly the worst fumble with any re-release/remaster I can think of in recent memory. Absolutely embarrassing on Aspyr’s part.

Screw you Aspyr

You really.... you.... you f**ked the pooch on this one.....

What an absolute disappointment, I feel so damn betrayed like, riddle me this, HOW DO YOU MAKE A COMPLETE SET OF OLD GAMES, INCOMPLETE, ON THEIR DIRECT PORT TO NEW CONSOLES???

.... at least the GTA Trilogy had the decency to slightly improve the graphics, models and textures....

First PlayStation game I've ever refunded.... absolutely ridiculous

A terrible release all around. The core gameplay is still fun, but that's due to the work Pandemic did 20+ years ago. All Aspyr did was AI upscale the textures, add a few reflections to surfaces, and port former Xbox exclusive content to PC. Unfortunately, they screwed up nearly all of this. Thanks to the new textures, the game now requires 60 GB of storage space - that's 10 GB more than the 2015 Battlefront with all DLCs requires! Additionally, the new reflections look weirldy out of place in most locations.

Battlefront 2 now uses the menus of the console versions which look better, but also cut some of the more advanced functions of the original PC version. Multiplayer is straight up awful, even before you get to the gameplay part. The quick match functionality tries to connect you to password protected servers, meanwhile the server browser tended to not load at all for me most of the time.

There are bugs and issues no matter where you look - keep in mind I found everything I list here in less than an hour of playtime. Certain guns clip through the screen, cutscenes show heavy artifacting, even the movie clips that loop in the menu backgrounds are compressed to hell and back. Oh, and sometimes the game will just produce an ear shattering audio error sound - hope you're not playing with headphones!

I have seen this called a cashgrab and I disagree, because a cashgrab would actually make Aspyr money. I have refunded my copy, and I'm assuming others will do the same. As of right now, I see no point in playing this over the originals. Both are available on PC with functioning multiplayer support and tons of mods. In a year or so, this Collection might be patched to a point where it's worth buying, but considering the blatent lack of competence Aspyr has displayed time and time again, I wouldn't bet on it.

How do you manage to only have 3 low quality servers, increase the combined file size 10x, and have such dogwater connection issues in early 2000's PS2 titles? Either there was no QA work done at all, or the studio failed to even secure QA workers. Regardless, this is completely unacceptable and falls into the norm of modern games being ruined by unnecessary issues that can be easily fixed. Aspyr, you do not deserve profits for tarnishing the holy grails of Star Wars games and being disgustingly money hungry; you only deserve shame and humiliation. Be better.

look how they massacred my boy

they had 20 years to polish a classic and somehow they ruined it

fuck disney

When playing the Hero Assault mode the only song that would play was the Cantina Band song, no matter the map (played on the Death Star, Mustafar, and a barely loaded in Hoth). When you would die the song would cut off immediately and would restart when you spawned back in. If you died too many times the sound would just completely cut off (a fair punishment that should be implemented in all games). Of all the things that need to be patched in this currently broken collection that I pre-ordered like the stupid man I am (between this and my purchase of the definitive edition of Plumbers Don't Wear Ties I should probably seek out a financial advisor) I deeply hope they keep this one.

Brief, unrated, purely informational. This information should be accurate as of 3/14/24

I played on PC for about an hour. I can, at the current moment, wholeheartedly say I do not recommend this release to any PC players, and i would wait on a drastic sale for console players. Also, the game somehow uses over 60gb of storage.

While the game runs and looks better for modern systems than the original releases, it isn't by much, or enough to warrant the price. Single player experience is good, but the multiplayer experience is non-existent. Considering the biggest reason to even buy this game is in hope of having functional online multiplayer, this is a huge slap in the face especially for the pricepoint. There isn't even cross-platform online. There are a total of three (3) PC servers at launch, which cannot hold nearly enough players, and from what I understand, they are laggy servers.

I will update or remove this review when the main issue of matchmaking servers are addressed, but otherwise, think before you spend over $35 on this title.

First Impressions: Online multiplayer is unplayable day one, but the singleplayer is as fun as I remember. These games have never looked so good either! Here's hoping they iron things out on the multiplayer front following such a rocky launch. Will update my rating based on those efforts.

Final Impressions: Look, I love the original Star Wars Battlefront games. If you're just trying to hop into Instant Action for a couple matches, play through the campaigns, or enjoy some classic local split screen multiplayer (a rarity nowadays), this collection might just be worth it, at least for us console players. It really is the most convenient way for me to enjoy what I love most about these classic games. As far as the online multiplayer, god, don't even bother. It's a disaster. I don't even bother, and you know what, for the reasons I listed prior, it doesn't bother me. I never really wanted to play these games online to begin with. But hey, if that was the main selling point for you, save your money. Hell, go buy both games individually on Steam. They're actually functional and it'll be cheaper too. For sake of fairness, regardless of my personal enjoyment of this title as a singleplayer experience, I gotta rate it with all of it's issues in mind. It's got the good, it's got the bad, and, dammit, does it have the ugly.

MEU DEUS DO CÉU, O QUE É ISSO
ESTRAGARAM DOIS JOGOS QUE ERAM PERFEITOS
64GB DE CONTEÚDO (DETALHE: OS DOIS ANTIGOS PESAVAM MENOS DE 15GB JUNTOS)
UI HORRÍVEL E ESTRAGADA.
PERFORMANCE PÉSSIMA.
SERVIDORES HORRÍVEIS.
MINHA INDIGNAÇÃO É IMENSURÁVEL. POSSIVELMENTE O PIOR REMASTER QUE EU JÁ JOGUEI EM >TODA< A MINHA VIDA.
COMO É TRISTE SER FÃ DE STAR WARS PUTA QUE PARIU

So i'll go ahead and break the reality of the situation. Everyone is giving it negative reviews because the mp was cooked day 1. But that was it after day 1 the mp worked fine. I do not think it deserves the mostly negative as the game works as intended. I have never crashed playing this game meanwhile I have had crashes playing the originals. This now has proper 4K UI support and controller support. Those two things are worth their weight in gold to me so that alone makes this re release worth my time. Because that's what this is a re release it is not a remaster. You can easily argue go get the originals but you can get this for fairly cheap iykyk. I also think the dark forces remaster is a bigger cash grab then this considering its only the first title but you don't see them getting blasted.

Here's what I will ♥♥♥♥ on. The file size certain is absurd should not be this big & that currently legendary medals are bugged so you don't get them at the beginning of a match like you should. The platinum trophy was also not popping for me (recently its been patched so you can get the plat now). Day 1 also had ending cutscenes for rise of the empire missing but this was patched within that same weekend. Otherwise I never had any issues and I played my heart out on IA some GC and the campaign modes as I did not get this for MP and frankly everyone whos flipping out on MP needs to remember most people were not capable of playing this online during that era. This is obviously a blatant smear campaign against aspyr due to long time fans feeling scorn against their more recent porting and SW games in general just being trash with casuals jumping in on the bandwagon. Just remember Aspyr were the ones that fixed up KOTOR II for modern PCs.

Hoje tirei meu dia para ficar jogando Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection, que é basicamente um "remaster" de jogos antigos do Star Wars compilados em uma coletânea, que, por sinal, tem sido bem comum esse tipo de coisa. O primeiro jogo, admito que nunca tinha nem tocado na minha vida, porém o segundo geralmente é o mais marcante entre os dois Battlefront e, nesse remaster aqui, sinceramente, eu esperava muito mais dele e sinceramente nem deveria esperar tanto.

Para quem nunca ouviu falar da série Battlefront, nem que seja pelos mais recentes, eles basicamente são jogos com a temática Star Wars, porém ele usa como molde o Battlefield. Essas versões mais antigas basicamente também, assim como os recentes, são assim, porém, obviamente, seguindo moldes de um Battlefield mais antigo. Então, basicamente, você escolhe sua classe no game e vai ser lançado ao campo de batalha diretamente falando. A partir daí, sua missão principal é conquistar postos avançados inimigos e eliminar a oposição e por aí vai.

O que eu acho mais divertido nesse tipo de game é como ele é frenético, não importa o tipo de situação que você escolha iniciar, sempre vai ter algo acontecendo em tela. Ambos os jogos, tanto Battlefront 1 quanto o 2, apresentam basicamente a mesma gameplay; apesar disso, Battlefront II sai na frente com sua inovação com o sistema de herói e vilão, onde se você concluir certas tarefas, você terá a chance de ser um herói ou vilão da série. Alguns desses heróis, como Han Solo, por exemplo, são muito similares a outros personagens, como Fett, por exemplo, e quase sempre não dão graça de jogar, porém com um Jedi ou um Sith, aí que o jogo começa a brilhar. O único defeito dessas transformações, principalmente quando a gente fala dos Jedi, é a falta de precisão em seus ataques; simplesmente o jogo é rápido e impreciso demais nesses momentos, atrapalhando muito mais do que de fato ajudar.

Em Battlefront II foi introduzido também o modo multiplayer, onde os times são compostos apenas por Heróis de cada lado, e embora os tamanhos dos times sejam menores em comparação com as batalhas normais, o caos resultante de tiros de blasters, raios e sabres de luz torna a redução de tamanho válida, já que toda essa bagunça é muito divertida. Uma coisa bastante estranha que acontece no game é o fato de você toda vez que entra na batalha ta sempre virado de costas para seu objetivo, o jeito como as partidas terminam são minimamente estranhas afinal do nada você simplesmente é mandado para a tabela de classificação. Mesmo levando em consideração que esse game é um game bem antigo e tá sendo apenas remasterizado, até mesmo para época esses tipos de situação são bem bizarros, fora o problema que mais me incomodou que foi em relação à IA dos inimigos e até mesmo dos aliados que são mais burros que uma porta.

O grande destaque para o jogo online que tá presente no game é que ambos os jogos suportam até 64 jogadores por partida. Considerando que a versão antiga estava restrita a 32 jogadores online no PC e no console bem menos, isso já é um baita avanço. Até seria se não fosse pelas dezenas de problemas com o game a começar pelo básico, o multiplayer simplesmente NÃO FUNCIONA, eu dificilmente achava partida, o jogo em diversos momentos é MUITO TRAVADO, e em vários momentos eu pensei em desistir. Fora o fato de eu simplesmente ter meu jogo crashado em vários momentos.

A Coleção Clássica de Star Wars: Battlefront é uma coleção completamente imperfeita... apesar de sim, trazer um tom de nostalgia para quem já jogou no passado, o jogo foi lançado com dezenas de problemas no seu multiplayer e dificilmente eu consegui jogá-lo, porém... apesar dos problemas eles são bons jogos. Se você optar por jogar offline vai gostar bastante da ampla variedade de modos, juntamente com o modo de tela dividida que também é muito divertido, infelizmente se você tá buscando o multiplayer do game talvez nesse momento de lançamento não seja o momento ideal, ao menos para mim foi uma experiência horrível.

Pontos Positivos:
- Battlefront 2 é um jogo genuinamente bom e eu amo
- Vários modos de jogo legais
- Remasterização das texturas do jogo ficaram aceitáveis

Pontos Negativos:
- Jogabilidade de tiro medíocre
- Mapas pequenos demais no modo online
- Alguns controles são bem estranhos e desajeitados de controlar

Versão utilizada para análise: XBOX SERIES S

What is it with Battlefront players and our horrible luck?

First, we had the 2015 game, which was released with very little content and terrible balancing. We then got the 2017 game, which had extremely overpriced heroes that it was practically pay-to-play.

Now, we have a re-release of the classic games, but this time with multiple bugs and terrible servers.

I'll end this review on an optimistic note at least: history shows that Battlefront games are always able to redeem themselves and get better over time, as we saw with the 2015 and 2017 games. Hopefully this will be the case for the re-release, otherwise I will continue giving it this negative review.

I write this with a heavy heart.

I never played battlefront 1, so having that as part of the collection was nothing but a plus for me but if it had anything wrong with it compared to the original I wouldn't know. 1 is very basic. Its story mode is very barebones, its just a bot match with a slide, a character telling you your mission and maybe movie footage before it. Before I installed the update the movie cutscenes that were really low quality, maybe 360p at best. The update fixed it but the videos were choppy a lot of the time. That same update REMOVED the option to invert the Y axis and also corrupted my saves in both titles. In BF1 I was about 3 story mission in and 2 I just booted to check the menu since I wanted to play while it downloaded. Aspyr you are something else.

Battlefront 2 is one of my favorite and most played ps2 games and I'm happy that I seemed to reacclimate well. Also it has the real menu unlike that awful, lazy concept art that the originl pc version has which I checked last week. The movie cutscenes are also still here unlike in the pc version which again, I check last week, and wern't as choppy as in 1. So as for as I'm concerned this is a better version in that regard natively. Battlefront 2 also seemed like it had more work put into it when it came to the texture upscaling cuz it blew 1 out of the water but it has that issue where using a scope to zoom is still 4:3. Its not all sunshine and rainbows though. Just like Battlefront 1 there is no ability to invert aim despite it being in the older versions which I put in my ps2 to check. Some of the cutscenes cut off early despite me not pressing a button and the last cutscene on hoth didn't even have sound. Also the post mission 501st journals did not exist so I missed out on one of my favorite ones for post Felucia. Some of the heroes voice lines when you are able to play as them are cut off, usually the sith's "what is your bidding" is cut off. Right before I sat down to finish writing this I had the sound die on the main menu as well. I tested it after and its reproducible after leaving instant action. Aspyr might be some of the most inept devs I've ever seen. No wonder you were kicked off the kotor remake and couldnt get the restored content dlc for the switch port of kotor 2 dsepite it being part of your marketing campaign if you can't do something as simple as keep fucking cutscenes in games. They're also too stupid to compress cuz the game was 25gb, and there was zero reason they should have been. Not as bad as on pc where there game is 50.

One of the reasons I was interested in this collection was because it has the content from the xbox release I never had cuz I was a ps2 boy. Kit Fisto and Assaj Ventress were in Renegade Squadron so I got to play them there but never in BF2 proper. Kit was cool with his force ball but I found his moveset to be unwieldy and Ventress had this dual saber connected with a chain with throwing stars. I remember seeing claims that these versions of the characters were a stolen mod and I'd believe it. They don't even have voice lines. The maps were just maps from battlefront 1, I thought they were gonna be wholly new. Assault on all maps ended up being what I thought, force pushing people into pits. Assault on every map is still cool don't get me wrong but I was always sure there was a reason it was only on Mos Eisley.

I had no intention of playing the multiplayer initially as I couldn't give less of a shit about it but with all the complaints about it so I went to see for myself. I booted it up at 9 am on a Thursday and saw several full 64 player matches and many others with 50+. I counted 30 dedicated aspyr server choices among the player created matches. Tried 2 of the 64 player, my internet is comcast bad so it was pretty laggy even wired but hits were registering as I was getting kills and respawning worked. A 30 player lobby had less lag but still there. Whenever someone says something is unplayable, we should all know by now that they don't know what the word means.

This should have been a slam dunk, and EASY slam dunk. Battlefront 2 is still VERY fun to me and the new stuff, new to me damnit, freshened up a game I had over 100 hours in back in the day. However its just all around sloppy in presentation and every mistake the game makes reeks of not caring. Make no mistake, I'll be booting this one up for some splitscreen fun every now and again, but with how stacked the beginning of this year has been and how it WILL be later on, there are better things I can spend my time on like getting a dlc character ready for shadow of the erdtree. I would hope these issues get fixed but as far as I'm concerned its too little to late. You're a joke and a liar aspyr, you deserve the star wars license as much as EA does. Which is not at all.

Damn I despise aspyr. How do you fuck it up so bad?

The games intact and the same as before, and they even added some new content for each version: new maps and heroes. All good stuff.

The games run fine. It looks dated, but in a good way. Shooting and movement is fun and way better than modern Battlefront and I truly mean that. I love these games and love that they're even part of the discussion again.

But even if some of the issues listed in the other reviews are fixed down the road (some bugs, server issues, etc.), I don't think this is very fun online experience in 2024. You can cap all outposts in 1-2 minutes and lock out the other team, and everyone's on a 20 second spawn wave system. Games can end in literal seconds and then you're on to the next map. Maybe down the road if there's, like, an infinite or 1000+ kill count server with faster spawn waves it could be a good time, but for now, I'd rather refund it, play the originals, and see if this game progresses or gets better down the road on a sale. Might be worth it if you're console-only and just want to play the game offline.

Refunded it when I saw the negative impressions.
Bought it again to see for myself.
Immediately refunded again.

Man, what the hell. Xbox quick match multiplayer seems to keep routing me private matches that require a passcode. When I started my own match I found that the aiming is totally borked with a weird acceleration not present in the old version. And no one joined. Just a bummer.

This port is so bad.

It's already bad enough the file size for the collection is 60 gigs because of the uncompressed ai upscaled textures but the multiplayer barely works at all.

Instantly there's already audio bugs with BF2 being much quieter than 1 even at max volume settings as well as the loading screen sound from BF1 when loading into a map being incorrect (which is a sin.)

First few experiences of me playing this game started with me in BF1 doing quick join and joining a server requiring a password, next match directly after that has me join a match and the game instantly crashes.

Then I try BF2 quick match and end up on a match in Utapau on Conquest. The hit reg is terrible despite having my ping only being around 40 on the server and there was a glitch that me and several other people in the server experienced where when we on a respawn timer, it would just be stuck at 1 and never would go down.

The new textures and graphical changes don't look very bad and I like the upscaled hud and everything but the background cut scenes on Battlefront 2's menu that are upscaled look so horrible.

It's so disappointing because I love these two games but I'm gonna have to refund it because this is ridiculous for a +$30 dollar collection that really doesn't have anything better than the original games on PC. I'll probably only pick it up again on discount if the biggest issues are fixed.

How in the HELL did this release in the state it did when we have perfectly functional ports already available on PC? You are essentially paying $30 for a "fresher" online community and Xbox DLC you could have modded in, yourself.

Netcode is terrible, hits do not register as they should. PTP servers do not work. Aspyr's servers crash all the time. No online support for split-screen modes and lacking crossplay when these games and community really needed it. Utter trash and I would have this refunded in a heartbeat if it wasn't for the fact this was a birthday gift from a friend and he has to authorize the refund.

Se você der uma olhada nas minhas análises, verá que minha avaliação para o Battlefront II original é de 5 estrelas. Você pode estar se perguntando: o que aconteceu para mudar isso?

A verdade é que minhas expectativas eram razoáveis. Eu não esperava um grande remaster, mas estaria muito satisfeito com texturas atualizadas, uma nova interface de usuário e o tão prometido multiplayer de 64 jogadores. Afinal, o jogo original já era excelente, então não parecia difícil acertar, certo?

No entanto, este port é um insulto à memória do jogo original. Listando os problemas, temos:

- O multiplayer simplesmente NÃO FUNCIONA. Os jogadores vem reclamando que não conseguem encontrar salas para jogar, e quando tentam criar uma sala, o jogo literalmente fica travado a 30 FPS, e muito travado.

- O modo campanha permanece praticamente o mesmo, com muito poucos bots, mas agora com inimigos dando RESPAWN NA SUA FRENTE, algo que não acontecia no jogo de 2005. Além disso, parece que algumas coisas foram nerfadas sem necessidade.

- Ao final das fases, não há cutscene, deixando o jogador sem entender o que acontece na história. "Ah, mas tem o filme..." E daí, meu amigo? Se eu quisesse ver o filme, eu assistiria o filme, ora. O jogo de 2005 tinha cutscenes, então por que o remaster não as tem?

- Não há áudio de vitória e derrota!

- O jogo no PC tem 50 GB de tamanho, enquanto nos consoles são 25 GB, sendo que os jogos originais juntos não ultrapassam 15 GB. Isso levanta a questão de como, tendo sido removido mais conteúdo do que adicionado, o jogo ficou tão pesado.

Iria esperar alguns patches e tudo mais, acredito que corrijam, mas achei um lançamento simplesmente desrespeitoso. Como é possível errar em algo que já está feito há mais de duas décadas? Amigos, comprem o jogo original e encham de mods, vocês irão ganhar mais. Mesmo que melhorem essa aberração, não irei gastar dinheiro com essa porcaria. Minha decepção é incomensurável.