5 Games that Redeemed Themselves in 2018
Star Wars Battlefront 2
The Star Wars Battlefront series has had it rough for the past few years. After EA took over the license and released Star Wars Battlefront in 2015 the community was upset at the lack of a single-player campaign and was underwhelmed with the amount of content sold in the base game.
Fast forward to the 2017 release of Star Wars Battlefront 2, in which there was a promise of a campaign, characters from the prequel trilogy, and an expansive multiplayer.
The game delivered on these fronts but was plagued with an entirely new problem, microtransactions.
The game’s progression system was directly tied to random loot boxes that could also be purchased with real money, which affected things like damage output, and unlocking famous Star Wars heroes and villains.
It was a disaster and the community backlash was so large that EA finally stepped in a removed the system altogether.
In March of 2018, an update was released that totally overhauled how all of these systems worked.
Instead of getting your buffs through the random crates of Star Cards, players will be able to choose which buffs they want and obtain them with in-game experience points. In fact, you can’t even purchase loot crates in Battlefront 2 at all anymore.
With this new overhauled progression system and the new maps, modes, and characters they have been adding since launch, Star Wars Battlefront 2 has actually become a great Star Wars experience for fans.