{"id":57,"date":"2005-11-14T01:08:02","date_gmt":"2005-11-14T06:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.animagnum.net\/blog\/?p=57"},"modified":"2005-11-14T01:08:02","modified_gmt":"2005-11-14T06:08:02","slug":"star-wars-battlefront-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animagnum.com\/?p=57","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars Battlefront II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read some previews and reviews for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lucasarts.com\/games\/swbattlefrontii\/indexFlash.html\">Star Wars Battlefront II<\/a> and it sounded really cool.  I hadn&#8217;t played the original (which I hear is basically the same game) but I had wanted to try it.  I hadn&#8217;t gotten much use out of my Xbox Live account with Halo 2 but I can see that SWBF2 will fix that problem.  The game is a ton of fun to play.  I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve played another Star Wars game before that has captured so much of the action of the movies.  Today I manned an AT-AT and picked off rebels running around the snow on Hoth.  Yesterday, while I was still learning the controls, I flew an X-Wing around the hangar bay of a Star Destroyer and took out several TIE pilots and stormtroopers.  This happened because I hadn&#8217;t yet figured out how to land.  The different classes and characters really make the game interesting.  This evening when I was playing &#8220;Conquest&#8221; on Hoth, a message at the bottom of the screen asked &#8220;Would you like to play as Darth Vader?&#8221;  Um&#8230; YES!  After a few large force jumps across the icy terrain, I (as Darth Vader) slaughtered some rebels and took out a couple of turrets.  A lot of reviews said playing as the heroes isn&#8217;t very exciting.  I disagree.  I don&#8217;t think they are overpowered but they are strong enough to make the gameplay interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read some previews and reviews for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lucasarts.com\/games\/swbattlefrontii\/indexFlash.html\">Star Wars Battlefront II<\/a> and it sounded really cool.  I hadn&#8217;t played the original (which I hear is basically the same game) but I had wanted to try it.  I hadn&#8217;t gotten much use out of my Xbox Live account with Halo 2 but I can see that SWBF2 will fix that problem.  The game is a ton of fun to play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/animagnum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/animagnum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/animagnum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animagnum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animagnum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/animagnum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/animagnum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animagnum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animagnum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}