History VideoGame / StarWarsBattlefront

* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: Averted, going outside in Polis Massa will drain your health unless you're in a tank or are a droid. Walking out of your capital ship in a space battle has the same effect as jumping into one of the numerous bottomless pits, although it is possible through a glitch to land a ship outside the hangar and walk around on the outside edge of the ship without dying of asphyxiation.

* SpiritualSuccessor: Pandemic's ''LordOfTheRings: Conquest'', which is essentially ''Battlefront'' but [[InvertedTrope not]] [-[[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE!]]-]

* SuicidalOverconfidence: My God, where to begin? A single stormtrooper attacking six Wookiees, a guy with ''no grenades left and a pistol'' attacking a tank, a '''scout ship''' going up against the most heavily armed capital starship in the game...
** It should be noted that, while it doesn't happen often, success in these situations does happen, from time to time.

* ActionGirl: Aayla Secura, a Twi'lek Jedi who absolutely rips through enemies with [[DualWielding two lightsabers]]. Princess Leia to a lesser degree as well.

* BeatingADeadPlayer: Some bots, usually rebels, will run up to a dead enemy/player's body, draw their pistols, and repeatedly shoot it. Usually while taunting.

* DownerEnding: The Empires victory in Galactic Conquest. Han is still frozen, Vader force chokes Leia to death, all life on Endor is massacred, and Luke ''kneels before The Emperor''.
** Also, the CIS ending. Sidious leads the assault on the Jedi Temple with an army of [[MechaMooks Battle Droids]], Darth Maul and Jango Fett (somehow back alive) massacring Clone Troopers, General Grievous hunts down the rest of the Jedi and Count Dooku kills Anakin on [[DeathWorld Mustafar]].

** not quite as game breaking as severely disappointing, but: If you work your way up to getting getting the remote rocket launcher every game, there is a bug when you play on a map where no vehicles are (I.E. any map where you can't earn the achievement naturally) and use a guided rocket then, on hitting ground, it will quickly and instantly change direction from the point of impact, shoot a couple of feet, and explode then, rather than exploding on impact. This makes it neigh impossible to hit anything with them, and it's always on maps where there are no ways to get the emblem that unlocks it. You can only find this out facing computers, as you have to earn a special weapon during an actual online mode.

*** If you're, for some reason, playing capture the flag and the flag holder gets eaten, you now know why a sane person would walk up to the beast.

** There is another CrowningMomentOfAwesome when the narrator describes the victory on Hoth.

* StickyBomb: Concussion grenades in the first game, when thrown at an enemy vehicle or turret, are designed to stick to the target before exploding. Thermal detonators do the same thing in II.

* StickyBomb: Concussion grenades, when thrown at an enemy vehicle or turret, are designed to stick to the target before exploding.

''[[TheGump You could actually live them...]]''

A series of [[{{Videogame}} video games]] set in the ''StarWars'' universe, developed by Pandemic Studios. The series is heavily inspired by ''VideoGame/{{Battlefield}}''; in a typical match, called "Conquest", there are two armies trying to gain control of "Command Posts" across the battlefield. If a player dies, they can respawn at any command post that their team controls. There is also a "Capture the Flag" gametype (consisting of both the standard 2-Flag CTF and 1-Flag CTF, where two armies try to carry a flag in the center to a designated spot in enemy territory), and, in the second game, "Assault" (Space-only, not counting Mos Eisley, where two space forces engage each other in an attempt to destroy the opposing fleet), as well as "Hunt" (where two teams hunt each other, trying to be the first to reach the set score limit before the timer runs down).

* DevelopmentHell: ''Battlefront III'' looks mostly finished, but it lacks a developer since the one working on it was bought out. An employee of LucasArts claims that the game is "up in the air" at this point.

* SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou: {{Subverted}}: Both games' box art depict stormtroopers marching menacingly towards the viewer, but in both cases, their weapons are are firing somewhere off to the side.

* BadassArmy: The 501st Legion, or "Vader's fist" as it's nicknamed, from ''Battlefront 2''.

** The tutorial for space combat tells you to "[[VideoGame/{{Starfox}} use bombers wisely]]"

* BoomHeadshot: Instant kills for sniper units, obviously.

* RockBeatsLaser: Oddly enough, in single-player Hunt mode, the primitive native side always seems to absolutely [[CurbStompBattle cream]] the army they're up against, be it Geonosians vs. Clone Snipers, Gungans vs Super Battle Droids, Ewoks vs Imperial Scouts, little Jawas vs the supposedly fierce Tusken Raiders, and Wampas vs [i]the entire friggin' Rebel Army.[/i]

* ArtificialStupidity: Just go to [[ArtificialStupidity/StarWarsBattlefront the trope page]] for examples, we had to delete them here because it was taking up a sixth of the entire page by itself.

* ArtificialStupidity Just go to the trope page for examples, we had to delete them here because it was taking up a sixth of the entire page by itself

* ArtificialStupidity

Besides the first two games, there were also two spin-offs called Elite Squadron (which deals with a force-sensitive clone trooper named X2 and his trials as a Jedi and a member of the Rebel Alliance), Renegade Squadron (which deals with a black ops team led during the first stages of the game by Han Solo that conducted in behind-the-scenes means to allow the Rebel Alliance to win against the Empire before disbanding after Endor), and Mobile squadron (which doesn't have much of a plot and is more or less an excuse to release a StarWars game on the mobile phone).

* GameMod: Several, two of the most famous being the ''Battlefront Conversion Pack'', which adds content from the original game, as well as new maps and hero units from ''KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' and ''TheForceUnleashed'', and ''Dark Times II: Rising Son'', which adds even more maps, ''tons'' of new units, and a standalone Galatic Conquest campaign starring Luke Skywalker.

* ArtificialStupidity: In ''vast'' amounts. See OneManArmy.

* BigBadassBattleSequence: Geonosis, Hoth, Endor... Hell, ''any'' map can be host to one of these.
* BloodlessCarnage: True to the source material in that way. A man can be shot with a rocket launcher, stepped on by an AT-AT, or eaten by a Rancor–without any visible injury.
* BoomHeadshot: Instant kills for sniper units, obviously, though the first game was incredibly inconsistent on what counted as a headshot, and the unlockable Elite Sniper Rifle in the sequel has the exact same problem ''plus'' being shorter ranged than the normal rifle.

** MightyGlacier: Once they get into position with their shields up though, they turn into moveable machine gun nests nigh impossible to approach from the front.

* FiveTokenBand: The rebels in both games (White male soldier, white/black (depending on map) male rocket launcher user, asian female sniper and AmbiguouslyBrown technician). Becomes [[GenderBender extremely]] [[ColorMeBlack odd]] with the 2nd game's ability to change class at a command post.

* HumongousMecha: Of various shapes and sizes. Including the excellent All Terrain Armored Transport for the Empire.
* HyperspaceArsenal: Each soldier carries two guns. When they swap between them, whichever gun they are currently holding just sort of disappears. Also, it's not clear were anybody is keeping their grenades, which just sort of appear in peoples' hands. The most egregious example is where a freakin' ''rocket launcher'' can just sort of...pop into existence.

* TheMedic: pilots and engineers, despite their names

* OneHitKill: Headshots, as stated above, but it's also possible to land on top of enemy units with air- and space-based vehicles. This is the easiest, if not the ''only'' way, to kill Jedi in the first game. An easier OneHitKill (on some battlefields) is by shooting the ground near them with a missile or grenade, blowing the Jedi into whatever bottomless pit happens to be nearby. The most satisfying one, though, is to use a vehicle to push the Jedi into the waiting tentacles of the Sarlacc on the Tatooine map.
* OneManArmy: This is pretty much the accepted tactic for single-player Instant Action battles. So prevalent that you could basically call this ''One Man Army: The Game''. However, this is ''definitely'' BetterThanItSounds.
* RedshirtArmy: You play as the only competent member of one. Again, BetterThanItSounds.
* SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou: {{Subverted}}: both games' box art depict stormtroopers marching menacingly towards the viewer, but in both cases their weapons are held...oddly and are firing somewhere off to the side.

* SpiderTank: The CIS controls one with a particle beam cannon. Slow, but damned effective on both infantry and armour when it gets into range.

* TankGoodness: Every faction gets at least ''one'' tank type. Even the Rebellion. Meaning that on the right maps, one gets epic infantry/armour battles.

* ActionGirl: Aayla Secura, a Twi'lek Jedi who absolutely rips through enemies with twin lightsabres. Princess Leia to a lesser degree as well.

* AwesomeButImpractical: The award sniper rifle is glitchy and short-ranged, while the chaingun is slow to start firing and is horribly inaccurate. But the sniper can ''skewer'' enemies, and the chaingun rips a droideka to shreds in seconds!
* BaseOnWheels: Landing craft in space battles.

* CriticalEncumbranceFailure: Characters that can use the Force or a jetpack to fly are unable to do so if they're carrying a flag or some other important object.

** CTF on Mos Eisley has the rather annoying bug where Jawas are capable of picking up flags. Jawas are set to be allied for both sides in order to penalize collateral damage, meaning that if you play with friendly fire off and a Jawa picks up a flag, no one's getting it until the Jawa randomly runs into the flag capture point.
** The {{Steam}} version has a nasty, ''very'' common bug that causes a crash to desktop when a map is being loaded. This bug is infamous mainly due to the fact that the only currently known way to prevent it is to ''play the game with a plugged in mic''.

* GundamJack: In a space battle between the 501st and a rebuilt droid army, Vader demands that one of the CIS bombers be stolen and taken back to the main hangar.
** Any time you raid an enemy hangar (useful for taking out the auto-turret defenses, shields, life support, and engines quickly) you will have to steal an enemy fighter. Yours tends to end up exploding on its own or hijacked while you're wreaking havoc.
* HappyEnding: The Republic Campaign in Galactic Conquest mode in II shows Mace Windu killing Palpatine, Obi-Wan killing Grievous and Anakin becoming a Jedi Master.
* HeyItsThatVoice: [[CowboyBebop Spike Speigel]] has joined the Rebel Alliance.

* [[ItsUpToYou It's Up To You]]: Allies in the campaign can't accomplish objectives on their own (the player needs to be present for a control point to be captured despite the dozen friendlies swarming over it, only the player can carry the holocron ect).

** Even these might not be enough, which is why there's the merry tactic of switching to a heavy trooper, taking out a landmine, and pieing the jedi in the face with it.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: "Officially, there was no clone rebellion in Kamino."

* UnexplainedRecovery: [[spoiler:Darth Maul and Jango Fett]] in the CIS ending.