History VideoGame / StarWarsBattlefront

** The CIS Droideka is extremely slow when deployed, but can bring its twin blaster cannons to bear.

* NighInvulnerability: Jedi Heroes are impossible to kill by conventional means. The only reliable way to take care of them is to land a starfighter right on top of them, but this requires very lucky timing on the players part.

* CanonForeigner: Out of all the planets with playable maps, Rhen Var is the only one that never appeared in the movies. While it did have some relevance to the ''Legends'' continuity, it's reduced to a mere footnote in the Disney EU. Downplayed with Kashyyyk, which was more of an EarlyBirdCameo for the planet's proper debut in ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''; however, the movie's Kashyyyk battleground (depicted in the second game) was completely different from either of the playable maps in the first game.

** Pilot units do their job very well when in the air and are great for repairing ships and equipment, but in close-quarters combat they vary from being from DifficultButAwesome (Pilot Droid due to its hard to aim but devastating Radiation Launcher and the Rebel Pilot's hard-hitting shotgun) to useless as a Bantha's nipple (Clone Pilot and the Imperial Pilot, whose primary weapons are legitimately worse at killing things than their emergency pistol). Their successor in the second game, the Engineer, is much more threatening in direct combat due to their shotguns being fully able to OneHitKill at close range.

A sequel, simply titled ''Star Wars Battlefront II'' (now renamed to ''Battlefront 2'' '''Classic'''), introduced the ability to play as [[MagicKnight Jedi, Sith]], and various other Hero units from the movies such as Han Solo and Boba Fett. It also introduced space battles, where players have to defend their team's capital ships from sabotage and shoot down enemy fighters. The game also includes a single-player campaign featuring the 501st Legion, a unit of clone troopers/stormtroopers ([[FandomNod named after a fan organization that specializes in Stormtrooper armor and other uniforms]]) that served the Republic and Empire from the Battle of Geonosis to the Battle of Hoth and as Darth Vader's personal legion from the time Order 66 was issued onward.

* EnergyWeapon: And lots of them!

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

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In this game, heroes can only be used by the AI, and they are also completely unkillable aside from a few specific methods.

* StrategicAssetCaptireMechanic: All ''Star Wars: Battlefront'' games feature "beacons" that act as spawn points for your teammates. There's always one or two that start out as belonging to a team, and a number of neutral locations smattered about. Capturing these points involves killing any enemies nearby, and then keeping it clear of them for ~30 seconds.

* DeflectorShields: In addition to the capital ship shields in the second game, Droidekas have personal shielding they can deploy in both games.

* AdaptationalWimp: Subverted with the Dark Troopers. In [[VideoGame/DarkForces their source game]], the Phase II Dark Troopers (which this series' depiction of them are loosely based on design-wise) are depicted as [[OneManArmy one-man armies]] capable of wiping out a Rebel base in minutes (and while [[CutscenePowerToTheMax not as powerful in gameplay]], are still among the more dangerous enemies in that game and can take a lot of punishment). In the ''Battlefront'' games, Dark Troopers are no more durable than regular Stormtroopers, their main weapons in both games (a [[ShortRangeShotgun Blast Cannon]] and an [[LightningGun ARC Caster]], respectively), while lethal, aren't as devastating as the Assault Cannon, and they use [[JumpJetPack Jump Jet Packs]] rather than conventional jet packs. The subversion kicks in with supplemental material stating that these are cyborg predecessors to the Dark Trooper droids.

* MeleeATrois: The Tatooine map has the [[TheAlliance Rebel Alliance]] vs [[TheEmpire The Galactic Empire]] vs [[ProudWarriorRace Tusken Raiders]]. (Or, you know, Republic vs. CIS vs. Tusken Raiders, depending on the era.) This is the only case in the first game of a native faction having their own command posts and being hostile to both sides.

* ''VideoGame/StarWarsBattlefront'' (2004)

A series of {{Video Game}}s set in the ''Franchise/StarWars'' universe, developed by Pandemic Studios. The series is heavily inspired by ''VideoGame/{{Battlefield}}''.

* 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.

* DoomTroops: The [[VideoGame/DarkForces Dark Troopers]] (droid SuperSoldiers with {{Jump Jetpack}}s and [[ShotgunsAreJustBetter Blaster Cannons]]/{{Lightning Gun}}s, depending on whether it's 1 or 2) and the 501st, Palpatine's personal legion.

* IdiosyncraticCoverArt: A trooper in the middle who fires his blaster, with scenery, starfighters, and other characters in the background.

** The Droideka's form change was moved from "enter vehicle" in the first game to "crouch" in the second.

* IdiosyncraticCoverArt

* MagicBullets

* StuffBlowingUp

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Droids are perfectly capable of using Bacta to heal themselves as a convenient gameplay mechanic, which would be nonsensical in-canon due to their complete lack of organic material. There's also characters like Count Dooku being treated as a "Jedi Hero" during Galactic Conquest, even though he's not a Jedi (at least not anymore) and he is most definitely '''not''' a hero.

* SlowLaser: Green, blue, and red. The second game adds the occasional yellow and purple.

* UnfriendlyFire: Possible, though the tutorial videos are ''very'' indicative of this, including one demonstration of the orbital bombardment ability for snipers where a bunch of stormtroopers get blown away by a bombardment ''from their own team.''

A sequel, simply titled ''Star Wars Battlefront II'' (now renamed to ''Battlefront 2'' '''Classic'''), introduced the ability to play as [[MagicKnight Jedi, Sith]], and various other Hero units from the movies such as Han Solo and Boba Fett. It also introduced space battles, where players have to defend their teams capital ships from sabotage and shoot down enemy fighters. The game also includes a single-player campaign featuring the 501st Legion, a unit of clone troopers/stormtroopers ([[FandomNod named after a fan organization that specializes in Stormtrooper armor and other uniforms]]) that served the Republic and Empire from the Battle of Geonosis to the Battle of Hoth and as Darth Vader's personal legion from the time Order 66 was issued onward.

** AT-ATs and AT-TEs carry a devastating amount of firepower, but move as slow as molasses.

For tropes on the 2017 game which has the same name, go [[VideoGame/StarWarsBattlefrontII2017 here]].

A sequel, predictably titled ''Star Wars Battlefront II'' (now renamed to ''Battlefront 2'' '''Classic'''), introduced the ability to play as [[MagicKnight Jedi, Sith]], and various other Hero units from the movies such as Han Solo and Boba Fett. It also introduced space battles, where players have to defend their teams capital ships from sabotage and shoot down enemy fighters. The game also includes a single-player campaign featuring the 501st Legion, a unit of clone troopers/stormtroopers ([[FandomNod named after a fan organization that specializes in Stormtrooper armor and other uniforms]]) that served the Republic and Empire from the Battle of Geonosis to the Battle of Hoth and as Darth Vader's personal legion from the time Order 66 was issued onward.

In 2007, a spinoff was released for the PSP, titled ''[[VideoGame/StarWarsBattlefrontRenegadeSquadron Renegade Squadron]]''. This game would itself be followed by another title called ''[[VideoGame/StarWarsBattlefrontEliteSquadron Elite Squadron]]''. Both games received mixed reviews.

For the sequel, see ''VideoGame/StarWarsBattlefrontII''. For the 2015 reboot and its sequel, see ''VideoGame/StarWarsBattlefront2015'' and ''VideoGame/StarWarsBattlefrontII2017''.

A sequel, predictably titled ''Star Wars Battlefront II,'' players can also play as [[MagicKnight Jedi, Sith]], and various other Hero units from the movies such as Han Solo and Boba Fett. It also introduced space battles, where players have to defend their teams capital ships from sabotage and shoot down enemy fighters. The game also includes a single-player campaign featuring the 501st Legion, a unit of clone troopers/stormtroopers ([[FandomNod named after a fan organization that specializes in Stormtrooper armor and other uniforms]]) that served the Republic and Empire from the Battle of Geonosis to the Battle of Hoth and as Darth Vader's personal legion from the time Order 66 was issued onward.

A series of {{Video Game}}s set in the ''Franchise/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).

The battles are often '''huge''', sometimes bigger than the movie scenes they are inspired by, involving dozens of players and even more {{NPC}}s. In addition, players can hop into various ''StarWars'' vehicles ranging from tiny hover-bikes to aircraft to HumongousMecha.

In the sequel, predictably entitled ''Star Wars Battlefront II,'' players can also play as [[MagicKnight Jedi, Sith]], and various other "Hero" units from the movies. It also introduced space battles, where players have to defend their teams capital ships from sabotage and shoot down enemy fighters.

The game also had a single-player campaign featuring the 501st Legion, a unit of clone troopers/stormtroopers ([[FandomNod named after a fan organization that specializes in Stormtrooper armor and other uniforms]]) that served the Republic and Empire from the Battle of Geonosis to the Battle of Hoth and as Darth Vader's personal legion from the time Order 66 was issued onward.

In 2007, a mobile spinoff was released for the PSP and Nintendo DS, entitled ''[[VideoGame/StarWarsBattlefrontRenegadeSquadron Renegade Squadron]]''. This game would itself be followed by another mobile title called ''[[VideoGame/StarWarsBattlefrontEliteSquadron Elite Squadron]]''. Both games received mixed reviews.

** Pilot units do their job very well when in the air and are great for repairing ships and equipment, but in close-quarters combat they vary from being from DifficultButAwesome (Pilot Droid due to its hard to aim but devastating Radiation Launcher and the Rebel Pilot's hard-hitting shotgun) to useless as a Bantha's nipple (Clone Pilot and the Imperial Pilot).
** Droidekas carry devastating firepower and their shields can take a serious amount of punishment, but are prohibitively slow outside of wheel mode (where they're completely vulnerable). You can move faster without your shield or your ability to fire your weapons though.
** AT-STs are great at picking off infantry, but thats about it. Their large cockpit makes them an easy target for units with rocket launchers, and their lack of maneuverability and somewhat slow rate of fire makes them borderline useless against starfighters or landspeeders, which completely outclass them in terms of speed, durability and firepower.
** AT-ATs (and their Clone Wars counterpart, the AT-TE) take many of the same flaws and compound them even further--while they possess devastating firepower and the AT-AT can take a ludicrous amount of punishment, they move like a minute-hand on a watch and hitting anything that isn't a large or stationary target is largely a matter of luck on their part. On Hoth, if you're unlucky enough to have a snowspeeder land its tow cable on you, you may as well just hightail it because trying to shoot them down is a matter of very precise timing and luck, and that's assuming they're flying out far enough for your cannons to even hit them. On Rhen Var, its very easy to get them bottlenecked into a situation where speeders, infantry and turrets will surround and wail on them constantly while the AT-AT/AT-TE is stuck trying to back up or turn around to even try to shoot at them.

** Water hurts droids when they are fully submerged. Just have a droideka roll into the Kashyyyk sea, or (in the first game) a droid go prone in the seas as well. They'll die after a few seconds. [[ArtificialStupidity The AI will lose several unnecessary lives rolling through the water as droidekas.]]

* NoScope: When playing as a Sniper unit, its certainly possible to kill enemies in close quarters combat with it, but its very impractical to do so and will more than likely get you killed due to the rifles slow recharge rate leaving you a sitting duck for other enemies to attack you.

* PaperTiger: AT-STs. They can be downright brutal when dealing with infantry, but put them up against a Landspeeder, an X-Wing or even a turret, and they'll go down in ''seconds''.

* MeleeATrois: The Tatooine map has the [[TheAlliance Rebel Alliance]] vs [[TheEmpire The Galactic Empire]] vs [[ProudWarriorRace Tusken Raiders]]

* FrickinLaserBeams: Green, blue, and red. The second game adds the occasional yellow and purple.

* LeadTheTarget: Invoked with the fact that around 90% of the weapons fire [[FrickinLaserBeams energy projectiles]]. Unless you are using a Sniper Rifle, this is required over long distances.

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