My god

the most unbalanced unfair garbage with braindead ally ai and cheating enemy ai i have ever seen. this turd has the audacity to crash on me two times in a row after i grinded hoth campaign for two hours. play battlefront 1 or go EA route. avoid even if cheap. this might be the worst game in the genre. i had huge nostalgia going in but it faded quickly

I would not recommend this game, unless you are coming to play the multiplayer. It's a fine game, holds up very well, despite the spotty port, but I have problems with it.

- The Ai is very basic and tends to get stuck on each other, even in open spaces, and the Ai is never implementing a "Grand Strategy". As in you never feel like the Ai is pushing to a particular objective, or defending a choke point, or doing anything more than running around randomly. This becomes very clear when there are only a few enemy units left and they're scattered all over the map. I think this could have been easily fixed by giving the Ai the squad system already in the game (That the Player can use) to group them together. That way if the leader of that group wants to push or defend it'll look more organised, and if that leader dies it can just cycle through each member of the squad until they're all killed. That way different squads can have different numbers and the Ai won't just death march into joining a squad that's in a vulnerable spot, but not getting wiped out for some reason. And! would hopefully remove the need to "fake kill" the respawn number in the background of every fight, making every win feel like luck with no tactical significance to your actions. Doesn't matter if you get triple the K/D and lock down the majority of the map. You could still lose because of RNG.

- The Ui is pretty outdated (I have to google what the maps are if I want a particular theme, because they only tell me the planet names) and the load times are shockingly long on my PC. I can Play Doom Eternal with no issues, it's not me. There's also a lack of game mode variety, except for the few secret game modes, which are the same as regular games but you play as a native Gungan or something. You don't see these creatures outside of these modes (and some campaign missions), which is sad, because it would have really spiced up the variety if they were just selectable on certain maps for certain factions or were a 3rd neutral faction. I don't need lots of maps! I would have just preferred if they made each map they already have feel different from one another. Also, Keyboard controls feel awful and there's no controller support, which is unacceptable.

- Space Battles suck. There is nothing unique to them after you try them once and they are very boring. Same with Galactic Conquest, it's the same thing no matter the faction, with no unique events, story or challenges to spice it up. It's the most rudimentary "strategy game board" mode, and I never understand why people like these.

- Campaign feels cheaply put together and the ending just fizzles out on Hoth (You've seen Star Wars! this isn't a spoiler). I like the idea, but there are no characters you can attach yourself to like with Republic Commando.

Playing this game makes me really want to mod it to fix these issues and just give it the polish I think it deserves. But I don't know how to mod, nor should I have to, to feel satisfied playing something. If you're coming into this game expecting it to be "One of the best games EVER", like what a bunch of Youtubers are selling it as, then I don't think you'll have as much fun as you should. Again, it's a good game, hold up really well, but I want you to really look at that asterisk when I add *For the time it came out in 2005.