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Star Wars Battlefront is a multiplayer game, of course - it's always been billed that way, and it's been very much designed to be played that way. There is solo content, though - and I'm not talking about the wise-cracking mercenary who makes a cameo appearance here as one of Battlefront's Heroes, complete with his infamous shoulder barge that we know and love from the movies - and it's where you'll likely spend your first moments with Battlefront. The problem is, it's not all that much fun. Upon booting up Battlefront you're free to jump straight into multiplayer, but there are also five training missions that introduce you to the basics. There's a run on Beggar's Canyon in an X-Wing, a stampede through Sullust in an AT-ST and a rampage through Hoth with Darth Vader. They're shallow diversions only marginally improved by score targets for players to hit.
More impressive are Endor Chase, a speeder bike run through the forest planet, and Invasion, a chance to bring an AT-AT tumbling down in a T-47 snowspeeder. They're moments that have been captured in countless games before, of course, but they've never been delivered as beautifully as this - Battlefront's developer DICE's obsession with getting those all-important Star Wars assets right really pays off in the spectacle that's on offer.
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