The new multiplayer experience from Pandemic takes place in Middle Earth as Star Wars Battlefront means Hobbits. The demo, though short, has some gamers anticipated and others waiting with baited breath for the advanced reviews. The demo did not impress me all that much because of its limited campaign that was a walkthrough. Here is the launch trailer. See you in the shire next week.
LOTR + Star Wars Battlefront = awesomeness. Right? On paper it should be the greatest thing to hit the streets since the McRib sandwich. On the PS3, which is the only place you can find this demo at the moment, it is truly a mixed bag. One of the main criticisms of the SW: Battlefront series was the truly underwhelming campaign. It could be beaten in a matter of hours and if you were any good, chances are you might not even lose a round. The demo here is really two pieces. The first being a really, really satisfying tutorial where you learn all of the special moves for all the classes and their strengths and subsequent weaknesses. It gets better. Once you clear all of the secondary missions, it’s time to fight Sauron. You will then have the obvious choice of playing as the appropriate hero, in this case, Isildur. This leads us to believe that though you play as an anonymous character in the campaign, when shit hits the fan, you can play as heroes or villains and that is bad ass. Smiting someone down as a Balrog is going to be sweet.
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