Star Wars Battlefront: Death Star
Fire up your starships and ready your blasters as one of the deadliest weapons in the galaxy makes its highly-anticipated debut. Everyone’s favorite Wookiee, Chewbacca, arrives alongside bounty hunter Bossk as…
Star Wars Battlefront: Death Star is a shooter developed by EA Digital Illusions CE, released 20 September 2016 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Star Wars Battlefront: Death Star is
Star Wars Battlefront: Death Star is a shooter game developed by EA Digital Illusions CE and released in 2016. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Frostbite.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Fire up your starships and ready your blasters as one of the deadliest weapons in the galaxy makes its highly-anticipated debut. Everyone’s favorite Wookiee, Chewbacca, arrives alongside bounty hunter Bossk as the two new playable heroes. Board the Death Star and blast foes with the new K-16 Bryar Pistol or TL-50 Heavy Repeater. Take your starfighters to space in an all-new game mode and even hop into the cockpits of Darth Vader’s TIE Advanced or Luke Skywalker’s Red Five X-wing. If the Force is strong with you, attempt a trench run to take down the Empire’s ultimate weapon.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, science fiction and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Star Wars series
Star Wars Battlefront: Death Star is the 252nd of 334 entries we hold in the Star Wars series. The next entry was LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Poe's Quest For Survival in 2016. Its critic score of 70 is almost exactly the series average of 71. The highest-rated entry is Angry Birds Star Wars II at 100.
How it was received
Star Wars Battlefront: Death Star holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 37% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 2 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Star Wars Battlefront: Death Star launched on 20 September 2016, within three weeks of Persona 5, The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt - Complete Edition, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered and Forza Horizon 3. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Persona 5, The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt - Complete Edition, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered, Forza Horizon 3.
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