The Star Wars Celebration festival is happening right now and with it comes tons of new Star Wars details. Not only did we see the new trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but today brought a brand new trailer for Star Wars: Battlefront as well. We watched it over and over to pull out all the little details. If you haven't seen it yet, watch it first before we get down to business.
The opening shot shows a star destroyer looming in the sky. Before you get too excited at the prospect of flying into space and shooting at it, DICE has confirmed that outer-space battles are not in this game. The full focus will be on planetside skirmishes. That doesn't mean you won't pilot ships, however, as you'll see coming up.
Most of the trailer takes place on the forest moon of Endor. You can see ewok structures up in the trees, and if you look close enough you can see some running around. The whole trailer was made using developer DICE's Frostbite engine, which is used on Battlefront itself. With cinematic angles and effects, the trailer looks amazing, but we're skeptical how the final game will look once 40 players are running around shooting at each other. The very end of the trailer reads, "Frostbite game engine footage representative of PlayStation 4. Not actual gameplay."
It's great to see speeder bikes will be in the game. We're curious as to how they'll function in battle or if they'll mostly be used to get troops close to objectives quickly before you hop off to take care of business.
DICE made it obvious that players will be able to select female character models when firing up matches.
Various alien races should also be in the mix as seen here with the Sullustan rebel soldier. Most will recognize the species from the jovial Nien Nunb character in Return of the Jedi.
Next page: See more vehicles, weapons, and a certain sith lord.