He jumps an impossible distance-20 feet through the air-with all four arms outstretched. Periodically they form clusters and trickle toward your position, only to be rebuffed by sniper bullets, grenades, and-what’s this? From a shadowy hollow emerges a seven-foot-tall robot with four arms. They look like gym bros dressed for a white party. Here you catch your first glimpse of the enemy.įar below your feet, pure-white, muscular humanoids crouch and roll, bouncing like ping-pong balls between space debris around a distant objective. Then they voyage toward the middle of the map, to the highest objective, located on a towering landform eroded by wind. Your team captures the two points nearest their default spawn point. Supremacy maps have five objectives to capture or defend.
Like an enormous, ravenous pack of summoned skeletons from Diablo 2, you and your frail, identical, insect-like teammates rush into the swirling desert dust. Along with your 39 teammates, you spawn on some alien planet, let’s say Geonosis. Droids are thin, spindly creatures with narrow heads and lilting, computer-generated voices. Let’s say you’re assigned to the droid faction. This game has made Star Wars fans out of us.Īllow me to paint a picture of what this game looks like to the uninitiated-those like myself who haven’t the foggiest about “The Resistance,” “General Grievous,” or “Wookies.” You open the game for the first time and select Supremacy, the 20 versus 20 PvP mode. I never understood what all the fuss was about-until we played Star Wars Battlefront 2. Every time the two of us try to watch a Star Wars movie, new or old, we fall asleep on the sofa.
It was more riveting to see sand slowly bury a woman alive than to try to follow the talking robots, jive turkey teenagers, and lightsaber knocking in Star Wars. In those days, my favorite movies were Stalker, Yojimbo, Santa Sangre, and Woman in the Dunes.
If a time traveler visited me when I was in college and told me that in the year 2020, I would be eating Star Wars “Rebel Crunch” yogurt while wearing my favorite Chewbacca shirt, I would have called him a liar and a lunatic.
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