Star Wars Battlefront 2 is free on PC, and deserves a comeback

Star Wars Battlefront 2: Celebration Edition is free on the Epic Games Store until Thursday, Jan. 21, and there’s never been a better time to play the game.

The quality of Battlefront 2’s single-player campaign and the breadth of content in the multiplayer modes at launch in 2017 was overshadowed by EA’s controversial monetization strategy, which relied heavily on loot boxes. Players were upset, and EA ended up completely reworking the game’s economy. The drama dominated the headlines, and then it seemed like everyone just kind of moved on. There was a half-hearted apology at E3 the next year, and that was that for most folks.

That original version of the game doesn’t really exist anymore, though, and it hasn’t for years. No more updates are on the way and the awful original player progression system has been reworked, and what’s left is a huge bucket of single- and multiplayer Star Wars content that spans all the movies and ties into The Mandalorian as well. You can even include Baby Yoda through a PC mod.

Source: Polygon