What's a Cloud Car? You're looking at it.Heroes fare a little better, with Lando, Chewbacca, Wicket, Yoda, Obi-Wan Kenobi and even R2-D2 waiting in the wings, but it starts to thin out when you look for memorable villains, all of whom have been used in the core game. Starfighters fare a bit better, but once B-wings, (flyable) Y-wings, TIE bombers and the Darth Vader’s TIE advanced inevitably make it into the game, DICE is left with the likes of Cloud Cars, and that’s about it, in terms of source ships.
As for vehicles, while DICE has spun the likes of Walker Assault into an asymmetrical mode, the reality is we didn’t see any Rebel Alliance land vehicles in the OT, which is why the Empire are the only faction with in-game options, and limited ones at that. In terms of blasters, DICE has almost exhausted options for onscreen weapons in vanilla Battlefront. “Now, DICE has already bent some rules in creating Star Cards for Battlefront, as personal shields, jump packs and ion grenades (to name a few) weren’t anywhere to be seen in the original movies. It had want to be, too, for DICE’s sake, given that the Original Trilogy is already almost entirely harvested.
While The Force Awakens was set 30 years after Return of the Jedi, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story looks to be set a lot closer to the timeline of the OT. DICE may be able to, once again, look to what Disney is creating on the big screen for potential material to help expand in-game stuff, especially once two paid DLC drops have all but exhausted what little content can be gleaned from the dwindling list of source material. So iconic, but there's only so many times you can return to Hoth.It’s not all doom and gloom, though. This becomes painfully clear when you break down the OT into what really matters in terms of making a Battlefront game: weapons, vehicles, heroes, villains and planets. Perhaps the biggest challenge DICE faces in remaining faithful to the OT is that, despite stretching across three movies worth of content, it’s sorely lacking in the type of content that makes for a fully loaded core game, let alone an additional season worth of DLC. Those extended-universe touches have been labelled Legends and, moving forward, the only way they’ll become official parts of the canon is if they receive narrative sanction from Disney. “This is why fans can scream until they’re blue in the face about a lack of Grand Admiral Thrawn, or debate the fate of beloved bounty hunter Boba Fett, even though it was widely understood he survived his time in the Sarlacc pit.
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