Aspyr Media today announced Star Wars Battlefront, an open-ended single-player and multiplayer action game, has begun shipping for Macintosh and is expected to land on retail shelves by July 23rd. Star Wars Battlefront, which allows players to re-live all of the epic battles from the classic and prequel Star Wars film trilogies was developed for the Mac by Beenox Studios and licensed from LucasArts.
Players can participate in all of the memorable Star Wars battles like never before. Players can select one of the 20 different soldier types from each of the four factions: Rebel Alliance, Imperial Army, Clone Army and Droid Army. Soldier types include standard infantry, scouts, heavy weapons and pilots. Each soldier has specialized abilities and the freedom to use ground-based turrets found on the battlefront as well as more than 25 diverse ground and air vehicles including the AT-ST, X-wing and speeder bike, and the massive Republic Gunship that can hold up to five different soldiers. The team-based action within Star Wars Battlefront is set in more than a dozen unique locations across 10 diverse planets including Hoth, Geonosis and Endor.
Single player modes include “Instant Action,” “Galactic Conquest” and the story-based “Historical Campaigns” mode that lets gamers experience all of the Star Wars battles from Episodes I-VI. Star Wars Battlefront is also optimized for multiplayer action online. Mac users can use GameRanger to battle it out against both Mac and PC gamers.
The game is rated T for Teen by the ESRB and is available at http://www.aspyr.com for $49.99. More information on the game can also be found at http://www.lucasarts.com/games/swbattlefront/
GAmeRanger is only Mac.
Please correct me if I am wrong, but last time I went on, it was only Mac, unfortunately.
Does anyone know if this game will require the cd? If so, I’ll pass. I want mobile gaming on my powerbook and I hate to drag along cd’s everywhere.
I played the GameCube version. Great game-play but not enough levels. I hope the Mac version has more.
The fact that this is news shows how pathetic the state of gaming is for the Mac. Hopefully that will change when they go Intel.
gRen
are you sure you played the gamecube version? as far as i knew it was not out for the cube…
(otherwise i’d own it)
magic word, lower, as in i will not lower my standards and buy a PS2
Super, Only one year late. I love getting games for $50 that shipped for Windows over a year ago and now cost $20 for them. I also love that Battlefront 2 is prepping for a release any day now on Windows. Super. Ah well I’ll probably end up buying this..
why cant they release the mac and windows version at the same time?
Blizzard do this with their products on a dual install dvd – and look how many copies of htheir games they sell!!
There is now no excuse for mac user to wait 2 years after the game is released on windows!
It’s just lazy business practice.
Release the software for both platforms at the same time and you can market both at the same time – therefor saving money on marketing the mac version 2 years later when now one is interested anyway because the hype of marketing the pc version is dead.
God – these guys knopw fuck all about effective marketing of products.
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