Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron for Nintendo DS Reviews by Gamers

Nintendo took a game that wasn't meant for one of their systems again and the graphics died. I've played the PSP version so I know the game's graphics are NOT the same. It's a top-down shooter/fighter that sort of looks like an NES game. Despite that it's a bit addictive but i got stuck on the last level and i couldn't find a reason to pick it back up the next day. If you don't care about graphics and liked GTA Chinatown gameplay (never played it but it is a top-down shooter) you would love this. If you do care about graphics, barely play top-down shooters, and/or, like me, played the PSP version but not this, you probably wouldn't like this.

This game feels awkward when it comes to the control features. I constantly found myself changing weapons when I meant to fire or throwing thermal detonators when I meant to use the X button and open a door or something. I swear once the heavy class was unlocked in level two it proved to be the most broken class to use in the entire game. The reason being is you're primary weapon is a gatling gun, and primary weapons have no ammo count, so that means once the gun is warmed up and shooting lasers, just aim move towards the enemy and let the auto lock help you go to town. It makes the gameplay boring really seeing as how the enemies are no match for that weapon what so ever. The one boss battle I had made things simple, even if it was a jedi knight. I never finished this game really just because it got boring, and the space battle was even more uninspiring than it was in battlefront 2. At least in that game you could move around, but in this game you can't move anywhere except left and right. It's dumb really but whatever. Overall this game is incredibly uninspired, the campaign mode has some lousy dialogue and probably the most improbable plot even by Star Wars standards. Hopefully the next Star Wars game I play is better than this.