Star Wars Battlefront 2 is now free on PC, and worth a second chance
Image: DICE/Electronic Arts 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...