Star Wars Battlefront Classic Collection Brings 64 Player Online To All Platforms, Even The Steam Deck

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Aspyr Media has announced Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection.

The anthology bundles in Star Wars: Battlefront 1 and Star Wars: Battlefront 2, and boasts some impressive features. Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection will have 64 player online, and new content based on Episodes 1 to 6 (sorry, Rose Tico fans).

Here’s a roundup of what has been added across both games, courtesy of the official Star Wars blog:

Star Wars Battlefront (Classic)

Star Wars Battlefront II (Classic)

Key Features

Traverse the Galaxy in Campaign Mode & Galactic Conquest

Massive Locations with Up to 64-player Online Support

Expanded Hero Assault

For the first time ever, Hero Assault is playable on all ground maps including: Death Star, Kashyyyk, Kamino, and Naboo

As you can see from the trailer, Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection, Aspyr has opted not to apply a visual remaster to the two games. What we do get is some upresolution work so that the characters, and backgrounds, are clear shapes without blurs. The result is a somewhat Minecraft-like voxelization, which is definitely not photorealistic. But, it does have a campy visual appeal of its own.

Impressively, they have managed to maintain reasonable broad resemblances for immediately recognizable characters like General Grievous and Aayla Secura. It does effectively evoke the atmosphere and presentation of Star Wars as well as the original games did in the early 2000s.

What’s most interesting is the promise of 64 player online. Aspyr didn’t mention if they were able to enable cross-play across platforms in some way, so that may not be a guaranteed feature. But one can always hope, if this proves popular, that they can add it later.

Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collectionwill be released on March 14, 2024, on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC via Steam, including dedicated Steam Deck Support.

You can watch the official trailer below.