Star Wars Battlefront Collection Launches To "Mostly Negative" Steam Reviews

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Star Wars: Battlefront: Classic Collection has launched to "Mostly Negative" reviews on Steam due to server issues, lag, bugs, and content from the original games somehow being messed up.

Thanks to games like Star Wars Jedi: Survivor and Star Wars: Squadrons (as well as promising upcoming releases like Star Wars Outlaws), the last few console generations have been surprisingly good for fans of a galaxy far, far away. Even with those strong releases, though, there's been one series that everyone's been wanting to see return - the classic Battlefront games.

Lo and behold, Star Wars fans got that long-standing wish last month when it was revealed that a classic collection porting the first two Battlefront games and adding online multiplayer for 64 players was coming to PC and consoles in March. That collection finally launched last night and, while you'd think it'd be a smash hit, it's turned out to be a very rough and disappointing launch.

Over on Steam, the Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection sits at a "Mostly Negative" review score, with players pointing out a ton of issues with the re-releases. The first and biggest problem is with the multiplayer servers, which have been a mess since the game released and barely function, with some early players even claiming that there were only three servers to choose from when the game first launched.

Now that there are more servers, though, things haven't gotten much better, as players are still having problems actually managing to get into games. The matches they do manage to join are also messed up, with reports of extreme lag, missing content, and gameplay mechanics (like rolling, of all things) not working like they should.

Things aren't too much better outside of the multiplayer as players are also unhappy with the barebones additions to the collection and missing features, such as not being able to invert flight controls and only being able to change key bindings and controls from the main menu. There are also