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Star Wars New Canon: Battlefront: New Perspectives on Important Events

I first became familiar with the Battlefront games around 2005 or 2006, when the first game titled Battlefront II was put out by LucasArts and Pandemic Studios. It featured a story mode where you played as one of many nameless clone troopers during the events of Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (which had just come out) and then through the years as a stormtrooper during the events of Episodes IV and V. The game's story was fantastic (and I will cover it in segments in future posts), but its main purpose was as an arena game for both single player and multiplayer fun. I never once connected the game to the internet to play online, but I had as much fun with the "Conquest" mode (defeating your enemies on arena maps of each planet in the game plus several bonus worlds) as I had with the story mode. I later picked up the first Battlefront game (from 2004), which had no story and was less fun. In late 2015, under the New Canon, Electronic Arts and Digital Illusions CE rele