Battlefront’s single-player (or co-op) mission mode will recreate iconic battles from the original film trilogy. We can already picture jumping between Jabba’s sail barges as a spry Luke Skywalker, or playing the same battle as Boba Fett. Obviously we’ll be taking down AT-ATs on Hoth and assaulting the shield generator on Endor. Will we even see a few special missions away from Battlefront’s four announced planets (Endor, Hoth, Tatooine and Sullust)? Maybe we’ll get to rescue Princess Leia from the first Death Star, or make a daring escape from the Empire on Cloud City. It’s easy to pick out those bombastic moments from the films, but those scenes are only part of what makes Star Wars great.
A trip to Tosche Station
We knew Luke Skywalker would be a hero the moment he whined about not getting to go to Tosche Station to pick up some power converters. But what if Luke did go to Tosche Station? Imagine the brilliant mission that could unfold. There’s emotional internal conflict as Luke grapples with teenage impulses and loyalty to his uncle, which could play out in powerful voiceover as you take the landspeeder out and fly across Tatooine. The suns set on the horizon as Luke brood.
The ice cream run
When Lando sounded the evacuation notice on Cloud City, most of its occupants immediately fled in terror. Run from the Empire! Those guys are mean. Only one man, legendary hero Willrow Hood, had the foresight to take his ice cream maker with him. Supposedly, that ice cream maker was, in fact, a computer memory core containing sensitive information about members of the Rebellion. It looked an awful lot like an ice cream maker. But hey, Willrow, we’re not judging—ice cream is important, too.
The Max Rebo Band plays for Jabba the Hutt
We’re all familiar with ol’ blue space elephant Max Rebo, leader of the most famous jizz band in the galaxy. But never have we played a game that puts us in Max’s shoes. Imagine the stress of performing for Jabba day in and day out. One false note, and Max could easily piss off one of the most foul-tempered crime lords in the galaxy.
Chewbacca loses
Star Wars is full of comic relief thanks to the charmingly prissy C-3PO, but what if one of his most famous deadpan jokes—”let the wookiee win”—wasn’t so funny, after all? What if it was an ominous premonition about the true horror of an angry Chewbacca? In this mission, you play as a Chewbacca who has just lost a bloody, hard-fought match of space chess. The fury bubbles over. You’re not just out to pull someone’s arm off. You’re ready to go on an intergalactic rampage.
The mysteries of the trash compactor
We all remember that gross tentacle eyeball monster in the Death Star’s trash compactor. It’s just floatin’ under the surface, waiting to grab onto anyone stupid enough to be thrown out with the trash. But when the walls start closing in, it disappears. But where does it go? If the trash compactor squishes everything inside it flat, that creature must have an escape route. Was the Death Star built with sewers connecting its many trash rooms? Is there a secret sub-society of trash monsters operating right under the Empire’s nose? How deep does this conspiracy go?
R2-D2 and C-3PO's desert adventure
There's a very convenient cut at the beginning of A New Hope, after R2-D2 and C-3PO's escape pod lands on Tatooine until just before they are set upon by Jawas of ill-intent. This exclusively co-op mission lets you and a friend find out what happened during that time-jump.
Whatever it is that all of the other bounty hunters did with their time
Vader brings together the galaxies’ deadliest bounty hunters in the pursuit of the Millenium Falcon. Then, they all fly off in different directions and only Boba Fett actually gets anything done. In this mission, players would seize control of everybody else and experience the unique thrill of being in a series of places where Han Solo isn’t, before sacking the whole thing off to go to the pub.
