Let’s get the bad news out of the way first – DICE’s Star Wars: Battlefront doesn’t offer space combat, mainly because this would apparently create too extreme a divide between the infantry gunplay and dogfights.
It does feature pretty much every other form of vehicular carnage, however, including giddy X-wing vs TIE fighter engagements over Tatooine’s canyons, the (suicidal-sounding) opportunity to ride a speeder bike through Endor’s forests, snowspeeder escapades on the glacial plains of Hoth, and air-to-ground strikes aboard the Millennium Falcon.
Cockpit and external views are in the works, so you’ll get full enjoyment of those lushly outfitted models. And what’s that in the sky over Jakku – a Star Destroyer? We’ll be very surprised if you get to pilot it, but if the trailer for The Force Awakens is…
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Official PlayStation Magazine - UK Edition (Digital) - 1 Issue, June 1, 2015