An announcement on the Star Wars Battlefront’s official website has confirmed that players will have the chance to jump into the cockpit of Han Solo and Boba Fett’s iconic vehicles from the original trilogy. The “hero vehicles” will be playable in Battlefront’s Fighter Squadron game mode and will be acquired much in the same method players used to play as Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader in ground combat modes.
Each vehicle will feature improved speed, maneuverability, and arsenals, ensuring that teams will need to coordinate to take down these deadly threats to the skies. In turn, the ships are meant to offer an experience to players that will make numerous highlights across matches. Senior Designer Björn Sundell pointed out that a major objective of the ships was “to make players feel truly cool, powerful, and heroic when piloting them.”
“This goes for both the visuals and feel. Playing Star Wars Battlefront, you should get the same feeling that you get when you see the Millennium Falcon swooping by and taking out TIE fighters in the movies,” says Sundell.
The inclusion of these two opens the door for other such iconic vehicles from the series. One can only hope we’ll eventually see Darth Vader’s personal TIE Fighter as well.
