Just rented it and its so awesome. Playing side by side with the Jedi, being a variety of droids, rebels, emperialists, the other group that was in starwars 1-3, is an awesome experiance. (those droids that roll around and have forcefields are playable). Piloting all those vehicles that alot of us have grown up loving is cool too. You know those emperial huge elephant-like things that were destroying the field generaters in hoth? Playable, I even had a dark trooper jetpack onto mine form a balcony and shoot guys out of the way for me. Do oyu remember the X and Y wings? Flyable (x-wings > y-wings) All the vehicles from star wars 1-6 are available.
So, the way the battles work is each side gets 200 men. The 200 men port down to the battlefield via teleporters in camps. You capture camps and men beam down. Or you can just battle it out and kill all 200 of their men before they kill your men, which will be less than 200 if you don't capture any camps. The camps let you out-flank and stratagize against oyur enemy which is a good move on the developers part.
Single player mode
You can either go thorugh the storylines of the Clone Wars or/and Rebelion. First you join the dark side then, because the dark side doesn't win, you join the good side of the force.
Multiplayer mode
I don'y have my ps2 online xD
The only part I don't like about Star Wars Battlefront is that you can't ascend through the ranks or become a Light/Dark Jedi no matter what oyu do "You killed 40 men and captured all the camps single handedly while darth vader killed 16 men and walked right by several camps? Good for you grunt, now get back to work!"
That aside even if you arn't a StarWars geek you should check this game out. If anytihng its a good 6-8 hours worth of gameplay. I was up till 4a.m. playing it cause I just plain lost track of time.
Going to go play it some more so see yall!