Star Wars Battlefront II is a third and first-person shooter, featuring both single-player and multiplayer game modes. Gameplay is split in two main categories: ground battles and space battles. Both occur across three eras: the Clone Wars, with battles taking place between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems; the Galactic Civil War, where battles between the Rebel Alliance and Galactic Empire take place; and the war between the Resistance and the First Order. Each faction has its own unique type of soldiers that players control, such as clone troopers for the Republic, battle droids for the CIS, and stormtroopers for the Empire and the First Order; however, they all control identically. Every faction also has specific starfighters, which, unlike soldiers, play differently from one another.[2]
Battles take place across a variety of maps, and every era has its own exclusive maps. At launch, the game featured a total of 15 locations from the Star Wars universe, including Kamino, Kashyyyk, Naboo, Mos Eisley, Yavin IV, Hoth, Cloud City, Endor, the Death Star II, Jakku, Takodana, and Starkiller Base, as well as some space battles exclusive locations, namely Ryloth, Fondor, and the Unknown Regions. Since then, eight more maps have been added: Crait, Jabba's Palace, Kessel, Geonosis, Felucia, Ajan Kloss, Scarif, and another space only location, D'Qar. Some of the ground locations are exclusive to certain game modes as well.