There was plenty of buzz when Aspyr announced plans to launch the Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection, bringing back the original two games with full online multiplayer. Unfortunately, the game's launch today has not gone as planned, swiftly garnering negative reviews due to major issues. 

The Battlefront Classic Collection packages together remasters for the original Battlefront and Battlefront 2 games, promising a revival of the 64-player multiplayer servers and classic game modes, as well as some new map and character additions. The game also carries a £30 price tag.

At launch, roughly 10,000 PC players attempted to get into multiplayer matches, only to be met with a measly three available 64-player servers. Players also quickly ran into issues connecting to multiplayer sessions at all and when they could get in, bugs would soil the gameplay experience.

As a result of this, the game currently sits with a ‘mostly negative' overall review score on Steam, with many questioning how the game was allowed to release at all with its non-functional multiplayer. Aspyr has yet to comment on the backlash.

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KitGuru Says: Hopefully Aspyr can quickly put out some fixes but the idea of only having three 64-player servers sounds insane to me. This is a Star Wars game, there was always going to be more than 200 players looking to play in large-scale matches. 

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