#4 - Star Wars: Battlefront II (Playstation 2)
I had no experience with any Star Wars games aside from maybe one or two of the old 90s Game Boy platformers until Battlefront II. I had a general interest in the series since I grew up while the prequels were coming out and my dad was a big fan of the original films. One of my favorite childhood memories is when my dad checked me out of school early so we could see the re-release of A New Hope at our movie theater in Middlesboro. Haley, my first college girlfriend, introduced me to this game during our first semester at Wise in 2007 and it took me by storm! At first, we played a ton of the Galactic Conquest mode -- between the strategy elements, space battles, and the fun of playing as shooters and Jedi/Sith heroes, we put a ton of time into playing together. My feelings for the game intensified as soon as I tried out the online mode -- technically my first online experience with a shooter -- which left me hooked. I spent so much of my first year of college playing Battlefront II online! CoD4 had just come out and all of the guys on my hall were playing the crap out of their 360s while I was trucking away on my PS2. Growing up with 28k/56k modem speeds, my dorm's broadband internet was a godsend that opened me up to a whole new world. I still look extremely fondly on those days and I continued playing the online mode off and on over the next few years, even working out how to play on proxy and fan-run servers once GameSpy support finally ended. It was just a perfect storm and I still find myself jonesing for a good game of SWBFII. One of my co-workers, Antonio, and I got to talking about the game a while back and it was really great just getting to talk about good memories. I still haven't played either of the reboot games, which will probably change at some point in the future, but I'll always have a soft spot for this one.
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