I only had Battlefront 1 and 2 on PS2, but they always felt cheap and arcadey. No stealth, for example. Everyone running around in multiplayer with rocket launchers. Tiny maps. Unexplorabe capships. As said above, the automatic rolling and immelman turns.
You could consider this mod a much better version of Battlefront. Its combinbing the best bits of Battlefield and Battlefront, so I'm not sure what you're complaing about.
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