Hoth is never the same place. I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve played a videogame set on the ice planet,  made famous by half an hour of screen time in a 35 year-old movie, but in every instance the pace is radically different—sometimes an endlessly scrolling 2D landscape, other times a network of subterranean tunnels. In Star Wars Battlefront, DICE’s forthcoming multiplayer shooter, it’s a mid-size battlefield cut across with trenches that seem more like an obstacle course than a functioning network of moving resources and defending territory. Playing a demo for Battlefront at a recent EA event in New York, Hoth’s simultaneous timelessness and constant variation begins to make sense, a kind of limbo space well-suited to the perpetual repetition of a multiplayer shooting game.

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