

And he didn't have to wait long to get the camera movement he was hoping for. To hear Levälahti describe the process, it was relatively straightforward, in part because Star Wars Battlefront runs in DICE's Frostbite engine, which also powers the developer's Battlefield games.

It's not how I like to screenshot games though, I usually never do it unless there's some sort of a free camera method available." I used these methods for the first shots and my video.

"Also when you zoomed in with the gun while the HUD was disabled, you would get a nice low of the game, without the gun. "Some of the shots I took between gun switches, so the weapon wouldn't be visible," he says. He used several techniques to capture Star Wars Battlefront's landscapes on the snowy plains of Hoth and the rocky desert of Tatooine, often planning and timing his captures for maximum impact. "When the beta started, I played it for about 10 seconds before I started figuring out how to screenshot the game," Levälahti tells Polygon. He fired up the Star Wars Battlefront beta last week, and screenshots were on his mind. Levälahti maintains a Flickr account where he posts high-resolution screenshots that turn single frames from games like Battlefield Hardline, Mad Max and Mass Effect 3 into renders of often stunning beauty. Petri "Berdu" Levälahti, a gamer with an eye for video game beauty, was impressed, too. When we wrote about our early impressions of developer EA DICE's upcoming PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One game, its visual fidelity warranted its own section. There's no way to convince our eyes otherwise: Star Wars Battlefront looks gorgeous, even when you're ducking blaster fire in a galaxy that flies by at 60 fps. That's solid advice for a Jedi in a galaxy far, far away, but as we learned last week, it doesn't always apply in ours. "Your eyes can deceive you," the aging warrior and one-time Jedi Knight, Obi-Wan Kenobi, once told a blond farm boy named Luke Skywalker.
