I recently got my hands on Star Wars Battlefront classic collection, which is now available on Steam, and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed. I want to give a huge thanks to Sandbox Strategies for providing me with a key to test it out ahead of its release. Even though it wasn't much ahead of release, it did get me prepared in time.
One of the things I was most impressed with was how well it ran, even in Space Battles with full graphic settings. I was getting over 120 frames per second for the most part, which was great. I was connected to a 120 HZ display for the pass-through recording, which is why you're seeing up to 120. Obviously, the OLED Steam Deck caps out at 90, so you're still going to have a fantastic time on the OLED and 60 on the LCD.
I was also pleased to see that we were running around 10 watts on Space Battles, and if we went into a hefty forest area, we were looking at about 14 watts. So, no issues at all. On some of the heavier graphic planets, it did dip down into the 80s and even the 70s occasionally, especially when battles really started getting intense, but it wasn't a major issue playing at full resolution and the highest graphic settings.
I played Battlefield 2 and it was fully functional. For some reason, in Battlefront 2, the settings had to be switched between third person and first person in the game options, which you can do during the game. Whereas in Battlefront 1, you can do that on a control toggle. It's worth noting that this was on the highest quality, and if you go into the custom options, there's not a huge, huge amount that you can do in there, but it was maxed out.
The control types were a bit of a hassle, as I had to go into each type of control and switch to control mode. It was great to see the Steam Deck control layout in there, though. It does show you each of the buttons, and it's a little bit small on the screen, but it's still great to see Steam Deck actually there as a controller.
I had early access to the game, so there weren't many people online, but the multiplayer was fully functional. Obviously, you're mostly against AI unless you get tons of players in there, but it's still great fun.