Star Wars Battlefront 3 The game that never was

[Clarko]

Well I suspected it was about time they would be working on the next installment of the series and not making a port like that did the last one. Unfortunately the studio behind the series went out of business. Well they were working on this title and many others and it was in due time that concept art would be leaked. Well browsing on Kotaku this morning I stumbled upon a post about gameplay footage of Star Wars Battlefront III in a internal Alpha meeting. I watched it with joy and to my surprise they finally made the ground to space battle concept without load times a reality. A dream I always had towards future type FPS or RTS. If you watch the video at :34 you see a pilot get in a star fighter and fly through the city.A lot of action going on and flies by a couple of star cruisers from the Imperial army. Then at 1:11 he flies towards a back sky to with a R2 Unit makes some funny noises. At first I assumed the game would have a invisible wall that would for the player back down into the battle but NO. The pilot reaches into space and lands in a Imperial Star Cruiser at 1:21. I have seen it several times and will also say it make just look back because the level could be unfinished but if you look at the rest of the video a lot of the game looks complete and polished.

Here is the link to the post on the website:http://kotaku.com/5131846/leaked-star-wars-battlefront-3-gameplay-footage

It does suck that the game will not be coming out anymore.

 

[RedFlag]

That does suck... SWBF2 was the first game I was in a clan for

 

[Paraplegic_Ballerina]

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo why god why!?

 

[gotrice]

That sucks

 

[blackhawksniper]

Im not going to watch the video because I loved this series and don't want to see what am I am missing

 

[NeOfito]

Im not going to watch the video because I loved this series and don't want to see what am I am missing

+1

 

[Plork]

Eh.

Ok, I absolutely love Star Wars. In fact there is a death star on my computer hutch and a life size Luke Skywalker stand up behind it. I absolutely loved the Battlefield series and was nutso before the first Battlefront came out. I mean, c'mon! Battlefield but with Star Wars stuff? DUDE. The user made mods for the BF games never really played all that well.

Well I just didn't care for Battlefront. It just never felt....right. Same with the second one. I don't mean to come off like a jerk or anything to those of you that loved this series, but man was I ever disappointed with Battlefront.

 

[sokO]

SWBF 1 was awesome, SWBF 2, not so awesome. Especially when there is a Jedi killing your whole team.

 

[Clarko]

yea crash they were too fast. I mean with all that laser fire no way he/she could deflect it all with his light saber. I don't care how powerful and jedi and sith can be but they can be beaten.

 

[Clarko]

*Update*

Remember that amazing footage of Star Wars Battlefront III we caught a glimpse of yesterday in the leaked footage? It looks like we're never going to be able to play that game.

SPOnG reports that a former Free Radical employee has verified that the footage is genuine, but that the game has already been passed to a new developer. Worse still, the tech that allowed you to fly from the ground to air and then into orbit stayed with Free Radical. The new developer, the source says, will now be using cutscenes.

The source did confirm that my careful listening did pick up the correct phrase in the cutscene, with a Sith saying "stick to the plan Kenobi" and that the Free Radical game was to feature another attempt to turn a Jedi to the Dark Side.

No word if that made the hand-off.

And now a moment of silence for what would have been a great game.

http://kotaku.com/5132851/free-radicals-star-wars-battlefront-iii-is-dead

NOOOOOO if it was bad enough the game not being made but the cool tech that allowed you to fly from the surface of the planet into space without load times stays with Free Radical who is out of business now.

 

[Frazar]

if it is possible to cry black tears of despair... i just did... I LOVE BF

 

[ubersauce]

http://kotaku.com/5132905/heres-star-wars-battlefront-iiis-sith-kenobi

Looks like we wouldn't gotten a Sith Kenobi, too...
At least it's still in development, right? We'll get BF3 in some way, shape, or form...

 

[Geno]

I bet eventually another company will buy the rights to the game, and remake it

 

[Spitfire'd]

Yeah the only confirmed rumor here is that the company that was making the game is gone.

The latest rumor I heard said that the game was being picked up by the company that did the PSP Battlefront, which wasn't nearly as good as the console games.

So we'll see what happens, but I have no doubt that there will be a Battlefront III. It's more of a matter of when at this point.

 

[?moddedu]

SWBF1 and SWBF2(No jedi) are both GREAT games. I have them on the Xbox, but I only play instant action. Still, they are both great to play if you are bored!

 

[Newman]

I believe the game is going to be developed by a different company and i will definitely get it if it is released just because the series is awesome

 

[Glitch]

I loved BF, liked BF2. What I -really- want is another TIE Fighter game. I'm not talking about this arcade-style flight stuff. I'm talking about an honest to God flight simulator. X-Wing Alliance 2, anyone?

 

[Captain Calle]

I love Battlefront 2. I really enjoyed it, especially playing with my father. I hope SWBF3 will be a good game.


-Calle

 

[Jinsei Zetsumei]

I loved BF, liked BF2. What I -really- want is another TIE Fighter game. I'm not talking about this arcade-style flight stuff. I'm talking about an honest to God flight simulator. X-Wing Alliance 2, anyone?

/agrees, the only reason I liked BF2 was becasue of the space battles, I like the dogfights over the ground fights

 

[Clarko]

yea the space fighting was alright but the best imo was the rouge squadron series. It was faster, more action and tricks.