Star Wars: Battlefront III

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Star Wars: Battlefront III
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Developer(s) Unknown
Publisher(s) LucasArts
Series Star Wars: Battlefront
Release date(s) Unknown
Genre(s) Action, Third/first-person shooter

Star Wars: Battlefront III is a first/third-person shooter video game to be the fifth in the Star Wars: Battlefront series.[1] It would be the sequel to Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron, Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron, and Star Wars: Battlefront II.

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[edit] Development

On September 29, 2006, Computer and Video Games (CVG) magazine claimed that Free Radical Design was developing the game, however, neither Free Radical Design nor LucasArts have officially announced this project to be Star Wars: Battlefront III.[2][3] A "Secret LucasArts Project" was also listed on the Free Radical Design website soon thereafter.[4]

Kotaku, a video game blog, allegedly received information from a former LucasArts employee that Star Wars: Battlefront III, along with other rumored games, were in the creation process.[5] Later on July 8, 2008, Star Wars: Battlefront III was listed on Amazon.com as being released for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, and PlayStation Portable on March 15, 2009 but the listing was later removed.[6] On October 2, 2008, OLFC listed Star Wars: Battlefront III for the Nintendo DS with a PG rating for mild animated violence. The classification had been filed by Activision Blizzard.[7]

On December 28, 2008, renders of Star Wars characters surfaced from a laid off employee of Free Radical, bearing the Star Wars Battlefront III watermark.[1] Further leaked artwork hints that a dark-side rendition of Obi-Wan Kenobi may be featured in the game.[8]

A former employee of Free Radical Design later sat down to an interview with IGN. Regarding the technology to seamlessly travel from air to space the ex-employee stated, "It's dead. The stuff in the video of going from the ground to air to space to orbit is the tech that is dying with us".[9] Free Radical Design announced that they lost the rights to develop Star Wars: Battlefront III in October 2008, prior to them going into administration. The game had been in development for two years.[10] A company spokesperson on the official Pandemic Studios Internet forum refuted speculation that they had taken over the project in March of 2009, saying that "the title seems to be up in the air."[11]

Later, rumors surfaced that pointed Rebellion Studios as assuming the development of Battlefront III, after the closure of Free Radical Design.[12] Several months later, the spin off of the series, Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron, was announced. The PSP version of the game was made by Rebellion Studios, while N-Space developed the Nintendo DS version.

Battlefront III then appeared on gamestop.ca in December of 2009. It listed the game for PC, PS2, PS3, and Xbox 360. The game was also available for pre-order on January 1, 2010, but was shortly removed.[13]

[edit] Leaked footage

On January 15, 2009, gameplay footage was leaked from a Free Radical in-house showing from November 2008. It showed seamless ground to space maps, new units, maps, and faster overall gameplay, and was branded with the Free Radical Design logo.[14] The leaked footage and pictures revealed that the engine of Battlefront III was graphically far superior to its predecessors. Furthermore the footage featured cutscenes and appeared to place more emphasis on storyline elements while still retaining the trademark style of gameplay. The footage was later pulled on IGN after Lucas Arts demanded it be removed, being "the intellectual property of Lucasfilm and [has] been posted without permission."[15] The footage bears striking resemblance to the Lucasarts' spin-off project, Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron, in its land-to-space transitions and character cast.[16]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Thorsen, Tor (December 30, 2008). "Star Wars: Battlefront III surfaces". GameSpot. http://uk.gamespot.com/news/6202680.html?sid=6202680&part=rss&subj=6202680. Retrieved 2009-01-13. 
  2. ^ Robinson, Andy (September 29, 2006). "Free Radical scoops Battlefront". Computer and Video Games. http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=146932. Retrieved 2009-01-13. 
  3. ^ Thorson, Tor (August 23, 2006). "LucasArts, Free Radical going next-gen". Gamespot. http://www.gamespot.com/news/6156330.html. Retrieved 2009-01-13. 
  4. ^ Free Radical Design (August 23, 2006). "LucasArts Joins Forces with Free Radical Design to Create New Next-Generation Entertainment Experience". Press release. Archived from the original on January 15, 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20070115215018/http://www.frd.co.uk/game6/pressRelease.php. Retrieved 2009-01-13. 
  5. ^ Wilcox, Skylar (June 7, 2008). "Former LucasArts Employee Outlines Company Projects". The Wire. http://www.thewiire.com/news/1371/1/Former_LucasArts_Employee_Outlines_Company_Projects. Retrieved 2009-01-13. 
  6. ^ McWherter, Michael (July 8, 2008). "Amazon Shows Star Wars Battlefront III Coming To Everything Under The Sun In 2009". Kotaku. http://kotaku.com/5023156/amazon-shows-star-wars-battlefront-iii-coming-to-everything-under-the-sun-in-2009. Retrieved 2009-01-13. 
  7. ^ "Star Wars: Battlefront 3 rating". Office of Film and Literature Classification (Australia). 2008-10-08. http://www.classification.gov.au/www/cob/find.nsf/5c2433d416948a0bca25759f00820d25/4471a5f6c1db84faca2575a9002750b0!OpenDocument. Retrieved 2009-01-13. 
  8. ^ Crecente, Brian (2009-01-16). "Here's Star Wars Battlefront III's Sith Kenobi". Kotaku. http://kotaku.com/5132905/heres-star-wars-battlefront-iiis-sith-kenobi. Retrieved 2009-01-20. 
  9. ^ Thomsen, Michael (January 16, 2009). "What Happened to Star Wars Battlefront III?". IGN. http://ps3.ign.com/articles/946/946024p1.html. 
  10. ^ Graft, Kris (December 18, 2008). "Source: Free Radical Locked Up". Edge Online. http://www.edge-online.com/features/source-free-radical-locked-up. Retrieved 2009-01-13. 
  11. ^ Robinson, Andy (2009-03-10). "Pandemic: 'We're not making Battlefront III'". Computer and Video Games. http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=210196. Retrieved 2009-03-10. "As of right now I can say Battlefront 3 is not currently at Pandemic. While I know the title seems to be up in the air from all the buzz around the web... Lucas Arts will be the only one knowing where the title is at right now." 
  12. ^ Martin, Matt (2008-12-18). "Free Radical Design closes doors". www.gamesindustry.biz. http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/free-radical-design-latest-to-face-financial-trouble. Retrieved 2009-10-20. 
  13. ^ http://www.gamestop.ca/browse/search.aspx?N=0&Ntk=TitleKeyword&Ntx=mode+matchallpartial&Ntt=battlefront%203
  14. ^ Crecente, Brian (January 15, 2009). "Leaked SWBF3 Gameplay Footage". Kotaku. http://kotaku.com/5131846/leaked-star-wars-battlefront-3-gameplay-footage. Retrieved 2009-01-15. 
  15. ^ IGN Staff (2009-01-20). "Star Wars Battlefront III Footage Pulled". IGN. http://ps3.ign.com/articles/946/946502p1.html. 
  16. ^ "Star Wars Battlefront III trailer". Free Radical. 2009-02-13. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p842PtJWYW8. Retrieved 3009-13-17. 

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