Star Wars Battlefront Announced, Detailed

Tim Butler writes "Official Playstation Magazine has a few initial details regarding Star Wars Battlefront, a newly-announced online PS2 multiplayer game that borrows a lot from Battlefield 1942." The game, reminiscent of the previously covered Galactic Conquest mod for BF1942, has been confirmed for Xbox and PC as well, and is described as: "SOCOM's online-multiplayer experience, only with a wide variety of characters to choose from and a bunch of cool Star Wars vehicles to operate. You can play in the Galactic Civil War or the Clone Wars, meaning you can choose one of four armies to command (Rebels vs. Imperials or Republic vs. Separatists). [It] includes pretty much every major ride you've seen in a Star Wars flick." Update: 12/03 05:58 GMT by S : GameSpy adds that the developer is Pandemic Studios, creator of Star Wars:Clone Wars and the forthcoming Full Spectrum Warrior.

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Re:Another Canon Game

[Gothic_Walrus]

Just so you know, you're most definitely not the only one who feels this way.

Gabe, of Penny Arcade, covered this about a week ago in their news section (fourth post down, second of Gabe's).

Having new games in unestablished territory would be great. Come to think of it, any games set in timeframes not covered by the movies could be extremely cool. Look at KOTOR. The developers were bound by some basic Star Wars rules, but they didn't have to worry about fitting the storyline into a movie's plot. Not having story constraints almost definitely made the game a better one. It's not a very fair comparison, but...

The Episode I Game = Crappy game

KOTOR = Great game

There's definitely support for games outside of the movie timeframe, but we'll have to wait. Look at how long it's taken to get the original trilogy on DVD.

The way things look right now, it seems like we'll get some non-canon Star Wars games...in 2008.