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Leaked Star Wars Battlefront III Footage

Posted by Soulskill on from the use-high-def-luke dept.

rambo_ando writes "GameSpot UK journalist Luke Anderson received a tip from an anonymous tipster and Free Radical Design employee today who wanted to show off internal video of Battlefront III , which the games studio, now under administration, has lost the rights to develop. The source, a confirmed Free Radical employee, said of the game, 'it was going to be the best ever.' The five-minute video features gameplay of Stormtroopers, Ewoks, Tauntauns, The Millennium Falcon, TIE Fighters, A-Wings and what looks to be Boba Fett's ship, Slave I — as well as a prominent FRD logo watermark throughout. According to the person who posted the video on YouTube, 'this video was taken in an internal show-and-tell Alpha meeting back in November.'"

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  1. Management kills another project by n3tcat · · Score: 3, Funny

    which the games studio, now under administration, has lost the rights to develop

    See what happens when you get management involved? They shut down your pet projects and tell you to do stuff that makes money! As if money were important! Pssshaw!

    1. Re:Management kills another project by theM_xl · · Score: 2, Interesting

      ... You know, given what "under administration" MEANS (think Chapter 11 if you're American) making money WOULD HAVE BEEN important :)

  2. Blogspam by PhoenixAtlantios · · Score: 4, Informative
    Direct Link to the Youtube Video (larger when viewed on Youtube directly).

    The blog doesn't add additional details to the video, so you may as well skip the inevitable wordpress collapse. Seems like this guy was trying to generate some publicity for his new site (9 posts total).

  3. Best ever? by drinkypoo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The source, a confirmed Free Radical employee, said of the game, 'it was going to be the best ever.

    That was said about SWBFII, too, but then it came out with only one single-player campaign.

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    "You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
    1. Re:Best ever? by Nursie · · Score: 2, Informative

      Very different games, IMHO.

      The attraction of SWBF is to have a big fight. It's not a pure-blooded FPS, it's a fun few minutes of blasting frantically. And whilst the campaign aspect is fun, it's just as fun to have a few drinks, stick a few arena's on random and go for it.

      Republic Commando was an FPS with an engaging storyline. Different headspace.

  4. Forget Star Wars Battlefront. by will_die · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Bring me X-wing vs Tie Fighter that works over the Internet and has a good opponent matching system

    1. Re:Forget Star Wars Battlefront. by Dripdry · · Score: 2, Insightful

      I agree with the parent.

      Maybe I'm just being an old grouch (at 29) but I want capital ship battles. I want squadrons of fighters engaging in battle. We have the technology, why do they refuse to make this kind of stuff and do Lego StarWars instead?

      With current MMO technology one would think that a whole host of possibilities would open up. With current single player gamer technology wouldn't it be quite possible to design an immersive simulator to rival God himself?

      At the very least an update to their classic flight sims seems like a sure-fire hit.

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  5. Yay, another Hoth simulator! by Fallingcow · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I can't be the only one who used the first game for nothing but playing the battle of Hoth over and over. Single-player, because I wasn't dedicated enough to the game to want to play it online.

    The second one was horrible for that. There were slight improvements to the Hoth map, but far more harm was done to it than good.

    Also, I found single-player mode in II to be nearly impossible. Not the campaign, but the "conquer the galaxy"-type single-player thing, or individual maps played with bots. Even on its easiest setting my bots were incapable of holding two of the victory locations while I went after a third. They were too far apart for me to be always bouncing around defending the ones we already had, and the moment I left a point it came under dispute again. This happened over and over. The time it took me to run to a nearly-undefended enemy point, blast the 2-3 guys who tried to defend it, then stand there while it transfered to my side let the enemy take at least one of my other points. I never managed to win a single one of those maps, and while I'm not a god at FPS games, I'm pretty damn far from being bad. The only exception was Hoth, but I'd played it a ton of times and it's a mostly linear map.

    I don't know what other people thought of II, but I uninstalled it after just a couple of weeks and haven't even considered trying it again. I still install the first one every now and then, though, just so I can take another crack at those AT-ATs in my snowspeeder :) Hopefully III will feature a larger, better Hoth map. Otherwise I've got no use for it.