Star Wars: Battlefront III

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Star Wars: Battlefront III is the expected fourth game in the Star Wars: Battlefront series, possibly in development by Free Radical Design. They have neither confirmed nor denied that they are creating a game in the Star Wars: Battlefront series, although it has been confirmed that they are making a Star Wars game for LucasArts.

If Free Radical are working on a Battlefront game then it has only been announced for the Xbox 360 and PC. Speculation suggests that it will come out on other Next Generation consoles, namely the PlayStation 3.

It will most likely contain a Customization feature, first seen in Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron.

The game has not yet been officially announced by LucasArts or Free Radical Design, all of this information is speculative.

[edit] LucasArts Leak

Following the firing of LucasArts workers, angry ex-employees told of several previously unannounced games including Battlefront III.

Some gameplay footage was leaked onto IGN, later pulled by LucasArts because it was placed there without permission.

[edit] Amazon Listings

On July 9, 2008, listings appeared on Amazon stating Star Wars Battlefront III for a March 15, 2009 release. Apparently it will be on PS2, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, Nintendo DS and PSP. These listings were promptly removed over night and it should be noted that this could have been a mix-up with the game on those platforms called Star Wars: The Force Unleashed as Amazon have been known to make large mistakes over release dates.

[edit] Secret LucasArts Project

A secret LucasArts project was in development by Free Radical Design^[1], the project is thought to be Battlefront III by many fans and gaming sites. The project is currently titled for "NextGen" consoles^[2], this could mean all of the next generation consoles or just a few of them. Screenshots have also been found on the internet, but the game has yet to be officially announced.

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.^[3] Further leaked artwork hints that a dark-side rendition of Obi-Wan Kenobi may be featured in the game.^[4]

Soon after 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.^[5] The leaked footage and pictures revealed that the engine of Battlefront III is graphically far superior than 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 as it is "the intellectual property of Lucasfilm and [has] been posted without permission".^[6] 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".^[7] Free Radical Design announced that they lost the rights to develop Star Wars: Battlefront III in October, prior to them going into administration. The game had been in development for two years.^[8]

The current state of the game is unknown, with both Rebellion Developments^[3][9], developer of Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron, and Pandemic Studios^[10], developers of the first two installments being rumored to take the project over.

Pandemic studios is out of the running for the rights to develop Battlefront III due to their November 17, 2009 closing, according to several sources.

[edit] 2009 Gamestop Listing

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 after midnight on the 14th of December.^[11]

[edit] External links

• Star Wars: Battlefront III 'Confirmed'

[edit] Sources and References