UPDATE Source says claim that project was sabotaged for financial reasons is 'ludicrous,' likens Free Radical to Ponzi scheme; studio. Star Wars: Battlefront III was meant to be the third (fifth if spin-offs are included) Star Wars: Battlefront game, and the third one to not be developed by Pandemic Studios. The game was to be. Star Wars: Battlefront III Free Radical Archive Fandom.
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Free Radical Design's cancelled Star Wars Battlefront 3 has been shown off again in newly-leaked footage. It's our best look yet at what might have been.The TimeSplitters and Second Sight studio had been developing the game for two years when back in 2006, a decision which caused the studio's.Free Radical's impressive ground-to-space technology is shown off in detail, as the player is seen taking off and flying around huge areas set on Hoth and Coruscant, then off into space to battle TIE Fighters and Star Destroyers.Earlier glimpses have showed. This build is far closer to a finished experience, although some frame-rate issues are still present.The game's story was to begin with a prologue set on Tatooine, Luke Skywalker's dusty backgarden, before moving on to Coruscant, Cato Nemoidia, Dantooine, Desolation Station, Yavin IV, Hoth and Endor.Later levels were set to feature Cloud City, Dathomir (from the Clone Wars cartoon), Mustafar, and Wookie homeworld Kashyyyk.
Some fairly interesting news that will be a big disappointment to a lot of fans. Apparently the Star Wars: Battlefront 3 that was in production with Free Radical will never be released. One of our forum members (Thanks Red7 StandingBy!) found an email address of an ex-Free Radical employee and decided that he would shoot him an email asking about what happened with the production of Battlefront 3.Here’s the email that was sent:From: my emailCENSOREDDate: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:23:54 -0500Subject: Big FanREMOVED I hope this email finds you well.When you were at Free Radical you did an awesome job at re-inventing the Star Wars Battlefront franchise. It was so sad and upsetting to hear of Free Radicals collapse.
Myself and thousands upon thousands of fans were so pumped when we saw the leaked footage of the supposed alpha meeting in November of 2008.We finally had something to look forward to after years of lackluster titles from Lucasarts. Now BF3 is in development hell and the fans want answers but as usual Lucasarts doesn’t listen. I was wondering if there is anything you could tell me about the whereabouts of BF3 now, how far along it was and I would be interested to know where you are currently working or where you last worked. Thanks again and may the force be with you!Here is the response that came back to him:Thanks for your kind words, BF3 was truly awesome.The whole idea with BF3 was that is was going to have a storyline, following two clone brothers that was cloned from a Jedi. The game also had a vertical battlefield, so you could fight on the ground, jump into a x wing and fly up to a star destroyer, firing ion cannons from space to ground or from ground to space, all this without any loading times.Sad to say that about 6-8 months from completing the game, Lucasarts canned it, I don’t know all the details about what happened but it got cancelled and that was the death of Free Radical, we couldn’t get a publisher in time for Timesplitters 4 so the directors where forced to make 80% of the company redundant.
Then later on they got bought up by Crytek and are now developing some AAA titel. I was one of the guys that was made redundant so I am not working at Crytek anymore but at a different games company.The status of BF3, well the BF3 I was working on will never get released, however I believe that Battlefront being one of the major titles for Lucasarts, you will no doubt see a battlefront title at some point, what format, what type of game it will be, that I cant answer, because I dont know.May the force be with you!Talk about a major bummer, but this still doesn’t confirm that we won’t be getting our long awaited Battlefront 3. This just means that version that Free Radical were developing, won’t ever surface. So basically all of those leaked renders and screens are what could have been and never will be now.This really sucks because Free Radicals version looking absolutely amazing. Even if LucasArts are working to recreate Battlefront 3, they’re going to have to work really hard to match what Free Radical had done.
It makes me wonder why they would can the project when it was almost ready strange. Let me know your thoughts folks!I wanted to address the people as well who are sending me emails and posting comments that they know when Battlefront 3 is coming out and how they have “sources” that it’s being developed. Don’t bother unless you care to “share” your sources and where you got the info from, because they’ll just be deleted.Thanks! I am really trying not to get my hopes up, as much as I want BF3. There are a few things that make me believe it will be BF3. Why are they hyping you up for this, when has this ever happen for a SW game.
Look at how far along that leaked footage was back in January, they would really can a huge moneymaker because of a couple of issues? Also, don’t listen to a word in that email posted up the page, that is what a person who has been working on the game would want you to think.
He wouldn’t say He couldn’t confirm this or he was unsure, because that would look fishy. I will be tuned in and I hope I won’t be dissapointed. Hi guys,I didn’t red all comments but i repeat if some are same as the followin’Member email from free radical said that lucasart stoped their so called ”amazing” bf3 project. That decision forced Free Rad to shut down and then Crytek bought themDoes it sounds like premeditated??? Interest conflicts???Does Crytek called the help of big boss lucasart???????????I know I still got questions to this but it’s sure that kind of buisness is and old one when it’s time to buy a company EASILY to make big money with better control!!!Thanks reading. It won´t be on crengine 3, because, the release of it will be 2012(i think that was it), and on 2.23.09 the cryengine wasn´t finished yet, why should lucas Arts cancel it from radical, when the engine thy want isn´t finished?i think it wll be on cryengine 2, and what do u all have against cryengine 2? The possebilitys, this engine has, are so giantly.
Closely everything is possible. ANd honestly, how many pc´s would make bf3 with cryengine 3? That would be the same problem, which crytek had.
I think, there are more pc´s which can handle cryengine2 than ´cryengine3.but all in all 10 DAYS!!! Yeah, 64 critial hits on a enemy-occupied tanks. Best way to do it is to set the options to 500% reforcements conquest, go to Kashyyyk clone wars era, be the clones. Shoot the rear wheel thing on the CIS snail droids with a rocket launcher 4 times in 1 life.Wait 30 seconds then respawn. (So you can earn the award again. You die within 30 seconds and you have to die again to earn the award the next life.) Repeat, again and again. (Took me about 2 weeks to do it all 64 times.
I invite some friends over to play 4 player splitscreen it ends up like this:? ?:/: )But, now about Bf3, I think the Force Unleased 2 is a huge possability. Because the game engine for it cost so much.But, now think about this; what if Lucasarts take The Force Unleased, and tweaks the engine a little bit, and puts Bf3 on that Bf3/TFU hybrid.
Look and the hero gameplay in Free Radical’s leaked footage, it looked kinda like a toned down version Force Unleased gameplay. Maybe just maybe. I come on this site every day just hoping that maybe some news of BF3 has been posted here. But I just keep getting my hopes up for nothing. If lucasarts doenst announce BF3 they are going to get so many complaints from the fans.
This game is universally known and would make a huge profit for lucasarts. So why dont they just make it?? Youd think that if they werent making the game that they would post something saying that they honestly arent working on this game so people would at least know and stop making such a big deal out of it. So sense i havent seen anything i believe that its still out there somewhere. Well, there goes another shot.but you have to think, it could be something to hide the fact it is there, but the odds of this are not good at all to say the least. Lucasarts, if they do not end up making this game, needs some new management. (i dont want anyone fired, dont take that wrong)i think this game would sell very well if they did well with it.
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All they need is to make it with awesome visuals, and tweak the gameplay to make it more, intense and real feeling i guess. Other than that, awesome games.
One thing that makes me think that the new game is Battlefront III has to do with Pandemic’s closing. When the studio shut down last week, EA promised continued support for Pandemic’s intellectual properties, and Battlefront is one of those IPs.When the rumoured Battlefront III surfaced, it did so on the trail of Free Radical’s closing (which was rumored to be the developer on the title). At the time word was that Battlefront III went back to Pandemic after Free Radical was shuttered. Now that Pandemic’s closed, I believe EA’s doing the same thing with Battlefront III that it’s doing with Mercs Inc: Take a few core members from Pandemic, drop them in another EA studio, and get the game ready to go gold sometime next year. What do you folks think? Is a new Force Unleashed more or less plausible? Well this really sucks.
I don’t understand why they would can the entire game. I mean come on SWBF 1,2 were the best selling Star Wars games.
On the Lucas Art website fans have been barking at Lucas Arts games to make Battlefront 3 for a while now so who know what will happen now. So all I can hope now lucas arts uses Free Radical’s version as a template rather than starting from scratch.
I know its a very long shot but I hope its the new Star Wars game annocued at VGA is Star Wars Battlefront 3.
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