The current state of the game is unknown, with both Rebellion Developments, developer of Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron, and Pandemic Studios, developers of the first two installments being rumored to take the project over. The game had been in development for two years. Free Radical Design announced that they lost the rights to develop Star Wars: Battlefront III in October, prior to them going into administration. The stuff in the video of going from the ground to air to space to orbit is the tech that is dying with us". Regarding the technology to seamlessly travel from air to space the ex-employee stated, "It's dead. A former employee of Free Radical Design later sat down to an interview with IGN. The footage was later pulled on IGN after Lucas Arts demanded it be removed as it is "the intellectual property of Lucasfilm and been posted without permission". Furthermore the footage featured cutscenes and appeared to place more emphasis on storyline elements while still retaining the trademark style of gameplay. The leaked footage and pictures revealed that the engine of Battlefront III is graphically far superior than its predecessors. It showed seamless ground to space maps, new units, maps, and faster overall gameplay, and was branded with the Free Radical Design logo. Soon after on January 15, 2009, gameplay footage was leaked from a Free Radical in-house showing from November 2008.
Further leaked artwork hints that a dark-side rendition of Obi-Wan Kenobi may be featured in the game. 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. Screenshots have also been found on the internet, but the game has yet to be officially announced. The project is currently titled for "NextGen" consoles, this could mean all of the next generation consoles or just a few of them. 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.Ī secret LucasArts project was in development by Free Radical Design, the project is thought to be Battlefront III by many fans and gaming sites. Apparently it will be on PS2, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, Nintendo DS and PSP. On July 9, 2008, listings appeared on Amazon stating Star Wars Battlefront III for a Marelease. Some gameplay footage was leaked onto IGN, later pulled by LucasArts because it was placed there without permission.īattlefront 3 showed off some amazing graphics and some concept images. Following the firing of LucasArts workers, angry ex-employees told of several previously unannounced games including Battlefront III.
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