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More Footage from Cancelled Star Wars Battlefront Game Emerge

By Brian P Rubin | 04 April 2012 | 5 Comments   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvqyG9GR7jg&feature=player_embedded#!

The other day we reported that concept art from a cancelled, Slant Six-developed Star Wars: Battlefront game had been found on the disc for Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City. Today, Past to Present Online posted some mysteriously obtained footage from Free Radical’s time working on the game, which can be seen above.

The video comes from an alpha build of the game, says the post. As you can see, the footage offered players a pretty full-seeming Star Wars experience, what with all the lightsabers, Millennium Falcons, and laser beams and whatnot. THAT’S STAR WARS.

A post on Eurogamer about the footage notes that Free Radical was working on the game for about two years until LucasArts cancelled the project. The studio was bought out by Crytek, while the game is now being developed by Spark Unlimited, it’s said.

Star Wars. Never enough Star Wars.

Time to go play Kinect Star Wars. There’s dancing.

Via Past to Present Online and Eurogamer

5 Comments

  1. Posted by tooley on 04 April 12 at 1:23pm

    i played battefront 2 the other day and had a blast. it upsets me to know that this nearly happened. sad face : (

  2. Posted by Xenprecs on 04 April 12 at 8:03pm

    Ok… That footage almost made me crap my pants with how good it looked. Battlefront 2 has some of my best gaming memories to date. But in an ideal world for me, DICE would get this license. I mean, Star Wars Battlefront was heavily inspired by Battlefield, so I say LucasArts should license this to DICE, give them the moneys theyre getting from The Old Republic, and make the entire gaming world happy forever…

    • Posted by GoFree on 05 May 12 at 9:05am

      That would be good if it weren’t for the fact that Bioware made The Old Republic. However DICE did make Battlefield 3 and all previous versions, imagine Star Wars in the Frostbite 2 engine…

  3. Posted by Daragh on 05 April 12 at 6:28am

    This calls for a kickstarter

  4. Posted by styn on 06 April 12 at 5:34pm

    yo good post man. btwyou know warface is going to be absolutely amazing when the beta comes out. not a lot of people knows about it, it seems..

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