BattleFront 3 Rumor

[Kamui]

Yea i'm Leery on it being real at all, I think it is just somebody in the LA community trolling the fanbase at the moment.

Somebody even posted a reciept of SWBF3 that they pre-ordered at gamestop, It doesn't look legit though since a majority of the letters are missing.

[RaceDriver53]

The other day I was reading an article in, Playstation: The Official Magazine, and they were talking about games that will be released in 2010. At the end of the article they had a list of games that haven't been officially announced but that they expect to be either released or announced in 2010 and Battlefront 3 was listed. So hopefully that means we might hear an offical announcement sometime this year.

[BOSS]

Nice find Driver! Hopefully PS magazine keeps up with it.

[Kamui]

Here is site that LA posted, It is a job description about multiplayer games:

The Multiplayer Engineer will focus on multiplayer programming for upcoming LucasArts games. 3+ years experience in the area of Network & Multiplayer engineering specifically for console games, and prior programming experience on XBOX360 or PS3 is required. Broad understanding of computer and game networking systems, including DNS, NAT, firewall, security methods, peer-to-peer and client server models also a must.

The Lucasfilm campus is fantastic! Located in the Presidio of San Francisco, a national park, LucasArts offers sweeping views of the Golden Gate Bridge, The Palace of Fine Arts, and Alcatraz Island. The studio is walking distance to Crissy Field, restaurants, bars, shopping and even a bowling alley! We also have our own MoCap studio, onsite daycare, state-of-the-art movie theater, and a private gym. Where else do you get to work in a park?

At the interview, you’ll meet some of the people who made The Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition & The Force Unleashed. We're looking for the best and the brightest, both US and international candidates are welcome to apply. We want people who come to work every day with fresh ideas and the passion to make the killer games in our future.

http://jobs.gamasutra.com/jobseekerx/viewjobrss.asp?cjid=20650&accountno=260&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GamasutraJobs+%28Gamasutra+Jobs%29&utm_content=Twitter

[thedooku]

Rumor: Socom Devs (Slant 6) Working on "Star Wars: Battlefront Online"

FTA
"Star Wars: Battlefront III may have been binned, but we've heard from sources that the series lives on, in the form of currently-in-pre-production Battlefront Online.

The game, for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, is currently being worked on by both Lucasarts and Slant Six Games, the studio responsible for SOCOM Confrontation and SOCOM Fire Team Bravo 3.

The title is still in pre-production, so there's no guarantee that we'll ever hear more of it – Battlefront having become somewhat of a cursed property after the recent demise of original developers Pandemic and buy-out of BFIII developers Free Radical – but Lucasarts' insistence on getting a Battlefront game made in spite of all that gives us hope. A...New Hope, even (sorry).

Battlefront Online is, as the name suggests, planned to be online-only, and is tentatively slated to appear in 2011.

Whether this game was the source of that "Battlefront IV" concept art that turned up last year is unknown, but our sources tell us that it is the source of those voice actor rumours from December."



I don't know how to feel about this. Discuss.

[The_Blunt]

I never got to play a Slant 6 SOCOM. I played on Combined Assault until it was about almost dead, then Slant 6 came in and took over for Zipper and released some updates that Zipper never did.

But I think it's pretty cool if they got Slant 6 because SOCOM is obviously one of the best 3rd person shooters out there. It would make sense to have them working on it.

I don't like the 2011 thing though. I was hoping for a Battlefront at the end of this year.

[captnjeter]

Beggars can't be choosers.

[RaTix]

I thought they had a Battlefront Online already, it was called Star Wars Galaxies.

Why don't they just hire the devs from Free Radical, finish the game they already have and be done with it. Now who the hell knows what type of game we're gonna get. If they fuck this up, we are changing from DSA to SFA (Star Fleet Alliance) and then you can all call me Captain Picard instead of Emperor.

[BOSS]

I have mixed feelings about this. Mostly because Slant 6 pretty much ruined the release of the newest SOCOM with so many bugs and glitches (currently the game seems to be playable now) so I could see the same happening with this SWBF game. I'm not surprised that it will be online only as that seems to be the new trend with decent shooter games (Warhawk, SOCOM, MAG).

[Reaver]

This is depressing.. Where is SWBFIII?

[Deslock]

What Happened to Star Wars Battlefront III?
We talk to an ex-employee at Free Radical to get the scoop on the leaked footage, Timesplitters 4, and the future of the studio.
by Michael Thomsen
January 16, 2009 - The recently leaked footage from Free Radical Design's Star Wars Battlefront III created the first big gaming stir of 2009. While LucasArts never officially announced the title, the low-res video, allegedly from an internal Alpha meeting in November 2008, indicated that the game was in an advanced stage of development and very nearly complete. The status of the project has been in question since news broke in December that the studio is in a fight for survival. Free Radical entered administration late last year in order to find new investors for the company. If investors aren't found, the company assets, including all internal IP and technologies, will be sold off and the studio formally dissolved.

IGN recently spoke with an ex-employee from Free Radical, who requested to be referred to as Thomas Dudenaughty, to find out more about Battlefront III and the future of the company itself. Unfortunately, he confirmed what many fans have suspected given the recent struggles of Free Radical. Battlefront III is no longer being worked on at Free Radical.

"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," said Dudenaughty. "They've decided, for whatever reason, I guess because it's less effort, to completely remove that with a cutscene transition." When asked about the rumored decision to move the project to Oxford-based Rebellion, Dudenaughty was non-commital. "It's not something I'd be willing or able to comment on," he said.

We asked how the game, which looked surprisingly polished in the leaked video, wound up being taken away from Free Radical. "It's not something I have a lot of insight to in terms of why it happened, but it certainly wasn't us that ****ed up.," he said. "I don't even necessarily think it's LucasArts' fault, it's just the state of the economy and it was an expensive project. I guess people think it's shocking they 'can' it that late in development. However, you think about the marketing spending equivalent to, or in the same region of, half the budget of the game it can make sense not to do it. But I wasn't really in the meetings when they decided against it."

Dudenaughty confirmed that the project was very near to completion. "Yeah," he said. "Absolutely." While Free Radical felt they had a nearly finished product, LucasArts wasn't ever clear with them about when the game was supposed to come out. "LucasArts never told us when they wanted to release, literally never," he said. "We didn't do any press, they kept it totally under wraps. I think that was partly because they had The Force Unleashed, they didn't want it to be contrasting with that." Fracture might also have been another reason to hold off on talking about Battlefront III, since LucasArts was busy trying to promote it as a premiere shooter with a significant multiplayer component last fall.

Assuming the footage in the leaked trailer was from an Alpha build, we deduced that the game might have been in development eighteen months prior, given that the Alpha milestone is typically one of the last in the development process. Dudenaughty confirmed that the project, and its underlying tech, had been in the works for even longer. "More than that [18 months]. We've been working on that tech for a long time. It's excruciating to see it falling by the wayside."

This article was posted over an entire year ago.

I've given up on it. It's failed too many times, and been moved around too much. If, and when it does ever come out, I have absolutely no doubt it's going to suck.

[The_Blunt]

I don't even care if it sucks at this point. It can't possibly be worse than Modern Warfare 2. Anythings better than that damn game.

[RageProphetXIII]

Alright here is something I just ran into. It just never quits coming. More rumors but.....we all know that this, we are waiting for.

http://www.vg247.com/2010/05/15/rumor-battlefront-3-leaked-by-gamespy/

[MandaloreFett]

I doubt it will ever come out, and if so not soon. Free Radical is dead and Rebellion is crap. I just don't understand why LucasArts wouldn't make this happen? It would sell a ton and everyone wants it. Just don't F it up

[Kamui]

http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/704775/Star-Wars-Battlefront-3-Not-Such-A-Secret-Anymore.html

Similar to what Rage posted. I'm calling E3 is where they will finally announce it, If not then... I dunno :(.