Star Wars Battlefront III was 99% finished before getting canned
12/1/12 2:40pm
The Star Wars Battlefront series is often celebrated by both Star Wars and shooter fans for being among some of the best sci-fi games ever created. This is why the news of the would-be third installment’s cancelation was seen as such a big loss. Well, some newly revealed details about the cancelation are bound to make fans feel even worse.
During an interview with gamesTM Magazine, Free Radical co-founder Steve Ellis revealed it was the studio’s most ambitious project and would have offered up plenty of new features. He also said it was near completion before its plug was pulled. And when I say it was near completion, I mean it was just about DONE.
"You could start a battle on the ground, jump into a ship and fly into space, continuing on to dock in a capital ship and continue the battle there.
"We'd had to build all kinds of new tech and overcome numerous technical challenges and limitations but we had done it. We had a 99% finished game that just needed bug fixing for release. It should have been our most successful game, but it was canceled for financial reasons.”
Wow. That’s certainly a downer. It’s even more depressing when you consider how such a highly anticipated game (much less one that was this close to being finished) wouldn’t have been able to fix the financial woes of the developer involved. Sigh. I guess fans can always watch the leaked Battlefront III footage and dream of what could have been.
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g1 DISCUSSIONS
eavedrop44
3 prototype all over again if its all most done let them release it i love battlefront.Brighton Tiles
solidmatthew
oh god why its the mega man legends 3 prototype all over again if its all most done let them release it i love battlefront
Korig
Hand the build off to someone else!
TheClonesLegacy
This pains me greatly. For too long I have waited for Battlefront 3 to hit store shelves, long have I waited to once again destroy my foes in the Star Wars Universe once more. But it tis not to be.
Kaibaman41
Wow....this is a real bummer, Makes you wonder if its source code of the game is around the net somewhere ya know?
Crichton
Nope. Nope. Nope. Not true. A game is not 99% finished before its even been announced.
McFhurer
very odd indeed, even if its normal practice on this generation doing the exact opposite
i assume its exageration, it could have been around 60-70% completion, but i can just tell myself it was for the best since free radical's battlefront psp games lack polish, even if i know that is not true and my heart desires battlefront 3
KurzWeber75
And plenty of games aren't even 19% finished when they hit store shelves (Obsidian and Bethesda have time and time again proven that)
firehazard51
"It was canceled for financial reasons.” AKA Disney wanted WAAAAAAY too much money for Star War rights to release the game. FUCK YOU DISNEY!!!!!!
the_stig
joke's on you pal, these events transpired way before the Disney buyout.