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Leaked Battlefront III Footage Surfaces

New footage of Star Wars: Battlefront III is making the rounds, but does the game still exist?


Some nice "stalker cam" footage has emerged from what is purportedly Star Wars: Battlefront III. I watched it and there's really no reason for me to doubt that this is legit--it looks really good. The bigger question is where the hell is this game now? With the fate of Free Radical still in question, Battlefront III is supposedly now being developed by Rebellion, the makers of the PSP's Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron. This makes me wonder how much of this footage is still relevant. The optimist in me hopes all of it is, the pessimist thinks this game is never coming out and the realist in me knows he hasn't played a Battlefront game since the original.

The footage is reported to be from November, at an internal meeting with Free Radical.

  

Man. I'm still a sucker for anything Star Wars. I need help.

Thanks to Kotaku for this one.

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I think it will be great, I could not get enough of the first 2 and now a 3rd one!
it will be great!

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I just shit myself.

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Edited By Green_Incarnate

Oh, dude. LOTR Conquest looks like crap compared to this. This is what we need. Real Battlefront for this gen.

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WHY!?!? WHY DID YOU HAVE TO GO FREE RADICAL!?!?!

:'(

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OMG! That looked so AWESOME! It looked like it was everything I have always been wanting in the Star Wars: Battlefront games. I have always been saying that if there ever was a Battlefront III it would need to have much larger space battles, bigger starships with more rooms in the inside of the starships, more worlds as in bring back all of the worlds from the previous Battlefront games (of course you would update them if needed) and of course add in new ones. Battlefront III would also need to bring back all of the infantry Classes from at least Battlefront II and add at least one new class to both ground and space combat (if they are still going to be separate, after all that fighter in the begining went from the ground strait into space). And finally way smarter Artificial Intelligence for both ground combat, space combat, and now air combat again. Pandemic tired to do air combat in the first Star Wars: Battlefont and unfortunately they failed (small battlefeld, too big starfighters/bombers) so it'll be interesting to see how it will work out in Battlefront III. 

And yes with Free Radical in the state that its in, I'am very, very afraid that this game will either end up not being released or some other developer will end up making it and it just isn't anywhere near as AWESOME as the footage we all saw. However I really hope that Free Radical gets to finish this game and that the game lives up to all that AWESOMENESS.   

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well this will not sell and be pirated a billion times, good luck whoever releases it.

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look pretty awesome

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thabigred said:
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well this will not sell and be pirated a billion times, good luck whoever releases it.

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Yeah, OK.
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THEY BEST HAVE OLD BEN KENOBI, HES THE BEST JEDI EVER

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Looks really good. Here's to hoping that it still is up to that par after the new team finishes it.

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The thing that strook me about the vid was when the dude just hopped in a ship and flew that bitch into space... OH SNAP! I literally crapped my pants there.

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Looks great, hopefully it comes out soon.

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It looks good but why does Battlefront put so much focus on the characters from the movies?  Is that what people really want?  I'd love to have a real shooter in the vein of the Battlefield games that's about the foot soldiers, not the jedi.  That stuff is what ruins the game IMO.

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Damn it...can we start some sort of bring Free Radical back to life fund...I'd donate....this is just sad.

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It would be a DAMN SHAME for this game to be dropped.

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Me and my friends played the hell out of 1 and 2. I'm looking forward to it

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I hope it does come out because it looks kick ass.

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IT'S LIKE BATTLEFRONT 2 WITH SHINIER GRAPHICS AND MORE FUNSERVICE! (maybe a few tweaks here and there)
...wow I think I nailed that one.
Not that it's a bad thing though, I played the CRAP out of battlefront 1/2.

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Of course they will continue to make this game. Battlefront 1&2 sold roughly 50 Billion copies so It shouldn't be a hard decision.

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Bring me this "Battlefront III"!

And I want it unharmed! NO DISINTEGRATIONS!!

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Ugh... read this.

"These sketches are too cool for words. Sad part is that this version of the game may never see the light of day. Apparently, Star Wars: Battlefront III has been stripped from Free Radical and passed to another developer, who did not inherit the technology that allowed you to fly from ground to air and into orbit, that belongs to Free Radical. Changing developers means everything is subject to change, from the gameplay to the storyline, so there's no telling what we'll see when the game ends up being releasing."

GAY! And based on how awesome this concept art is, this could be the worst news I've ever heard about a game.

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Yep, looks like Battlefront.

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Renegade Squadron was a pretty great game, so I have faith in Rebellion if they *are* making this.

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NinjaSquirrel said:
"You mean lord of the rings conquest?
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What?
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Hm, doesn't look like it posted the first time.

I would be totally down if it wasn't Star Wars. I'm holding off for a real, actual Battlefield game. However going from ground into orbit seamlessly is an awesome concept.

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The footage looks tremendous.

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Let's have a government bailout for Free Radical!

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Star Wars = instawin, but this footage looks awesome.

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they better continue to work on this AS IS like in the video and release it or i will be a sad panda...
and i hope the company that picked it up after free radical went down makes it good

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I love the battlefront series!
And fucking plus for able to fly the Millenium Falcon!
I really want this game to come out.

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we'll see