Mysterious LucasArts Project Is Star Wars 1313

You lost me at "Star Wars". LucasArts was used to be much more.

Soooo not Xwing vs Tie fighter reboot...

I was expecting this game to be something I'd care about, but I was sadly mistaken. Sure it has some pretty stellar graphics, but other than that it looks like a generic third-person shooter so far.

Hopefully they'll show more than a whole ten seconds of gameplay during the show.

With the thing running on a high end PC, I think they might hold off for next gen.

I don't like Star Wars, but MOTHERFUCKER! That looked damn good! Was not expecting next gen, but that was next gen as fuck. Wonder if there will be an uglier version for current gen.

@UKSamwise: Why did they left out this part in the movie? It would be a nice break from all the terrible things happening in that film.

It's been forever since I was interested in a Star Wars game, maybe this can change my mind.

You know what I'd be interested in, as someone who feels like he's pretty much done with Star Wars?

A game without force users. Considering how relatively rare Jedi and Sith are supposed to be, I can't think of many games where they aren't front and center. (Tie fighter, X-Wing, Dark Forces - come to mind, though I'm not so sure about Dark Forces). And that's a bit weird.

I see LucasArts still can't get past making Star Wars games.

@RedRoach: Outcast and Academy were both great games, but the other ones were kinda overrated. Battlefront especially, it just copied battlefield in a bad way.

sounds very interesting

@Toxin066 said:

A Star Wars game with allegedly "no force powers" (from GI's article), featuring a unknown character? Why bother.

I'm hoping this game makes me eat that snark and that it turns out to be something good.

last Star Wars game I remember playing without force powers was Republic Commando, arguably one of the best star wars games from the last 10 years, for me at least

Yup. Doesnt look like republic commando two still.

This is going to be awesome.

@RedRoach: mercs was made by pandemic but yes all those games were AMAZING

Most likely won't be anything special; just one of those games you consider buying, when you see it in the bargain bin, at your local game store.

First time I'm interested in a star wars game in ages. Weird, it doesn't even sound that good, but I'm intrigued.

... but will it have Kinect support? Because if I can't stomp around shouting "BLASTER ON" and "XBOX KILL JEDI SCUM" then no deal. >=(

@dr_mantas: [sigh] I know right?

When I heard the rumors i just asumed it was Episode 1 in 3d.

Just when I think ive had enough of the star wars universe, as soon as they make something good im back in.

Ten to one this game sees a minimum of two name changes before it sees release.

@Toxin066 said:

A Star Wars game with allegedly "no force powers" (from GI's article), featuring a unknown character? Why bother.

I'm hoping this game makes me eat that snark and that it turns out to be something good.

Star Wars : Bounty Hunter for the PS2/GCN was actually a pretty good game. I sense this is like that only a lot darker.

@fragor87: I really feel like a bad person for knowing this but by the way the ships look it takes place no earlier than during the original trilogy if not later. Nerd out is now over.

@Kevin_Cogneto: But did you really think it was going to be more STAR WARS?

I like the idea of it aiming for an adult audience. Let's just hope it's more accurate than Stormtroopers.

The bounty hunter I was looking for? Please Patrick, tell me more.

awesome this is exactly what I want out of the star wars universe.

@zanshin said:

The LucasArts web site has bit more info than this.

Star Wars 1313

But LucasArts hasn't made a good game since 1998, so I have no plans to buy this game, unless something comes along to change my mind.

Fucking what!? Battlefront, Republic Commando, Jedi Outcast, Jedi Academy and Mercs.

I hope this is good enough to make up for the 8 hours of my life I lost to Force Unleashed. What a POS that was.

Joke's on you, Patrick. The main character's name is going to be Tommy Solo.

I hope this isn't a Boba Fett game and they go for something more original.

Clint Hocking is the reason I might be interested in this. I absolutely adore Far Cry 2 and I really like what I've read in his blog - he's a clearly a thinker and want's to push things forward and I appreciate that. Clint Hocking was talking a lot about transmedia stuff around the time he resigned his last post - I'm really curious to see if that's going to be a big part of this game (although I probably wouldn't care about anything else other than the core game).

I am allowing myself to get hyped about this and I am equally prepared to be incredibly disappointed

@fox01313 said:

I mean maybe if you were a psychotic ewok bounty hunter in something styled like Boba Fett's armor as a time traveling 3rd person action adventure going into other sci-fi/fantasy universes & killing everyone then yeah maybe they haven't visited that yet but just about everything else has been done by now.

...how did you know?!

OFFICIAL INFORMATION LEAK

Unless being a bounty hunter lets me basically play the Privateer using Xwings and such I don't care.

We'll see LucasArts. We'll see.

@EastboundSpider said:

Lucas arts making more STAR WARS, am i suprised?

Actually, LucasArts developing any kind of video game in-house is kind of surprising at this point.

DASH RENDAR

Hey, if this is what gets us Prey 2, I'm OK with it being Star Wars. Could be interesting.

@EchoEcho said:

A Star Wars game with no Force powers and an unknown character is exactly the kind of Star Wars game that I want. So long as it's quality.

It'll be the second mission before you have to steal the Death Star plans, rescue C-3P0 and discover you're actually Anakin's long lost brother and have to go to Dagobah to be trained by Yoda. Star Wars EU always has to tie into the movies somehow, and it's usually in the most ridiculous ways possible.

Yeah.. I think I'm over Star Wars at this point. After the immense disappointments of the Force Unleashed and Old Republic, it's hard to see how anyone could be excited for this.

Well this is awkward...

The LucasArts web site has bit more info than this.

Star Wars 1313

But LucasArts hasn't made a good game since 1998, so I have no plans to buy this game, unless something comes along to change my mind.

I would think that by now between the 8-32 bit star wars games on just about every console & the recent MMO that they've covered just about every gameplay angle of the mythos so the idea that this game "dives into a part of the Star Wars mythos that we've always known existed, but never had a chance to visit" is so beyond being plausible makes it somewhat hard to feel motivated for.

I mean maybe if you were a psychotic ewok bounty hunter in something styled like Boba Fett's armor as a time traveling 3rd person action adventure going into other sci-fi/fantasy universes & killing everyone then yeah maybe they haven't visited that yet but just about everything else has been done by now.

Sounds akin to Dark Forces to me. I came up on that late 80s-90s period of awesome SW games that were all about the agents, the cool tech that seemed borderline steampunk because of how beat to **** and handwelded everything looked, the greater universe outside of the "OMGLOOKITALITESABERPEWFORCEPUSHPEWLOLZ" hogwash.

Put a good team behind this and I'm onboard. Rookie One and Kyle Katarn>Revan and Starkiller

@Toxin066 said:

A Star Wars game with allegedly "no force powers" (from GI's article), featuring a unknown character? Why bother.

I'm hoping this game makes me eat that snark and that it turns out to be something good.

A Star Wars game with no Force powers and an unknown character is exactly the kind of Star Wars game that I want. So long as it's quality.

@MindBullet: I think the point is it's not lego or cartoon styled.

Needs more Kyle motherkriffing Katarn.