The team working on it was canned by Lucas Arts I believe. There is a chance that somebody else might pick it up, but when leaving, they posted some concept art of what they planned it to look like.
It was being worked on by Free Radical (now Crytek UK) and then they lost the rights to make it. I wouldn't say it's dead, it's more in some kind of weird limbo/coma.
With a bit of luck, LucasArts will assign it to another developer (or re-assign it to Free Radical now that they're owned by crytek) and we'll see it released eventually.
I would think the revenue potential of this game is too great for Lucas to pass up. I wonder if they are planning on releasing this around the time the new Star Wars live action TV series is set to debut, supposedly sometime in 2010?
Still in development, without a developer, I suppose. Speculation leads to Pandemic Studios developing it (i.e. devs of the first two), but they are shooting that down. Free Radical Design (now Crytek UK), apparently lost the rights to develop it back in October. I doubt this is going down without a fight, per say, because the potential success from this game could be quite large.
Well, considering Free Radical has been picked up again, there is a chance it may see the light of day. However, i believe they were stripped of the rights to the license so unless Pandemic picks it up on their own accord, I have doubts that it will be released. It's a shame because I would love to see it.
There was a leaked video of it which looked amazing, its shame the development team has gone bust because it looked very promising. Hopefully Crytek will pick it up.
"There was a leaked video of it which looked amazing, its shame the development team has gone bust because it looked very promising. Hopefully Crytek will pick it up. "
It looked awesome. I really hope it gets picked up again. Crytek, if they own the rights, will be able to make a stunning game using that previous work as a foundation.
I said that video that was released, all the tech it used shown there was scrapped. if it gets picked up again it will look far different than shown there most likely. I'm kinda thinking its done though, and if it does ever come out, there's no telling if its even gonna come close to being a BF that anyone enjoys or should look forward to.
And there are some "leaked" renders of characters running around the net as well. Considering the change in direction that the console Battlefield has made, I think there is room for this Battlefront 3 to succeed.
"When exactly was it said that Crytek now owned the rights? I never heard that yet, so I'm just curious."
Never, but is a safe assumption. From what I can make out, in buying Free Radical, they also attained rights to all their currently running projects, including TimeSplitters and SW:B3.
With something as huge as Star Wars, Crytek would had to have come to a deal with Lucas Arts and got the go ahead. I cannot see LucasArts saying no and turning down a developer of the high standard of Crytek, can you, especially now they have Cry Engine 3 for consoles.
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