While EA currently have the rights to Star Wars Battlefront and are continuing to take the series in their own direction, a subset of fans still pine for the earlier versions of Star Wars Battlefront. With footage of the original Battlefront III surfacing online a few years ago, a dedicated team of fans are attempting to recreate Free Radical’s Battlefront III, using that footage along with art assets scavenged from leaked prototypes and other sources.
Free Radical Design's cancelled Star Wars Battlefront 3 has been shown off again in newly-leaked footage. It's our best look yet at what might have been. The TimeSplitters and Second Sight studio. During the final months of Battlefront III, Rebellion saw an opportunity to expand their grip on Battlefront III, and rescue the title itself, due to the troubles between Free Radical Design and LucasArts. Via the usage of multiple pitches, the promises of cheap development. Free Radical Battlefront 3 [Model Requests] - posted in Mod Requests & Suggestions: Hello, I was wondering if anyone was ever going to do these cancelled free radical battlefront 3 models? These would be awesome to see, i would port them into jka.myself but im not yet familiar with the jka setup for modeling so i wont dare try in my current state. But if someone could that would be awesome i. Using the catchy title of ‘Star Wars Battlefront III Legacy’, this mod for Battlefront II tries to accomplish many of the things Free Radical were attempting with BFIII.
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Using the catchy title of ‘Star Wars Battlefront III Legacy’, this mod for Battlefront II tries to accomplish many of the things Free Radical were attempting with BFIII. This includes the much desired ‘Space to Ground’ combat, where players could jump in a fighter and quickly fly up into space to participate in the dogfight happening on the planet’s surface. The mod team also intends to add in the three maps seen in the various bits of leaked Battlefront III footage, as well as converting existing Battlefront II maps to have both Galactic Civil War and Clone War assets on them.
With this second open beta release of the mod, the BFIII Legacy team have added the separatist planet of Cato Neimoidia, new classes like the Droideka and General Grievous’ Magnaguards as well as a new Jedi hero simply called ‘The Legend’. You can see all of these new additions working in the video above.
If you are interested in playing through this fan interpretation of Battlefront III, you can download the open beta via modDB. You will need a copy of Star Wars Battlefront II to run it of course, which is currently available on Steam for $9.99/£6.99.
With a playable single player build of Free Radical’s Battlefront III leaking back in January, along with the game’s training mode in September 2016, I expect more models will be imported into this mod to make it as close to Free Radical’s vision as possible. The Battlefront III recreation scene has opened quite a few doors for fledgling studios, as Frontwire Studios’ initial recreation of Battlefront III blossomed into its own game, Galaxy in Turmoil which is scheduled for release on Steam sometime this year.
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After years of anticipation, we finally got a next-generation sequel to Star Wars Battlefront last fall. It was easy on the eyes, chock full of Star Wars nostalgia and just as chaotic as its predecessors, but it lacked many of the elements that made the original series a classic. It just wasn’t quite the Battlefront that fans of the series wanted.
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If you kept up with the development of the game, you know that the Battlefront we got was actually a reboot by a new developer, DICE, after the original developer, Free Radical Design, had its version of Star Wars: Battlefront III canned late in the development cycle.
Since the cancellation of Battlefront III, countless screenshots and videos have leaked of the game in various stages of development, but on Wednesday, someone on Reddit finally came forward with a playable prototype.
“After a lot of work I managed to get my hands on Star Wars Battlefront III and wanted to share the infamous cancelled game that I’m sure many of you wanted to play,” writes the Redditor. “I know not everyone will get the chance to play this immediately, but over time I expect the modding community to be able to change that.”
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The leaked build is only playable on Xbox 360 development kits, test kits, XNA kits and 360s that can use RGLoader, so unless you have access to any of those, you’re going to have to wait for someone to port this to PC.
As Reddit considered this to be pirated software, the link to the download was immediately taken down, but the file is still out there. Again, I don’t recommend searching for it unless you have the tools to actually play/tool with it.
Here are a few videos of the prototype in action: