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One hour of leaked Battlefront 3

Jawmuncher said:
Same here, which makes it all the more painful.
Especially since I think at this point a HD collection of Timesplitters 2 and 3 is probably to much to ask from Crytek going free to play nonsense
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I... Wow... this bothers me so much; I saw mentions of this on GAF but man, I fear this might backfire on them.
 
Thanks, Borman (and by proxy FuzzyNorman.)

(EDIT - Gonna move most of my post to Borman's thread since there are more comments there and MODs might choose to lock this for simplicity.)



BigJiantRobut said:
The more I see of this the more I realize it would have been just like Lord of the Rings Conquest. It looks like they just transferred the animations, models, and gameplay over wholesale without using a new engine or tweaking anything.
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Not sure if you're kidding, but ... Battlefront 3. There were two other Battlefronts, and they were made by the guys who made Lord of the Rings Conquest; then Pandemic was bought by EA, a different studio called Free Radical picked up the reigns on Battlefront 3 (or something like that, I don't know the timeline) and made it in relatively the same style as the previous games, and Pandemic went on to do a similar red-vs-blue action game using the Lord of the Rings name. There's no wholesale anything since the games aren't connected at all, except that FR probably studied the first two games closely when making SW:BF3 while LOTR:C had many of the same guys applying their old skills, so they ended up with some distant cousin similarities.
 
CamHostage said:
Thanks, Borman (and by proxy FuzzyNorman.)

(EDIT - Gonna move most of my post to Borman's thread since there are more comments there and MODs might choose to lock this for simplicity.)





Not sure if you're kidding, but ... Battlefront 3. There were two other Battlefronts, and they were made by the guys who made Lord of the Rings Conquest; then Pandemic was bought by EA, a different studio called Free Radical picked up the reigns on Battlefront 3 (or something like that, I don't know the timeline) and made it in relatively the same style as the previous games, and Pandemic went on to do a similar red-vs-blue action game using the Lord of the Rings name. There's no wholesale anything since the games aren't connected at all, except that FR probably studied the first two games closely when making SW:BF3 while LOTR:C had many of the same guys applying their old skills, so they ended up with some distant cousin similarities.
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Right, I know the history behind the game. The highlighted is what I'm talking about, though: this leak shows zero improvement over the previous two games in terms of animation, and the assets themselves look practically the same - not to mention that the gameplay we've seen, well, looks exactly like 1 and 2.

1 and 2 were awesome games but they came out a long time ago. I was stoked for Conquest but it was the same thing, only with a few half-hearted graphical bells and whistles (that still looked terrible). This Free Radical version, early as it may be, looks kinda just like... more Battlefront 1 and 2. I'm pretty sure Conquest proved that the formula needed to change, so aping Pandemic's work probably wasn't/isn't the way to go with a third game.
 
I still don't understand why this was cancelled... the previous Battlefront games sold insanely well. A third one would have been a sure fire hit, wouldn't it?
 
I still love people coming and saying it's fake. It is pretty funny. I can barely make anything happen in Unreal Engine 3, and yet people think that I can create an entire game by myself :P
 
Valnen said:
Looks like you may have eyesight issues.

It's a shame this got canned. Would have been one of the best games this generation.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Oooh man, good one!

There's a reason this game was cancelled.
 
Don't get me wrong, I want a Battlefront 3 as much as anybody else and I want it to be good.

But, you know, there's reasons for things to happen. LucasArts didn't just walked to Free Radical and said: "Yeah, we're cancelling this game."

There's a reason this game was cancelled.
 
ViewtifulJC said:
No Timesplitters 4, and no Battlefront 3

This is just...I...

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This is how i feel.
 
BY2K said:
Don't get me wrong, I want a Battlefront 3 as much as anybody else and I want it to be good.

But, you know, there's reasons for things to happen. LucasArts didn't just walked to Free Radical and said: "Yeah, we're cancelling this game."

There's a reason this game was cancelled.
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Management changed, and FRD wasn't being paid. That was what did the game in.
 
Valnen said:
Looks like you may have eyesight issues.

It's a shame this got canned. Would have been one of the best games this generation.
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Get outta here. Just from that video (i just watched a good chunk of it) even unfinished, you can tell that something is off game-play wise imo. Visually its hard to tell cause, well, its not finished but even that underwhelms. The 3rd person view in the video doesn't do it any favors either. Ive played all the SW BF games and Ive always thought they were an inferior version of a EA Battlefield game when it came to game-play and visuals. I agree that the ''potential'' of a really good Star Wars Battlefield game done right is absolutely amazing, but this game isnt that and the other ones weren't anything to ride home about either. As a huge SW fan myself, im still waiting for that great SW BF game and the previous 2 weren't that for me. This video also doesnt convince me of anything.
 
It's a travesty that we aren't playing game right now. Battlefront 1 and 2 was probably the most fun I had with multiplayer in about any game ever.
 
My love for videogames diminishes a bit every time I see more about Free Radical games I'll never play.

It looks rough and early but I'd totally play this anyway.
 
screw battlefront, new Jedi Knight game please! Jedi Outcast may have been my favorite online game ever, since I was so young and got caught up in all of the roleplaying with clans, and then chop shop instagib server as I got a bit older. The action on that server was an adrenaline rush.
 
That footage is awful, be thankful the thing was cancelled. Crytek UK aren't what they used to be.

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Never forget.
 
Sojgat said:
That footage is awful, be thankful the thing was cancelled. Crytek UK aren't what they used to be.

Never forget.
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I'll never understand how Haze is the one that got out when this and TS could've been on the table. I guess it's for the best that's the only Free Radical game I've skipped. I own it but can't bring myself to play it.
 
fastkilr said:
I'll never understand how Haze is the one that got out when this and TS could've been on the table. I guess it's for the best that's the only Free Radical game I've skipped. I own it but can't bring myself to play it.
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Ubisoft happened.
 
As a person who grow up playing PC games in the 90s it breaks my heart watching LucasArts becoming this, they were my favorite game company, Xwing, Tie Fighter, Indiana Jones and the fate of the Atlantis, Day of the Tentacle, Jedi Knight, Rogue Squadron, Full Throttle, just to name a few. Every one of them was a masterpiece and a huge success.


This generation has been SO bad in terms of Starwars games and Lucasarts has been all over the place, now they are a mediocre company.

Thanks to Lucasarts i know how must Padme and Obi-Wan felt when they realise that Anakin has become a monster.
I hope some day they regret their path and throw all those short sighted executives to a deep hole!
Cancelling Battlefront 3 was STUPID and was an insult for us.
 
Im re-downloding Battlefront2 on steam as we speak just to get a nice reminder. Hopefully, people are still playing.

edit: it hasn't aged well at all.
 
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