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I was surfing around last night and I happened to come across the Crytek Audio Director’s profile on Linkedin and I noticed that he had Battlefront 3 and Battlefront 4 added to his profile. Now we all know that Battlefront 3 was scrapped in and around 2008 via Free Radical, so what was unusual about this and caught my eye, was the fact that he has both dates “x”ed out. Why would he take the trouble of not listing the dates? Hmmmm….
xxxx Star Wars Battlefront 3 – PS3, Xbox 360, PC, Wii
xxxx Star Wars Battlefront 4 – PS3, Xbox 360, PC, Wii
He does say that these are games that he previously worked on, but I just thought it was unusual.
Here is a link to his profile.
Scott (our other administrator) took some time to give his thoughts and input:
When Nitro informed me of the Crytek employee (Graeme), I started checking Crytek’s career opportunities out in the UK offices. I’ve always wanted to work in the UK, and so has Graeme apparently because that’s where he is currently employed.
I found many small tidbits of motivating info. One of the first and possibly the most important points I found was in the SFX artists job requirements:
Ability to technically deconstruct visual effects from other game and film references
The part that stands out to me is the mentions of both game and film. While it doesn’t necessarily make it obvious that they mean movies, it’s implied strongly with the word film. This further implies that the property they are working with has been in game and movie form previously. Wait, Star Wars is a property like that.
I next found this line in the AI Programmer description:
“Tweaking weapons, vehicles and other gameplay elements to shape and define the core experience[stop quoting there”
Tweaking weapons AND vehicles? I think the link here doesn’t require any explanation. It’s Timesplitters. Ha! TS is an honest possibility though, and keep it in mind. Crytek has been rumoured to be developing TS before, so it’s possible.
Here are some fast points that aren’t as critical:
An art requirement mentioned there is a focus on realism. Could be use as an anti-Timesplitters point.
A “Plus” for a programmer was to have networking experience. Could refer to multiplayer, or maybe just a patching system.
The designer career description said that they would be developing “the next wave of triple A first person shooters.” Good or bad? It’s subjective.
Thanks Scott! Scott will be having his own column here at Battlefront3.net soon, so stay tuned!
Lets hear some opinions!
Crytek Audio Director worked on Battlefront 3 & 4...,
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@sparkunlimited are you guys going to do anything special for tweet number 1138?
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@biscuitsandDavy thx everybody
Kinda screams Star Wars to me… THX 1138 is referenced in every single movie.
This new development…Promising. I think that earlier there was another rumor for BF4, so it is possible that there will be several more installments.
Myself, I hope that the “survival horror” game is some sort of giant expansion pack/mini sequel (Kind of like the episodes for Half-Life).
That could be pretty fun… What with rakghouls, geonosian zombies, rancors, space worms, and sithspawn, it could be very entertaining indeed.
Holy molly… why is star wars battlefront 4 there? It doesn’t make any sense. My best guess is he worked on the 2 psp games. Instead of calling them by their names he might have called them 3 + 4. Renegade Squadron could be 3 and Elite Squadron could be 4.
I think they are referring to sequels to SWBF2, not the PSP series since Renegade Squadron came out in 2007, it would have been listed before Haze since he has the list in chronological order.
but renegade squadron and elite suadron were not on ps3, xbox, wii
true
Battlefront 4 is most likley what was supposed to be battlefront online which was developed by “Slat Six Games”. but the game was cancelled after they were unable to meet the 2010 release deadline.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_Battlefront_%28series%29#Star_Wars:_Battlefront_Online
not really sure what to say, we knew Free Radical worked on the game,and are now part of Crytek,and we knew there had been a Battlefront IV also,because of the concept art we saw…the XXXX would just be because they got cancelled and never released the other games all got released with the year next to them
Yeah I think the reason why there are xxx in the dates is because the game was canceled or passed on to another developer. There is no way that Lucas Arts went out and acquired a multi year, multi studio ,multi project agreement to use UE3 and they are not going to make Battlefront 3!!! It is in development somewhere or soon to be in development. That is why I dont think it will come down to boycotting them. Slant 6 was making battlefront online and that got canceled and we know how close free radicals version was to completion. Maybe Spark is tweeking and touching up something that was already worked on at a previous developer using UE3. Cant imagine that Lucas Arts would let all of that material go to waste.
well if you check the site it says excluding currently working on. So that means either battlefront isn’t being worked or he never worked on it. I still play battlefront 2 on xbox with 90,000 offline player points. this proves i have no life
This is a very informative article, and I thank you for that.
I found it very odd that Battlefront 4 was up there also. You make a good point when you say, “both dates ‘x’ed out. Why would he take the trouble of not listing the dates? Hmmmm….” And to add to that, I would say that it hasn’t been released yet so they were not able to put the dates out…. Because of all the hush-hush surrounding Spark and Lucasarts. Also when you said, “Ability to technically deconstruct visual effects from other game and film references.” I got pumped, because obviously they are going to make realistic like figures, along with a story line that fits Star Wars. Sorry my comment was so long, but I just had to express my excitedness.
How very interesting, going to have a proper look through all this when not hung over.
I want SWBTIII
Is Battlefront III a fact? from Spark Unlimited Twitter:
Question: Jesus Christ can’t @sparkunlimited hurry up and announce Battlefront III
Answer: nope. We are plugging along making the game as fast we can. We just don’t talk as fast.
Today I notcied that spark changed the un announced project from greenlit to in full product. Could this mean anything?
My guess is that it is now out of pre-alpha or maybe even alpha. This is great news! An announcement should appear any day now.
This also perked my interest on SU’s site, “franchise and genre extending game.” May be small but it solidifies that the game is in a already established genre and franchise, they’re simply “extending” it.
I looked into it a little further and noticed that they are now working on two projects. The first project like you said is in ‘Full Production’ with a public disclosure expected in 2012 and the game is apparently a third person/adventure game. Could add some evidence to indicate the next Battlefront game.