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Hey Battlefrontians, over the last few days, a user named “Borman” has been tweeting me, saying to get ready for some pretty cool stuff featuring Free Radical’s Battlefront 3 and it looks like he has come through with a pretty awesome video that shows off Free Radicals Alpha build of Battlefront 3.
Also according to Borman Free Radical’s description of Battlefront was “Star Wars Battlefront 3, Description : The Future of Gaming, Release Date – 2008-11-06″.
He claims this is the Xbox 360 version of Free Radicals Battlefront 3 and that the PC version was the leading platform.
I was lucky enough to get some footage and impressions of the game. This footage is the best I could get for the time being. Remember, this game was in an alpha state when it was cancelled. The old leaked footage was from a Free Radical Design event in November of 2008. I believe that this footage is from around March – April 2008, so depending on when the old leaked footage was recorded, it could be up to 8 months older. This footage is also of the Xbox 360 build. It seems like a quick and dirty port, not optimized at all. This continues in all aspects of the game, as it continues to say “Exit to Desktop.” Framerates are bad, AI is virtually non-existent, nothing has been bug tested, it isn’t feature complete, the list goes on.
Check out the video below!
A huge thanks to Borman for the amazing footage. Great work!
Source: ptoponline.com
Free Radical's Battlefront 3 Alpha Video!,
Looks like it could of been amazing
Damn you LucasArts!!
No you should say Damn you Haze for being a horrible game which caused Free Radical to go under and forever ruining our best chance to get this game…hope spark or whoever is/will be making SWBF3 makes it better then what the Free Radical game could have been!
you’re right!!
Damn you Haze!!!!
Makes me want it more and more. Would love to see more footage of it! such a shame…
That’s awesome!!!
Awesome video! I feel very lucky and fortunate someone saved it all this time
Freakin’ beautiful.
How did they ever let this get canceled, this looks pretty far along!
Obviously these are placeholder graphics, but I think it still captures the massiveness and epic scope that made the original Battlefront series unique. It’s a shame this was cancelled, and if Spark Unlimited is working on the game, this video may not be representative at all of the version they are developing.
Wow, I thought Borman was lying haha.
From that build it looked pretty cool, a lot of great ideas shown there that were then put into Elite Squadron like becoming a hero without re spawning, hero ships, wing-men etc. Although to me the maps looked very tight and didn’t really suit starfighters at all. Plus I felt that the capital ships were way to close to the ground. Still, it was an early build. Would love to see the build we saw in the leaked trailer.
Looks like fun, but a long way from being finished!
Someone should totally ask Spark if their game is in a better or worse state then the one in this video and what they think of the footage subjectively (ignoring the fact it is Battlefront and focusing on what the footage shows).
It would be an interesting conversation.