Battlefront 3 Leaked Footage = Elite Squadron?
Well, Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron has been released and there have been some pretty poor reviews on it. Personally, I didn’t really enjoy the DS version that much, and I had higher expectations of it but I have heard some more decent reviews of the PSP version.
On the other hand, a lot of people are saying that the leaked footage of Battlefront 3 that we got wind of earlier in the year, turns out to be leaked footage of Elite Squadron. Doh!.. now that’s a big ass bummer. Even if this is true (which I would say it is, because of the similarities between the game play and the leaked footage video) I believe that they are still going to be working on Battlefront 3 eventually, and this site will always be here to follow the latest news and rumors!
Anyway, have a look for yourselves and draw your own conclusions, I’d love to hear your opinions.
There are quite a few similarities, especially in the left radar and top bar.
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That is so not the same game plus in the leaked vid it showed leia and leia is not in ES. So ES is not BF3. Plus all the stuff going on with lucas arts and everything Its still possible that BF3 is going to come out soon. And what i hope is since Its almost december im hoping they might release it near christmas cus the game looks almost finished!.
Recneps is kinda right. KINDA. I heard that its been a ‘work in progress’ since 2006. I say we start asking people who would know.
Well has any one thought of the possibility of it being a work in progress type of thing.
I think Rebellion and Free radical were both developing BF3, but when Free Radical went into administration, they changed their almost-completed game to ES
I will say this, that when BF3 comes out, it will not be on DS or PSP. And the footage is the same. But the platform shown isn’t.
definately not the same games.
i think that ES and BF3 were meant to be released side-by-side, which is why they are similar.
what could be happening is that this is still in development by a differant company, but because its a next-gen console version it’s taking longer to make.
Honestly, I don’t understand why people keep thinking that Star Wars Battlefront Elite Squadron is Star Wars Battlefront 3. If you actually look at the gameplay very closely you can see that the A.I. was acting smartly and the graphics were much better. Also, if you look at it you can see that they can look up and down and when they look at the enemies there is absolutely no lock on. Yet on the PSP versions they can not look up and down without locking on. Sure you can argue that the locations are very similar but they are definitely not the same. And while you are flying the star fighters you don’t see the health of your ship at the bottom of the screen but on the leaked gameplay you do. And on the PSP games when there are cutscenes they take place with pictures and narrative but when the two guys are fighting (which may or not be X1 and his father) its an actual cutscene on the leaked gameplay. So I strongly, strongly disagree with anyone who thinks the leaked gameplay is Elite Squadron.
I was straining my eyes to read what it says at the end of the BF3 footage. Here’s what I got.
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Star Wars Battlefront III
PS3,(?), PS2, Win, (?)
Alpha Build-(-)
Free Radical Design- For Internal Use Only
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Some parts I can’t read. But that’s what I got.
I do know that Alpha Build is when a game is being tested by people other than the ones who made it. But it’s usually still people on the inside, but it seems they were pretty far along. Someone needs to ask Lucasarts what’s going on here. Maybe that’s the next order of biz.
are you blind? those two video games are definitely NOT the same just because they look similar (hmm could it be that they were developed at the same time and that BF3 was cancelled before Elite Squadron was released so Rebellion had plenty of time to copy what they could in the leaked footage)
1. the leaked footage showed far better graphics (even the interface looks better)
2. when the title card comes up at the end you can see it says, “Star Wars / Battlefront 3 / PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, PC”
“PS2 and PSP versions were and are in development at Rebellion – the studio which made Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron for PSP. These versions are going to be released later this year if everything works out as planned. Rebellion did know that Free Radical Design had been working on the next-gen versions of the game since 2006. Nevertheless, they tried to get their own deal for SW Battlefront III on Xbox 360 and PS3, promising lower costs and a faster development. They pitched different PS3/Xbox 360 prototypes using their PS2 version as a foundation while using FRD’s assets which were provided by LucasArts.”
http://goneisgone.blogspot.com/2009/05/free-radical-design-star-wars-and.html
also you may want to update the timeline for Battlefront 3 with the news that Pandemic is closing so they aren’t making BF3.
http://kotaku.com/5406449/rumor-rip-pandemic-studios-1998+2009
Coruscant is also the same. In fact the only big difference is that some hero shown in the footage aren’t in ES.