Free Radical’s Battlefront 3 is dead. Period. – Says ex-Employee
Some fairly interesting news that will be a big disappointment to a lot of fans.. apparently the Star Wars: Battlefront 3 that was in production with Free Radical will never be released. One of our forum members (Thanks Red7 StandingBy!) found an email address of an ex-Free Radical employee and decided that he would shoot him an email asking about what happened with the production of Battlefront 3.
Here’s the email that was sent:
From: my email
CENSORED
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:23:54 -0500
Subject: Big Fan
REMOVED I hope this email finds you well.When you were at Free Radical you did an awesome job at re-inventing the Star Wars Battlefront franchise. It was so sad and upsetting to hear of Free Radicals collapse. Myself and thousands upon thousands of fans were so pumped when we saw the leaked footage of the supposed alpha meeting in November of 2008.
We finally had something to look forward to after years of lackluster titles from Lucasarts. Now BF3 is in development hell and the fans want answers but as usual Lucasarts doesn’t listen. I was wondering if there is anything you could tell me about the whereabouts of BF3 now, how far along it was and I would be interested to know where you are currently working or where you last worked. Thanks again and may the force be with you!
Here is the response that came back to him:
Thanks for your kind words, BF3 was truly awesome.
The whole idea with BF3 was that is was going to have a storyline, following two clone brothers that was cloned from a Jedi. The game also had a vertical battlefield, so you could fight on the ground, jump into a x wing and fly up to a star destroyer, firing ion cannons from space to ground or from ground to space, all this without any loading times.
Sad to say that about 6-8 months from completing the game, Lucasarts canned it, I don’t know all the details about what happened but it got cancelled and that was the death of Free Radical, we couldn’t get a publisher in time for Timesplitters 4 so the directors where forced to make 80 % of the company redundant. Then later on they got bought up by Crytek and are now developing some AAA titel. I was one of the guys that was made redundant so I am not working at Crytek anymore but at a different games company.
The status of BF3, well the BF3 I was working on will never get released, however I believe that Battlefront being one of the major titles for Lucasarts, you will no doubt see a battlefront title at some point, what format, what type of game it will be, that I cant answer, because I dont know.
May the force be with you!
Talk about a major bummer, but this still doesn’t confirm that we won’t be getting our long awaited Battlefront 3. This just means that version that Free Radical were developing, won’t ever surface. So basically all of those leaked renders and screens are what could have been and never will be now.
This really sucks because Free Radicals version looking absolutely amazing. Even if LucasArts are working to recreate Battlefront 3, they’re going to have to work really hard to match what Free Radical had done. It makes me wonder why they would can the project when it was almost ready… strange.. Let me know your thoughts folks!
I wanted to address the people as well who are sending me emails and posting comments that they know when Battlefront 3 is coming out and how they have “sources” that it’s being developed. Don’t bother unless you care to “share” your sources and where you got the info from, because they’ll just be deleted.
Thanks!
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Donhomerj!!!! GREAT FIND MAN!!!!!!!!!!!
That infact is CryEngine3!!!!!! OMG OMG OMG!! GOOD FIND!!!!!
The email at the top says that Lucasarts stopped Bf3 from going forward about 6-8 months from completion. From Nov. of 08, that puts us at March-May 2009. I don’t know how long it takes a title to go through the licensing and what not, but we might be on track for a release date at the VGA 2009. That is, if you take a some time out for the transition into a Lucasarts studios.
I’ve been saying that the leaked footage looked like a Cryengine. That would be awesome. Let’s hope Lucasarts gives up quite a few secrets soon. Rumor is that their working on alot of games for the 360 and PS3.
I swear if the announcement isn’t battlefront 3 I am going to organize a god damn riot outside of LucasArts.
but honestly, i really think lucas Arts is going to launch any shit, like last time, where they released ludacity(WTF).
They did is so often last time, but I REALLY hope, theyy launch bf3, I think we´ve waited enough
if someones interested, go on this link, http://xcastonline.com/index.php/News/rumor-even-more-star-wars-battlefront-iii-concept-art.html
, and i hope lucas Arts will launch it 
and look and picture 3, you see a coloured triangle, like it´s in the crysis sandbox2, lets me hope, its really based on the cryengine…but whats against it, are the shaders, they´re completly diffrent from the sandbox.
BUT I WANT A BF3
@P dump, I can guarantee you that Battlefront III, if LucasArts is working on internally and not outsourcing it to Rebellion, will not be on TFU tech. That engine, and the combo of NaturalMotion’s physics (GTA IV), is not capable of handling multiplayer on the scale that the game was going for.
They just need to make BF3. Cuz if they dont they will get a lot of hatemail… and boycotts.
Yes, I got Demolition all 64 times. Best place to get it is Kashyyyk-Republic.
But, about Bf3, I think the big thing on Dec. 12th is a Foce Unleased sequel, because they spent so much money on the engine.
I don’t know about you but I’d rather have Bf3.
Yeah, 64 critial hits on a enemy-occupied tanks. Best way to do it is to set the options to 500% reforcements conquest, go to Kashyyyk clone wars era, be the clones. Shoot the rear wheel thing on the CIS snail droids with a rocket launcher 4 times in 1 life.
:/ :[ )
Wait 30 seconds then respawn. (So you can earn the award again. You die within 30 seconds and you have to die again to earn the award the next life.) Repeat, again and again. (Took me about 2 weeks to do it all 64 times. I invite some friends over to play 4 player splitscreen it ends up like this:
But, now about Bf3, I think the Force Unleased 2 is a huge possability. Why? Because the game engine for it cost so much.
But, now think about this; what if Lucasarts take The Force Unleased, and tweaks the engine a little bit, and puts Bf3 on that… Bf3/TFU hybrid. Look and the hero gameplay in Free Radical’s leaked footage, it looked kinda like a toned down version Force Unleased gameplay. Maybe… just maybe…