Spark Unlimited’s Secret Game…. Battlefront 3?
So there hasn’t been much lately in the way of news for Battlefront 3. E3 came up short, as well as Comic-Con… what’s next? Well I have some faith that it may be announced at the upcoming Star Wars Celebration V, which takes place August 12 – 15, 2010.
There was a rumor, well not so much a rumor as speculation, that Spark Unlimited may be doing Battlefront 3. This rumor sparked from this post by NowGamer.com:
“The job ad on Gamasutra requires “a senior gameplay engineer for a 3rd Person Action/Adventure title in a high-profile science fiction franchise currently in development for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC markets.”
The successful candidate will also “be tasked with functionality goals to realize the vision for a high profile next-generation property currently in prototype development.” The listing also mentions the Unreal 3 engine.
“Spark requires a senior gameplay engineer”
If this didn’t already sound a lot like the Kinect Star Wars title pre-visualised and shown at Microsoft’s E3 press conference, online super-sleuth Superannuation spotted the LinkedIn profile of Spark employee John Lawrie who lists an “unannounced third person sword fighting game (well known IP, Xbox 360, PS3)” on his CV.”
Anyway, this sparked my curiosity a little bit so I decided to send off an email to Spark Unlimited. I honestly didn’t expect a response, but I did get one back this evening.
Their response was:
“We are the solely the developers of the games. The publishers are the owners of said properties. As such, it is their prerogative as to when to announce a game. I can tell you it is generally a year after we start before a project is announced to the public. So, the game for which are hiring won’t be announce for some time… maybe Comic-Con 2011.
Thanks for inquiring. Sorry we can’t divulge what we are working on.”
So even if it is our beloved Battlefront 3, it looks like we’ll still be waiting awhile before it’s even announced.
Come on Celebration V!!!
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I can confirm, believe it or not (and most likely won’t, but time will tell), that Spark are definitely not working on Battlefront III. They are assisting with the scripted, arena-based Kinect game due in fall 2011, though.
Nothing to see here I’m afraid.
the same kinect game that we saw at E3 that Terminal Reality is doing?
i can tell you that it is not the Kinect game because it says that it is for 360, PS3, and PC and if it was the Kinect game it would only be for 360
but it still dose not mean that it is BF3 but we can still all hope!!!!!
I’m loving how almighty ‘Not BF3′ thinks he is. Trying to tell us it’s not BF3, only the people who work and Spark Unlimited truly know, so just let us believe while we still can.
Studios are capable of working on more than one project. Crazy concept I know!
I never said that the Kinect game was their sole effort at the present time, I said they are assisting. The full production is being handled between LucasArts and Microsoft Game Studios, hence why it’s a 360-exclusive.
Spark are still not working on Battlefront III, and either is any team within LA or a third-party contracted studio, I’m afraid. The game mentioned in the story is related to another well known IP, and will be announced very soon — I hear prior to Thanksgiving time.
People ask for answers, and I’m just trying to give them, but know that I eagerly await the “lol this guy knows nothing” comments.
Continue on as you were.
Oh yeah. Battlefront 3 will almost certainly arrive sometime, the question is, in what form? Will it be a PSP/DS cheaper version, like Renegade and Elite Squadrons, or will it be the full-blown PS3 XBOX action-adventure game we are all hoping for? There is too much money to be lost for the game not to be made, and George Lucas is a real git for money, you just have to look at the Ewoks and Jar-Jar Binks to realise that he is only in it for money, much less the more recent proof that he had banned David Prowse, the TRUE Darth Vader, from anything Star Wars related for no real reason that either party can come up with.
Anyways, this rumour sound like a real mixed bag. Sounds like Battlefront 3 alright, but there are so many other possibilities and it wouldn’t make sense that LA would go with another developer now that their history with the 2 other developers, Pandemic and Rebellion, has been so utterly fantastic…
Well, Pandemic Studios was shut down by EA, and Rebellions SWBF games are not exactly fantastic.
Prowse was banned because he was leaking film details back in the day and never showed up on set after ANH. He was busy touring the UK and US as the “Real” Darth Vader. He also had problems with George on ANH. Basically he wanted all the glory and none of the work.
The day is getting close. We soon find out.
sigh i dont think that lucas is gonna make a new battlefront sigh
but on the upside their making a new force unleashed
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Spark is a horrible dev. “Nuff Said.
Finally Some news from a DEVELOPER, not us wishing someone random will announce it at countless VG festiviles.
the only thing that looks schetchy is that they called it a action/adventure title.
Pdump thanks for the link!
You’re welcome.
-P[SPACE]dump.
I checked out their website and they haven’t made very good games, I don’t know, maybe
it is true that they have not made a “good” game to this point but i can’t see how you can F*up this game but we will have to see first if they are making this game and hope for the best!
Thanks for carrying on with this tie even after so long without a new title.
Battlefront 2 is my favourite game ever, hands down. It’s bizarre that Lucasarts hasn’t made another one for the current gen of consoles, even with the problems along the way. Here’s hoping.
What other “high-profile, popular game property” “science fiction franchise” has sword fighting (aka lightSABER) Star Wars Battlefront?
The Lord of the Rings: Conquest, 3rd person IP, hingh profile sci-fi (ish) franchise, SWORD fighting… not saying that’s what this game will be, just answering your question.
LOTR is fantasy not sci-fi. Sci-fi is technology that we may know about or is kind of possible but no one has realized it yet. Fantasy is magic, wizards, hobbits, etc, etc.
I belive that LotR is fiction. Science-Fiction is a reference to technology. That usually means a setting in the future, time-travel, or a galaxy far, far away.
Yeah.. Battlefront never qualified as an action adventure title. More just like, Third-Person Shooter. The Unreal 3 engine can be used for all types of games, both great and horrible. Mostly horrible. Off the top of my head, I can’t think of a action/adventure title using the Unreal. They’re all shooters. Well anyhow, here’s the unannounced game profile:
http://www.sparkunlimited.com/jobs_currentjobs.html
Notice the “highly critical audience” part. That sounds like us. But it still could be any number of things.
@ Nitro. Thanks for making a new page. Nice info.
yeah been talking about this on LA forums..they describe it also having Sword fighting,which could be their way of just describing Star Wars without actually offically announcing it(they can’t say lightsabres without giving the game away,can they?)
if you go to Spark Unlimiteds website,you can also see that they are looking for about 15 vacancies..and also at the beginning of April they were looking for a Concept artist
i also(today actually) brought up the topic of the ‘Star Wars:Legends’ game that was mentioned in December 2009(apparently it was copywrited on the Australian classification board last June),which is to be published by Activision..as i had forgotton all about that
so still lots of hope…especially as Spark Unlimited didn’t come straight out and say ‘its not Star Wars Battlefront 3′
HOPE is all we got!!!!!!!!