Leaked Battlefront III footage emerges

By Robert Purchese Published 16 January, 2009

As Rebellion takes creative control.

Footage supposedly showing an alpha build of Battlefront III in action has leaked onto the internet.

The very shaky YouTube clip displays all manner of troops sprinting through and causing mayhem in forests, space stations and futuristic Star Wars cities. Stormtroopers and other Imperial troops are present, as are all the necessary Rebel counterparts plus various wacky droids.

Being Battlefront, there's also the chance to become one of the key characters from the Star Wars series. Han Solo fires his pistol uselessly at an AT-AT; Jar Jar Binks and his ears flap annoyingly; Darth Vader swats away laser fire and foes with wheeze; and an ewok appears to bite an Imperial trooper in the groin.

Vehicles form an integral part of the clip, too. The Millennium Falcon is flyable, as are X-Wings and Imperial craft. You can even hop on the back of a tauntaun - the dinosaur thing Luke Skywalker rides and then sleeps inside the carcass of on snowy planet Hoth.

Free Radical Design, creator of Haze, was thought to be working on the game for LucasArts, but entered administration last December.

Battlefront III, the unnamed project, is now believed to have been shipped off to British team Rebellion for completion on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.

Looked quite promising to us.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (26) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • Benno #1 3 years ago

    /cry

  • Buztafen #2 3 years ago

    Still says Free Radical in the bottom right of the screen....how old is this footage!

  • smernicki #3 3 years ago

    coincidence that this appears the day that LOTR game comes out?

  • Avarice36 #4 3 years ago

    they better bring this out

  • smernicki #5 3 years ago

    a lot of running about.... really hope this surfaces. playing as an ewok would be ace

  • Apostle #6 3 years ago

    Looks pretty good to me.

  • bratmandu #7 3 years ago

    Only played the first BF but the hoth battle was pretty close to awesome.

    The main thing that stopped me from buying the second one was that they didn't seem to change the twitchy controls (especially in vehicles), and limited amount of players online.

    If they made it more like battlefield.BC i'd be well up for this.

    Get this made.

    (edit - give it to Dice)
    Edited by 1 at 16/01/09 @ 11:13

  • Ignatius_Cheese #8 3 years ago

    /wants

  • Shrike #9 3 years ago

    Do like the flying from a planet into space bit, even if it does make the scale a bit questionable.

  • Mr-Bozzey #10 3 years ago

    loved the last 2 and this looks sick if its not on the shelf this year and it doesnt get finished off it will be a right shame !!

    still im miffed .. says free rad at the bottem ..... aint they done for ??

    RIP timesplitters !!!

  • JohnnyWashnGo #11 3 years ago

    Actually looks quite nice.

  • qoobah #12 3 years ago

    Yep, the previous Battlefronts didn't quite click with me, but this looks very, very promising. I liked the flying bits in particular (Why, oh why there are no X-Wing and TIE fighter remade into current-gen yet! Or any proper space sim for that matter). The stormtrooper vs jedi duel was quite nifty too.

    Here's hoping it actually gets released at some point, with FR gone and all that dev switching.

  • bad09 #13 3 years ago

    I NEED BF3 SO BAD!!!! Saw the footage this morning it looked sweet, I wonder how much will be kept from that?

    I really hope Rebellion don't screw up a proper version, the PSP ones were terrible.

  • SEVQA #14 3 years ago

    Even as blurry as the video was- that looked sick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I realy want that game!
    Edited by 3 at 16/01/09 @ 13:39

  • symmetry #15 3 years ago

    That could be excellent!

    Can't wait!

  • TriggerHippie #16 3 years ago

    Thought it said Battlefield 3 for a second and got excited :(

  • bodypopper #17 3 years ago

    A polished-looking title but does the gaming world really need another Star Wars game based on hit scenes from the movies (oh look, AT-ATs in the snow...)? I'd be more excited by the prospect of another Jedi Knight game
    Edited by 2 at 16/01/09 @ 14:10

  • Super_Zee #18 3 years ago

    Seeing the Free Radical symbol at the bottom makes me sad :(

    That actually looks great, really impressed with the cutscenes. Better than alot of the prequel rubbish.


  • ronuds #19 3 years ago

    "(edit - give it to Dice)"

    Judging by the most recent BF for consoles - no. Just, no. This goes to EA and I walk!

  • RedSparrows #20 3 years ago

    If it doesn't lag and is STRUCTURED to ensure a decent game each time, it will pwn. Last ones suffered from unplayable games and headless chickens. In my experience.

  • metalangel #21 3 years ago

    I'll be surprised if this is good or successful. The last game like it (Frontlines) was trampled by CoD4, and I'm sure by the time this nears release everyone will be frothing for Call of Duty 4: Modern Combat 2 and this will be completely ignored.

    Saying that, a new Battlefield 1942 (perhaps with the level of detail of the Forgotten Hope mod) would be extremely welcome and also show CoD: WaW for the load of dog-ridden tosh that it really is.

  • bad09 #22 3 years ago

    "I'll be surprised if this is good or successful. The last game like it (Frontlines) was trampled by CoD4, and I'm sure by the time this nears release everyone will be frothing for Call of Duty 4: Modern Combat 2 and this will be completely ignored."

    LOL have you even heard of the BF games? Somehow I doubt the 3rd game in the "best selling star wars series ever" on new hardware will be ignored. :)

    I'm curious, what's MW2 got to do with anything? Last time I checked there were no blasters and AT-ATs in COD and I couldn't fly an X-wing or Tie Fighter either, is that a new level pack I missed or something :)
    Edited by 1 at 17/01/09 @ 09:46

  • ThreeOutsideDown #23 3 years ago

    without the star wars pornography, the gameplay looks very meh.

  • Razorus #24 3 years ago

    I hope the game won't turn out messy as a result of Free Radical's closure and the switch to Rebellion. I have high hopes for this. Battlefront has one of the best premises in game history, but the execution must be perfect for it to work.

  • Slipstream #25 3 years ago

    Arugh! The Video it's...GONE!?

  • AHiFi #26 3 years ago

    Slipstream - Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate etc etc.

    http://uk .youtube.com/watch?v=o410gPRyF9...