Leaked Star Wars Battlefront III footage
Filed Under (video games) by Luke Anderson on 15-01-2009
I received an intriguing e-mail today from an anonymous tipster (and presumably now redundant Free Radical Design employee), lets call him Freegate, linking to a YouTube video which appears to be real footage of Star Wars Battlefront III. The Lucasarts game was rumoured to have been under development by Nottingham-based Free Radical Design, who have recently lost the majority of its team and gone into administration.
In the five minute clip, posted today on YouTube features gameplay of Stormtroopers, Ewoks, Tauntauns, The Millennium Falcom, TIE Fighters, A-Wings and what looks to be Boba Fett’s ship, Slave I–as well as a prominent FRD logo watermark throughout. According to YouTube user naughtydude1999, who posted the video, “this video was taken in an internal show and tell Alpha meeting back in November.”
This isn’t the first time Battlefront III assets have leaked from Free Radical with a number of character renders appearing on the personal site of Richard Smith, a 3D Artist for Free Radical, and later German site swbf3.de after they were removed from Smith’s site. With this latest piece of evidence it looks almost certain that the team was working on the latest instalment in the series.
Viral marketing will get you every time.
Nice head-butt to the gonads from the teddy bear at 3:36.
starwars: blair witch project. wow this makes the old battlefronts look like crap. when can i preorder?
So, looking at the first 35 seconds it’s a, uh, jogging sim?
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