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What is happening to Star Wars Battlefront III?

One of the best selling franchises of the last console generation and the best selling Star Wars game of all time is still awaiting a sequel. We now know that Free Radical Design was…
Bengt Lemne 3 January 2009

One of the best selling franchises of the last console generation and the best selling Star Wars game of all time is still awaiting a sequel. We now know that Free Radical Design was working on Star Wars Battlefront III, but were pulled from the project in October. A blow that sent the Timesplitters studio spiraling down in to their current state of administration with a skeleton crew working on a something that might or might not help safe the troubled developer.

Former Free Radical artist Richard Smith posted a few renders from the game (see below), to showcase his work as he is looking for new employment (wrong move as the license holder quickly got them pulled - but there is no "reset" on the internets). Rumour now has the project moved to Rebellion Software. Rebellion handled the PSP title Star Wars: Battlefront - Renegade Squadron, but Rebellion remain unproven on current generation (PS3/Xbox 360).

The most fundamental question that has to be asked is how Lucasarts could allow one of if not their most important title to get into this mess. I would be very surprised if Star Wars; Battlefront III ended up getting anywhere near the success its predecessors had.

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