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Star Wars: Battlefront 3 no longer with Rebellion

The troubled development of Star Wars: Battlefront 3 has taken another interesting twist. After jumping from the sinking ship Free Radical to Rebellion, who are currently hard at work on Aliens vs. Predator 3, it has now been handed back into the hands of the developer of the first two installments – Pandemic.

After the recent leaked footage - which we'd thought to be in-game, but since turned out to be pre-rendered - appeared online in the post-Free Radical fallout, Battlefront 3 looked full of promise, and with Rebellion's experience with the underrated PSP version, the future of the series was looking good. Pandemic, however, are on a bit of a downward ebb in recent times, with Mercenaries 2 being a huge disappointment, and Lord of the Rings: Conquest – billed as essentially "Battlefront in Middle Earth" - being a bit of a turd.

Perhaps getting their hands back on their baby will be enough to inspire them to bring their A-game this time?
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Steven Colbert - 265 days 4 hours ago
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Very interesting.I hope Pandemic delivers this time and I also that EA and LucasArts step away from the damaging the creativity of the game development.
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Mikerra17 - 264 days 20 hours ago
1.1 - yeah
they better make thisgame good I wonder now that it changed if its exclusive I hope so

btw steven keep your origonal portrait it looks better that way
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Wenis - 264 days 20 hours ago
1.2 - Hmm
I wish that page provided some more information on how they found this out. It wasn't even announced who the game went to after Free radical went down, though rumored to be Rebellion. But yeah, could be nice if he posted some sources.
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DeadlyFire - 264 days 11 hours ago
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I agree Wenis. Nothing official stated anything about it moving to Rebellion or Pandemic.

I had hopes for Crytek UK aka Free Radical to work on it.
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bonesmccoy - 265 days 3 hours ago
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Hopefully Pandemic rediscovers it's form with this one. I loved Battlefront 2 and Mercenaries 1, but as the article says, their recent contributions have been an utter disappointment.
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El_Colombiano - 264 days 22 hours ago
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Thank GOD. Rebellion really dropped the soap on the PSP exclusive Battlefront game. God I was SO disappointed.
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dchalfont - 264 days 21 hours ago
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i loved the battlefront series, but if like me any of you have played lotr conquest, you should be very fearful of how bad they could make this game, lotr conquest....was the worst game i've ever played...think countersrike 1.6 graphics with only a handful of units...and no imagination...oh and crap combat
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Eiffel - 264 days 20 hours ago
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But you got to understand.

They made the first two and that was Star Wars.
LOTOR Conquest..well if you've seen the movies you can tell why the game failed even without playing it.
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ghost-mutation - 264 days 20 hours ago
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Just get me Battlefront 3 or I will be even sadder and curse my existence even more.
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andron666 - 264 days 20 hours ago
6 - The saga continues...
We can only hope this ends well. But Pandemics recent efforts and the shipping back and forth between developers doesn't bode for the end result...
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Mutley416 - 264 days 20 hours ago
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Please make this good...no short cuts, no excuses...

We need the Emperor to develop this game...he would get them back on schedule...

StarWars geeks every where need this game!!!
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Baka-akaB - 264 days 18 hours ago
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As long as they keep the idea of Space to surface travels without loading or cutscenes ....
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micro_invader - 264 days 16 hours ago
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I feel as if Pandemic haven't been in their groove lately. Let's just hope they deliver something more like the 2 first Battlefront's and not Conquest.
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Cajun Chicken - 264 days 15 hours ago
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Did Shellshock 2 bring this on, I wonder?
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