Kotaku: Star Wars: Battlefront III may have been binned, but we've heard from sources that the series lives on, in the form of currently-in-pre-production Battlefront Online.
The game, for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, is currently being worked on by both Lucasarts and Slant Six Games, the studio responsible for SOCOM Confrontation and SOCOM Fire Team Bravo 3.
Some games are decent enough that they receive a yearly sequel; Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed series, and Activision’s Call of Duty franchise to name a couple. Other games are just as good yet for whatever reason, due to underwhelming sales or internal development issues, fans might have to wait years, if ever to get a follow-up to a beloved game.
Despite being the best-selling Star Wars game of all time, Star Wars: Battlefront has yet to have a next-generation sequel. Isn't it worthy?
I have never understood the hype battlefront gets. I loved the original, but it gets boring easy. To boot, it didn't even really have a story.
Suppose I am in the minority when I say it is average. Nonetheless, I hope they do make a 'sequel' so people will finally stfu lol.
To me what stood out in comparison to other games was that it felt like a real war.
Especially Battlefront 2.
The maps are huge and there are many AIs or players (online) fighting at the same time. Plus the usage of many vehicles and ships add to the experience.
From what I've read a long time ago BF3 was suppose to have ground, air, and space battles at the same time. In BF2, Ground and air fights occurred at the same time depending on the map. Space battles were battle that needed to be fought separably, but they planned to combined them all. This would have increased that epic feeling of fighting in a war within the Star Wars realm.
Yeah that sounds like the only real way it could have improved to be honest.
No idea why they never made a third one, but I have accepted that its probably a pipe dream.
Never played BF2. Never knew you could play it online. If that is true, I fully understand the hype, and am now extremely depressed I never got to experience it.
I live in Australia, and ADSL broadband was only available in my Area in 2006 or 2007. It was the 256kb download as well. Basically I only experienced Warcraft 3 online during the ps2 era.
Yeah, the singleplayer was really only fun to play if you had a friend over. But the multiplayer was awesome...
Siliconera: "The rumors are true, Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City developer Slant Six was working on a Star Wars game back in 2010. Lucasarts hired Slant Six to make Star Wars Battlefront Online for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360."
Haha, I was just going to say the same thing
I'd rather have no Battlefront sequel then a crappy one by the worse developer out there
Besides it's not really Battlefront 3 is it
Battlefront's good name went untarnished. That is a win.
Now if we could just keep the Banjo Kazooie, Crash, and Spyro IPs away from their perspective owners....
Slant Six must have a checklist of popular game franchises that they're out to ruin....
Socom............Check!
Resident Evil....Check!
Star Wars........
The concept art showed Jedi in the game. I really wish these developers would stop focusing on Jedi. Battlefront isn't supposed to be about Jedi it's supposed to be about the soldiers and their battles.
Also Socom Confrontation wasn't a terrible terrible game. Once they patched it it became a fun game. But before that it was bug ridden.
Well Jedi can be in the game. As long as balance exists. Not godlike superheros, but soldiers that are not immune to death. They should be able to die.
This works out very well in one Jedi Knight Jedi Academy mod with Jedi being balanced out to same level as soldiers. Personally I believe its gone a bit to far in the latest builds, but that's just me.
Check out Moviebattles 2 mod for JKA on Youtube or something like that. I actually get the feeling to play as another class other than Jedi in this mod without instant death fears.
Jedi in SWBF2 were awesome. So were regular soldier battles. Don't see whats wrong with having both
It's funny, I literally have SWBF1 in my PS2 running right now. I just got done serving the empire on Rhen Var: Citadel... The map were sweet on SWBF1, still pretty good on 2... They still need to make SWBF3 please.
If I remember correctly I seen video of gameplay on Endor maybe 1 1/2 yrs. ago, I think it was Pandemic's near completed version? (might've been slant six's but that don't seem right, oh well) It looked sweet, you could hop in a X-wing & shoot some Tie Fighters down then dock up in space!!! Looks aren't everything so maybe it didn't make for a focused game. You're right also Slant-six has mucked up quite a few good franchises LoL...
A job listing hints that Slant Six are starting work on the speculated Star Wars: Battlefront Online, again.
I've actually never played Battlefront before. Is it good? I might have to try it out.
YES IT IS! Think of it as a 3rd person Battlefield or Warhawk set in the Star Wars universe. When a player is doing amazing in the game, they will get the chance to become a Jedi or Sith depending on what team you are on. When you become one, you can rape the puny armies. With force push, lightsaber throws, force lightning, force choke, and force run and jump! You can have Jedi vs Sith battles, space battles, vehicle battles, or normal army battles.
battle front 2 was amazing, just like the movie attack of the clones with the huge battle scale. loved it. great with split screen, online, or just singleplayer. that game had it all.
I hope this is true, Damn, the last real battlefront came out over 4 and a half years ago.. all we've been getting is crappy handheld ones, I don't even have a PSP so I couldn't even play them
Battlefront keeps popping up at the mo. Played the original ages ago, and really liked it. Would love to see a new one happen.
I don't see any sarcasm in his comment. Battlefront was amazing last gen. Too many franchises have been ruined this gen.
What Colbert said is 100% fact.....ask any SOCOM fan and they will confirm it....go to SOCOM.com and make a thread "Does Slant Six suck?" and you will see just how bad their developing actually is
Confrontation is still in beta stage...and thats no lie, we PAID to be beta testers as they fixed the game for over a year and never completing it before turning their back on it
pray this horrible developer gets canned from your game or project.....get a real developer or atleast hope for one
Well, as much as it's likely cancelled completely, a part of me wishes, the Battlefront games are superb.
Oh god no, Slant Six ruined SOCOM, now there going (maybe) to ruin Battlefront to? Any publisher with a brain in there head would not let Slant Six go anywhere near a console game, and just let them stick to there PSP crap.
SOCOM Confrontation failed to capture what was great about socom + it was buggy as hell when released.
Gears of War 2 screwed up what made Gears 1 great and was buggy when released. Game got a free pass, why?
This are bad developers and I still play the game ever since the beta
but the game most of he times give em blue balls and headdecks
that how buggy and full of errors this game it's and
the worse thing is that fanboys think that you or me are trolling
idiotas fanboys
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Check all the videos from Blackwido88, you will see factual evidence why Socom Confrontation is bad.
It is weird that with the latest updates still with technical problems.
Good thing Zipper return with Socom 4. That's a good Socom.
Love the Battlefront series.
I find this very hard to believe.
Socom devs? Oh god no!
This means that the PS3 won't get a sloppy port if Slant Six Games is working on it.
If its going to be on Xbox 360 then obviously not Zipper since Sony owns Zipper... >.>
Oh and if I were you, I wouldn't be looking forward to Battlefront judging on how buggy SOCOM: Confrontation was/is. Don't get me wrong, I loved Confrontation but I gotta admit, that game is glitchy like a motherf*cker and had one of the worst launch in history.
And because of my avatar, you may be thinking I'm trying to stealth troll. Well think again, http://n4g.com/NewsCom-3756...