Lucasarts Was Developing A Darth Maul Action Game

<p>Back in 2011 Lucasarts was planning on releasing a new Star Wars title that would see players take on the role of Darth Maul from Episode 1&period; The project was given to developer Red Fly Studio because Lucasarts was impressed with the work they had done on the Wii version of 2010&&num;8217&semi;s Star Wars&colon; The Force Unleashed 2&period; The game was originally intended to be a Nintendo exclusive but was later changed  to be for PS3&comma; Wii U&comma; Xbox 360 and PC&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;04&sol;05114254&sol;darth-maul&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-60670 aligncenter" alt&equals;"darth maul" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;04&sol;05114254&sol;darth-maul&period;jpg" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"557" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Gameinformer spoke to Red Fly&&num;8217&semi;s CEO Dan Borth and other anonymous developers to get the story&period; Development first began in October 2010&comma; with Red Fly making most of the decisions themselves as they were offered very little guidance&period; Red Fly weren&&num;8217&semi;t told how to deal with the fact that Maul ends up being cut in half in the final fight of the film&comma; nor were they told that the character was going to be revived in Lucasfilm&&num;8217&semi;s  Clone Wars TV series&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However this changed after a meeting with the Head of Lucasarts&comma; George Lucas&period; Apparently&comma; Lucas had a very different vision for the Darth Maul game and wanted it to resemble more of a &&num;8216&semi;buddy cop-like experience&&num;8217&semi;&period;  He specifically requested that Darth Maul be made to team up with Darth Talon&comma; a character from the Expanded Universe who is born about 170 years after Maul&&num;8217&semi;s  death&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;04&sol;05114239&sol;darth-maul-4&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"size-large wp-image-60672 aligncenter" alt&equals;"darth maul 4" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;04&sol;05114239&sol;darth-maul-4-1024x577&period;jpg" width&equals;"750" height&equals;"422" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The developers tried to make this new direction work and at one point there was even talk of Lucasarts buying them &comma; but in June 2011 the publisher cut all communication with Red Fly and eventually cancelled the project&period; Yet not all evidence of the game&&num;8217&semi;s existence was destroyed as some<a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;gameinformer&period;com&sol;b&sol;features&sol;archive&sol;2014&sol;04&sol;09&sol;art-from-the-darth-maul-game-you-39-ll-never-get-to-play&period;aspx"> concept art<&sol;a> for the game has now been leaked&period; You can also check out the only footage for the game in the leaked video above&period; For the full story&comma; pick up this month&&num;8217&semi;s issue of <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;gameinformer&period;com&sol;mag&sol;default&period;aspx">Gameinformer<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;polygon&period;com&sol;2014&sol;4&sol;8&sol;5595156&sol;report-lucasarts-canceled-darth-maul-game-star-wars-red-fly-studio">Polygon<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;