This is What Star Wars Battlefront III Looked Like

<p>A long time ago in an Internet far&comma; far away&comma; there was a game called <em>Star Wars&colon; Battlefront III<&sol;em> being made by LucasArts and the Star Wars fandom rejoiced at its arrival&period; That time was the yesterdays of 2008 and since then the game&&num;8217&semi;s untimely cancellation – and rather mysterious one at that – has spurred a wealth of leaked footage and screenshots online for our eyes to devour&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Just last week&comma; YouTube snoop Chr0m3xMoDz uncovered what can be estimated to be the very best look we&&num;8217&semi;ll ever be likely to get of the game&&num;8217&semi;s pre-alpha phase and its over-all design to date&period; In it&comma; there&&num;8217&semi;s a variety of footage and gameplay encompassing Tatooine and what appears to be some very brief surface-to-air travel via a Republic gunship&period; The battle&comma; no doubt set during the Clone Wars&comma; features a few faces unfamiliar to players but carried some significance in the original script&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Chr0m3xMoDz assures players that the footage below is &&num;8220&semi;a very early alpha build&&num;8221&semi; of<em> Battlefront III<&sol;em> on Xbox 360 and that &&num;8220&semi;if you aren&&num;8217&semi;t a hardcore Star Wars fan&comma; this probably isn&&num;8217&semi;t for you&period;&&num;8221&semi; The frame rate&&num;8217&semi;s &&num;8220&semi;pretty buggy&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he mentions&comma; and that&&num;8217&semi;s only more evident in how often our character ends up swimming in a sea of air&period; Knowing how many Star Wars fanatics have salivated playing any new console-level Battlefront&comma; even<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-youtube layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"500" height&equals;"281" data-videoid&equals;"KvFdePRDGGk" title&equals;"Star Wars Battlefront 3 Pre Alpha Gameplay Xbox 360"><a placeholder href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;watch&quest;v&equals;KvFdePRDGGk"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;ytimg&period;com&sol;vi&sol;KvFdePRDGGk&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" layout&equals;"fill" object-fit&equals;"cover" alt&equals;"Star Wars Battlefront 3 Pre Alpha Gameplay Xbox 360"><&sol;a><&sol;amp-youtube><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The gameplay footage in question looks rather authentic&comma; sporting the usual assortment of menu options from single-player to multilayer on what looks like its original computer file from some office off in the boonies of Lucas Arts&&num;8217&semi; former headquarters&period; Even the loading screens scream Star Wars&period; Fans can further note the amount of iconic prequel enemies filling up the Tatooine spaceport&comma; from Commerce Guild Spider-droids to Trade Federation AATs&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As we were warned&comma; the frame rate&&num;8217&semi;s rather slow&comma; though for a pre-alpha build&comma; that&&num;8217&semi;s probably negligible&period; What&&num;8217&semi;s intriguing is particularly the characters featured in the dialogue&comma; namely &&num;8220&semi;X1 and X2&period;&&num;8221&semi; In what was rumored to have been pieced together from the fragments of Battlefront III&&num;8217&semi;s story&comma; Star Wars&colon; Renegade Squadron on DS and PSP followed the lives of the creatively named&comma; Force-sensitive clone troopers X1 and X2 from the prequel films&&num;8217&semi; Clone Wars to the original trilogy&&num;8217&semi;s Galactic Civil War&period; The character&&num;8217&semi;s dialogue in the game seems to imply you&&num;8217&semi;re playing one of them&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Alas&comma; Lucas Arts&&num;8217&semi; Battlefront is long past and now in the hands of EA and <em>Battlefield<&sol;em> developer DICE&period; The game is expected to arrive sometime in tandem with <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;star-wars-episode-vii-reveals-villain&sol;">Star Wars&colon; Episode VII<&sol;a>&&num;8216&semi;s release next year&comma; but EA&&num;8217&semi;s warned that game will release <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;star-wars-battlefront-revisits-classic-trilogy&sol;">&&num;8220&semi;when it&&num;8217&semi;s ready&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>What say you&comma; reader&quest; Was the original <em>Battlefront III<&sol;em> a game you&&num;8217&semi;d dream of playing&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Via <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;watch&quest;v&equals;KvFdePRDGGk">Chr0m3xMoDz on Youtube<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;