Many fans calmored for a third entry in the Star Wars Battlefront Series Back in the Early 2000s (and Are Still Squing for a Modern Third Game from Rebooted Series Developer Dice), and it turns out that work did begin on a third game, and now of the original games have been exploited why it never materialized. The original Star Wars Battlefront Series Saw Critical ACCLAIM and Commercial Success, Leading to Publisher Lucasarts Wanting Another Game Quickly, But A Transition to New Hardware Made Impossible.
Speaking to Videogamer, Battlefront 2 Designer Dan Nanni explained that pandemic studios Did Start Work on a Third Game But Were Given Only One Year to Work on Itwhile Also Transitioning to the Xbox 360/PlayStation 3 Generation of Hardware. The first two Battlefront Games were releassed in 2004 and 2005, with JUST A Year in Between New Entries, SO Lucasarts wanted the Same Turnaround Time. But that wasn’t achievable, accorting to nanni, with Him Stating: “When You’re Moving to a New Console is not as Easy as Saying, ‘Let with Just Make a Game for it Like We Did for the Old Console.’”
The History of Star Wars Battlefront 3
A Third ENRY SEEMS TO BE CUREDED
Lucasarts Acquired Pandemic Studios AFTER The Release of Battlefront 2 and had a deal with free radical design to make a third game. That game was Canceled at Around 95% CompletionAccity to some reports. A lot of free radical design of design was taken directly or heavily inspired by the Groundwork that pandemic studios laid for a third game. After Introducing Space Missions in the Second Game, Pandemic Also Planned to Comboth Space and Ground Combat into Continuous Maps, and a Considerable Amount of Was Done on the Project.
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Nanni explained that if the team was “gioven the time, we’d have made of something really special, “ But the team wasn’t grant the time they needed. Negotiations for Battlefront 3 then stalled, as lucasfilm desired a Battlefront 3 To Help With Marketing Purposes, Similar to How Battlefront 2 was released around the sun as the Revenge of the sit movie.
Pandemic Studios was Shut Down in 2009, and Free Radical Design’s Battlefront 3 was Also Canceled. The series series Change Hands to Developer Dice and Publisher Electronic Arts for the Reboot in 2015. Do Third Game in the Rebooted Trilogy was Also Canceled, Reportedly Due to Licensing Costs.
Our Take: We Might See a Third Game One Day
But it Might take a Complete Design Philosophy Shift
There haen ben a resurgency in interest in the Star Wars franchise with the sequel trilogy, and the TV show that followed, Namely The Mandalorian and Elder. There definitely is an audience for a third game, with the LotBox Controversy and Eventual Redemption arc that ea’s Star Wars Battlefront 2 Went Through. Star Wars is one of the Most Popular Ips in History, SO of COURSE, LICENSING FEES FOR A Star Wars Game Are Going to Be High. But with other e-public Star Wars Games on the market, like Jedi Survivor and Order fake, a third Battlefront Game is not impossible.
For the time being, it looks like ea has switched its Star Wars Games’ Focus to Single-Player Action-Adventure Games. There is a lot of Competition in the multiplayer Shooter Genre Now, especilantly with a lot of those those being free-to-play. If Dice and ea Could Learn from their Mistakes with Battlefront 2 And Focus more on Passion and Quality Instead of Monetization, Fans Waled More than Likely Welcome Another Star Wars Battlefront title. Unil that day, it look like a third entry haen cursed from materialization.
Source: Videogamer