Star Wars Battlefront III was in growth for 2 years earlier than it was canceled in 2008. As the sport was by no means formally revealed, gamers have been left questioning what it might have been like. Hopes for a solution to that have been fueled by the supposed discovery of an early model of Star Wars Battlefront 3 on a PSP cart this week, however followers are debating whether or not it’s really a special sport altogether.
A glimpse into the previous
The PSP cart was revealed publicly when Reddit person MissFeepit put up a photograph of what was regarded as a playtest model of Star Wars Battlefront III (thanks MSN). A relative of her fiancé was a playtester for Lucasarts. When the sport was canceled, all property have been supposedly returned to Skywalker Ranch however this cartridge was left behind. The cartridge and the sport itself clearly sport the identify Star Wars Battlefront III. Nevertheless, images of the sport in motion present it bears a number of similarities to Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron, a by-product sport ultimately launched on PSP and Nintendo DS.
Elite Squadron was created from the remnants of the canceled Star Wars Battlefront III. The found PSP cart contains early variations of the Instantaneous Motion, Marketing campaign, and Galactic Conquest modes that later discovered their means into Elite Squadron. Instantaneous Motion seems to solely include Conquest mode, whereas it’s unknown how a lot of the marketing campaign is current. With out video footage, it’s additionally troublesome to find out any similarities between the marketing campaign on the cart and that within the completed product.
This has left followers divided over whether or not it’s really a duplicate of Star Wars Battlefront 3 on PSP or merely an especially early model of Elite Squadron. Whatever the end result, the cart continues to be a bit of gaming historical past price preserving. Missfeepit has mentioned, “we’ve reached out/are going to achieve out to the folks we have to attain out to”.
In different information, Sq. Enix nonetheless hadn’t made a revenue on Outriders by the top of 2021, but it surely isn’t one of many IPs they bought to Embracer Group. Elsewhere, the builders of Closing Fantasy have been as soon as engaged on new Bloodborne-style IP that was later canceled.
