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Battlefront III Was 99 Percent Finished

We were THIS close to getting a third Battlefront game. Free Radical co-founder Steve Ellis said the game would have been a turning point for the company after falling into development trouble with Haze.

"We were making a game with very high ambition," Ellis said in an interview with gamesTM magazine. "You could start a battle on the ground, jump into a ship and fly into space, continuing on to dock in a capital ship and continue the battle there."

An early version of the game leaked this past April. An hour of additional footage leaked the following July.

"We'd had to build all kinds of new tech and overcome numerous technical challenges and limitations but we had done it. We had a 99% finished game that just needed bug fixing for release," he added.

"It should have been our most successful game, but it was cancelled for financial reasons. I'm happy that people did at least get to see what we were working on and share the team's enthusiasm for it."

[Source: Now Gamer]

Comments
  • where are the rom hackers when you need them?
  • I blame the 1 percenters. OCCUPY BATTLEFRONT!
  • I'm sad.
  • really omg so dumb. i hope they will make another one, they will make bank.
  • Wow, 99%? You'd think they would have just released it if it was THAT close to being finished.
  • Every time I hear Battlefront 3 news, it seems like they are just trying to make people angry. I mean, come on...
  • *sigh* 99%, I think I'm gonna go cry in a corner.
  • Now why the hell would they do that? If they had financial trouble this would have fixed it. Plus, if you have a game 99% done you've already sunk a ton of cash into it, may as well ship.
  • Stop stepping on all the mint peppermint toothpaste! You're milking the pelican welfare system!
  • But................

  • Wow :I. i Reaaaallyy wished they just would've released it since it was so close to being done @.@ i still play battlefront 2 every month or so
  • Why are you telling us this? This will just make everyone angrier.
  • *lone tear* thanks for opening that deep wound back up

  • DAAAAAAANG. One of the few shooter series I actually liked.

  • This makes me really mad and sad at the same time.

  • What!?!?!? Just  a couple days ago I told my friend that we needed a Battlefront 3.. I never knew that they were gonna make it...WHY!?!?!

  • AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!!!!!! *goes on a rampage*

  • Up until this very moment, I've had the best day in a while. This brought all that crashing down.
  • JUST 1% LEFT!!?!?! darn!
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