This video brings me closure to my long saga of wanting this game. Me and my brother would check GameFAQS, IGN, all day in 2007/8 looking for any news. We played the original XBOX games together for over a decade, and we’re both adults living in other states and I still play the fantastic Steam port of the 2004 original. It’s a tale of what could have been…but I can’t but think that having the original two and playing those two for 20 years now that made me appreciate every map and detail. Heck we’d spend hours and hours looking for all the glitches and quirks in the game…good times.

No matter how many times they try to remove it, I will always like it.

That internal video and the death of Free Radical is so sad. TimeSplitters was one of my all time favorite video game series, and to see its developer killed off by publisher impatience/greed is just depressing.

I remember playing elite squadron and absolutely falling in love with it. While it definatly lacked content and was running on low powered hardware, the game had alot of potential. It was the game we all dreamed of in its early stages.

I had a few convos with an ex-(and jaded) free radical developer stated that the final build of Battlefront 3 could only handle around 6 human players without Ai before it becomes unplayable due to the immense size of the maps and most likely the layered combat. He also stated that LucasArts wanted them to continue development but ditch the layered combat (which he called a disjointed gimmick that wasn’t even utilized well on the maps) as it was viewed by many employees as the root of all the game’s problems. Man I really with Facepunch was still up, but I can’t even remember my old account password.

Man I can remember looking at the early trailer for many of the games likes First Assault and hoping it would come out. I'm still holding out that we get a Star Wars game that combines that ground to space ability sometime in the future

Holy hecking High Ground it is absolutely crushing to hear how quickly FRD got screwed after the Haze exclusivity deal Edit: it's mildly infuriating to hear that line about Elite Squadron not being a port, Lucasarts really wanted FRD dead and it shows

Huh, strange how I never heard of battlefront online before.

This deserves way more views. Great job. Spent hundreds of hours playing star wars battlefront 2 on ps2 with a friend as a kid splitscreen. Can't get those days back.

I still remember looking forward to the game, it is a real shame it was never be finished.

35:23 Last time i checked his name was El Fabricio.

I'm a bit dubious over the supposed story for Battlefront 3 especially when seeing the repurposed story that was used for Elite Squadron on the psp. The story feels like cheap fan fiction.

Brilliant documentary on it all even though it hurts so much. 3 is the cursed number.

This deserves so many more views

To hear that First Assault was literally done all but for some overhead cost and it got axed anyways really stings. Thanks for all you've done for the franchise, Disney.

I’m glad I found this channel :) great documentary!

Still makes me cry

Poor Project Management. A bunch of people who don't know enough about game development to be able to suitably manage a project. It's destroyed a lot of potential.

i am with the force and the force is with me

As sad as BF3's cancellation is, I understand why. But I still hold onto the leaked version I have and play it sooo much. I hope one day a later more complete build gets released

Watching this entire video killed me internally, because Star Wars Battlefront 3 (2008) was (and still is) my dream Star Wars game of all time. I want that game no matter what!

very interesting video

Wish the ps2 version got leaked

Battlefront is cursed

great doc I'm sure this will get more views

Thank you for this

3:20 I’m glad that this was also possible in StarWars Battlefront: Elite Squadron for the PSP. Which is the first Battlefront game I ever got. IIRC the main way to disable the ships shields seem to differ slightly than the original plan for BF3, The main way to do so would be to maintain control of an ion cannon and disable the shields from the ground. But it was also possible to deactivate the shield in space by destroying the ships engines, guns etc. My favourite part was probably being able to use the escape pods once you destroyed the reactor and watching the ship explode from the ground, which would give you a huge boost of victory points. This was the PSP, and I can just imagine how awesome features like that would have been on a console. Awesome documentary by the way

Thanks for sharing this, i really enjoyed the whole thing!

Thanks for nothing EA. I could fucking cry rn

Would have been an amazing game. Remember following all the leaks and news about bf3 years ago and wishing it would get finished. Unbelievable how we got force unleashed 2 but not this. And that game was half baked. So disappointed how free radical was treated

Dang, I wish we got this game in 2008... Star Wars multiplayer just got dropped like a rock, except for MMO's. Amazing video, it makes me want to play Haze since it's probably as close as we'll ever get. Also that E3 video seems awful at first, but grows on you once you see it a few times lol. However, it makes it seem like it was going to be PS3 exclusive?

It works

Cool video, all of this is real, frankly this game didn’t come out and too bad DICE probably won’t be making BF3 either. Maybe just maybe Free Radical will come back to make Battlefront 3?

It saddens me to say what could’ve been for Star Wars Battlefront III.

interesting, and i somehow already liked it..

May the force be with you.

Everytime i look at the footage i just wanna play Elite Squadron and cry....its not fair

Every time I heard something from Free Radical, the more pedantic their statements seemed to me. It's as if these guys hadn't measured their ambitions and optimized the game with their feet.

Very interesting

credit luke landwalker for inventing bf3

Will the next episode still be coming?

That internal dev video felt like something made by Chris Chan

I wish we got First Assault, Version Two & the Battlefront 3 that would've released 2015 :(

Oh the beauty of what could have been

does any footage of the ps2 version exist anywhere ? I can't seem to find anything about it but considering it was supposedly 100% completed I'd be interested in seeing some footage

I kind of want to see what the bush bashing version of haze would be like.

so what happened to the latest build of battlefront 3 who owns it now?

Man. The blow that Disney did to Star Wars games is just ridiculous. Always hate hearing it brought up.

*BRING BATTLEFRONT 3 BACK!*

I grew up on the original Battlefront 2 and there is no other game I spent so many hours on The final result on Dice's Battlefront 2 I do feel like is the true updated Battlefront game that we all waited years for but I will always yearn to play whatever Free Radical was cooking

A tragedy indeed...

Why can’t EA just use this as a template

It was a crime to cancel this game.

I made Goldeneye don't you know!

A true tragedy

I've been trying to find this video again because of the entire BF3 debacle of EA bad. I mean EA is bad, but Battlefront 3 is probably not their fault I mean besides canning Pandemic Studios I hate them for that still.

So how about we start a Movement and get Battlefront 3 finished for these new Generation consoles; It would likely run better on these New consoles wouldn't it?

i wish it was on pc and i wish pandemic worked on it

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The fucking Goldeneye remake hurts my soul so much. They decided a Call of Duty clone was better than a proper remake by people that made the original. Then Crytek swoops in and just lets Free Radical rot and die

It's a bit insulting Lucasarts thought Rebellion was a better developer than Free Radical just because they could pump out games. So glad Disney just canned everything when they bought Lucasarts, totally doesn't break my heart at all.