I hate to be the bringer of bad news but I visited the website of REMOVED and i found his email address and shot him an email. Here is what he said.
Hi there,
Thanks for your kind words, BF3 was truly awesome.
The whole idea with BF3 was that is was going to have a storyline, following two clone brothers that was cloned from a Jedi. The game also had a vertical battlefield, so you could fight on the ground, jump into a x wing and fly up to a star destroyer, firing ion cannons from space to ground or from ground to space, all this without any loading times.
Sad to say that about 6-8 months from completing the game, Lucasarts canned it, I don't know all the details about what happened but it got canceled and that was the death of Free Radical, we couldn't get a publisher
in time for Timesplitters 4 so the directors where forced to make 80 % of the company redundant. Then later on they got bought up by Crytek and are now developing some AAA titel. I was one of the guys that was made redundant so I am not working at Crytek anymore but at a different games company.
The status of BF3, well the BF3 I was working on will never get released, however I believe that Battlefront being one of the major titles for Lucasart, you will no doubt see a battlefront title at some point, what format, what type of game it will be, that I cant answer, because I dont know.
May the force be with you!
> From: my email
> CENSORED
> Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:23:54 -0500
> Subject: Big Fan
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> REMOVED I hope this email finds you well.When you were at Free Radical you did an awesome job at re-inventing the Star Wars Battlefront franchise. It was so sad and upsetting to hear of Free Radicals collapse. Myself and thousands upon thousands of fans were so pumped when we saw the leaked footage of the supposed alpha meeting in November of 2008. We finally had something to look forward to after years of lackluster titles from Lucasarts. Now BF3 is in development hell and the fans want answers but as usual Lucasarts doesn't listen. I was wondering if there is anything you could tell me about the whereabouts of BF3 now, how far along it was and I would be interested to know where you are currently working or where you last worked. Thanks again and may the force be with you!
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> p.s. Lucasarts is supposed to reveal there new game on Dec. 12th at the Spike VGAs and i'm hoping its BF3
Edit: Under request I have removed references to the author - CrytekUK.INFO
Jedi Initiate
Jedi Initiate
Jedi Master
Jedi Master
Thank you, for finding this information. I have contacted Jonas myself, to confirm this. I trust you aren't making this up but I believe it's better safe than sorry. I also wanted to contact him for information relating to how he would like this information to be kept.
It makes sense that LucasArts were responsible for Free Radical's demise, as was suggested before. It's very disappointing and a horrible but good example of how large companies can destroy smaller ones with almost no regard.
Jonas could always be pulling your leg but the news that Battlefront III is dead and gone will shock many people. It's very sad indeed.
It makes sense that LucasArts were responsible for Free Radical's demise, as was suggested before. It's very disappointing and a horrible but good example of how large companies can destroy smaller ones with almost no regard.
Jonas could always be pulling your leg but the news that Battlefront III is dead and gone will shock many people. It's very sad indeed.
Administrator
Administrator
It's probably true, but that doesn't mean that the game is dead and it doesn't mean that someone else couldn't pick up where FR left off.
Jedi Master
Jedi Master
I confirmed it and the employee says he can't be sure if Battlefront III is cancelled but it is very likely.
Administrator
Administrator
That sucks. Plain and simple.
Jedi Consular
Jedi Consular
no kidding. I think I need to go to the hospital out of shockNitro wrote:That sucks. Plain and simple.
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