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The makers of the FarCry series have bailed out Free Radical and as of now we do not know if any of the employees will be returning to finish their projects, just that the company has been saved and most likely the projects on which they were working including Timesplitters 4 and Star Wars: Battlefront 3 will continue. 

If they retain the employees and/or do not deviate from the production that was already in place on an obviously late-stage development game, we may even see a final product that's not too far off from what we saw in the leaked footage.

i could care less about BF, i want my timesplitters. the map creator was the best in there. not to mention virus. WOOT virus with ninja monkey forever.
-nai-

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I heard FRD lost BFIII back in October but cant find a link currently. :(

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 Starwarsfan117 wrote:

I heard FRD lost BFIII back in October but cant find a link currently. :(

yeah i heard that as well,no matter what happens to Free Radical now,i think BF 3 is well out of their hands,and possibly in the hands that Lucasarts are rumoured to of given the project to(Rebellion)

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Well at least Timesplitters 4 could be saved although it would be weird that they're saved now and not working on Battlefront 3 that they so obviously got to a late stage of development.

well i wasnt all that keen on TS3 Rogue,but then again i never played 1 or 2 and i think number 3 was when EA got its meathooks into it

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 RogueStarkiller wrote:

Well at least Timesplitters 4 could be saved although it would be weird that they're saved now and not working on Battlefront 3 that they so obviously got to a late stage of development.

I hate to say it but Timesplitters has a higher chance of being saved than the Battlefront series, a much bigger and more dedicated fanbase...

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Everyone must play The Orange Box.
George Lucas murdered Star Wars....and then he killed LucasArts.
Lucasarts 1991-2005

any new news? im gonna check Google and Wikipedia

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I'm trying to follow the news on this as best I can. Last I read came from theforce.net:

"Just wanted to let you know that the troubled development of Star Wars: Battlefront 3 has taken another interesting twist. After jumping from the sinking ship Free Radical to Rebellion, who are currently hard at work on Aliens vs. Predator 3, it has now been handed back into the hands of the developer of the first two installments – Pandemic."

Story is here...
http://www.theforce.net/videogames/story/Battlefront_III_Says_Adios_To_Rebellion_121521.asp

oh man, i was hoping that with the bailout FR would get it back. But, im kinda lost here, the FR leaked footage wasnt gameplay, but pre-rendered? looked like most of it was gameplay to me...

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Just caught this news at theforce.net...


'...the Official Pandemic Studios forums where community manager Mathew Everett offered up the following response to BF3 / Pandemic rumors...

      "As of right now I can say Battlefront 3 is not currently at Pandemic. While I know the title seems to be up in the air from all the buzz around the web... Lucas Arts will be the only one knowing where the title is at right now."  '

A word from Lucas Arts on this would be good... but i'm not holding my breath.

while i did enjoy BF1/2, i can say im relieved that BF3 isnt with Pandemic because i was worried that it would turn out playing like LoTR: Conquest

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WE NEED BF3 it is like a new chapter of the star wars saga BF1 and 2 were good but the footage of the Free Radicle version looks SWEET!! Please whoever has the game FINISH THIS TIME AND HURRY UP!!!!!

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i was hoping that Lucasarts was gonna announce it at either E3,or more recently at Comic-Con...no such luck

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Lucasarts is going to reveal a new IP on September 10th!

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Everyone must play The Orange Box.
George Lucas murdered Star Wars....and then he killed LucasArts.
Lucasarts 1991-2005

new IP,means a new franchise altogether doesn't it?

so still not BF3 :(


but i will still be hovering around the LA sites to see whats announced

thanks for the headsup SWF117

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 metallicorphan wrote:

new IP,means a new franchise altogether doesn't it?

so still not BF3 :(


but i will still be hovering around the LA sites to see whats announced

thanks for the headsup SWF117

Your Welcome, yeah its unlikely its BF3, but hopefully a nice alternative, but I doubt it.

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Everyone must play The Orange Box.
George Lucas murdered Star Wars....and then he killed LucasArts.
Lucasarts 1991-2005

Well, if they do get the go ahead with BF3, it better have the same gameplay as BF1.  BF2 was just....meh....

 Jay Pandolfo wrote:

Well, if they do get the go ahead with BF3, it better have the same gameplay as BF1.  BF2 was just....meh....

The only thing that was different in BF2 was that, 1: You could play as Heros/Villians, and 2: You could KILL Heros/Villians, in BF1, the only way of killing any Hero/Villian I could find was on Kamino, playing Republic, and using grenade to try and bounce Dooku off the platforms, look I really enjoyed what I saw from Free Radical, it had no "emphasis" on one single area, it had seamless planetary/space flight/fights, custom soldiers, and improved Hero/Villian moves/abilities, and lets not forget to mention, Free Radical claimed to have taken elements from games like CoD4 for its trooper battles, Free Radicals version of BF3 probably would have been epic

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 AK Hunter87 wrote:

...in BF1, the only way of killing any Hero/Villian I could find was on Kamino, playing Republic, and using grenade to try and bounce Dooku off the platforms...

You can land a ship on them or run them over with a tank but it's tricky, the most effective way is on maps with speeder bikes. You can even use a Taun-taun. Don't forget about Platforms, a really nice place to send a Jedi falling to his death, or the Sarlaac pit if you're really good with explosives. Try getting a Jedi to chase you out of bounds, that doesn't give you the kill though, only death for both of you. Occationally, an air strike will work. Jedi in BF1 can be killed, they take a LOT of damage though.

Death by speeder bike impaling is the quickest and easiest way and you even get the joy of seeing "AK Hunter87 killed Luke Skywalker" as well as the kill point.

 Jay Pandolfo wrote:

Well, if they do get the go ahead with BF3, it better have the same gameplay as BF1.  BF2 was just....meh....

Bingo.