Wii Build Of Free Radical's Cancelled 'Star Wars Battlefront 3' Has Been Discovered

So sad this got cancelled.

This and Factor 5's ROGUE SQUADRON collection for Wii are the two hardest cancelations for me to grapple with. Both would have sold crazy. AND both teams had a history of getting the most out of The Big N's hardware. I mean Free Radical was made up of many ex-Rare folks from the N64 days. All of the footage from BF3 looked phenomenal; no matter the platform. Such a sad state and it's only gotten worse for developers in the years since.

@JSC016
It HAS gotten better. I jump in here and there, but the severs are dead. Only good for local MP or single player at this point. It's too bad, too, because Conquest in BF2 has always been fantastic.

I remember being so disappointed that Star Wars Battlefront 3 was cancelled back in the day, and it looks to have a lot more soul than the new ones we got from EA. Thank goodness it's been salvaged.

Didn't know Battlefront 3 was coming for Wii, looked really good. Shame it got cancelled.

Now I want to play Battlefront II.

This wound still hurts.

Do you wish Battlefront 3 made it to the Wii?

Does Yoda **** in the swamp?

@WhiteTrashGuy I have hope that one day, Rogue Leaders (official name for the cancelled trilogy game) will get leaked. As it is, Dolphin's compatibility with Rogue Leader (the second game) still needs work, unless I'm missing something. It always crashes during Battle of Hoth. I haven't tried Rebel Strike on Dolphin yet.

Man. Remember when Battlefront was good? Good times.

This is peak content.

This and Timesplitters 4 being cancelled is why we can't have nice things. 😭

This would've been spectacular... real shame it was dropped.

Looks fine, sad no showing of the Planet/Space transition only more general ship/story mode type on foot gameplay and cutscenes.

I wonder if it would be like Elite Squadron's PSP version as it is a salvaging of the ideas of Battlefront 3. A comparable to the PSP version (if a PSP was planned originally or it was always supposed to be consoles only not handhelds repackaging elements or the remains of the game to PSP and the DS version being there but not the exact same of course in assets/resources/time put into it that Rebellion salvaged and N Space did their thing on DS as they did at that time with COD games or others, but for what Rebellion had to work with that finished it up instead of Free Radical).

I always assumed PS3/360/PC but a Wii version is cool to see for sure especially as Battlefront wasn't on GameCube only Clone Wars, of course Rogue Squadron was Nintendo exclusive, or the other types of Star Wars games later that were more multi-platform.

But if a downscaled PS3/360/PC version then sure I'd be impressed still. If a Wii/PSP comparable it would have made some sense with both being fair to scale to, which many PS2/PSP/Wii ports were sometimes not just the Wii/PSP versions being unique like some are.

This cancellation destroyed me back in the day. And the wound still hurts when I see the extra content. Still a massive shame that Free Radical collapsed the way it did; one of the most talented devs ever. The ambition and scope they were planning for Battlefront III as well as Timesplitters 4 was absolutely going to move the needle and raise the bar for industry standards.

That moment in time really was one of the tipping points in gaming.

@SuntannedDuck2 "sad no showing of the Planet/Space transition"

1:08-2:05 in the video

@Kilroy Nah, it's been fixed finally... though there are still rare random hangs when starting a mission.

@Kilroy Must have missed it thanks for clarifying.

It's so cool that the scope was going to be more seamless between Space fights and on-the-ground combat. The story mode also looked really neat, and it sucks that we never even got this. I would've much rather had Battlefront III than EA's Battlefront.

Should get released on the Switch

@KoRn1619 It doesn't even exist anymore. The only way it'll ever exist is via a fan revival, and even then there's no way it'll be put on switch given that fans don't carry the Star Wars license- or even have the means to license it out.

@AlanaHagues Typo in the article in the second to last paragraph. It says they were working on Battlefield 3 instead of Battlefront 3. Easy one to make though.

Edit: Thanks for fixing.

That actually looks amazing! It's sad that we never got it for Wii back in the day.

I could only get about half-way through the video before I noticed my eyes were stinging from what I was looking at. Then I realized it was because I was crying. If it looked this good (aside from dodgy clearly unfinished beta models) on Wii, it would have been a masterpiece on 360 and PS3 had it come to fruition. The culmination of never being able to experience such a brilliant looking game as well as the reminder that the studio behind this game was also dead just.. it just sucks...

I remember reading about the "potential game" in the magazines. I would have played the "f" out of it on the Wii. Ah dang.

@BTB20 @AlanaHagues and you’ve called the dev Radical Front in the first paragraph really interesting article!