Man, I keep forgetting that I was like 1 of 10 people who played Elite Squadron. It's so weird seeing people finally talk about this and completely forget about the PSP Elite Squadron game.
Right? I played and replayed that game a crap ton growing up. Of course it isnt like what Battlefront was but hey its still the story of the game. Although I had it on DS.
Too late. I'm certain the files are being passed around so much that Disney would have to pass out CaD orders to thousands of people, if not tens of thousands.
I will never understand why who ever holds the rights to it doesn't finish it. There is clearly a demand for it, and it wouldn't take much to finish it. No upscale, no remake, no changes. Just do the spit and polish needed to bring it to 100%. It wouldn't take much money or time, and the return on investment would 100% be worth it.
Money. Costs more to finish an old product cause you need to find who worked on it originally, find all of the information that exist at its time and then reverse engineer the entire game. Or you can just make a new game. On an engine everyone uses and the end.
@@JadziaDaxDS9 Tell that to the modders who are fixing the bugs and missing textures, bringing it up to a polished release level. Did you even watch the video?
I swear modders in the gaming scene bring me more happiness than actual devs sometimes the men and women who bring us this type of stuff know what gamers really miss.
@ColonelStan The fact that they were going to tie this game in with TFU makes me even more sad that both series got canned before completion. I understand the controversy of having a character as powerful as Starkiller in canon, but I wish they could bring back Kota.
It’s an untapped frontier, but also one that is a lot easier to work with since the priority would be optimization, fixes, and graphical work rather than filling voids in content or aspects like models. So I hope it becomes the foundation for a lot of modding. Especially for maybe breaking this version out of purely a Wii format.
I would love to see a completed version of the game released to the public on all platforms, similar to the Battlefront Classic Collection. Many fans want to play this game, but many do not have PCs to play it.
My first console was a PlayStation 2, and Battlefront 2 was my game day and night, and it was so much fun. So when friends told me about Battlefront 3 I’ve been following it and awaiting it ever since. The new games look cool, but this build of the game is pretty much exactly what I was hoping for from those glory days. If modders can stabilize the game and perhaps make it look more modern, I guarantee it’ll outperform the modern battlefront games
This game would’ve changed my life with the original release and it will still change my life if my technologically illiterate self can figure out how to play it. I never thought I’d see the day.
So it's not technically abandonware since Disney owns the copyright to Star Wars, but since Free Radical no longer exists where does that put the game? Will Disney shut this all down?
They could try but the cat’s out of the bag now. Especially with public links available, and the anonymity most people process online, it will be nearly impossible to regulate or stop it from spreading.
Oh, wow. This brings me back. I was brought in on a temporary basis to work on the team for BF4, and it always tickled me when the material leaked included stuff that was gonna be used for that, while claimed to be for 3. Edit: Yep, looks like this is entirely 3, as 4 was nowhere near this far along. For those curious, there was a bunch of character art that was released of the time, including things like Sith Leia, Redeemed Darth Vader. The idea behind the game's story mode basically went like this. You go through five canon levels as the good guys. After you win each level you get the option to play as the bad guys - and if you win *that* level you unlock a non-canon level where one of the characters swaps sides and things played out very, very differently. You can, of course, play the non-canon levels as either heroes or villains. I was working on the Yavin IV level, and had the observation that the Death Star run had been done a whole lot, so why not mix things up a bit by providing hangars on the Death Star itself that you could board to stage a brief interior mission? I think that would've been pretty cool to see if they'd implemented it, but alas I was let go before the project went very far.
It’s soon to be 2025 and we’re still talking about that Star Wars Battlefront 3 from ages ago. I remember kiddo-me grasping for news back in 2008/2009.. good times.
shame this game got cancelled but at least elite squadron and battlefront III legacy mod exist show us what could have been I hope one day battlefront 3 ever become thing.
now i just hope some people band togeder and pick the better pieces from around the different builds and make it complete and functional, like this would be fire as almost a fully fledged game made with these pieces, add in custom servers held by the fans and you god a top level star wars shooter that far surpasses anything they have done since shooter wise
Isn’t it crazy how older games have much more content and way better than games today, I can play KOTOR and have way more fun, and spend more time doing side stuff, while games today are a snooze fest
I'm not sure if I got a hold of the PC version or what. All I know is that going from Ground to Space was wonky and there was nothing to do up there other than fly through the CIS doughnuts.
Can appreciate it... but man, I can see partially why it got canned. One of its campaign moments actually involves a tease for The Force Unleashed III, but since that game is a non-entity... this could have been a good game, but being tied to a flawed hack'n'slash sequel to an original standalone with no threequel to resolve it suddenly ruins its stride for me.
people forget it was already released just without the number. Battlefront: Elite Squadron is BF3. The story of X1 and X2, the being able to transition from space to planet and the opposite. i swear everyonr forgets that BF3 was already released but just not for PS3
i wouldent say it was never finished. TECHNICALLY it was finished and released but just on a different console. Starwars Battlefront: Elite Squadron for the PSP. The game mechanics are exactly the same just a little bit more limited due to the PSP's hardware. but you could go from space to ground and ground to space. the story is exactly the same X1 and X2 are 2 clones for the republic who discover they have force powers and X1 turns to the darkside and visually looks a little similar to Palpatine meanwhile X2 looks a little similar to Obi-wan and eventually they battle each other. Elite Squadron IS battlefront 3 just without the number
I'm just worried that Nintendo is going to threaten legal action on the Free Radical Archive Discord. I'm not so worried about Disney with Star Wars stuff. Nintendo has an iron fist about anything they have to do with, even a 15 year old cancelled Wii game.
Apologies for delay on the link. It's Christmas!
Free Radical Archive Discord link (ROM files & installation guides there): discord.gg/WPDFzJ5
Clonetrooper163's UA-cam Channel (Popular BFIII modder): www.youtube.com/@clonetrooper163
- Charlie
the modder who manages to acomodate Battlefront 3 to a very good playable condition is gonna go to heaven
They will have earned a gold star and should given a medal by the president
@@austin62halo Exactly
No! That’s pelagianism!
I wonder if there will be more then one person that does this.
This will be a day long remembered.
I'm also working on the wii build as well, to fix the bug and glitches in it.
Hell yeah, I was hoping you were
Your name shall be written in the stars.
It’s the legend himself
This makes my AT-RT, Big AT-RT :')
@@clonetrooper163 amazing. I never thought I'd see the day the OG battlefront III would ever see the light
"I will leave a link to the Free Radical Archive Discord"
> check description
> no link
Yeah, can someone else post it?
Why?
@@cantanriverdi5430 "Why would Ekhart's do this?" or "Why would you want to Play BFIII?"
Why are you locked in the Bathroom?
@@walternelson2687 You talking to me?
Many such cases.
We are so close to modders making a complete bf3 and I AM SO HERE FOR IT
Its like finding complete dinosaur fossil
It really is!
As an amateur paleontologist, I agree.
Better. A fossil with complete DNA to clone
@@ebenmoore9770 As a random person who lives in the middle of the Woods. Sure, why not?
We really getting BFIII before GTA VI. Hooooly shit.
Shut. Up. Just stop using an overused joke that isn't even funny. It's so childish.
Man, I keep forgetting that I was like 1 of 10 people who played Elite Squadron. It's so weird seeing people finally talk about this and completely forget about the PSP Elite Squadron game.
Right? I played and replayed that game a crap ton growing up. Of course it isnt like what Battlefront was but hey its still the story of the game. Although I had it on DS.
@ what I wouldn’t give to play that and Renegade Squadron again. They were great and it’ll always be a shame we never got them on console
A lot of us didnt have PSPs
I played that one on the DS! One of my favorites growing up
I played the hell out of it on my PSP. I wish I still had it.
Let me guess Disney will try and get a cease and desist order
Too late. I'm certain the files are being passed around so much that Disney would have to pass out CaD orders to thousands of people, if not tens of thousands.
Probably why the link to the discord was taken away in the description.
Try? Anyone can issue a c&d. They will just do it if they feel like it. It's Not like you have to go to court.
I don't think they have anything to do with this game since it was made before they owned star wars
@@maymayman0 And you really believe that will stop them?
The most complete build being on the Wii is just hilarious to me
Kinda like how the best build for Superman 64 was actually the unreleased PlayStation 1 version.
Whoever cancelled this game is allergic to money
Christmas came a few days early I see
Christmas came early...and so did I
I will never understand why who ever holds the rights to it doesn't finish it. There is clearly a demand for it, and it wouldn't take much to finish it. No upscale, no remake, no changes. Just do the spit and polish needed to bring it to 100%. It wouldn't take much money or time, and the return on investment would 100% be worth it.
Money. Costs more to finish an old product cause you need to find who worked on it originally, find all of the information that exist at its time and then reverse engineer the entire game.
Or you can just make a new game. On an engine everyone uses and the end.
amen brother amen
It's sadly abandonware. Just like the Wii's Factor 5 Rogue Squadron Trilogy.
And if Nintendo can't nickel and dime you for it, they won't touch it.
It would be harder than you think. Would still love to see it done, but it’s not really as simple as picking up where the old team left off.
@@JadziaDaxDS9 Tell that to the modders who are fixing the bugs and missing textures, bringing it up to a polished release level. Did you even watch the video?
This looks exactly like how I imagined Battlefront 1 & 2 when I didn't have those games as a kid and saw older friends/family playing it.
Somebody unearted the Ark of the Covenant.
I swear modders in the gaming scene bring me more happiness than actual devs sometimes the men and women who bring us this type of stuff know what gamers really miss.
0:30 ITS KOTA
IT'S HIM
General Rahm Kota.
And if I'm not mistaken, this game was going to show how he ended up where he was at the beginning of The Force Unleashed.
@ColonelStan The fact that they were going to tie this game in with TFU makes me even more sad that both series got canned before completion. I understand the controversy of having a character as powerful as Starkiller in canon, but I wish they could bring back Kota.
@jacobg8640
To me TFU 1 is cannon but 2 isn't.
Elite Squadron (basically the PSP port of BF3) was my favourite game growing up.
Each year we get closer and closer to finally playing a decent version of this. Can’t wait to see where we’ll be a year from now on this
so you think people will finish up this build of battlefront 3 if it's possible ?
For sure and if they don’t I’m downloading it myself to make sure it will be
It’s an untapped frontier, but also one that is a lot easier to work with since the priority would be optimization, fixes, and graphical work rather than filling voids in content or aspects like models. So I hope it becomes the foundation for a lot of modding. Especially for maybe breaking this version out of purely a Wii format.
I would love to see a completed version of the game released to the public on all platforms, similar to the Battlefront Classic Collection. Many fans want to play this game, but many do not have PCs to play it.
It's dolphin emulator. Should run on a potato from the 90s.
You can't download the game on an Xbox or PlayStation and play it.
Pour one out for everyone who died waiting for Battlefront 3 to be playable.
I don’t get why a company would just cancel a game that’s finished. Completely brain dead
Been playing the Battlefront 3 mod for Battlefront 2 for years
Modders looking at Free Radical's final build: "I will finish what you started."
can't wait to hear about a cease and desist being given to the modders
By today’s standards, it’s a more than complete game Quintuple A
This brought back memories that I could never have
man i used to play battlefront 3 in my PSP, good time
We need to pull a heist to get a final PC build
Free Radical closed in 2009.
It’s super easy to setup. I’ve been playing. Lot of fun!
Sorely tempted to download a Dolphin Emulator on my MacBook just for this game. Where’s the link though?
My first console was a PlayStation 2, and Battlefront 2 was my game day and night, and it was so much fun. So when friends told me about Battlefront 3 I’ve been following it and awaiting it ever since. The new games look cool, but this build of the game is pretty much exactly what I was hoping for from those glory days. If modders can stabilize the game and perhaps make it look more modern, I guarantee it’ll outperform the modern battlefront games
Merry Christmas Harry
Happy Chanukah Marv
I used to pray for moments like these
We got archived battlefront 3 from free radical with support from the modding community before GTA 6 lets go
This game would’ve changed my life with the original release and it will still change my life if my technologically illiterate self can figure out how to play it. I never thought I’d see the day.
I have been dying for this to leak for years. Glad someone finally did it.
Finally this project doesn't have to go to waste
Thats crazy. This is the game we wanted
Ecksclips: I will leave a link.
Me: god bless you.
So it's not technically abandonware since Disney owns the copyright to Star Wars, but since Free Radical no longer exists where does that put the game? Will Disney shut this all down?
They could try but the cat’s out of the bag now. Especially with public links available, and the anonymity most people process online, it will be nearly impossible to regulate or stop it from spreading.
@@kaijuslayer3334 Anakin: "They will try..."
Its abandonware because the dev team doesnt exist anymore
It doesn't matter who owns star wars, it matters who owns the code. And nobody owns the code
Disney will shut it down because they are evil.
It's criminal that this game was abandoned, and finally some justice has been done here with this restoration.
Oh, wow. This brings me back. I was brought in on a temporary basis to work on the team for BF4, and it always tickled me when the material leaked included stuff that was gonna be used for that, while claimed to be for 3.
Edit: Yep, looks like this is entirely 3, as 4 was nowhere near this far along. For those curious, there was a bunch of character art that was released of the time, including things like Sith Leia, Redeemed Darth Vader. The idea behind the game's story mode basically went like this.
You go through five canon levels as the good guys. After you win each level you get the option to play as the bad guys - and if you win *that* level you unlock a non-canon level where one of the characters swaps sides and things played out very, very differently. You can, of course, play the non-canon levels as either heroes or villains.
I was working on the Yavin IV level, and had the observation that the Death Star run had been done a whole lot, so why not mix things up a bit by providing hangars on the Death Star itself that you could board to stage a brief interior mission? I think that would've been pretty cool to see if they'd implemented it, but alas I was let go before the project went very far.
It’s soon to be 2025 and we’re still talking about that Star Wars Battlefront 3 from ages ago.
I remember kiddo-me grasping for news back in 2008/2009.. good times.
BF3 looks like it’d be on Halo Reach Levels of quality
don't do this to me, don't give me hope!😭
FOR THE REPUBLIC!
10 years? It's been 16 years since it was cancelled.
god bless those who value game preservation
shame this game got cancelled but at least elite squadron and battlefront III legacy mod exist show us what could have been I hope one day battlefront 3 ever become thing.
It’s 99% complete. The bugs will be ironed out and it will be released.
I hope one day it can run on modded Wii’s and Wii U’sn
Best christmas present ever. We got a proper Star Wars Battlefront game.
Mad respect for these guys actually doing this and making battle front 3 PLAYABLE
this looks very good for being a Wii game.
Cant wait for Disney to DMCA it to hell.
now i just hope some people band togeder and pick the better pieces from around the different builds and make it complete and functional, like this would be fire as almost a fully fledged game made with these pieces, add in custom servers held by the fans and you god a top level star wars shooter that far surpasses anything they have done since shooter wise
This really looks amazing, exactly what everyone wanted. I will never understand why we never got this, but we got so much slop instead.
I’ll be honest, I didn’t have “Battlefront III releasing for free on Christmas” on my 2024 Bingo card
If we can get a fully playable online Battlefront 3 that would be amazing.
Fine, we will finish battlefront 3 ourselfs
I must have done something wrong for this to happen
Okay now I'm excited about something to do with Star Wars again i'm going to mod that shit into VR
Omg this is actually insane, amazing!!!!!!
Isn’t it crazy how older games have much more content and way better than games today, I can play KOTOR and have way more fun, and spend more time doing side stuff, while games today are a snooze fest
Load any 2000x games, you will surprise. Even simple spellforce 1 game its so simple but lore game, music, is awesome.
I'm not sure if I got a hold of the PC version or what. All I know is that going from Ground to Space was wonky and there was nothing to do up there other than fly through the CIS doughnuts.
This is more exciting than any other video game news this year. The only thing that could top this is if Ubisoft finally declared bankruptcy lol
Awesome Christmas present
Can appreciate it... but man, I can see partially why it got canned. One of its campaign moments actually involves a tease for The Force Unleashed III, but since that game is a non-entity... this could have been a good game, but being tied to a flawed hack'n'slash sequel to an original standalone with no threequel to resolve it suddenly ruins its stride for me.
The game has around ten thousand downloads in just four days. We all love the Wii
Blessed are those who leak old games for they shall inherit the earth
Was the source code also leaked? If not, if we at least have the debug symbols could allow decompilation
I will never understand why would anyone can a game as ambitious as BFIII, when it's literally 99% complete.
Wow, it's like good things get to exist again
Doing Gods work 🙏🏽
Battlefront 3 IS ACTUALLY BEING RELEASED!
It just took modders and internet roamers to accomplish it.
Just one question. Where is that link?
people forget it was already released just without the number. Battlefront: Elite Squadron is BF3. The story of X1 and X2, the being able to transition from space to planet and the opposite. i swear everyonr forgets that BF3 was already released but just not for PS3
this feels like a trap and i half expect a disney star destroyer to pop out of hyperspace any moment with a lawsuit
"Aw come on man we were right there"
And now the time is, commander.
Sure it maybe playable now by mods, but even jedi would see that there's no hope for a actual battlefront 3 😔
Disney missed an opportunity to remaster this and release it!
So how are Disney/EA/Ubisoft lawyers feeling about this?
This game should have gotten its full home console release.
Where is the link ?
Incoming video of the full campaign one day?
I hope someone leaks Rogue Leaders: Rogue Squadron Wii some day.
Was that rahm kota?
i wouldent say it was never finished. TECHNICALLY it was finished and released but just on a different console. Starwars Battlefront: Elite Squadron for the PSP. The game mechanics are exactly the same just a little bit more limited due to the PSP's hardware. but you could go from space to ground and ground to space. the story is exactly the same X1 and X2 are 2 clones for the republic who discover they have force powers and X1 turns to the darkside and visually looks a little similar to Palpatine meanwhile X2 looks a little similar to Obi-wan and eventually they battle each other. Elite Squadron IS battlefront 3 just without the number
Hope to wait i a bit for if some made mod full version on this game
I'm just worried that Nintendo is going to threaten legal action on the Free Radical Archive Discord. I'm not so worried about Disney with Star Wars stuff. Nintendo has an iron fist about anything they have to do with, even a 15 year old cancelled Wii game.
It remains to make adaptive control for a PC.
Man was so stoked to get to play thet he forgot to give us the link.
WE GOT BATTLEFRONT 3
It's an early Christmas Miracle!!!
What a Christmas gift - I NEED that link
Too bad it never came out. Would have been tons of fun.
Copyright stifles innovation and hurts artists.
It's a Christmas miracle.
Merry Christmas
So when's the console release?