{"id":2753,"date":"2013-04-14T14:22:03","date_gmt":"2013-04-14T19:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/?p=2753"},"modified":"2013-04-14T16:05:47","modified_gmt":"2013-04-14T21:05:47","slug":"star-wars-battlefront-iii-what-could-have-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/star-wars-battlefront-iii-what-could-have-been\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars: Battlefront III: What Could Have Been&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With news of Disney shutting down LucasArts, there came a disturbance in the Force&#8230; as if a million voices cried out in terror.<\/p>\n<p>LucasArts was the developer responsible for such classic games as the <em>Monkey Island<\/em> series, the <em>Indiana Jones<\/em> series, <em>Full Throttle<\/em> &amp; <em>Grim Fandango<\/em>. And though those games were all critical &amp; commercial successes, it was the Star Wars games that really got fans excited.<\/p>\n<p>From real-time strategy games such as <em>Empire at War<\/em>, third-person games like <em>The Force Unleashed<\/em> series, and first-person games of the <em>X-Wing<\/em> series, <em>Jedi Knight<\/em> series, and <em>Battlefront<\/em> series, LucasArts allowed us to explore the Star Wars universe like never before.<\/p>\n<p>Here is some leaked multi-player gameplay footage of a project named &#8220;Wingman&#8221; or &#8220;Version Two&#8221; which was allegedly going to be Battlefront III, and it makes the closing of LucasArts all the more painful.<\/p>\n<p>For more on how poorly Disney handled LucasArts, <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/the-last-months-of-lucasarts-472038151\">read this Kotaku article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Note: the footage has no sound.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eqWF51R9KTw?wmode=transparent&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;showsearch=0&amp;rel=1&amp;theme=dark\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\">Kotaku<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With news of Disney shutting down LucasArts, there came a disturbance in the Force&#8230; as if a million voices cried out in terror. LucasArts was the developer responsible for such classic games as the Monkey Island series, the Indiana Jones series, Full Throttle &amp; Grim Fandango. And though those games were all critical &amp; commercial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001004,"featured_media":2782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[632,630,631],"class_list":["post-2753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-battlefront","tag-games","tag-lucasarts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001004"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2753"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2791,"href":"https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753\/revisions\/2791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starwarz.com\/tbone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}