What it isn’t, alas, is TIE Fighter 2, and so while I’ll admit to a certain natural curiosity about the whole thing, I’m afraid the Palpatine pinatas and spiked Dookoolaid will have to wait for another day. Star Wars: First Assault is a downloadable precursor to Battlefront 3. Lucasarts has thus far said nothing about what First Assault may be: It might be a shooter set in the Old Republic, or perhaps it’s a turn-based grand strategy game based on the Battle of Naboo. As you’d expect from a Lucas product, the filings also cover books, toys, pencil cases, sticker albums, non-electronic personal planners and a plethora of other products upon which the Star Wars name may be plastered.
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The filings are for “Interactive entertainment software and accompanying instruction manuals sold as a unit,” in a great many varieties including computer, console, downloadable and mobile-based games. It was all done on the relative down-low, but today it’s come to light that Lucasfilm has also filed a couple of trademarks for the same thing, one for First Assault and one for Star Wars: First Assault. CO.UK domains, were actually filed by the Corporation Service Company, an “internet brand protection agency” of which Lucasfilm is apparently a well-known client. The names, which included three variations of the title across the. Last week, Lucasfilm, the parent company of videogame studio LucasArts, quietly registered a pile of domain names related to something called Star Wars: First Assault. Hopefully, we'll know how we'll be blasting back into a galaxy far, far away in a few weeks time.Lucasfilm appears to be building up to some new Star Wars shenanigans. Still, it'd be odd if the developers scrapped the fairly well known Battlefront game, and went with a different moniker.Įither way, the chances are we may not have long to wait to find out exactly what Star Wars: First Assault is - the last Star Wars game to be announced, Star Wars 1313 went from being rumoured to being unveiled in less than a month.
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Free Radical closed down (and are now owned by German company Crytek), but Battlefront 3 remains at large, with rumours having spread recently that the game's development has been passed to another team, meaning a re-announcement may be on the cards. Battlefront 3 has long been in development at Nottingham based Free Radical, but hit developmental difficulties when Lucasarts inexplicably pulled funding. A team based shooter in the style of the Battlefield games, Star Wars Battlefront was a multiplayer-oriented, online game that saw teams facing off against each other to capture and hold various points on a map, which would then begin to drain the other team of points. On the other hand, the more likely suggestion is that this could well be Star Wars Battlefront 3, just with a new name. Their standard issue blaster is the FWMB-10, but they can also wield the DC-15LE, FWMB-10K, TL-50, and the T-21 like all Heavy units. Their default abilities are Impact Grenade, Sentry, and Combat Shield, though they can be swapped out and/or upgraded with Ability Cards. Star Wars games have been needing to find their roots for a while. The First Order Heavy Assault Stormtrooper is the Heavy unit for the First Order in DICE's Star Wars Battlefront II. While a sequel to these old games may be unlikely, it's something we'd love to see happen.
It did well enough to earn itself a sequel, the imaginatively titled Rebel Assault 2: Hidden Empire, which carried on much in the same way, providing fancier still graphics, cutscenes using real actors, and a storyline which filled the gap between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back. With a mixture of missions set on foot, and those that saw you flying spaceships, Rebel Assault sucked you into the Star Wars universe like no other game that had come before it, with accessible, arcade style gameplay that saw you mostly moving targeting cursors around the screen rather than flying ships for yourself. With fancy graphics for its time, Rebel Assault 2 was a firm favourite of the staff at Outcyders.