Polygon.com / 20.12.24

Fully playable Star Wars: Battlefront 3 Wii build leaks online

A fully playable Wii build of the third installment in the original Star Wars: Battlefront series recently surfaced online, providing us with the most complete version of the game weve seen since it was canceled 16 years ago. Reportedly found on a Wii test kit discovered at an e-waste recycling center and lovingly restored by fan group Free Radical Archive, the Star Wars: Battlefront 3 build is dated just a week before work on the game came to a halt. As such, its more than eight months further along in the development timeline than an Xbox 360 prototype that got leaked in 2016. Star Wars: Battlefront 3 was an open secret in the video game industry for years. After the success of the first two games in the series, both of which were handled by Pandemic Studios, reports from 2006 indicated LucasArts had shifted development of a third game to Free Radical Design, the studio perhaps best-known at the time for the TimeSplitters series. Work on the project continued for several years and...
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