This is absolutely fascinating. Free Radical, while not only working on the cancelled Battlefront 3, were also in concept mode on Battlefront 4, and now 12 years later, after falling to administration due in part to the collapse of these two projects, they finally see the light of day.
Eurogamer take a closer look at these images and the stories behind them.
This fresh gallery of Star Wars art offers a glimpse at what might have been – had British developer Free Radical Design got to make its Star Wars Battlefront 4.
That’s right, Battlefront 4 – which was already in the planning stages when Free Radical’s promising Battlefront 3 project was shut down, all the way back in 2006.
This gallery of concept images reveals a strikingly different approach – a ‘what if?’ scenario where the events of the Star Wars prequels would play out differently.
Anakin would have killed Yoda and murdered Padmé, which would have caused Obi-Wan and then Luke to fall to the dark side. On the flipside, Darth Maul and Count Dooku would have been Jedi.
Footage from Free Radical’s nearly-complete Battlefront 3 has repeatedly leaked over the years from in-development builds of the game. These showed off Free Radical’s seamless planet surface-to-space gameplay.
Details of Battlefront 4, however, have remained largely unknown.
