Fri, Jan 29, 2010 | 14:34 GMT
Rumour – SOCOM: Confrontation devs working on Battlefront Online
SOCOM: Confrontation developers Slant Six Games are working on a new Battlefront game with LucasArts, known thus far as Battlefront Online.
That’s according to a rumour from Kotaku.
Obviously, the name implies it is online only.
The rumour states it is currently in pre-production, with a 2011 release for the game on PS3 and 360.
It seems this has now become what Battlefront III used to be.
Free Radical, who were rumoured to be the original developer of the now possibly canned game altogether, went into administration before Christmas of 2008.
They were soon bought out by Crysis developer Crytek, first confirmation of which came from Haze writer, Rob Yescombe.
Nothing has been heard out of Battlefront since last year, when leaked footage of the shooter appeared online.
There was, before Christmas of last year, talk of it still existing, however.
Casting director Chris Marazzo confirmed it was still alive, but the Kotaku report cites it was actually for Battlefront Online, and not BFIII.
Shizzam.
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Posted in: Hot, Lucasarts, PS3, Shooter, Xbox 360
Tags: Battlefrot Online, Slant Six Games
16 comments
#1
onlineatron
29/01/10, 11:13 am
Wait, Battlefront has always been online :/
Plus, if confrontation is anything to go by, Slant Six aren’t that great of a dev team
#2
Ghost_Dog
29/01/10, 11:17 am
It’s going to suck then.
SOCOM Confrontation was shit.
#3
Johnny Cullen
29/01/10, 11:21 am
onlineatron – Online modes, really. It just wasn’t FULLY online.
Battlefront 2 had a proper single plater story, so if this is true, that is out the window.
#4
onlineatron
29/01/10, 11:23 am
Ah man
#5
Ves
29/01/10, 11:28 am
There goes a possible good title down the drain. It’s going to take them a year after its out to get it right.
I wonder why LucasArt picked Slant Six.
#6
mington
29/01/10, 11:43 am
imagine doing the whole:
running over to a spaceship, taking off, flying into space, landing on a bigger space ship and getting out all in real time
in a single player game, that would rule!
doing it in a multiplayer game would be fun and all that but it might get abit tiresome going backwards and forwards in a capture the flag or domination game.
although…if it was done battlefield style (which it will do as its battlefield), where you conquer the map a base at a time, and the final base is the spaceship, that would be really good, i take it all back
#7
onlineatron
29/01/10, 11:53 am
@mington
I remember reading that the tech being used to do the whole from land to space thing was owned by Free Radical and had stayed with them… any futher battlefront titles would use a transition screen.
Starhawk is what I have my hopes on for that kinda experience!
#8
mington
29/01/10, 12:13 pm
transition screen, what like a star wars diagonal screen wipe
sad face
#9
Talyis
29/01/10, 12:42 pm
Hmm I thought Slant Six Worked for Sony!
#10
mojo
29/01/10, 1:02 pm
sadface much!!
Absolute shit this is.
I want BF3, ffs
not some online bullshit whatsoever..
absolute rubbish.
#11
Johnny Cullen
29/01/10, 1:05 pm
Talyis – S6 are third-party.
#12
Dralen
29/01/10, 2:02 pm
Lol
#13
AHA-Lambda
29/01/10, 2:25 pm
hmm little disappointing there
#14
Yoshi
29/01/10, 7:47 pm
Thanks S6 you’ve just fucked up another title that could have been epic and ruined its name… WELL FUCKING DONE! *SLAP*
#15
Cess
29/01/10, 10:41 pm
Fuck Slant Six and their shitty work on Confrontation. Rather than fixing the game to make it playable, they decided to fix one thing while breaking another, then having the audacity to release DLC and expect people to put more money up just to make the game even remotely playable?
Slant Six should be smashed into little bits.
#16
Talyis
30/01/10, 12:11 am
@Johnny Cullen-I just checked and Slant Six is listed as a 2nd party so I guess we were both wrong!