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“The Jedi know what they’re doing.” Flash back to the massive amounts of casualties suffered from Geonosis because the Jedi don’t know how to command troops.
Funny how the later build this is on has better graphics than the leaked trailer and leaked builds as if there are even more finished versions or builds of this game out there.
the game was nds and psp exclusive it's called star wars Battlefront elite squadron there also was a game called star wars renegade squadron which was psp exclusive but Battlefront 3 that never came out for ps3/xbox 360 is actually the game elite squadron the with the clones x1/x2 the jedi you saw was master ferroda and yeah don't want to spoiler that much also about the ending
@@LayerZlayer2000 I already know about elite squadron I own it on the psp emulator,what I'm talkin about is the hidden builds out there for battlefront 3 that have yet to be leaked the development wasn't cancelled for a long time witch means theres more gameplay out there we know very little about plus the companies lied about the development and claimed they missed deadlines witch means the devs created more beyond the original inteneded version and there is even a leaked psp version and a ps2 version we have yet to see. If they have all this its a safe bet that when david doke the lead developer stated it was close to finished he wasn't lying and we have only seen early pre alpha builds never his "finished" version. If they even have concept art for battlefront 4 that version has to be out there and just like how all these got leaked at some point so will those.
Where did all of these haters come from? Do they know they're hating on an Alpha build of a cancelled game, with placeholder dialogue and setpieces? Insane how some of these people function.
@@111tykatypka and Squadrons. But they should really make a WW2 style empire tv show from a stormtrooper’s perspective. Or maybe a mud trooper from Solo during the battle of Mimbam. Or make it into a first person game by the developers of Apex Legends. I think Apex has the perfect gaming controls for a 1st person game ever made
I prefer the empire era, I like the idea of people fighting each other with sci fi weapons rather than people fighting droids, and that’s despite the fact that I love the clones
So the clones in legends had a very different mindset to what we see in canon. in The Bad Batch we learn that War is all the clones ever knew and that they don’t want to stop fighting and retire, they cared for the Jedi generals they fought with but the chip in their heads caused them to reluctantly kill the Jedi they fought so hard to protect. However in Legends they felt like slaves fighting a War they never wanted or asked to be created to fight, so when order 66 came in they took it with no hesitation, No inhibitor chips required. I love the parallels here.
Uh. Sort of but not quite. Some thought like that. Others were like what we see in canon clones. Lots of books and comics to read. Commando novels. Dark horse comics. Battlefront 2 campaign knight fall mission talks on how they had thoughts of not wanting to take it on.
Love X1 and X2. I have fond memories of Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron on the PSP from like 2009 ish. I assume they used some parts of BF3’s story for that game. Edit: Turns out ES was actually the BF3 PSP port, it was just renamed.
Even though I hated X1 for killing both his brother and their creator, who healed X2…I felt bad for X2. Who partook in Order 66 and later became a Jedi himself.
@MegaMr46 becoming a Jedi and opening himself up to the Force is something that X2 did as an acknowledgment of his Jedi mentors' forgiveness throughout his life. All x2 needed to do was accept that forgiveness. In the final act, we see that he has.
Wait wait wait. I remember these two clones. X1 and X2. The characters from the star wars battlefront version for nintendo DS. Came out ages ago but i played it up and down. So you‘re telling me i‘ve been playing bf 3 all along??
It’s so buggy and glitchy yet everything about it screams at the potential it had. Classic whimsical map design with complexity and layers. Variable geography as well as sensible strongpoints and chokepoints. Can’t believe this game never got finished. BF2 2005 would’ve been a joke in our collective memories compared to this game at its full potential.
This is like a pre-alpha build of the game. It's said that It was 90+ percent ready when they pulled the plug, which means the final build (the one nobody has ever seen) was probably way better, at worst you would only see some visual bugs and maybe some graphical effects missing, but the overall game would be complete.
@@sirsaltytampon4379 it is, they transferred what they already had onto bf elite squadron but still felt as if we were robbed of something bigger espically 1313
Where did all the BF3 haters in the past few months come from and why are they so ill-informed on the subject? This gameplay here is from a March 2008 build of BF3, while the "90% finished" claim is about the last build of the game when it was cancelled in October 2008. If it was released alongside its DS/PSP ports (that were renamed to Elite Squadron after BF3's cancellation) in November 2009, it would've received more than 1.5 years' worth of development & polishing compared to what you see here.
My guess is all those whining lil disney fanboys were assuming this was a sequel to EA's shitty cashgrab Battlefront 2, not the original Battlefront 2 - thus immediatelly calling it dogshit as it naturally doesn't hold up to graphics of 2017 (let alone modern day) - because it is in fact a 2008-2009ish game. But they dont research anythin, they just assume and comment right away
I get the feeling X1 wouldn't have needed a biochip to partake in Order 66 had that been a thing when this was developed. You can see how glory hungry and resentful he is of the Jedi.
I don't know what they did to him in Kamino, considering how nice Falon Grey (his template) and his brother are, but he was clearly a Sith since birth. His ultimate ascension as a darksider was not only inevitable but also predictable. My only issue with this storyline is that It makes Rahn Kota look like a complete moron in TFU 2 when he says you can't clone a Jedi, considering he served in the GAR with these two. Yes, he did not used Clone because he did not trusted them (SMART FELLA), but It's hard to believe he wouldn't know that two force-sensitive clones were fully introduced into the Republic's army.
@@bigbangrafa8435 I don't think Komino did anything but give him training since X2 turned out okay. The experience of war just affected him differently than his brother, in all the wrong ways. Also this story was never actually released so I guess the writers of Force Unleashed 2 saw no need to reference it.
@@Avenger85438the battlefront 3 story was actually featured in a psp game ( although with less details). Battlefront elite squadron was basically what the devs salvaged after battlefront 3 got cancelled
I think the strangest thing about this game would have been still having the 501st as the main legion you're with. Shame this game was cancelled though
@@9pmInTokyo nope it’s wasn’t it was severely cut back compared to the version in bf3. For example in bf3 the campaign end on kashyyyk, where as in ES it end on mustafar
Played through all of this on the PSP. My God, the potential in that game if they would've made it through... Could've been a landmark achievement for star wars games
You remember EA asking a fan who was working on completeing battlefront 3 to stop working on it bc Battlefront EA was being worked on? Yea, fuck you EA
For something that was said to be 99% done, I would say it was 70% done. It's awesomely ambitious especially for it's time. It looks as finished as Cyberpunk said it was. Playable from start to finish, but lacking the more time of polish required to get out the jank and buggyness. i would love for them to be able to remake all of this. I'm sure there's a Battlefront being made right now. Be foolish not to make one.
yeah you maybe right but we don't really know if this was the latest build when that claim was made. This could have easily been an older build of the game with the latest never to be released to the public.
Yeah, I would be surprised if this was the final version of the game before its cancellation, especially since this was before the whole ''Release the game half finished then patch it out later'' trend became a thing. Don't hope on too much with a BF3 similar to the old ones being in development, at least not as an official title.
And Yet where still waiting for a battlefront 3 for over 13 years at least the original battlefront fans from 2004 and 2005. One of biggest thing we want is ground to space combat still . it’s more than possible now , consoles limitations aren’t any excuse now, the ps5 and Xbox series X have the hardware to handle these types of things . it’s not like ps3 era where pc was the only thing seen that can handle these things . The fans expect if a battlefront 3 ever comes •ground to space combat •Big hero and villain roster •a campaign set in the clone wars and during Order 66 Galactic conquest •More Maps- I would love to have the Jedi temple or Coruscant again ,utapau. •More character types and armor types . I would love if we had 4 eras would be cool , old republic era , clone wars , galactic empire, and if they have to the trash Disney era.
I’ve only just begun watching the video, and all I can think about is how you tried to saw the city in half (when trying to take out the turrets). So much damage, I don’t know if Phil Swift’s Flex Tape could fix it, lol. But good video, outstanding job. 😉👍💯⭐️
Alright, since half of the people who are commenting on this section are just very fucking poor knowlegde of what this video is about, I'm gonna clarify it. First, this "Battlefront 3" is not a sequel to DICE's Battlefront. This game is the original Battlefront 3 which was made as a sequel to the original battlefronts from the 2000s. This is one of the missions supposed to appear in the game. Second, this is a cutscene that is pre-made by the developers around 2008 testing, while they did claim that 99% of the game was finished, no material of the final build was released, which is why this looks very poor from a modern standpoint. Third, for those who complain this is not the Jango's Clone, they are literally not. They are secret clones made by the Kaminoans, using their template as the Jedi apprentice of Rahm Kota, Falon Grey. That explains why don't look like Jango Fett at all in matters. Come on people, is critical thinking and little resreach really have that much problem?
You nailed every point, except the fact that the game was rebranded and released as Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squardon on the PSP. So SWBF3 did exist, it just was locked to a handheld console, and thus had the graphical limitations of a console game (though, it had the ground space features that every other battlefront has lacked.
Both of you nailed it. They're not supposed to be Jango clones. I wish one day we get to see a game like this be given another chance with proper development and time.
Yup, as soon as I heard X-2, I recognized the game: Elite Squadron, baybee! This was fucking awesome as a kid. Custom soldiers, transitioning between orbital and ground-based combat, the plot line, all of it was amazing.
@The Spam no one cares about the psp. Also, yes I already knew that, it's technically battlefront 3, but not really tho. those 2 games are just the remains of all the assets from BF3 and what could've been
@Tyler de Vries yeah I know, it's why I said they need to finish the last mile or 2 then release it. A dev recently confirmed it was almost done, and devs spoke out 10-15 years ago about it being about 90-95% done(and said the 'mile away' statement that I also said), just had a good month left to bug fix/optimize/patch/stabilize then the game would've been done
There's actually a version that was finished and released to the PSP but the cutscenes are picture slides if im remembering right. It also wasn't called Battlefront 3 but something different
no this psp version is near as good as the original BF3 concept. The psp version is a extreme downgraded version of BF3, with almost 70% cuts from the og concept.@@rangerleaf1505
I remember watching the BF3 trailer as a child over and over and over again pumped for it’s released… such a shame they wasn’t able to complete it, I was heartbroken. I never understood why the two clones were different from the rest and honestly didn’t like the idea of that, but since then I’ve become more open to it. Definitely since the “Bad Batch” clone force 99 was introduced. I honestly feel and hope when or if the release of the reboot BF3 comes out, they take a few things out of the OG BF3 we never got to play.. EA or whoever makes the next BF3 if you read this, don’t let us down🙏🏾 Seamless Space to ground battles for the love OF GOD please!! Oh and that execute order 66 scenes was bad ass. The way that clone set the bomb and explain to x1 what they had to do then stepped back and covered his face was TO badass!! I’m happy I was able to see how it ended. I remember watching that scene over and over left on a cliffhanger wondering if the Jedi made it out alive or not.
To be fair this was pretty late in development with almost two and a half years of development behind it. Alot of the unpolished games you speak of like Kong: Skull Island are only as bad as they are because they were either a quick cash grab or were pushed out the door way before they were ready by someone other than the developers. Remember Big Rigs: Over The Road Racing? TL;DR what we got was essentially a pre-alpha of what was planned to be a much bigger game but the publishers wanted the game out immediately.
Played through Elite Squadron on DS. Game play was ass obviously, but I definitely enjoyed the story elements, even if it was cut down. Plus Kota was also introduced here, so I cant complain. Beats the hell out of what we had received from EA's Battlefront campaign.
Bruh. George had nothing to do with either of these projects. He probably got a piece of paper across his desk and was asked to sign it and that was the end of his involvement.
I swear to God I played this on the psp back in the day. Kinda interesting story, don't remember if they were clones or not but it definitely ended with some sort of light and dark struggle at the end possible force sensitivity. A story of brothers and broken ties I guess?
Not how it works, this game was cancelled by Lucasarts far before Disney acquired it. Combined with Devs siphoning money and working on another disaster of a game Haze.
Just so everyone knows this is also from a game I played on PSP that was called star wars rouge one I believe. I cant remember it's been decades but it definitely looked way better than this If featured one of my favorite customization systems I've ever played. You can change the armor, color, and even the body type your character and army as a whole would wear, you could even have those massive clones who I only ever saw in Star wars episode 3 video game when you do survival. I loved this game but I'm not sure if they just rebranded Battlefront 3 to be Rouge one or what but this is still a great game Edit: the game is called Star Wars Elite Squadron and it tells the story of 2 clones created using Jedi DNA(X1 and X2) and as such would later manifest force abilities and even become full fledged Jedi and Sith respectfully. It shows them fighting during the clone wars and after Order 66 they begin having different opinions on the supposed traitorous Jedi and the rise of the Empire. Also, it is indeed the script for Battlefront 3 so if you want too, simply get a PSP or an emulator and download Star Wars Elite Squadron
@@battlefrontarchives it can't be a cut down version of something that never existed and was only in design phase. And although they say some parts were scrapped, the main story was still ported and it still contains all the bits of BF3 that would have been in a true Battlefront title
@@bamaboy5746 yeah sure, the uploader is himself working with the assets, but I guess you know better as someone who knows of the game very recently, I played Elite Squadron too, and have seen all the leaked content of BF3 since 2008 when the first footage of the preAlpha was leaked and can tell you too, Elite Squadron is overall a fraction of what BF3 was supposed to be, even the story lacks a lot of the parts of BF3, while telling the same story.
Ground to air to space combat, amazing customization, and and a story I can tell you about years after playing the game. Yeah I'm sure that a true Battlefront 3 would have been better but Elite Squadron literally is Battlefront 3s story laid bare. The main plot, antagonist, hero, and the impact they made on the post republic era is essentially the story. Regardless of it would have been released as Battlefront 3 or still has Elite Squadron, nothing is missing from the story transfer other than the spit and shine of a polished game.
@@bamaboy5746 I can agree that it was not bad for a psp game of that time, and overall fun, and used the overall story of BF3. The customisations is from Renegade Squadron though, although not the biggest fan of it; but better than not having it. It‘s quite engaging at first, but can become quite repetive, even compared to the console version of BF2, with lesser controls, less troops, more compact maps, less vehicles and turrets, let alone the moddable PC version, but better than the psp BF2 version. What stands out is obviously the space to ground conquest and campaign, compared to all previous battlefront releases and some little extras like melee attacks and combos. but BF3 overall would have been on a different level, the campaign and conquest still looks still more playable in BF3 apart from polished looks. you would have everything from BF2 PC except different maps, like bigger battles, more objects and more detailed maps with transitionless space to ground and more refined proper campaign.
I really wish this would have been a full fleshed out release. Looks even in this early development stage pretty cool. Instead we got the EA Star Wars Battlefronts games.
If you want to know, there is a game for the PSP called battefront Elite squadron, the campaign for that game is basically what this game was going to be, but since it got cancelled, they scrapped everything they could and made it for the psp instead. A shame, I would've loved to see this game make it to consoles. I kinda do agree though that X1 and X2 feel a bit odd in regards to their role in their star wars universe.
@@frankspranks2129also false 75% complete and the reason why it was canceled is that lucaarts loss confidence in them after they failed the major alpha milestone in August
Silly question, but is the boss fight with Ferroda a modded reconstruction using Elite Squadron’s as inspiration? Or is the playable fight from the unmodded leaked build? Don’t recall it on the build we always had, but it’s been forever.
@@Falkriim Oh yeah, I've read the wiki about Free Radical. I just meant if it was a "recreation of the fight" as it happened in PSP, or if the existing build has it implemented already. (Which got answered)
Were there any other singleplayer missions laid out in the build? I'd love to see more, maybe label the videos as Free Radical so people don't get confused.
Hello Battlefront Archives Channel, I' m a STAR WARS Battlefront II player from China. Today I finally find a video of the real Battlefront III Demo. I want more Chinese Battlefront player know the great unfinished game. Can I ask for your permission to reupload (repost) your videos to a Chinese video platform called Bilibili?
@@Lead1121 They were not Jango Fett clones, how would they look like clones? On the contrary of what Disney would tell you (Moff Gideon's delusional Mando Season 3 arc was a disgrace), one cannot make someone force-sensitive thorugh cloning or anything else tbh. Even Darth Plagueis and his midichlorian manipulation did not acomplished that (to the Dark Lord's frustration), so how do you wanted them to make a Jango Fett clone to be a Jedi?
So was squadron elite going to be originally battlefront 3? A lot of the dialog is exactly the same in squadron elite as well as the plot and characters
I can't tell if this is humor or just like myself who wished this game actually came out before being Cancelled in 2008. Not counting the fan-projects or whatever that's trying to release it to the public-ish. We only got the OG Star Wars Battlefront 1 and 2, aside from EA SWBF I and II. Although had it did release, I would definitely play it and say "I love this game as a kid" because that's experience I'll always be fond of had it gotten a chance. (Yes I know the behind-reasons as to why from articles, vids covering it) Just sharing the sentiment that SWBFIII trailer still gave me goosebumps regardless of bait comment or not.
@kieranberry117 pretty good, more lore. Instead of Vjun or Bespin, there was Dathomir. Instead of a huge land battle with tanks and other vehicles, it was a battle against 4 classes of stormtroopers on outer facility platforms. X2 also has a blue saber Instead of green. No VA.
@@Spectrum_Country1028 wow thats sounds pretty cool ill have to try and get my hands on an old copy then and give it a go. Another shame that these games never got a bigger port to other platforms.
@@Kaiber_Phoenix right? I even wrote a huge fanfic with this game as the base layer. I changed a few elements from it to give it an original twist, but the character arcs between the characters are really interesting to use and flesh out with Canon content.
@@battlefrontarchives I wanna ask, is this game getting finished? I mean I know that no mainstream publisher will not touch this project but i know how a fanbase will take matters into their own hands of course with the original creators of the project.
@@kodiak_9169 their had been about 3 attempts to completely recreate the game. Galaxy in Turmoil which was a basically nothing like bf3 and it got dmcaed by Disney. Galactic Civil War which was also not an accurate remake of bf3, but had pretty good space combat. That one was stopped because they where scared of a dmca. Basically bf3 is cursed. I’m remaking the cutscenes in ue5 but that’s about it. bf3 legacy exists tho it’s a mod for bf2. If you wanna learn more about bf3 join the frd archive discord and feel free to ask questions there too
You can find the full story in Elite Squadron. It went from Clone Wars through the Galactic Civil War and beyond it. Spoilers for it in case someone wants to play it: X1 and X2 are Clones of a Jedi named Falon Grey, X2 learns of this after the Rise of the Empire and to late as X1 kills their gene father. X1 goes and becomes a Sith, while X2 becomes a Jedi. They eventually duel to end the game as X1 unintentionally kills himself.
Imagine if BFIII wasn't cancelled. All that gameplay and the mods. It would have been loved even today just like Classic BF1 and BF2
“The Jedi know what they’re doing.” Flash back to the massive amounts of casualties suffered from Geonosis because the Jedi don’t know how to command troops.
I see the algorithm has reunited us once again brothers. 😎
I searched for this
@@farsight8520 even better
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For the republic!
Master Farada in the cutscene: 💪
Master Farada in gameplay: 🫠
Funny how the later build this is on has better graphics than the leaked trailer and leaked builds as if there are even more finished versions or builds of this game out there.
The whole story of this game is done i know the entire story 🥰
the game was nds and psp exclusive it's called star wars Battlefront elite squadron there also was a game called star wars renegade squadron which was psp exclusive but Battlefront 3 that never came out for ps3/xbox 360 is actually the game elite squadron the with the clones x1/x2 the jedi you saw was master ferroda and yeah don't want to spoiler that much also about the ending
@@LayerZlayer2000 Elite Squadron tells the story BF3 was going to?
@@Nidstang_ Not quite
@@LayerZlayer2000 I already know about elite squadron I own it on the psp emulator,what I'm talkin about is the hidden builds out there for battlefront 3 that have yet to be leaked the development wasn't cancelled for a long time witch means theres more gameplay out there we know very little about plus the companies lied about the development and claimed they missed deadlines witch means the devs created more beyond the original inteneded version and there is even a leaked psp version and a ps2 version we have yet to see.
If they have all this its a safe bet that when david doke the lead developer stated it was close to finished he wasn't lying and we have only seen early pre alpha builds never his "finished" version. If they even have concept art for battlefront 4 that version has to be out there and just like how all these got leaked at some point so will those.
Where did all of these haters come from? Do they know they're hating on an Alpha build of a cancelled game, with placeholder dialogue and setpieces? Insane how some of these people function.
Critical thinking is a rare skill nowadays
Cry more
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They are gen z, logic isn't in their vocabulary. "If droids could think, there'd be none of us here."
Fun fact, the average IQ is dropping.
They should remaster this story for Battlefront 3. I’m sure all of us Star Wars fans are tired of Empire era stories
i am tired of rebels and resistance i want one for empire and without stupid side switching like iden
@@111tykatypka and Squadrons. But they should really make a WW2 style empire tv show from a stormtrooper’s perspective. Or maybe a mud trooper from Solo during the battle of Mimbam. Or make it into a first person game by the developers of Apex Legends. I think Apex has the perfect gaming controls for a 1st person game ever made
I prefer the empire era, I like the idea of people fighting each other with sci fi weapons rather than people fighting droids, and that’s despite the fact that I love the clones
@multicreativeartist6579 Respawn is working on another Star Wars game that isn't the Jedi games, hopefully we get an awesome Star Wars FPS soon.
Anyone but EA
When the dev said "We're robbed" the dev didn't lie
So the clones in legends had a very different mindset to what we see in canon. in The Bad Batch we learn that War is all the clones ever knew and that they don’t want to stop fighting and retire, they cared for the Jedi generals they fought with but the chip in their heads caused them to reluctantly kill the Jedi they fought so hard to protect. However in Legends they felt like slaves fighting a War they never wanted or asked to be created to fight, so when order 66 came in they took it with no hesitation, No inhibitor chips required. I love the parallels here.
Both are pretty interesting takes on the clones and it's kinda neat they take some of the later in Bad Batch.
Uh. Sort of but not quite. Some thought like that. Others were like what we see in canon clones. Lots of books and comics to read. Commando novels. Dark horse comics. Battlefront 2 campaign knight fall mission talks on how they had thoughts of not wanting to take it on.
Legends is far superior.
The chips were such a cop-out, they just didn't want Timmy to feel sad that his favorite clone trooper shot his general.
"Hurry up X-2, your needed on the ground!"
"Yea sorry about that commander, our pilot's AI was never finished..."
Love X1 and X2.
I have fond memories of Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron on the PSP from like 2009 ish.
I assume they used some parts of BF3’s story for that game.
Edit: Turns out ES was actually the BF3 PSP port, it was just renamed.
Even though I hated X1 for killing both his brother and their creator, who healed X2…I felt bad for X2. Who partook in Order 66 and later became a Jedi himself.
@MegaMr46 becoming a Jedi and opening himself up to the Force is something that X2 did as an acknowledgment of his Jedi mentors' forgiveness throughout his life. All x2 needed to do was accept that forgiveness. In the final act, we see that he has.
Wait wait wait. I remember these two clones. X1 and X2. The characters from the star wars battlefront version for nintendo DS. Came out ages ago but i played it up and down. So you‘re telling me i‘ve been playing bf 3 all along??
Yes. That is correct.
That might be the greatest plot twist of my life.
On psp too
I wouldnt be surprised if fans somehow finished this game in like 7 years 💀
It’s so buggy and glitchy yet everything about it screams at the potential it had. Classic whimsical map design with complexity and layers. Variable geography as well as sensible strongpoints and chokepoints. Can’t believe this game never got finished. BF2 2005 would’ve been a joke in our collective memories compared to this game at its full potential.
This is like a pre-alpha build of the game. It's said that It was 90+ percent ready when they pulled the plug, which means the final build (the one nobody has ever seen) was probably way better, at worst you would only see some visual bugs and maybe some graphical effects missing, but the overall game would be complete.
"The traitor is dead" >:(
"You killed your first Jedi" :D
This pisses me off how we never got this game literally fuming
Somewhere in a alternate timeline we would have been given this masterpiece
This legit looks exactly like star wars battlefront elite squadron
@@sirsaltytampon4379 it is, they transferred what they already had onto bf elite squadron but still felt as if we were robbed of something bigger espically 1313
Remember when Star Wars was somewhat believable fantasy scifi world?
That makes no sense at all
@@MegaMaster1021 Explain how you came to that conclusion.
@@Dasistrite how is the world of Star Wars anyway different from what is it now
How was it more believe able back than compared to now
@@MegaMaster1021 Read Republic Commando novels by Karen Traviss.
@@Dasistrite Imperial Commando too
Where did all the BF3 haters in the past few months come from and why are they so ill-informed on the subject? This gameplay here is from a March 2008 build of BF3, while the "90% finished" claim is about the last build of the game when it was cancelled in October 2008. If it was released alongside its DS/PSP ports (that were renamed to Elite Squadron after BF3's cancellation) in November 2009, it would've received more than 1.5 years' worth of development & polishing compared to what you see here.
We got a few.
My guess is all those whining lil disney fanboys were assuming this was a sequel to EA's shitty cashgrab Battlefront 2, not the original Battlefront 2 - thus immediatelly calling it dogshit as it naturally doesn't hold up to graphics of 2017 (let alone modern day) - because it is in fact a 2008-2009ish game.
But they dont research anythin, they just assume and comment right away
this is upsetting to watch… we couldve had this
No not the tragedy of Darth Lucas Arts the wise 😭
I get the feeling X1 wouldn't have needed a biochip to partake in Order 66 had that been a thing when this was developed. You can see how glory hungry and resentful he is of the Jedi.
I don't know what they did to him in Kamino, considering how nice Falon Grey (his template) and his brother are, but he was clearly a Sith since birth. His ultimate ascension as a darksider was not only inevitable but also predictable. My only issue with this storyline is that It makes Rahn Kota look like a complete moron in TFU 2 when he says you can't clone a Jedi, considering he served in the GAR with these two. Yes, he did not used Clone because he did not trusted them (SMART FELLA), but It's hard to believe he wouldn't know that two force-sensitive clones were fully introduced into the Republic's army.
@@bigbangrafa8435 I don't think Komino did anything but give him training since X2 turned out okay. The experience of war just affected him differently than his brother, in all the wrong ways.
Also this story was never actually released so I guess the writers of Force Unleashed 2 saw no need to reference it.
@@Avenger85438the battlefront 3 story was actually featured in a psp game ( although with less details). Battlefront elite squadron was basically what the devs salvaged after battlefront 3 got cancelled
I think the strangest thing about this game would have been still having the 501st as the main legion you're with. Shame this game was cancelled though
501st was arguably broken up and used as elite troops to reinforce across the outer rim sieges
I wish I was in the alternate universe where this game fully released and became as good as the original Battlefront 2
This and the many other cancelled Lucasarts Star Wars games.
It so weird that we played a bit of the story of battlefront 3 but only on the psp
I thought they had the whole campaign on PSP i remember playing it tho
Whole story was ported to Elite Squadron.
@@9pmInTokyo nope it’s wasn’t it was severely cut back compared to the version in bf3. For example in bf3 the campaign end on kashyyyk, where as in ES it end on mustafar
Played through all of this on the PSP. My God, the potential in that game if they would've made it through... Could've been a landmark achievement for star wars games
This was the star wars game i dreamed of as a kid ;-;
You remember EA asking a fan who was working on completeing battlefront 3 to stop working on it bc Battlefront EA was being worked on? Yea, fuck you EA
Asked? 😂
@@BungieStudios
"Asked" as in "Threatened legally to sue from head to toe".
For something that was said to be 99% done, I would say it was 70% done. It's awesomely ambitious especially for it's time.
It looks as finished as Cyberpunk said it was. Playable from start to finish, but lacking the more time of polish required to get out the jank and buggyness.
i would love for them to be able to remake all of this. I'm sure there's a Battlefront being made right now. Be foolish not to make one.
agree
yeah you maybe right but we don't really know if this was the latest build when that claim was made. This could have easily been an older build of the game with the latest never to be released to the public.
Yeah, I would be surprised if this was the final version of the game before its cancellation, especially since this was before the whole ''Release the game half finished then patch it out later'' trend became a thing. Don't hope on too much with a BF3 similar to the old ones being in development, at least not as an official title.
And Yet where still waiting for a battlefront 3 for over 13 years at least the original battlefront fans from 2004 and 2005.
One of biggest thing we want is ground to space combat still . it’s more than possible now , consoles limitations aren’t any excuse now, the ps5 and Xbox series X have the hardware to handle these types of things .
it’s not like ps3 era where pc was the only thing seen that can handle these things .
The fans expect if a battlefront 3 ever comes
•ground to space combat
•Big hero and villain roster
•a campaign set in the clone wars and during Order 66
Galactic conquest
•More Maps- I would love to have the Jedi temple or Coruscant again ,utapau.
•More character types and armor types .
I would love if we had 4 eras would be cool , old republic era , clone wars , galactic empire, and if they have to the trash Disney era.
Galactic conquest
@@exoticbutters4212 I forgot that , yes 1000%
@@exoticbutters4212 I started playing Star Wars battlefront 2 2005 again on Xbox and I would love if they opened the servers again .
@@Greaseball_gamer I mean, there are still servers online for PC, but they're kinda shit
@@Greaseball_gamer insignia is a thing or is suppose to be anyway czcams.com/video/KiWe9aZ0I8U/video.html people might play when it launches
My fav part is when the clone who doesn't look like Jango Fett questioned order 66, and him one shotting tanks in a tank.
TEANK RISCONNED FLAF FHERMESTO
The story of X1 and X2 is how they weren’t cloned from Jango, but from a Jedi named Fallon Grey I believe.
That’s dumb. Why do we need more clones questioning the order
I really hope the guys behind the Legacy mod for SWBFf2 end up bringing this campaign to life.
Ah X1 and X2. I miss these guys. I wish they made this game with every fiber of my being. Anyone else here play Battlefront Elite Squadron?
Was a goat game, I wish this game could be export to pc
@@alexisalfaro1161 oh that would be amazing
@@LostEmpireProduction If EA is realizing BF3 I would like they remake the story of this game...
The loss of this game is a travesty.
I’ve only just begun watching the video, and all I can think about is how you tried to saw the city in half (when trying to take out the turrets). So much damage, I don’t know if Phil Swift’s Flex Tape could fix it, lol. But good video, outstanding job. 😉👍💯⭐️
Alright, since half of the people who are commenting on this section are just very fucking poor knowlegde of what this video is about, I'm gonna clarify it. First, this "Battlefront 3" is not a sequel to DICE's Battlefront. This game is the original Battlefront 3 which was made as a sequel to the original battlefronts from the 2000s. This is one of the missions supposed to appear in the game.
Second, this is a cutscene that is pre-made by the developers around 2008 testing, while they did claim that 99% of the game was finished, no material of the final build was released, which is why this looks very poor from a modern standpoint.
Third, for those who complain this is not the Jango's Clone, they are literally not. They are secret clones made by the Kaminoans, using their template as the Jedi apprentice of Rahm Kota, Falon Grey. That explains why don't look like Jango Fett at all in matters.
Come on people, is critical thinking and little resreach really have that much problem?
You nailed every point, except the fact that the game was rebranded and released as Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squardon on the PSP. So SWBF3 did exist, it just was locked to a handheld console, and thus had the graphical limitations of a console game (though, it had the ground space features that every other battlefront has lacked.
Both of you nailed it. They're not supposed to be Jango clones. I wish one day we get to see a game like this be given another chance with proper development and time.
Critical thinking? In _MY_ internet? 🤔
Game developers have become the empire, we remember the golden age but they took it away from us and now we are shrouded in darkness
Before the dark times. Before Disney.
The story’s definitely fanfic-esque cringy, but the core game itself probably would’ve been so fucking fun. At least we got it on PSP anyway
And that psp gameplay was garbage 👎
Better than anything Disney has spewn out of their filthy mouths! :D
Filoni opinion
Yup, as soon as I heard X-2, I recognized the game: Elite Squadron, baybee!
This was fucking awesome as a kid. Custom soldiers, transitioning between orbital and ground-based combat, the plot line, all of it was amazing.
That’s because Battlefront 3’s assets and storyline were recycled for Elite Squadron.
As much as I wanted this game to come out, without a doubt the story would've been mad ass
no way, this looks like a pretty good story.
Leagues better than EA Battlefront and the Sequel trilogy.
@@prufan This is bottom tier fanfiction writing lmao
@@prufan This story was recycled for star war battlefront elite sqaudron for PSP. It's not good and make zero sense.
@@prufan shut up
@@drekiskrek5008 nah I seen worst lol
The tragedy of this game is the equivalent of the Seattle Seahawks throwing at the 1yd line at the super bowl. We got robbed.
Damnit, I WANT THIS GAME!!!!!!!!!
Someone find and take the game, finish the last mile or 2 of the game left and then release it
It was 99 % done at the time
believe it or not, this game was released for the psp as battlefront elite squadron right after it got cancelled.
@The Spam no one cares about the psp.
Also, yes I already knew that, it's technically battlefront 3, but not really tho. those 2 games are just the remains of all the assets from BF3 and what could've been
@Tyler de Vries yeah I know, it's why I said they need to finish the last mile or 2 then release it. A dev recently confirmed it was almost done, and devs spoke out 10-15 years ago about it being about 90-95% done(and said the 'mile away' statement that I also said), just had a good month left to bug fix/optimize/patch/stabilize then the game would've been done
Never forget what they stole from us
Disney
@@specialkidz3808 ?? BF3 was cancelled several years before the Disney takeover
We starwars fans always have to get our hearts broken by corporations
Isn’t this basically just the plot of battlefront elite squadron?
Yes correct 👍
Yeah it got reworked into Elite Squadron
I know its all place-holder but that dialogue is atrocious.
This is an actual game.... not a bad one iether
What‘s atrocious about it?
Not gonna lie, as jank as it looks I would still love to play this game.
No way this game was 99% complete before they pull the plugs thank god for modders bringing this masterpiece back to life
There's actually a version that was finished and released to the PSP but the cutscenes are picture slides if im remembering right.
It also wasn't called Battlefront 3 but something different
Star Wars Battlefront Elite Squadron
no this psp version is near as good as the original BF3 concept. The psp version is a extreme downgraded version of BF3, with almost 70% cuts from the og concept.@@rangerleaf1505
It wasn’t 75 is a better estimation
I remember watching the BF3 trailer as a child over and over and over again pumped for it’s released… such a shame they wasn’t able to complete it, I was heartbroken. I never understood why the two clones were different from the rest and honestly didn’t like the idea of that, but since then I’ve become more open to it. Definitely since the “Bad Batch” clone force 99 was introduced. I honestly feel and hope when or if the release of the reboot BF3 comes out, they take a few things out of the OG BF3 we never got to play.. EA or whoever makes the next BF3 if you read this, don’t let us down🙏🏾
Seamless Space to ground battles for the love OF GOD please!!
Oh and that execute order 66 scenes was bad ass. The way that clone set the bomb and explain to x1 what they had to do then stepped back and covered his face was TO badass!! I’m happy I was able to see how it ended. I remember watching that scene over and over left on a cliffhanger wondering if the Jedi made it out alive or not.
The fact that this is more polished than a lot of newly released games is unreal
This would’ve been awesome if they released it!!
To be fair this was pretty late in development with almost two and a half years of development behind it.
Alot of the unpolished games you speak of like Kong: Skull Island are only as bad as they are because they were either a quick cash grab or were pushed out the door way before they were ready by someone other than the developers.
Remember Big Rigs: Over The Road Racing? TL;DR what we got was essentially a pre-alpha of what was planned to be a much bigger game but the publishers wanted the game out immediately.
putting aside the gameplay, I personally much prefer BF2 having no main characters over BF3 having boring main characters
Played through Elite Squadron on DS. Game play was ass obviously, but I definitely enjoyed the story elements, even if it was cut down. Plus Kota was also introduced here, so I cant complain. Beats the hell out of what we had received from EA's Battlefront campaign.
PSP version was way better closest you’ll get to what would’ve been the console version
Ah, I see. A men of culture, you are.
I think the same. The gameplay was shit, but the story... MY GOD was good!
Ayo that Jedi was throwing hands
Big brained idea. Cloning Jedi :O
This would've been the PS2's swang song... If it was finished and released. Omfg. It would've been AWESOME!
It was for PS3. Battlefront II was on PS2's swan song.
oh my god, this coupled with Force Unleashed makes something beautiful, George Lucas canon is something else
Bruh. George had nothing to do with either of these projects. He probably got a piece of paper across his desk and was asked to sign it and that was the end of his involvement.
I remember a psp game that allowed u to either be a good soldier or evil u was a clone and u helped the rebel alliance
That game was basically the same plot as this
yep, star wars elite squadron
the boss fight at the end was so funny
While I think the story sucks, it musta have sucked for the devs to know this game was pretty much done but company politics killed it
Nah the devs killed the game itself by underdelivering and making a shitty game called Haze.
I swear to God I played this on the psp back in the day. Kinda interesting story, don't remember if they were clones or not but it definitely ended with some sort of light and dark struggle at the end possible force sensitivity. A story of brothers and broken ties I guess?
Yeah you would have as Battlefront 3 was canceled and elements of the story made its way to the PSP version of Battlefront Elite Squadron
Is it just me or does that Blue Jedi sound kinda like a more Scottish version of Magnus the Red from Warhammer TTS?
Played the DS version of it as a kid so many times over, lol, amazing story and so much fun to play.
Thnaks disney for giving EA the rights and cancelling everything that could have been good with star wars
Not how it works, this game was cancelled by Lucasarts far before Disney acquired it. Combined with Devs siphoning money and working on another disaster of a game Haze.
@@klutzspecter3470 try again
Just so everyone knows this is also from a game I played on PSP that was called star wars rouge one I believe. I cant remember it's been decades but it definitely looked way better than this
If featured one of my favorite customization systems I've ever played. You can change the armor, color, and even the body type your character and army as a whole would wear, you could even have those massive clones who I only ever saw in Star wars episode 3 video game when you do survival. I loved this game but I'm not sure if they just rebranded Battlefront 3 to be Rouge one or what but this is still a great game
Edit: the game is called Star Wars Elite Squadron and it tells the story of 2 clones created using Jedi DNA(X1 and X2) and as such would later manifest force abilities and even become full fledged Jedi and Sith respectfully. It shows them fighting during the clone wars and after Order 66 they begin having different opinions on the supposed traitorous Jedi and the rise of the Empire. Also, it is indeed the script for Battlefront 3 so if you want too, simply get a PSP or an emulator and download Star Wars Elite Squadron
its not the same as elite squadron, es is a very very cut down version of bf3 it plays nothing like this version
@@battlefrontarchives it can't be a cut down version of something that never existed and was only in design phase. And although they say some parts were scrapped, the main story was still ported and it still contains all the bits of BF3 that would have been in a true Battlefront title
@@bamaboy5746 yeah sure, the uploader is himself working with the assets, but I guess you know better as someone who knows of the game very recently, I played Elite Squadron too, and have seen all the leaked content of BF3 since 2008 when the first footage of the preAlpha was leaked and can tell you too, Elite Squadron is overall a fraction of what BF3 was supposed to be, even the story lacks a lot of the parts of BF3, while telling the same story.
Ground to air to space combat, amazing customization, and and a story I can tell you about years after playing the game. Yeah I'm sure that a true Battlefront 3 would have been better but Elite Squadron literally is Battlefront 3s story laid bare. The main plot, antagonist, hero, and the impact they made on the post republic era is essentially the story. Regardless of it would have been released as Battlefront 3 or still has Elite Squadron, nothing is missing from the story transfer other than the spit and shine of a polished game.
@@bamaboy5746 I can agree that it was not bad for a psp game of that time, and overall fun, and used the overall story of BF3. The customisations is from Renegade Squadron though, although not the biggest fan of it; but better than not having it. It‘s quite engaging at first, but can become quite repetive, even compared to the console version of BF2, with lesser controls, less troops, more compact maps, less vehicles and turrets, let alone the moddable PC version, but better than the psp BF2 version. What stands out is obviously the space to ground conquest and campaign, compared to all previous battlefront releases and some little extras like melee attacks and combos.
but BF3 overall would have been on a different level, the campaign and conquest still looks still more playable in BF3 apart from polished looks. you would have everything from BF2 PC except different maps, like bigger battles, more objects and more detailed maps with transitionless space to ground and more refined proper campaign.
if this game released it would've been sooooo badass. sadge
I'm fucking crying man what couldve been if this made it to consoles. Everything EA could never possibly achieve
I really wish this would have been a full fleshed out release. Looks even in this early development stage pretty cool. Instead we got the EA Star Wars Battlefronts games.
Great games
@@youtubeisfullofnerds5767 souless game with planned gamble boxes before they gave them away for 'free'.
That’s definitely Sam Witwer as palpatine
Correct!
That and I’m pretty sure one of the guys over the radio is James Arnold Taylor
They oughtta port this game to console like they did that dead effect game.. it’d probably sell a few.
Anyone got a Time Machine to go back and get this game finished?
ikr
it was nearly finished according to its devs. Only thing left was some more QA tesing and after that publishing the game
oh elite squadron good old psp game that was actualy battfront 3. i played the story of x1 and x2 it was good we need a remaster
We need a good studio to revive the old project. Imagine the concepts of this game with Unreal Engine 🤯
That X1 and X2 stuff is kinda goofy but it would have been interesting anyway. I really wonder what the final result of this game would have been.
bruh this was made in 2007 of course it is
If you want to know, there is a game for the PSP called battefront Elite squadron, the campaign for that game is basically what this game was going to be, but since it got cancelled, they scrapped everything they could and made it for the psp instead. A shame, I would've loved to see this game make it to consoles. I kinda do agree though that X1 and X2 feel a bit odd in regards to their role in their star wars universe.
The crazy thing is there was a battlefront 3 already complete and was going to release and last second it got pulled
This is false unless your reffering to first assault
false, game was nowhere near completion, thats the reason they scrapped it
@@frankspranks2129also false 75% complete and the reason why it was canceled is that lucaarts loss confidence in them after they failed the major alpha milestone in August
That is just one of many reasons
I hate how they just threw this game out as a low end PsP game...
Silly question, but is the boss fight with Ferroda a modded reconstruction using Elite Squadron’s as inspiration? Or is the playable fight from the unmodded leaked build? Don’t recall it on the build we always had, but it’s been forever.
No that’s completely unchanged that’s how it is in the build
@@battlefrontarchives Thanks for the speedy response! Cool
Elite Squadron is the PSP port of BF3. Just renamed
@@Falkriim Oh yeah, I've read the wiki about Free Radical. I just meant if it was a "recreation of the fight" as it happened in PSP, or if the existing build has it implemented already. (Which got answered)
@@Ghosty6464
Oh I see
Looks better than the new games!
You gotta get your eyes checked
Were there any other singleplayer missions laid out in the build? I'd love to see more, maybe label the videos as Free Radical so people don't get confused.
Hello Battlefront Archives Channel, I' m a STAR WARS Battlefront II player from China. Today I finally find a video of the real Battlefront III Demo. I want more Chinese Battlefront player know the great unfinished game. Can I ask for your permission to reupload (repost) your videos to a Chinese video platform called Bilibili?
Yes do it
Do it
Idk how people can hate on x1 and x2 they're great characters
I just hated how they didnt have helmets and didnt look like clones. Just me though
@Lead1121 ngl them having helmets felt like they didn't fear going into battle. That's kinda one of the reasons why I found them cool.
@@Lead1121 They were not Jango Fett clones, how would they look like clones? On the contrary of what Disney would tell you (Moff Gideon's delusional Mando Season 3 arc was a disgrace), one cannot make someone force-sensitive thorugh cloning or anything else tbh. Even Darth Plagueis and his midichlorian manipulation did not acomplished that (to the Dark Lord's frustration), so how do you wanted them to make a Jango Fett clone to be a Jedi?
Didn't want them to be force sensitive@@bigbangrafa8435
So was squadron elite going to be originally battlefront 3? A lot of the dialog is exactly the same in squadron elite as well as the plot and characters
@@capofantasma97 Elite squadron was bf3’s ds and psp ports rebranded. They weren’t salvage jobs
Sad... I want to play it
where can you find this updated build from Cocco?
Fun Fact Battlefront 3 Kinda Existed But In the Version Of Star wars Elite Squardron On PSP ( And Yes I Have played it and It Is Quite the same )
It was also on the DS fun fact
This is actually really cool for how unfinished it is. A shame Disney has their own foot so far up their ass they don't want to do cool stuff
Before Arcann and Thexan
FOR THE REPUBLIC!!!!
FOR THE CLONE ARMY!!!
YEAH!!!
Why do the droids sound like cybermen 😂
Placeholder voicelines
i loved this game as a kid
I can't tell if this is humor or just like myself who wished this game actually came out before being Cancelled in 2008. Not counting the fan-projects or whatever that's trying to release it to the public-ish. We only got the OG Star Wars Battlefront 1 and 2, aside from EA SWBF I and II. Although had it did release, I would definitely play it and say "I love this game as a kid" because that's experience I'll always be fond of had it gotten a chance. (Yes I know the behind-reasons as to why from articles, vids covering it) Just sharing the sentiment that SWBFIII trailer still gave me goosebumps regardless of bait comment or not.
@masterchief9177 it came out I had it on ds battlefront elite squadron
@@dropshockersthis wasn’t elite squadron bro xD
@ironjavelin7482 no it was the entire story with x1 and x2
@@ironjavelin7482bf3 became elite squadron
Isn't this story just Elite Squadron? I remember playing the DS version lol
Elite Squadrons was made using assets from BF3. It was like a stepped down/reduced version.
@@SuperMage21 Ah I see, that makes sense!
Damn elite squadron i remember this back on the psp shame it never got a port on any ither platform
Nintendo DS has a version of it
@@Spectrum_Country1028 did it? Huh never knew that what was that version like ws it any good?
@kieranberry117 pretty good, more lore. Instead of Vjun or Bespin, there was Dathomir. Instead of a huge land battle with tanks and other vehicles, it was a battle against 4 classes of stormtroopers on outer facility platforms. X2 also has a blue saber Instead of green.
No VA.
@@Spectrum_Country1028 wow thats sounds pretty cool ill have to try and get my hands on an old copy then and give it a go. Another shame that these games never got a bigger port to other platforms.
@@Kaiber_Phoenix right? I even wrote a huge fanfic with this game as the base layer. I changed a few elements from it to give it an original twist, but the character arcs between the characters are really interesting to use and flesh out with Canon content.
where does all this footage originate from? why does this not get more coverage?
You can play the build rn I recorded it myself. However any footage from a later build that people have posted was leaked
@@battlefrontarchives I wanna ask, is this game getting finished? I mean I know that no mainstream publisher will not touch this project but i know how a fanbase will take matters into their own hands of course with the original creators of the project.
@@kodiak_9169 their had been about 3 attempts to completely recreate the game. Galaxy in Turmoil which was a basically nothing like bf3 and it got dmcaed by Disney. Galactic Civil War which was also not an accurate remake of bf3, but had pretty good space combat. That one was stopped because they where scared of a dmca.
Basically bf3 is cursed. I’m remaking the cutscenes in ue5 but that’s about it. bf3 legacy exists tho it’s a mod for bf2. If you wanna learn more about bf3 join the frd archive discord and feel free to ask questions there too
@@battlefrontarchives cutscenes remade in UE5 sounds SICK, whats the discord? i was hoping to find potentially all the cutscenes in order
I think there is already an official complete version, it's the psp port called Star wars battlefront elite squadron
19:30 "So anyway, I started blasting."
Those poor defenseless droids!!
Oh gosh PTSD 😢
The pilot ran into 2 buildings before he landed and he’s literally a computer player on a set path
Good to see y’all again
So, what is the story ? Why are there 2 non clone or Jedis that we play as ? I'm curious about it
The story (most of the game really) got recycled into Elite Squadron so IIRC they're X1 and X2 and they're clones of a jedi and not Jango clones
@@aSkyclad i see, thanks man !
@@aSkyclad yeah i remember playing it on psp..their story is tragic
You can find the full story in Elite Squadron. It went from Clone Wars through the Galactic Civil War and beyond it.
Spoilers for it in case someone wants to play it:
X1 and X2 are Clones of a Jedi named Falon Grey, X2 learns of this after the Rise of the Empire and to late as X1 kills their gene father. X1 goes and becomes a Sith, while X2 becomes a Jedi. They eventually duel to end the game as X1 unintentionally kills himself.
He was giving those clones the 2 piece combo with the soda LMAO
No shit this was cancelled right before release it needed 3 more years in the oven minimum.
TBH I agree it needed a good bit more work. The person who claimed they were 90% complete was exaggerating.
1. This was the pre alpha build, you nerfherder
2. [Reported for treason]
Old build...
The only build that made it out was a pre-alpha build, the latest one would have been much more polished.
@@Artemystexactly lmao, funny how many people watch a video a think they’re watching the latest build
Interesting...
Very..
Interesting...