Xbox 360 Star Wars: First Assault (Cancelado)

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It seems that Star Wars: First Assault, a Lucasfilm-trademarked title that was discovered earlier in 2012 by Fusible, is an Xbox Live Arcade-bound game from LucasArts. The web designers of Gifted Apollo found the image after digging into Xbox.com and grabbing the cover art files associated with every XBLA game there (via NeoGAF).

LucasArts hasn't officially revealed anything bearing the title Star Wars: First Assault yet. Responding to a query from IGN, a LucasArts rep wrote, "It's an exciting time at our company right now, however we don't have any announcements at this time."

The (possibly temp) cover art clearly shows Imperial Stormtroopers engaged in a firefight with what appear to be Rebel troops, which suggests that at least part of the game occurs during the series' Original Trilogy. The location they're fighting in is less clear, but the architecture suggests Naboo's Theed, first seen in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace.

I think it's a safe bet that First Assault won't turn out to be a match-three puzzle game, but it's really all just guesswork at this point.
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Last October, we saw a listing for Star Wars: First Assault, an unannounced Xbox Live Arcade game developed by LucasArts.

Today, Kotaku can reveal that Star Wars: First Assault is a downloadable multiplayer shooter that was originally slated for release this spring. The game supports up to 16 players—one eight-person team of rebels and one eight-person team of Stormtroopers—as they face off on Star Wars worlds like Bespin and Tatooine.

And according to one person familiar with the project, First Assault is "step zero" to the heavily-rumored, highly-anticipated Star Wars: Battlefront III. If First Assault sells well—assuming it is released at all—the third Battlefront could be next.

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A few weeks ago, Kotaku reported on the status of Star Wars 1313, a game that could be in trouble thanks to unrest and uncertainty at LucasArts, the storied studio that has developed or published every official Star Wars video game to date. We mentioned a Call of Duty-style first-person shooter codenamed "Trigger."

That's First Assault. And according to our source, who is familiar with the project but says he is "no longer familiar with the goings-on" at LucasArts, this game is a downloadable "predecessor" to Battlefront III—part of the studio's strategy to show that there's a market for Star Wars shooters running on the Unreal Engine.

The story of Star Wars: Battlefront III is long and well-documented. Commissioned as the third game in the Battlefront shooter series, Battlefront III has bounced from developer to developer over the past few years. Although LucasArts has yet to officially announce the game, leaked footage and images show what could have been, and development studio Free Radical has claimed the game was 99% finished when LucasArts killed it.

Star Wars: First Assault, our source says, would lead up to Battlefront III. This new Battlefront would use nothing from the Battlefront III that has already been in production at studios like Free Radical and Slant Six, our source says. Instead, LucasArts would build Battlefront III based on code from First Assault.

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According to our source, a small team has already been prototyping vehicles for Battlefront III. Current code allows you to fly a TIE Fighter or ride an AT-ST walker.

There are no vehicles in First Assault, nor are there Jedi. LucasArts intentionally decided not to use the Battlefront name so expectations wouldn't be too high, our source says. And the game is almost done.

But Star Wars: First Assault may never actually make it out of the studio.

Last September, when executives at LucasFilm—the parent company of LucasArts—found out that Disney had signed an agreement to purchase the company, things got murky. LucasFilm froze all hiring and new game announcements, our source says. They had planned to announce First Assault and launch a closed beta by the end of September—which explains the Xbox listing leak on October 1—and First Assault was supposed to be out this spring.

So since September, employees at LucasArts have been working on the game with no knowledge as to whether or not it will actually come out. According to our source, LucasArts is "bleeding talent" as employees wait to see what executives at Disney and LucasFilm want to do with First Assault and other games the studio is working on.

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The status of First Assault—like the status of Star Wars 1313 and other projects that LucasArts is currently working on—remains unclear today. The new direction of LucasFilm is also unclear—just today, the company announced that they would no longer be releasing new episodes of the Clone Wars television show on Cartoon Network.

We've reached out to LucasArts for comment and will update should we hear back from them.

For now, our source says, the only way to get games like First Assault out of carbonite might be for Star Wars fans to speak up.

"Fans should tell Disney/Lucasfilm loud and clear they don't want shitty titles from random developers; they want games to be taken seriously, and they will only pay for quality," the source said. "I believe that if Disney/Lucasfilm lets LucasArts die, it means the death of Star Wars as a storied game franchise is right behind it."
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A IGN fez um artigo ainda ontem sobre o assunto.

Como é que é possivel que uma Editora/Produtora (não sei ao certo qual é a designaçao correcta para a LucasArt) tenha tido uma presença tão fraca nesta geração.
Tirando osForce Unleashed que até tiveram alguma piada,so houve jogos Legos e Star Wars Kinect...jogos "secundarios".

Numa Geração marcada pelo "Boom" do Online,não se percebe como é que não saiu um Battlefront 3 ou mesmo um Republic commando com Co-Op de 4.
Sem falar dos jogos Jedi Knight ou de um Kotor.
 
A Lucasarts desde o final dos anos 90 / inicios dos 00s é muito mal gerida. Durante a decada de 90 eram um estudio de topo, realmente criativos e sempre com grande qualidade. Destruíram isso tudo e não percebo o que raio se passa constantemente em termos de politica corporativa.

Agora, em relação ao 1313 e ao First Assault / BFIII, a compra pela Disney veio trocar completamente as poucas coisas que eles tinham em desenvolvimento. A prioridade total da Disney agora é a nova trilogia a começar em 2015, e que se lixe tudo o resto. Daí o 1313 estar neste momento em "banho maria".

Parece mesmo que à cerca de 10 anos atras a Lucasarts deixou de querer fazer dinheiro lol
 
A Luscarts a certa altura era daquelas editoras que se podia comprar os jogos de olhos fechados, era qualidade garantida.

Claro que a palavra chave aqui é o "era".
 
Masakari disse:
Parece mesmo que à cerca de 10 anos atras a Lucasarts deixou de querer fazer dinheiro lol
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Desde há 10 anos foram lançados os KotOR, Jedi Academy, Battlefront I e II, Republic Commando, etc... Esta geração é que não foi grande coisa, eles apenas lançaram uma mão cheia de jogos, e só um ou dois é que foram algo de jeito.

O facto de andarem a suspender a produção de vários projectos é que não faz sentido. Eles que os acabem e depois que se foquem na nova trilogia.
 
O meu crescimento como gamer em grande parte se deve à Lucasarts da década de 90, é com grande pena minha que a vi passar completamente ao lado desta geração e a avaliar por estas notícias o que está para vir dificilmente será melhor.
 
Entrevista com ex-funcionário da LucasArts:

Q: By the freeze do you mean LucasArts freezing hiring or when Disney purchased LucasFilm?

A: That and announcement freezes. We were 23 hours from announcing an open beta back in September.

Q: Would the open beta have been for Xbox, PS3 or PC?

A: Xbox hence that leak months ago.

Q: Was the finished game only going to be released on XBLA or was that just who the beta was open to?

A: The game was multiplatform, beta was only XBLA.

Q: What had to be done to complete First Assault?

A: A bit more bug fixing. Design, art, level, ui were all done. We were polishing it. That’s it.

Q: Were the rumours true – that First Assault was to see if there was still a demand for Battlefront 3 or was this to be the online game that would ‘revolutionize the gaming industry’?

A: The demand part was a rumor. We had plans for what we were doing for a series of games regardless of demand. We already knew demand was high for certain products
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