Battlefront III concept art.
From mid-2006 through early 2008, Free Radical was working for LucasArts on a new installment in the third-person shooter take on the Star Wars universe. Studio co-founder David Doak told the site things went well with the project until a management change at LucasArts led the publisher to make deep cuts and cancel projects.

“[W]e went from talking to people who were passionate about making games to talking to psychopaths who insisted on having an unpleasant lawyer in the room,” Doak said.

Free Radical audio director Graeme Norgate said LucasArts’s new management essentially sabotaged the Battlefront III project and the studio, withholding milestone payments for months as they contested every detail of what Free Radical was obligated to deliver in order.

“LucasArts hadn’t paid us for six months,” Norgate said, “and were refusing to pass a milestone so we would limp along until the money finally ran out. They knew what they were doing, and six months of free work to pass on to Rebellion wasn’t to be sniffed at.” (Rebellion did not end up finishing the project, although some of Free Radical’s work was passed on to the studio.)

Doak said Free Radical’s contract had provisions that should have protected the studio, but they didn’t matter because they would not be able to afford the court costs to win the protracted legal battle with LucasArts necessary to collect on those clauses.

“My role at Free Radical meant that I was simultaneously involved in these unpleasant ‘high level’ discussions with psychopaths who wanted to destroy us, and then the next day sitting with our dev staff at their desks trying to boost people’s morale,” Doak said. “Helping them to pass milestones that I knew would subsequently be manipulated to cause them to fail. It was the most depressing and pointless thing that I have ever been involved in. The dream job which I once loved had become a nightmarish torture.”

Free Radical entered administration in late 2008, with part of the studio acquired by Crytek and renamed Crytek UK in February of 2009. Doak has since left game development entirely.

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Nice? I thought so. Here’s another…

Satisfied? No? That’s too bad (sorry). I like doing this, but I honestly like doing a lot of things too. Some days I feel like a did a lot, but then I realize, no. All I did was make maps. Shaking this feeling is a simple matter of shaking the habit. Habits can be made, so they can be broken. Gaming is great, but so is making movies (I’m going to start a youtube channel if anybody cares) and so is baking cookies and hanging out with family and my rabbit. Especially my rabbit. A visit to the museum works too I guess…

There you have it Gametoast. I did it. Now I shall go back into the Canadian su-…oh. Its snowing already. Oh, Canada why do you hate me?

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This map pits the Death Watch against the Empire. The Death Watch side is composed of several varieties of warriors in Mandalorian armor, along with re-fitted Battle Droids from the Clone Wars era. The Empire has the standard assortment of Stormtroopers and Scout Troopers, but also has some new units, such as commandos in Katarn armor (as seen in Star Wars Galaxies). Every unit has something to give it a fresh new feeling – whether it’s simply the improved model for the Stormtroopers, or the “cool” factor of plowing through a corridor as a Phase III Dark Trooper.

The map features four modes: Conquest, Campaign, Hunt, and Team Deathmatch. Each mode is well-constructed and brings something fun to the table, but Campaign is definitely the highlight. It hearkens back to the classic Star Wars first-person shooters from the 1990s, mainly Shadows of the Empire and Dark Forces. Players step into the boots of Captain Archer, an Imperial Storm Commando. The mission calls for Archer to root out the Death Watch from a secret bunker on Endor. Along the way, players will encounter a variety of enemies and a few puzzles. The climax of the mission is an intense boss battle with the leader of the Death Watch. The mission isn’t over, though – AQT dropped in one more nice surprise at the end. You’ll have to download the map to find out what it is!

Check out the exclusive screenshots of the map below, and follow the link at the bottom of the page to view the map’s thread in the Released Maps/Mods forum.

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“Ok, so we can travel the galaxy in mere seconds, bend light to make a deadly sword, create huge planet sized space stations; and we STILL use floppy discs?”

Hello everyone of gametoast. I have been super busy, but I have finally made a return on the site. Today I want to discuss something special.

Okay, so many people are aware of the upcoming MW3 game and the BF3 game. BF3 appears to be EA’s answer to the epic action styled battles seen in COD and MW3 appears to be another cash cow guaranteed to bring in the sales in record numbers. If one is to take a look at the trailers, what you will see in the BF3 one is a highly polished, beautifully crafted environment with flawless character animations and high action game-play (with some awesome shock-wave physics). Directly contrasting is the MW3 trailer featuring many famous locations in the world and absolute chaos, sporting the same good ol’ COD game-play familiar to over 7 million people world wide.

There are many reactions to the unveiled trailers and also a ton of speculation and feedback. A vast majority of the comments essentially attack Activision and Infinity Ward’s seemingly little update or change brought to the repetitive series. The BF3 feedback is far more positive (my dad thought it was a movie, but then again, he still thinks Atari graphics is what my PS3 is only capable of handling). None the less, the sad truth is, MW3′s massive multiplayer following will be the deciding force in the total number of game sales. Many people sadly, do not care for singleplayer and they often base a game on quality of multiplayer and not singleplayer. I would take Battlefield Bad Company’s singleplayer over Black Ops ANY day. It was entertaining, I cared about the characters, and I had some laughs. Black Ops was just another “here we go again” sort of thing.

What I want people to get from this is that singleplayer is often a feature few people truly give a hoot about these days. Zombies, deathmatch, and flag capturing seems to be the only thing people will decide to buy a game for. Hopefully it is only my city that thinks that way.

I just have one question: What do you think Gametoast?

MW3 trailer

BF3 trailer

A last note: Battlefront still rocks my socks

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