The freshly shelved Star Wars 1313 action game, that was demoed showing the player descending into the seedy underbelly of the Star Wars Universe's planet-sized city of Coruscant as a bounty hunter, was reportedly being groomed as an adventure of the popular Star Wars character Boba Fett.
Accompanying some alleged unreleased concept art from the game,
Kotaku claims that "a reliable source" informed them that the focus shift was handed down from Star Wars creator George Lucas himself.
Yesterday's announcement that LucasArts would cease developing games casts a doubtful future on the unfinished title, but it is still technically possible that Disney could license a third party to studio to see it to completion.
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Posted 12:45pm 05/4/13
lol I know, right?
But everyone loves Boba Fett?
Perhaps I just find it difficult to believe 21st century George Lucas would be behind a tweak to the Star Wars canon that met with unanimous fan approval.
Posted 01:26pm 05/4/13
If its a leak of unreleased stuff, maybe it was someone whos really passionate about the project and thinks that if Disney sees how much the fans want the game, they'll put it back into production? Thats what I'm hoping anyway, cos I want to play that game.
Posted 02:32pm 05/4/13
I really don't buy the notion that Lucas himself stepped in and said, 'this game needs to be Boba Fett' though.
The way I expect it realistically played out, was that the devs came up with this cool concept for a game about Boba Fett, but the execs wouldn't blindly sign off on using that character due to his involvement in the direct story canon of the main Star Wars Universe.
Then, after the studio managed to put something together, and the e3 response was good, the brass (and Lucas) said 'ok, you can use Boba'.
But maybe I'm totally wrong, and it is just all how it's said to be.
Posted 02:34pm 05/4/13
and off to kickstarter they go
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Posted 06:55pm 05/4/13
Still the idea and the demo looked amazing and damn Disney. However how many games in development can get shifted to have a focus on a new character, especially such an iconic one. I bet this was clearly just a tech demo they were working on, not really sure where it was going.
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Posted 03:14am 06/4/13
I'd play a ripping-apart-jedi-with-my-bare-hands simulator any day.