Is LucasArts Developing a Star Wars FPS?

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Lee Bradley

Online portfolios and CVs have revealed that LucasArts is developing an as-yet unannounced title.

Timothy Longo is the project’s Creative Director, a role he took up after leaving Crystal Dynamics as the Tomb Raider Franchise Director. He’s been working on the “unannounced project” since April 2011, according to his Linkedin page.

Longo previously worked at LucasArts for a decade, working his way up from QA to Game Director at the company. His CV encompasses work on Star Wars: Republic Commando, Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter, Star Wars: Jedi Knight, X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter and a whole bunch more.

Ben Ratan, who has previously worked on The Force Unleashed, its sequel, and Star Wars: 1313, is also currently working on the project, according to his online CV.

So what is it? It would seem unlikely to be Star Wars: First Assault, as leaving a job as Franchise Director on Tomb Raider to make an XBLA game seems like an odd move. We know it’s not Star Wars 1313 either.

Perhaps our strongest hint comes from the Linkedin profile of Edward Kay, who has been working at LucasArts since September 2011 on “an unannounced first person shooter project for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.” Kay was Lead Gameplay Designer on BulletStorm and worked on Wanted: Weapons of Fate and 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand.

A Star Wars FPS? Sounds plausible to us.

[via OXM]

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  • Dark Forces Reboot?
  • Republic Commando sequel. I hope so after the way the first one ended.
  • If it is anything good as battlefront i'll buy it regardless of being a FPS or even a strategy game. But making Battlefront 3 would also be good to me.
  • "and 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand." As embarrassing as it might be to say, 50C:BotS was actually a pretty fun game. Bulletstorm and Wanted weren't too bad either. So I'm up for whatever!
  • Would be amazing if it was a Republic Commando sequel. A new Dark Forces game would be pretty awesome too though, and of course, I'd give anything for Battlefront 3.
  • Please let it be dark forces, that game was epic. Been ages since played the original. Ps Battlefront series is a 3rd person, not fps.....ps love to see b3 still.lol
  • There aren't that many Star Wars FPS's out there. Hopefully this one will be just as unique as the others.
  • Republic Commando 2 or Battlefront 3 please. @6, Battlefront could be played in third person or first person.
  • Wasn't Star Wars Bounty Hunter a FPS? That was a cool idea as well
  • Republic commando 2 please.
  • All the same, I'm sure it'll be better with Kinect.
  • @9 Star Wars: Bounty Hunter was a 3rd Person Shooter.
  • Republic commando! I've always expected a sequel for it but it never came :(
  • I agreed and I want Republic Commando 2!!!! This is need!!!
  • @1 Dark forces reboot would be AMAZING not enough people know about that game =/
  • Please be a Dark Forces reboot. Please FOR THE LOVE OF GOD be a Dark Forces reboot.
  • Republic Commando 2 plz been waiting for some kind of actual conclusion since the last one.
  • *cough* kotor 3.
  • If not a Dark Forces reboot, then at least a new Dark Forces game. Let Katarn bugger off and do his Jedi Knight thing - give us a new main character (or characters). Leave the force out of it - not everyone has to be a bloody jedi or sith - and just let us run around with a good blaster at our side and a pocket full of thermal detonators.
  • Just be good like the old Star Wars games (BF, Kotor, Academy, Knight, etc.) and none of that cheap bullshit we get nowadays. TFU was a good try, but it just didn't do it for me
  • @18 No. If we are going to get another KoToR then it should probably be developed by Obsidian, and stick with it's RPG roots. Not every RPG series has to turn into a flipping shooter (thanks Bioware).
  • Yes, somebody will maybe hate me for this, but more SW, the better, just donĀ“t be some kinect shit. *fingers crossed* If FPS then Republic Commando 2 *fingers crossed* But I would love to see Battlefront or Jedi Knight series return most of all. :(
  • Am I miss remembering or was Dark Forces one of the first FPS games to actually introduce a jump mechanic? It was a fun FPS game...I was on a Mac back then and this was the time period where only like 2% of games got released on Macs...This was one of the few I got to play.
  • Waiting for a proper Star Wars FPS since the Dark Forces series. I hope it will be as epic as it was with Kyle Katarn.
  • Battlefront 3 please please please!
  • It amazes me how obsessed these people are with updating their CVs. Can it not wait 'til later when, y'know, the game is *actually* finished? xx
  • Would love some new SW games :D fingers crossed for either Republic Commando 2, Jedi Knight 4 or Battlefront 3. Hope they make a new flying game sometime (but thats rather unlikely)
  • Star Wars in FPS would be a killer! I'd be playing a lot online (Boom! Headshot!).
  • Yeah well it's about fucking time!
  • Battlefront III, please. Failing that, X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter 2. Both games would be amazing to play online.
  • Dark Forces, Jedi Knight, Republic Commando 2.. I'm fine with any and all of the above! Less of TFU, more like the older versions.. the amount of time I spent playing Jedi Outcast local multiplayer is insane, I'd love to revisit the characters and places.
  • Call me what you want but at this point I am so ready for a great star wars game! Star Wars republic commando 2 or Battlefront 3 I would so be that guy to take it in the ear from an elephant if it guaranteed me and everyone an actual copy of either of those games.............. granted they were just as great as we hoped!
  • OH GOD WHY CAN'T THEY JUST MAKE BATTLEFRONT 3
  • Im thinking that could either be a Star Wars FPS or it could be that long awaited Indiana Jones game that should have come out yesrs ago, considering that one dev's history with the Tomb Raider series.
  • TFU 3
  • Better be Battlefront 3 already. That, or something along the lines of Republic Commando or Bounty Hunter (which 1313 pretty much has covered already). No more junk please!
  • Oh please, Battlefront 3. My entire childhood revolved around that game(as well as PGR2)
  • Sadly guys, if you read on other websites like Gameinformer. It was scrapped when Free Radical Design shut down. "Back to the main post" I'm hoping that this game is a new Republic Commando.
  • Please be Dark Forces, please be Dark Forces... I don't think I ever had a more sublime anticipation than when I first saw PC Gamer's preview cover article of Dark Forces when I was a kid. No Jedi shit, no magic powers, just shooting stormtroopers and gamorreans in the face.
  • Please be Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast reboot. That game is my favorite Star Wars game and I still have it installed on this machine.
  • I 'love' the Star Wars universe, but the way they've presented it in the last few Star Wars games is just plain sad. When I got my original Xbox, aside from Halo 2 and Morrowind, all my favorite games were Star Wars games. Battlefront 1 and 2 blew me away. Easily 'the' most epic single-player shooter I've ever played. KOTOR 1 and 2 (along with Jade Empire), easily my favorite western RPGs of all-time. Republic Commando, although clunky at times, was amazing. Then the 360 launches and we get The Force Unleashed 1 and 2 and LEGO Star Wars. WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED?! Even if Battlefront 3 or KOTOR 3 never see the light of day, I'd pay full retail for HD reboots (with achievements, ofcourse) of all of those games I mentioned. Reboot the online for Battlefront 1 and 2, fix the lag issues from the originals and balance the classes a little better and I 'guarantee' you'll have one of the most memorable multi-player experiences of all-time. I can't see any of those games 'not' selling several million copies.
  • It would be awesome to revive Dark Forces. LA, give us a reboot of the original, no jedi powers, just blasters and puzzles. Oh and put a level editor in there...the original Dark Forces had some amazing custom levels made for it over at http://www.df-21.net/
  • so republic commando 2?
  • I'm going to take a deep breath and hope for Battlefield 3, even if it's first person now if it's as good as they games used to be. I'd be okay with getting it, I just want it to come out. :c
  • Maybe a Battlefront with a campaign...would LOVE that.
  • @12 yeah i remembered that a while after posting.
  • Im surprised no one has done a star wars smuggler game. Space combat, trading and exploration it would have it all, just single player or small amount of MP not an MMO.
  • Republic Commando would be awesome.
  • Republic Commando would be awesome. Loved that game on the original Xbox. Hell, I'd be happy with an HD remake for XBLA.
  • So many of my hopes may ride on this, would love to see a Commando sequel, one of the best star wars games of all time and still has my personal favorite AI, you tell them what to do and by god they do it exactly how you say until you say stop. Battlefront 3 would be amazing as i sunk far too much time into the second one to not have more. A remastered X-wing/TIE fighter collection would be fantastic as well, my favorite PC games growing up and I've been trying to track copies down for a long time. BE nice if it included Alliance, and Imperial pursuit, all the spinoffs and whatnot. HIGH HOPES!
  • A Star Wars FPS made by one of the people responsible for that awful Bulletstorm bullshit? At least they're keeping with the tradition of Star Wars being complete garbage.
  • KOTOR 3
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