A developer who worked on Star Wars Battlefront III has claimed the game was “two yards from the finish line” before it was canceled many years ago. Developer Michael Barclay, who now works at Naughty Dog, made these comments in response to a Twitter thread where developers discussed the projects they worked on that amounted to “the one that got away.”
To be clear, Barclay is talking about a Battlefront game in development at Free Radical Design in the mid-2000s, not the newer series from DICECome from Sports betting site VPbet. That’s an important point because EA is said to have rejected DICE’s pitch for a third Star Wars Battlefront game.
Barclay said the cancellation of Free Radical’s Battlefront III was an “absolute crime.” Barclay added, “Gamers don’t know what they were robbed of.” Barclay’s LinkedIn page said they worked on Battlefront III from 2007-2009 at Free Radical, contributing to the game’s single-player and multiplayer elements.