More Cancelled Star Wars Games Revealed.

lucasarts1 IGN got into contact with the former president of the now-defunct company Factor 5, well-known for collaborating with LucasArts to create their Rogue Squadron game series. The company’s former president revealed that two more Star Wars titles were in development at certain points in time, but remained unfinished due to financial troubles and creative issues. More on what could have been can be seen inside…

 

 

In short, the first game was meant to be a collection of all three Rogue Squadron games, and a build containing roughly 50% of the content of these titles was finished, but the deal fell through at LucasArts due to issues between the company and Factor 5. The second game was meant to be a launch title for the Xbox 360 and would have been both a sequel to the Rogue Squadron series and a spiritual successor to the X-Wing VS TIE Fighter series, complete with online multiplayer, but the project was cancelled due to concerns that creating a launch title for brand-new hardware would be too taxing for a smaller developer. Factor 5 then took an opportunity presented by Sony to develop a new IP, Lair, but the project ultimately underperformed and effectively led to the downfall of the company. Factor 5’s former president, Julian Eggbrecht, came to realize that the ideas they wanted to implement into Lair were too ambitious for a launch title – ultimately proving that LucasArts was right to be worried about producing games for brand-new systems. They came close to completing the Rogue Squadron trilogy project for Nintendo’s Wii system, but the unfortunate timing of the 2008 financial crisis effectively doomed the project.

 

Special thanks to DanDino8100 for pointing this information out.

 

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Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he’s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of Star Wars news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.

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Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he’s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of Star Wars news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.

6 thoughts on “More Cancelled Star Wars Games Revealed.

  • October 11, 2014 at 11:55 pm
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    So all this stuff was cancelled years ago? If so, why is it important now?

  • October 12, 2014 at 2:56 am
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    I would give my left hand for any star wars flight simulation game like X wing alliance or Rogue squadron on any platform!

  • October 12, 2014 at 10:15 am
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    Looks like Lucasarts didn’t know it’s arse from it’s elbow. Kinda glad Disney shut them down.

  • October 13, 2014 at 9:22 am
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    I don’t really know what the hell Disney think they’re doing, to be honest. SW games have been a staple part of the market for decades now, across every platform (except the VirtualBoy 😛 ), but for some reason they seem to have completely canned them all. I know that they said the new EU would keep in line with the canonical story, so maybe they’re holding back for the release of Ep7? But that doesn’t explain why they’re not allowing developers to work on titles that fit in with the lore from other time frames and not giving away or interfering with the movie. Or perhaps they actually have that many ideas floating about at the moment for future movie projects that they can’t go jeopardising any of their possible timeline events by chucking a game in there with 4+ hours of plot events? In which case, is that why Star Wars: 1313 was canned – because there’s a Boba Fett project in the works? Interesting possible extrapolated scenario, if nothing else.

  • October 13, 2014 at 5:00 pm
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    Oh good, I wouldn’t have wanted to play Rogue Squadron on my 360!!! (slams head off desk repeatedly)

  • October 15, 2014 at 6:16 am
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    Utterly, utterly, utterly heartbreaking.
    FactorFive did really great work on the Nintendo64 & GameCube!

    So now we have the cancellations of THESE gems ….
    Before that, it was the cancellation of
    the Star Wars App Store games ….
    Before that, it was the cancellation of
    the web-based “Attack Squadron” ….
    Before that, it was the cancellation of the UnrealEngine 3-based online and single player games ….

    WTF is Disney effing doing?!?
    Not everyone will have the opportunity to play
    “Star Wars BattlePods”, you know.
    Are they canning every home game so everybody’s attention will be
    laser-focused on just the one home Star Wars game, the “Battlefront” reboot, when it’s released NEXT YEAR?!?

    And about mobile?
    Ekectronic Arts doesn’t see the $$$ opportunity on that platform?
    On online iOS & Android X-Wing/TIE Fighter game would destroy
    sales records, no matter what they charged for it.
    Disney effing stinks ….

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