Star Wars: Battlefront III

Star Wars: Battlefront III is rumored to be the fourth game in the Star Wars: Battlefront series. It was originally speculated that Free Radical Design would be developing the game, after announcing that they were working on a "Secret LucasArts Project" on August 23, 2006. However on December 18, 2008, Free Radical Design announced that their company had gone into administration, and that the project had been handed down to Rebellion Developments, the developers behind Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron. On June 7, 2008, an alleged ex-LucasArts employee came forward to Kotaku and unofficially announced several games in development, including Star Wars: Battlefront III. For a brief period on July 8th, 2008, online retailer Amazon.com listed Star Wars: Battlefront III for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, PlayStation 2, PSP, and Nintendo DS, and the listing was later removed. On October 2, 2008, the OFLC listed Star Wars: Battlefront 3 for the Nintendo DS with a PG rating, filed by Activision Blizzard. On December 28, 2008, renders of Star Wars characters surfaced from a laid off employee of Free Radical, bearing the Star Wars Battlefront III watermark. These can be viewed here. This was followed by leaked gameplay footage. On January 16, 2009, concept design artwork for Dark Obi-Wan was revealed. The leaked footage and pictures revealed that the engine of Battlefront III is much more graphically superior than its predecessors. Furthermore the game now has cutscenes and seems to be placing more emphasis on storyline elements, perhaps objective based gameplay, while still retaining the trademark style of gameplay in which one team slowly reduces the other faction's tickets by holding onto the majority of the command posts on the map. The leaked media reveals familiar Star Wars locales and characters, as well as a few unknown ones.

Appearances
NOTE: This list is based on the leaked media and is therefore subject to change. Furthermore the media contained several unknown characters that have yet to be revealed.

Characters

 * Chancellor Palpatine
 * Dark Obi-Wan
 * Darth Vader
 * Han Solo
 * Obi-Wan Kenobi
 * Princess Leia Organa
 * Shara
 * Unidentified Blue Skinned Jedi
 * Unidentified Helmetless Rogue Imperial ARC Trooper
 * Unidentified Jedi
 * Yoda

Foot Soldiers

 * ARC Trooper
 * B1 Battle Droid
 * Clone Trooper
 * Jedi
 * Rebel Pilot
 * Rebel Trooper
 * Red Guard
 * Stormtrooper

Locations

 * Bespin
 * Coruscant
 * Dantooine
 * Crystal Cave
 * Death Star I
 * Death Star II
 * Endor
 * Geonosis
 * Geonosis Asteroid Belt
 * Hoth
 * Echo Base
 * Mustafar
 * Naboo
 * Theed
 * Yavin IV
 * Massassi Temple

Species

 * Droids
 * Astromech Droid
 * Battle Droid
 * Ewok
 * Gungan
 * Human
 * Jawa
 * Kaminoan
 * Rancor
 * Tauntaun
 * Weequay

Vehicles

 * 74-Z Speeder Bike
 * Acclamator II-Class Assault Ship
 * AT-AT
 * AT-ST
 * BARC Speeder
 * Homing Spider Droid
 * Imperial I-Class Star Destroyer
 * Jedi Interceptor
 * LAAT
 * Lambda-Class Shuttle
 * Lucrehulk-Class Battleship
 * Milennium Falcon
 * Munificent-Class Star Frigate
 * Nebulon-B Escort Frigate
 * Providence-Class Destroyer
 * Slave I
 * T-47 Airspeeder
 * TIE Fighter
 * V-19 Torrent Starfighter
 * Venator-Class Star Destroyer
 * Vindicator-Class Heavy Cruiser
 * X-Wing

Weapons

 * A280 Blaster Rifle
 * DC-15A Blaster Rifle
 * E-5 Blaster Rifle
 * E-11 Blaster Rifle
 * Electrostaff
 * Harpoon and Tow Cable
 * HH-15 Projectile Launcher
 * Ion Cannon
 * Lightsaber
 * PLX-1 Portable Missile Launcher