Holy. Living. shit. what you're looking at is concept art for the shitcanned version of Free Radical's Star Wars: Battlefront III, where among other crazy-ass things, Obi-Wan went to the Dark Side! Gah! Look how badass he looks! Apparently, the game was passed to another developer for reasons unknown, which sucks because their game was going to allow you to seamlessly get into ships, fly from the planet into orbit, andthen into other ships--and god only knows what the new guys will do. So torture yourself by checking out more Evil Kenobi concept art and preposterously awesome leaked game footage found by the gents of Kotaku. And then join me as I weep huge, nerdy tears for the awesome Star Wars game that we almost had.
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Anonymous said:
Free Radical is a casualty of the economy (Dubya wouldn't bail out the gaming industry), hence why the passed along this game to someone else.
But this is truly awesome, and hopefully the plot stays unchanged under the watch of the new developer.
Posted 01/16/2009 at 09:36:58 AM
commandsheep said:
who knows if this really would have turned out to be awesome. admittedly the concept art looks pretty neat as well as the leaked footage. however, the force unleashed also looked pretty cool in the trailers and was only a mediocre game I wasted my money on.
Posted 01/16/2009 at 09:54:22 AM
WhiteDevil said:
I have never went from such exaltation to such despair in such a short amount of time...damn it
Posted 01/16/2009 at 10:14:50 AM
Madgame said:
A sad day indeed although there is a rumor this will go back to pandemic, the developers of the original battlefront. The tech of flying ships from a planet to air to orbit unfortunately stays with free radical
Posted 01/16/2009 at 11:34:01 AM
Skeletor said:
Imagine how badass that would be to have as a figure.
Posted 01/16/2009 at 03:32:33 PM
Tristriam said:
I'm more pissed about the downfall of Free Radical then this, actually. Because this is actually coming out and Timespitters isn't... THAT deserves my massive nerd tears. *sobs*
Posted 01/16/2009 at 10:57:31 PM
ZeroCorpse said:
I'd watch a remake of Star Wars trilogy in which Obi-Wan, and then Luke are swayed to the dark side, and then take over the galaxy.
I'd love a variant on Empire and ROTJ where Luke accepts Vader's offer, becomes his apprentice, and the two of them overthrow the Emperor and rule the galaxy together until Luke kills Vader and takes over. He could have.
Maybe he should have, seeing the hell that the New Republic became in the EU books.
Posted 01/17/2009 at 08:27:13 AM
neugin said:
it makes sense that obi-wan would be in rags. In episode 4, he was 'a crazy old hermit' who lived by himself, shunned from the rest of the community for years. On a desert planet where your shunned, with no job, I doubt you'd be able to get much material for your clothes and acessories, and the edi mind trick would only go so far, since creatures like watto ran the businesses, and they were impervious to mind tricks. But dark side ob-wan needs a figure ASAP! How about a figure two-pack set of the jedi's, where one is the light side of the force, and the other is his dark-side counterpart? I'd be really interested to see how dark yoda would look, and if you could even be capable of stopping him
Posted 01/17/2009 at 09:17:31 AM
ZeroCorpse said:
Where's the dark side Jar-Jar Binks?
I know, he's not a Jedi, but he still might be better as a bad guy.
Posted 01/17/2009 at 10:20:22 AM
The_Vig said:
How about evil Sith Lea, working some alteration of the metal bikini.
Posted 01/18/2009 at 05:14:05 PM
Anonymous said:
i don't actually think the dark obi-wan thing would be very good. don't get me wrong. he looks awsome. but... isn't it kinda stupid that if he went to the dark side, we would only learn it now? i mean come on!
"hey! geusse what!! you know obi-wan? one of the most popular well devoloped star wars characters out there, who has been around since the very beginning, TURNED EVIL!!! AND WE DIDN'T TELL YOU!!! isn't that awsome?
NO! it's stupid. i'm very dissapointed that FR isn't making it anymore. the game looked phenominal. i am glad, however, that dark obi-wan might not be in the game. because i think it would have ruined it, and be realy stupid as far as he star wars universe/story goes.
p.s. this is written by a die hard star wars fan. so don't say i just don't understand or whatever.
Posted 02/02/2009 at 01:45:50 PM






