Effectively, right here’s one thing cool. A gaggle of devoted followers have accomplished some unimaginable work and revived the Xbox 360 technical beta for the never-released Star Wars Battlefront III “predecessor,” Star Wars: First Assault. And it seems to be fairly cool!
As reported by Time Extension, a gaggle of Star Wars followers has been in a position to resurrect Star Wars: First Assault and make it playable on PC, full with on-line multiplayer assist. Getting it to run in your PC isn’t the simplest factor on this planet and includes a particular model of Xbox 360 emulator Xenia, however the finish result’s a considerably unstable have a look at a Star Wars recreation we by no means obtained. Right here’s 60+ minutes of gameplay footage of First Assault operating on PC. We first realized about Star Wars: First Assault all the best way again in 2012 by way of a leaked Xbox Stay Arcade itemizing. In 2013, Kotaku reported that First Assault was deliberate to be a downloadable multiplayer-only FPS that might assist as much as 16 gamers and would characteristic Rebels and Stormtroopers. In keeping with one supply near the challenge, the plan again then was for First Assault to behave as a form of “step zero” to ultimately produce and launch a full Star Wars: Battlefront III. The concept being that if First Assault bought nicely, it will pave the best way for a full Battlefront sequel. None of that occurred.
In 2013, a yr after shopping for Lucasfilm, Disney shut down LucasArts and canned two completely different Star Wars video games: Star Wars 1313 and First Assault. During the last decade-plus, Battlefront has been revived by EA and Cube, although it appears extremely unlikely we’ll get one other EA-published Battlefront recreation anytime quickly. In 2024, EA additionally canned a deliberate Star Wars shooter from Titanfall devs Respawn. That’s all a disgrace, however hey, no less than you may try First Assault now in your PC if you happen to lengthy for a “new” Star Wars FPS.
