The UNTOLD Story of Star Wars Battlefront 3

The Star Wars Battlefront 3 story mode from Free Radical and LucasArts' cancelled Star Wars game allowed you to play through Order 66 and witness the fall of the Republic, and featured Battlefront 3 space to ground gameplay on Tatooine, Coruscant and more. For more Battlefront 2, new Lego Star Wars, Jedi Fallen Order, and Star Wars gaming, stay bombastic 🕶
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[@Bombastic]

One thing I forgot to add. The clones never wear helmets. Ever.

[@justbbricks]

😧

[@adamsands8404]

no protection?

[@mazisaac]

whaaaaat

[@spitfire4423]

What would happen to them if they hit their head on the Death Star ;(

[@austingates3623]

¡¡¡Qué!!!

[@Wolff2981]

Clones: *don’t wear helmets* Everyone: *that’s expendable*

[@ignitedfishy5370]

It is absolutely crazy how good LucasArts games looked. Their graphics seemed to truly push the limits of their technology

[@chocov1233]

Just like how Industrial Lights & Magic were always pushing film special effects and sound design to new levels.

[@rcbmmines4579]

8:40 the Inhibitor chips didn’t even exist. At least at the time. It was a S6 TCW retcon. This sort of drama was more common with clones and their Jedi in the EU comics and novels. Originally George Lucas insisted it wasn’t brainwashed into the clones. He changed his mind much later.

[@DedricSilva]

Truth. Plus I don’t consider TCW as part of legends as I like to think it’s only in Canon timeline.

[@rcbmmines4579]

@@DedricSilva Oh I 100% agree. The Pre-TCW Clone Wars content was detailed enough to fit the whole timeline and the show just did its own thing and has enough to fill its own timeline. No reason to try and have both in the same continuity.

[@anthonyrodriguez3495]

@@DedricSilva unfortunately completely separating TCW from the rest of Legends lore is difficult because the characters known as the Mortis Gods in Disney Canon play an obscenely massive part in Legends Lore as the Celestials, not to mention the fact that there are tons of Legends comics that were using the TCW interpretation of the clones even if the stories weren't connected to TCW.

[@davidkenway4862]

Personally I liked the idea that the clones weren’t brainwashed better. It made them into stone cold killers that murdered their leaders without hesitation. Way more brutal when you think about it

[@rcbmmines4579]

@@davidkenway4862 that, and many did get to bond and did hesitate, but ultimately couldn’t not follow the order because in their mind they had no choice, they were made for this. There’s a lot more drama and internal conflict than just passing it off to brainwashing.

[@LiterallyEveryone217]

"The villagers are innocent" 6 y/o me in minecraft creative:

[@jamesbarefoot4989]

So, it's Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron

[@battlefrontarchives]

no elite squadron was bf3 like was actually bf3 it was the psp and ds port but it got rebranded

[@karmapolice1337]

Yes the story is the same pretty much

[@dragon_ninja_2186]

Well, I very stripped down version.

[@jamesbarefoot4989]

Elite Squadron was awesome. Love that game

[@psasquad2272]

Honestly my childhood favorite

[@brianmore1942]

This sounds like a full on free world map with the space to ground combat keep up the good work

[@sly7190]

hood work

[@343flyingbulb4]

Remenber that you can download Battlefront 3 Legacy, to Battlefront 2 classic

[@mastertyler8971]

@@343flyingbulb4 how? Please explain

[@pian-0g445]

@@mastertyler8971 just look it up. Much easier to find a tutorial video

[@EthalaRide]

Could you imagine the MEMES that would have come out of this? in a parallel universe maybe

[@dragon_ninja_2186]

I grew up playing Elite Squadrons, so the X1 and X2 story holds a nostalgic place in me. Sure the story wasn’t the best and could have really used some changes/rewrites, but it was serviceable. Compared to the PSP, the story on the console sounded a lot more fleshed out and grand in scale. Still a shame we never got to see and play this.

[@YodaWazowski]

Everyone tries to be first, why not try being last

[@QTG128]

Then they would not have the high ground of the comments section

[@YodaWazowski]

@@QTG128 at least the can have the lava ground

[@QTG128]

@@YodaWazowski i guess so :D

[@thepizzatime3502]

@@YodaWazowski from my point of view you have the lava ground

[@hound122100]

We need you in more Star Wars movies and games!

[@jacklovell3181]

I remember Rham Kota stating a jedi had never been cloned before. He cleary missed this during the clone war

[@jacklovell3181]

@Isaac Altman Ah right that makes sense now

[@austinclark5278]

He also refused to have clones under him. Funny enough he was supposed to be I. This canceled battlefront game lol

[@orukarm]

What’s funnier is that the clone template was his former apprentice

[@brenster21]

Jorious c'boath disagrees.

[@jonathancharron7360]

The writers weren’t coordinated. Say what you will about the current Lucasfilm Story Group, but at least they have a good track record when it comes to continuity.

[@drips7748]

That game would have been a stepping stone for future games

[@Ryantheman17]

It's real and it's coming in 2022 of April

[@clarity-argent2913]

@@Ryantheman17 cap

[@Ryantheman17]

@@clarity-argent2913 its not but okay

[@archibaldwhitwerr1918]

@@Ryantheman17 what evidence do you have?

[@ihearti24traffic]

@@archibaldwhitwerr1918 none, game was canned long ago. Disney isn't interested in doing the source material any justice, they'd probably release it as is unfinished models, textures and all.

[@holdoverspidersgaming]

X1 tells his brother to kill him X2 Refuses X1 tries to force grab his lightsaber while X2 dodges X1 accidentally stabs himelf This ending feels a lot like Spider man (2002)

[@TurokRevolution]

I remember reading about Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron and thinking to myself "It's probably just a spin-off port from Battlefront 2, so I'm probably not missing out on much." If I had known that it's what's left of Battlefront 3, I would have bought it instantly.

[@BaronVonDelta]

I remember Elite Squadron on the ds, left me baffled when people talked about the BF3 campaign never coming to fruition since ES was basically the same story. It was pretty cool how they managed to pull off things like different classes and starfighter combat given the limitations.

[@jarongreen5480]

This whole story is just so bat gwano insane! It feels so fanfictiony

[@Hunari]

Can't tell if you mean in a good on bad way...

[@jonathancharron7360]

@@Hunari it is bad fanfiction. It literally ends with Luke telling the player, “you saved the galaxy!”

[@justbbricks]

Jedi Clones sound amazing.

[@leomcgrigor4832]

Hello

[@mazisaac]

@@leomcgrigor4832 hello there*

[@insert_name2538]

You were first

[@blueshit199]

it does but what they do with it here is just justify that in the end you are playing as yet another jedi having to face their own temptation and confront their fallen sith relative

[@mrspacy]

Unironically I wish they would make this game now with the modern engine capabilities I actually think this story sounds amazing

[@backedartist2744]

Would’ve been great to see this completed. Granted Elite Squadron was literally this just stripped down from what it would’ve been. But the entire thing would’ve been fun, I think.

[@unoriginalbrickname2526]

I remember playing this Battlefront DS Good Times I remember the final boss being hard

[@thepizzatime3502]

There’s a battlefront DS!?

[@unoriginalbrickname2526]

@@thepizzatime3502 yes! I never hear Too Many people talk about it but it exists!

[@thepizzatime3502]

@@unoriginalbrickname2526 I’m uncultured clearly

[@Hunari]

@@thepizzatime3502 I've only played the DS version but from what I've heard, the story's more developed in the DS version though the gameplay's better on psp

[@alexmauney9705]

I did too, I remember being super disappointed in the gameplay but enjoyed the story. Also the final boss took so long to kill.

[@lorewalkermaohao4602]

The Legends/EU clones did not have secret Order 66 inhibitor chips. Order 66 was a contingency order in case the Jedi Order betrayed the Republic. Sure, they had chips that *inhibited* insubordinate and violent behaviours that Jango had, but these chips were not programmed with secret orders.

[@boiscout3220]

I remember playing the first 2 battle fronts on the ps2 and then playing the battlefront ds version that was only the campaign I don’t remember much about it but my brother played the whole thing and might remember some of it

[@BluBat42]

If only we had gotten this. I understand that most computers of the time would have shat themselves trying to run this games massive maps, but just imagine what it could have been. Now, something like this would be doable, but the major sections of the games industry have strayed from immersive and interesting single player campaign and now focus on addictive and repetitive multiplayer games.

[@TotallyNotTheRedComet69]

The ground to sky combat is honestly a very good idea, and I’m glad people have modded that feature into BF2

[@NovaWolfe]

I played the hell out of this game on PSP, I remember the cutscene being a little more finished lmao. This game taught me about the existence of Dantooine.

[@NovaWolfe]

@Existentially nihilistic Scout TrooperI dont remember that but I believe you lmao

[@JPAProductions]

@Existentially nihilistic Scout Trooper That's right.

[@OmegasTurn]

Good video although the inhibitor chip arc wasn't a thing at this point in star wars, I believe clones were just super loyal to Palpatine because there were several clones who disobeyed order 66 in legends. Regardless would've been a great story if this had came out

[@lucasfilmsphotography]

Honestly with upgraded now-a-days graphics and a little more brotherly backstory, I would love this as the next BFront 3 campaign. It’s campy, funny, cool, fun. I’d love it

[@621Chopsuey]

So Shara’s full name is Shara Vale, Deso Station commander has a name, and Vjun wasn’t in the original story. Was Geonosis not part of the original story too, or was it just skipped over for brevity?

[@hyperion3145]

In the DS version, you fight and beat Grievous in a one on one when you're in Coruscant. Also, the way X1 kills himself looks like how the Green Goblin usually kills himself, weird inspiration

[@willwunsche6940]

Played the remnants of this games chopped down on the Nintendo DS back in the day. The game was ridiculously hard as I remember but the story was interesting

[@ethanwatson4848]

Hahahahahahahaa I played the campaign on my PSP back in 2011 back on elite squadron.

[@DoktorMerrick]

There is a DS version of this which is Battlefront. Its exactly like this. You fight General Grevious, the complete story you showed. I played it & enjoyed it.

[@battlefrontarchives]

It’s not entirely the compelling story their is whole planets missing and weird additions like genosis

[@willp2190]

I hesitate to pass any judgement on a game so early in development, even in crazy circumstances like elite Clones killing jedi easy-peasy

[@jwatchcraft5564]

How crazy would it be if Dice saw the previous workings of the original bf 3 and decided "we might just finish this story"

[@Tyedyeninja04productions]

I love this game! The story and levels sound great. I wish we got that instead of Star Wars battlefront ps4

[@bruhboyyt3313]

Me seeing a scuffed but still battlefront3:It is.....acceptable:)

[@sly7190]

It’s from 2007

[@SigmundOrthodoxy]

What do you mean scuffed? This was the original game lol

[@magicdragon9325]

God even with modern graphics cards this would still be a hard hitting game, considering they'd probably improve the visual quality of the game as well.

[@thephilmeister5918]

I always wait for you to post in the mornings man. You’re apart of my daily morning routine😂

[@mazisaac]

0:42 like jek from that one lego star wars series thing

[@Lastname6955]

Do you mean the Yoda Chronicles? Those masterpieces.

[@thefanboy9896]

I can't help but hear EcksToo every time Andrew says X2

[@Dingotheawesome]

“Accidentally stabs himself with his own lightsaber” such a spider man moment

[@TheVentrexian]

Neat story, I'd pay for a completed campaign.

[@TheRealBP3]

Bombastic, you think BF3’s story was wacky. Battlefront 4 was going to explore alternate timeline. Look it up, there’s a ton of character concept art.

[@yugitrump435]

That's true. That's when they were gonna do alternate scenarios like Vader living and being redeemed with a white suit or more human/less armored version in jedi robes

[@basicomen8713]

3:32 Now that's a clone trooper meme!

[@DavidisEepy]

19:04 is a straight rip from the Green Goblin scene from the Toby Maguire Spider Man

[@chimerical8746]

YO THIS PLOT WAS IN STAR WARS BATTLEFRONT COMMANDER. its a NDS game with pretty much the same plot but it was overhead third person and was really weird

[@75JUNAKI]

8:36 I believe that the Inhibitor Chip were not a concept within the original Expanded Universe but rather a concept within The Clone Wars (2008) animated series.

[@Ali-yd4ey]

I saw battlefront 3 and had a mini heart attack

[@lukestreet8473]

Can't tell if I'm lagging or the game is just really old and broken

[@Hunari]

He's showing footage from an old WIP Of course it's not optimized, the game was never finished...

[@willp2190]

Lol it cant be broken if it was never built😅😅😅

[@ignaciomaldonado4251]

About giant sized games, we have Breath of the wild, Skyrim, and maybe Elder Scrolls VI, and a little more. But Battlefront 3, was a lot ahead of its time, damn, it was going to be a magnificent revelation and masterpiece of game and Star Wars product.

[@jessebarnett9905]

hey bombastic can you do a video on how to get battle front 3 i have seen the video yet but can you do it imagen its in the video

[@jessebarnett9905]

not seen the video yet

[@shuckle9529]

It doesnt exist, clips in video are just things that got leaked

[@Ferdoe]

@@shuckle9529 No a full playable build exists. Its able to be played on xbox devkits or an xbox emulator

[@Vivatcaligula]

Love stumbling upon channels like this, and about star wars. Bruh great content

[@DuckMighty96]

Just get Star Wars Battlefront Elite Squadron. That's Star Wars Battlefront III

[@amach3639]

What’s sad is that they won’t probably make this game because they don’t make Star Wars legends games anymore.

[@blackshogun272]

The fact that so many cool EU games were in the works and many more could've been crafted makes me so fucking infuriated...

[@amach3639]

@@blackshogun272 your not the only one

[@j.hesper7659]

Do a walkthrough of the PSP version with an emulator. It’s almost similar and order 66 mission was fun. And making droids having different colors was fun too for customization

[@MNewsTime]

Well ofc they don’t release what could have been the best Star Wars game ever

[@2ameli3]

The story is a bit weird but the gameplay looks like it could’ve been amazing

[@adamreddick1349]

Ah, Elite Squadron, I grew up on that

[@johngarry3723]

19:07 Such a green goblin type

[@edo887]

mhm, i don't know, personally i think we have to forget about, space to ground battles. it's too risky, and it could break what the battlefront franchise has always been, big ground battles, and massive space battles.

[@thehighground4920]

Your delusional if you actually believe that

[@maverickay5807]

Fantastic video, but it's very distracting when you reference the Inhibitor Chips and the planet Scariff, both of which did not exist and were not canon at the time of this game's development. The Clone troopers in this game do not have inhibitor chips and Scariff is not a location that exists. It's fairly distracting when you reference them as though they existed during the time of this game's development.

[@orbaitv5991]

The story was fine(Why didn't you played the psp version?)

[@nosrin1988]

man, I remember hearing it was like 98% finished... not sure if that was true but, damn, a shame we never got it.

[@vsal3782]

I probably would have enjoyed it especially since it would have been a character driven campaign that we didn’t have in the previous 2 pandemic battlefronts

[@sableknight7175]

I only played one the DS version so idk if it’s the same for the PSP, but the final mission was on Mustafar and I think X1 was reactivating a droid factory there. At least I’m pretty sure, I don’t remember any cloning mentioned in the game. I could just be remembering wrong though

[@BaldPerspective]

I played Elite Squadron quite a bit back in the day & literally don't remember much of it. I googled the plot a while ago out of curiosity, read about half of it, & forgot that game was pulled from the cancelled BFIII. The story is really damn weird, but I probs wouldn't have minded too much being a dumbass teenager back then. These stand-in graphics are mostly just as good as the finished graphics in BFII (the finished graphics woulda been great for the time), space-to-ground combat is what I always wanted in a big console Battlefront game, the maps are super cool, & the Instant Action/Galactic Conquest/Capture the Flag stuff all probs woulda been absolutely killer if they mostly kept them the same as the prior games.

[@ColonelStan]

Star Wars: Battlefront III could have been the greatest Star Wars game of all time. This story looks and feels like an OC fanfiction, and that just makes me love it even more.

[@606films9]

0:13 That looks more realistic than me

[@multicreativeartist6579]

Sure thing boss...

[@wapankiller1219]

Actually, the game exist, but was only sold on Nintendo DS and so more less quality, but good gameplay and good story I would say. You have also reference from The Force Unleashed video game. The game name Star Wars Battlefront, only on Nintendo DS....yeah, the same name if the first one, but there is no other Battlefront game on Nintendo DS

[@Tridentboy1998]

The protagonists of the campaign are clone twins of Falon Grey, General Kota's apprentice.

[@gamerofcomics492]

Inhibitor chips weren't a thing until the mid 2010s, plus this game is in the Legends continuity where Clones didn't have chips and were instead brainwashed into basically being the Republic's living Droids

[@dancingvalkyrie]

Honestly the campaign story sounds fucking awful. I'd rather play as a regular trooper, not these Starkiller clone imitations with a halfbaked jedi redemption story.

[@jonathancharron7360]

That was a problem with Legends, for the most part it felt like fan-fiction. Say what you will about Lucasfilm under Disney, but at least they know how the Force in Star Wars works.

[@blueshit199]

@@jonathancharron7360 preach if anything, I'd rather the jedi clones be disfigured monsters like the uruk hai that you have to fight throughout the game

[@throwbackthursday680]

So on the ds version there were some changes like when they have that “short” encounter they do fight, and the final act actually takes place on mustafar he dies the same, but something different was that they had reactivated the droids to help the left over empire.

[@throwbackthursday680]

Also on the Corucanst part you run into general grevious and actually fight him. That fight was the best.

[@uzairkarolia2157]

@@throwbackthursday680 I died so many times on that part. The PSP version though not the ds

[@M0no]

This sounds like a fanfiction more than an actual game

[@Lastname6955]

A good one though.

[@M0no]

@@Lastname6955 indeed

[@t.k7five084]

How so?

[@gamesux420]

Man people always shit talk Ki-adi mundi for the "what about the wookies?" but literally every star wars game has a "help the wookies" level 💀💀💀

[@rhysdavis9487]

I remember a starwars battlefront 3 made by a single guy.. Disney being Disney and George Lucas being a dick cancelled the game.... it had so many elements that people wanted since the original battlefronts

[@Elfierd]

Is remember play this game on Nintendo DS, the fact that we are clone troopers with a brother, we fight General Grievious then choose if you want to quit or stay to the Empire... To later leave. I liked it, but I don't remember a lot 'cause I was young

[@battlefrontarchives]

that grevious thing was only in the ds tbh i have no idea why its there

[@Elfierd]

@@battlefrontarchives Yeah I don't even know why, the fact than we defeat him alone too

[@citogonzalez8177]

Well good news is the mod team is bringing this game back to life

[@Ascendant1]

This sounds totally wild. What a game this would have been.

[@lukenukemson2231]

19:05 That reminds me far to much of green goblins death in the Tobey Maguire spiderman. All we need is a closeup of his face and for him to say "oh".

[@Colonel-Cornelius-CornJulio]

There were no inhibitor chips nor Scariff back then!

[@SJCmasjid]

So those clones are basically jek 14 but the non Lego version (only yoda chronicles viewers will understand

[@Dixie_Lily]

I FOUND OUT ABOUT THIS VOICE CLIP IN THE CANCELLED BATTLEFRONT 3 WHERE GRIEVOUS SAYS denim haircutss backpacks backpacks come get your backpacks boots n pants and boots n pants new shoess get yourself an outfit denim boots and pants haricuts new shoes

[@devanorefansa9487]

Huh weird I actually managed to play battlefront 3 back in the days on my PSP GO but it looks different than in this version in the video but the story is the same it’s about two clone jedi. And there was also a ground to space combat

[@austingates3623]

I hope we get a new battlefront game soon

[@narucal]

I love elite squadron u get to have a mon cala head they should add that if they make a bf3

[@starknightrenegade16]

Can we get more games that let's you 'choose' which side to be on? It's getting a little tiring of just seeing the Rebel perspective.

[@Coreisus]

Other than Luke getting caught, and X2 being so wishy-washy in the beginning, it sounds awesome!

[@christianvincentcostanilla8428]

Revive Old Star Wars legends

[@Fi_Sci_]

You get to fight a Rancor... *in the training mission.* Doesn’t get any grander then that. Shame this was never finished, it already had ha a far more engaging premise then EA’s Battlefront 2 story. I even remember playing the elite squadron version on Nintendo DS, I could never make it past the final Boss. Imagine if this story was brought back to canon and you got to play as X2 during the final days of the Clone wars, Fight in the galactic civil war, and even participate in a Sequel era. That way all trilogies are intertwined in the story.... because it’s like Poetry it rhymes 😂

[@oversight7379]

That would’ve been super awesome to play and the story although a little ridiculous sounded fun

[@RJ_10_10]

stop clickbaiting man ur going down a path we cant follow also pls bring back the short films

[@nekroslord4062]

This was a game for DS I have it though it didnt have voice acting and started around the time of episode 3 Forgot to mention its top down view

[@leandersearle5094]

I'm gonna need less edge on that, chief.

[@hydralord6925]

It did get released on the DS and I played it. It was crazy, the final level was bullshit though.

[@ChristisKing0605]

@Bombastic, in battlefront 3 they need to add a Kylo Ren variant. Shirtless Ren. Lol

[@vicwolfrin]

I remember playing the Nintendo ds version of the campaign and it's really compelling

[@blackshogun272]

Seeing the brothers devolve/evolve is sad to watch...

[@mentalious]

Holy shit this would’ve been so good.

[@holofish]

Those rancors really get around. Do they have their own fleet?

[@DeanmC261993]

Why are you subjecting the disney lore into the video, this was before that was a thing. No inhibitor chips or scarif, also I’m sad this game never got made from a gameplay perspective but wow I’m also glad this campaign never saw the light of day, because wow this was a very terrible sibling rivalry story. This makes vergil and dante look like shakespear... (the kota tie in is cool though)

[@DeanmC261993]

@@battlefrontarchives okay fair enough