Nicely, right here’s one thing cool. A bunch of devoted followers have executed 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 appears 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 help. Getting it to run on your PC isn’t the easiest thing in the world and includes a particular model of Xbox 360 emulator Xenia, however the finish result’s a considerably unstable take a look at a Star Wars recreation we by no means acquired.
Right here’s 60+ minutes of gameplay footage of First Assault working on PC.
We first discovered about Star Wars: First Assault all the best way again in 2012 by way of a leaked Xbox Reside Arcade itemizing. In 2013, Kotaku reported that First Assault was deliberate to be a downloadable multiplayer-only FPS that may help as much as 16 gamers and would function Rebels and Stormtroopers. In line with one supply near the venture, the plan again then was for First Assault to behave as a type of “step zero” to finally produce and launch a full Star Wars: Battlefront III. The concept being that if First Assault bought properly, it might pave the best way for a full Battlefront sequel. None of that occurred.
In 2013, a yr after buying Lucasfilm, Disney shut down LucasArts and canned two totally 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, at the least you may try First Assault now in your PC if you happen to lengthy for a “new” Star Wars FPS.
