A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, LucasArts brutally cancelled what could have been one of the great Star Wars games.
Free Radical was a British game studio of ex-Rare devs best-known for the TimeSplitters series, and almost as well-known for the disastrous flop of PlayStation 3 exclusive Haze.
Ever since news and footage of the project leaked, including irresistible stuff like the concept art for 'dark' Obi-Wan Kenobi, fans and the people who worked on it have wondered what might have been. Michael Barclay was a junior designer at Free Radical at the time and is now a lead designer at Naughty Dog, credited on games including The Last of Us: Part II and Uncharted: The Lost Legacy.
."And they seemed like nice people. We were fairly disappointed with where we were with Haze, and so even though we thought we didn't want to do work for hire as a principle, the fact that the work for hire was Star Wars did make a difference—it's not a bad one. It was also a fantastic tonic for the troops at Free Radical, because you don't have to go very far in development to find someone with Star Wars shit on their desk. It looked like a marriage made in heaven.
But LucasArts had lost faith in Ward's 'reboot', and in early 2008 he left the company. The new management immediately set about cutting LucasArts' outgoings by half and cancelling projects. Free Radical was hitting milestones but LucasArts simply stopped paying them.
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