Star Wars: 1313 Footage Shows Boba Fett’s Lost Gaming Greatness

Boba Fett is likely to be having a tough time as a nascent, Tatooinian crimelord in The Book of Boba Fett, however there’s one factor the ex-bounty hunter was at all times good at: being a bounty hunter. That would have been the main target of the Star Wars: 1313, a sport that was going to place gamers in Fett’s boots as he traveled via the mega-metropolis of the planet Coruscant. Now, new gameplay footage has surfaced, and it seems we have been proper to have bemoaned 1313‘s cancelation all these years in the past.

The solely gameplay footage got here in 2012, when Lucasfilm launched the trailer under. As you may see, 1313 was just about a Star Wars model of the Uncharted action-adventure video games, which most individuals agreed sounded fairly superior:

Early within the LucasArts sport, the protagonist seen above can be killed by Boba Fett, whom gamers would management from then on out. This new footage from the Vault (by way of Polygon), a YouTube channel devoted to uncovering and restoring builds of the equally cancelled authentic third entry within the Star Wars: Battlefront shooter sequence, reveals Fett in motion, which we’ve solely ever seen earlier than in stills and idea artwork. The graphics and animation aren’t almost as polished as within the above trailer—to be anticipated, contemplating it’s pre-release, non-final materials from a sport that by no means was—however in my view, it nonetheless makes Star Wars: 1313 look even higher:

Watching Boba Fett traverse completely different sections of Coruscant’s underworld, via stage 1313’s bars and over buildings, actually hints on the potential of the sport. There’s been little or no exploration of the planet aside from the Jedi temple and the Senate chambers all through Star Wars (exterior of Clone Wars’ last season looking on the Coruscanti residents left behind by the warfare), so regardless of being a decade outdated, 1313 nonetheless feels prefer it might have debuted one thing new and recent. Of course, the sport this video has me imagining in my thoughts’s eye is fairly epic, so perhaps it shouldn’t be a shock that the sport was reportedly already having major issues earlier than Disney acquired the Star Wars franchise, after which closed LucasArts utterly in 2013.

Since Disney gave the Star Wars online game license to EA the next 12 months and the corporate hasn’t talked about 1313 as soon as since then, it’s most likely secure to say that the sport will stay canceled. Which is a disgrace, I believe; I’d have actually cherished to expertise this new a part of the galaxy. Although to be truthful, I like to expertise any new half of the galaxy.

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