Despite all the latest neat-looking E3 game previews, there's *one* particular title that I'm hoping will deliver the goods big-time next year...
Years ago, 2004's STAR WARS BATTLEFRONT and 2005's STAR WARS BATTLEFRONT II both turned out to be quite good for a quick 'arcadey'-looking shoot-em-up on the Playstation 2 and Xbox consoles. And then this short teaser trailer for a third game on the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 came out afterwards, which looked like it would build on the fun of the first two instalments (Note - it didn't show actual gameplay footage, but it got my interest up anyway) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDOv96K5Cm4
But then that third game disappointingly got cancelled for those consoles around 2008...even though it was almost 99% complete, bar debugging seemingly. What the hell?, I remember thinking at the time... Too bad, as it may have been a worthwhile release back then. Here's some 'pre-release' footage which gives a good idea of what *was* going to be involved, and how the graphics would have looked at the time - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jInXMruUFw8
However, a new, improved version of STAR WARS BATTLEFRONT III is back on the radar it seems...and thanks to the capabilities of the latest generation of consoles, there's now the promise of a really great-looking next instalment in this series that could more than make up for the earlier cancellation. The trailer only shows snippets of it's potential at this stage, but I'm rooting for DICE to do a good job with this eventually - http://starwars.ea.com/battlefront
I've got my fingers crossed almost as tightly for this as I have for the upcoming new movie! :)