![]() While Star Wars: 1313 will likely never see the light of day, thankfully we’ve been able to experience an Uncharted-esque Star Wars game via Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. The project was dead, along with all of the extended Star Wars universe, including books, comics and other videogames. LucasArts was closed in April 2013 and the trademark was abandoned for Star Wars: 1313 in January 2014. You would assume that a literal giant of the entertainment industry would see the fan’s excitement for a new Star Wars videogame and understand that it’d be a money-printing machine, but the idea of a mature property in their newly acquired IP clearly didn’t sit right. The house of the mouse was about to douse the fire in the fans belly that was Star Wars: 1313. The death bells began to toll as news of Disney acquiring Star Wars as whole began to loom. After the president of LucasArts quit the company shortly after the E3 showing, a hiring freeze was put in place. While changing the premise of Star Wars: 1313 after much of the initial work had been done wasn’t the final nail in the coffin, it certainly wasn’t a good thing for the game or the studio. Good job LucasArts hadn’t paid voice actors and hadn’t written a story based around this character, right? See, George Lucas decided that the bounty hunter should be Boba Fett, but instead of making that decision during the early days of game development, he mandated the change two months before the reveal at E3 2012. Unfortunately, there’s already a bounty hunter in the Star Wars universe and, possibly to the detriment of Star Wars: 1313, he’s also a fan favourite. Originally Star Wars: 1313 was set to star an originally created character as the bounty hunter, allowing LucasArts the freedom to do whatever they wanted with the character. Master of his own domain, George Lucas, had some hand in the downfall of Star Wars: 1313. Star Wars: 1313 looked promising it had been 10 years since we’d had a bounty hunter game, and fans were excited. From the trailer that was shown, it was clear LucasArts had been inspired by the Uncharted series, as there was a clear emphasis on traversal as well as gunplay, with the trailer showing off both, as well as some impressive set pieces. Taking place on Coruscant, you were going to play through the game as an unknown bounty hunter (originally anyway) as you traverse around level 1313, finding exotic weapons to make your journey easier. Star Wars: 1313 was unveiled and was set to bring balance to the force. LucasArts took the stage at E3 and the rest is history. Traumatic Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace flashbacks started to creep its way into the minds of a few fans, but some were beginning to believe. Rumblings of a mature Star Wars game were trickling through the presses. With that being said, today I’ll be asking the question: “Whatever Happened to… Star Wars: 1313?”Ĭast your mind back to June 2012. Has there ever been a point when you’ve looked through your gaming library and wondered, “Huh, whatever happened to this title?” Well, I’ll be taking a look at videogame standalones/franchises and the lead up to their eventual absence. Seeing as to how big Star Wars continues to be after all these years, who knows? Disney or someone else could take a look at the remaining footage of Star Wars 1313 and think that a complete, next-gen version would do well.// Articles // 7th Aug 2020 - 2 years ago // By Josh Vale Whatever Happened To. Finally, Quantic Dream will try its hands on an action-adventure game for the first time in Star Wars: Eclipse. Meanwhile, Aspyr Media is at the helm of a PS5 remake of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. Of course, EA remains at the forefront of it all, with at least three games in the works, including a sequel to 2019's Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. If it's any consolation, we can't rule out the possibility of Disney re-visiting the premise of Star Wars 1313.Īfter years of EA exclusivity, there are several Star Wars games in development right now from various studios and publishers. Still, it's nice to know how Star Wars 1313 could have looked if Disney gave LucasArts a chance to pursue the game. After it was announced in 2012 by LucasArts, Disney shut down the game following its acquisition of Lucasfilm and the Star Wars license. Would Star Wars 1313 have done well? We'll never know. ![]()
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