New Star Wars 1313 footage reveals the (canceled) Boba Fett sport we at all times wished

A brand new YouTube video making the rounds reveals {that a} long-canceled Star Wars sport would have been the primary time that bounty hunter and fan favourite Boba Fett starred in his personal sport.

Lengthy earlier than Fett turned a fixture on Disney+, the sport growth groups at LucasArts started work on an motion online game about bounty hunters and the planet Coruscant. As Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier reported in his games-industry ebook Blood, Sweat, and Pixels, that venture, dubbed Star Wars 1313, morphed wildly over a four-year span. 1313 began growth in 2009 however was canceled after LucasArts shut down in 2013—a casualty of Disney’s acquisition of all issues Lucasfilm and Star Wars.

Whereas we have seen teases of Star Wars 1313 earlier than—particularly throughout its splashy debut at E3 2012—public footage up to now has been restricted to the sport’s brand-new bounty hunter heroes. This week’s video is the primary to indicate what Boba Fett seemed like as 1313‘s playable hero, a growth shift mandated by George Lucas months earlier than the E3 2012 reveal. Coincidentally, Lucas additionally demanded that Fett not seem in that public 2012 reveal.

Fett is lastly seen taking Uncharted steps

The brand new video comes from The Vault, a YouTube channel that focuses virtually solely on particulars and leaks surrounding the canceled Star Wars Battlefront III venture. The channel’s first-ever video about Star Wars 1313 pulls primarily from the portfolio of James Zachary, who directed 1313‘s animation crew and led its motion-capture division.

Since Zachary’s Boba Fett movies are marked “non-public” and do not have timestamps, we won’t make certain how lengthy they have been hiding in plain sight on Zachary’s portfolio website. This footage reveals 1313 on the level through which its growth had shifted squarely into “Star Wars does Uncharted” territory, versus an earlier state that reportedly borrowed from the Gears of Conflict franchise.

Fett is framed in a three-quarters, third-person digicam perspective, and The Vault video contains two discrete sequences: an atmospheric stroll via a seedy bar, the place he should deal with unpleasant patrons bumping into him, and an action-filled chase chase full with dramatic jumps, cliffside hangs, and downhill slides. Whereas the video’s first half has a couple of clearly unfinished belongings, the second half is all “grey packing containers” and different rudimentary content material.

Zachary describes the chase sequence as one thing “used to promote the ‘environmental interplay’ animation pillar” of Star Wars 1313. The Boba Fett we see could very properly be a reskin of the sport’s unique brand-new bounty hunter protagonist, because the chase does not embrace any of Fett’s signature jetpack strikes—which, as Schreier reported, had advanced and turn out to be purposeful throughout growth earlier than the venture was canceled. As a substitute, the chase seems to be like a Nathan Drake sequence with a Coruscant background, with floating autos zipping throughout the horizon.

Coincidentally, Star Wars 1313 started life as a “related universe” venture. Which means it will be part of the identical gritty universe that George Lucas had been placing collectively for a deliberate, adult-focused Star Wars TV collection dubbed Underworld. The sport venture continued shifting ahead whilst its related TV collection descended into growth hell earlier than vanishing fully.

With The Mandalorian, the Star Wars powers-that-be have carried on what Underworld started, a minimum of on the TV entrance. And the success of The Mandalorian and the Guide of Boba Fett TV collection means we should not be stunned if one of many mysterious, not too long ago introduced Star Wars sport tasks from EA and Respawn follows a Fett-like bounty hunter.