Star Wars: Battlefront III remains in limbo, but it appears that LucasArts plans to unveil some new games based on the best selling franchise. Kotaku reports that the folks at the Entertainment Software Rating Board (otherwise known as the ESRB) just unveiled descriptions for a game titled Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron for both PSP and DS.
Here's what we found on the ESRB website:
Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron
Platform: PSP
Rating: Teen
Content descriptors: Fantasy Violence
Rating summary: "This is an action game in which players experience different battles from the Star Wars universe. Presented in a third-person perspective, the game allows players to engage in space, land, and air battles or build troops and upgrade armies in a strategy-based mode. Players can use laser guns (i.e., blasters), explosives, and lightsabers to destroy enemy robots (i.e., droids) and humans who often cry out in pain when attacked. During one dramatic cutscene sequence, an unarmed man is sliced by a lightsaber, while another character is shot in the back with a blaster."
Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron
Platform: Nintendo DS
Rating: Everyone 10+
Content descriptors: Fantasy Violence
Rating summary: "Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron is an action adventure game in which players experience different battles from the Star Wars universe. From a third-person perspective, players engage in space battles, 'speeder bike' chases, and top-down battling. The ground battle includes constant laserfire combined with hand-to-hand combat using 'lightsabers.' A depleting health bar and various "yelps" indicate damage inflicted upon certain characters."
Like previous Battlefront games, both seem to include combat both on foot and in vehicles, both ground and flying types. We're curious about the strategic element found in the PSP version, as that suggests real time strategy gameplay. For now, we must wait until LucasArts blows the doors off both video games. Expect more lightsaber throwing coverage in the near future.
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