Unseen Star Wars 1313 Footage Shows Boba Fett Gameplay
Star Wars 1313 was announced at E3 2012, quickly amassing a huge online following, but when Disney bought Lucasfilm, it cancelled 1313 and a slew of other games. But ten years later, footage of 1313 is still being found.
A new video shared by TheVault shows Boba Fett on Coruscant, chasing somebody through a marketplace in a very Uncharted-like sequence. It's a prototype, so a lot of the textures are unfinished, but we get a glimpse at some parkour segments where Boba has to swing from bar to bar, shuffle along ledges, and leap across the rooftops. Sounds familiar, eh?
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Reportedly, this sequence didn't get past the prototype stage due to 1313 being cancelled prematurely. The footage was shared to TheVault by James Zachary, a creative director who worked on Star Wars 1313 as an animation director. He's since gone on to work with Zynga on projects like a Words with Friends TV commercial. You can see the footage he shared below.
Many have been quick to draw comparisons between 1313 and Uncharted given its on-a-rails, linear chase sequence that combines parkour with striking set pieces - that isn't too surprising. Uncharted creative director Amy Hennig worked on 1313 and so her previous work bled into its design. We see elements of Uncharted even in Jedi: Fallen Order, Respawn's own stab at the space opera series.
Amy Hennig might not be making a Star Wars game anymore, but she has been hired to work on a Marvel action-adventure game with Skydance Media. It's still not 1313, a game that's developed a cult following since its cancellation a decade ago, but it's something.
1313 was supposed to tell the story of Boba Fett between the prequel trilogy and the
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