{"id":1819879,"date":"2026-03-11T11:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T08:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1819879"},"modified":"2026-03-11T11:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T08:54:08","slug":"new-star-wars-first-assault-gameplay-footage-surfaces-as-fan-team-tries-to-finish-lucasarts-cancelled-online-shooter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1819879","title":{"rendered":"New Star Wars: First Assault gameplay footage surfaces as fan team tries to finish LucasArts&#8217; cancelled online shooter"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"article \" data-ads=\"true\" data-article-type=\"news\" data-article-group=\"news\" data-paywalled=\"false\" data-premium=\"false\" data-sponsored=\"false\" data-type=\"article\">\n<header class=\"article_header\" data-component=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n<nav class=\"nav_breadcrumbs\" data-component=\"nav-breadcrumbs\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\">\n<ul class=\"nav-links\">\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      Home<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/news\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      News<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/star-wars-first-assault\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      Star Wars: First Assault<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/nav><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_details\" id=\"main-content\">\n<h1 class=\"title\">New Star Wars: First Assault gameplay footage surfaces as fan team tries to finish LucasArts&#8217; cancelled online shooter<\/h1>\n<p class=\"strapline\">Command Post rush.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_asset\">\n<figure class=\"headline_image_wrapper\">\n<p>        <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"headline_image\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/Star-Wars-Rogue-One-concept-art.jpg?width=570&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;dpr=3&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"Rogue One: A Star Wars Story concept art - Rebel assault\" loading=\"eager\" data-uri=\"Star-Wars-Rogue-One-concept-art.jpg\" data-lightbox width=\"570\" height=\"321\"><figcaption>\n          <span class=\"attribution\">Image credit: <cite>Lucasfilm<\/cite><\/span><br \/>\n        <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"metadata\">\n<div class=\"avatar\">\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fran Ruiz avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/fran-j-ruiz-author.png?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\"><\/p>\n<p>  <img alt=\"Fran Ruiz avatar\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-uri=\"fran-j-ruiz-author.png\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<div class=\"byline\">\n                  <span class=\"article_type\" data-slug=\"news\"><br \/>\n                    News<br \/>\n                  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"by\">by<\/span> <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/authors\/fran-ruiz\">Fran Ruiz<\/a><\/span>                    <span class=\"job_title\"><br \/>\n                      Contributor<br \/>\n                    <\/span>\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"published_at\">\nPublished on <time datetime=\"2026-03-11T11:54:08+00:00\">March 11, 2026<\/time>              <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mypop-header-wrapper\">\n<p><button class=\"mypop-button button wide\" data-state=\"follow\" data-type=\"tag\" data-uuid=\"f56c8861-415d-4715-a69c-db1aec941e85\" data-name=\"Star Wars: First Assault\" data-follow-text=\"Follow Star Wars: First Assault\" data-unfollow-text=\"Following Star Wars: First Assault\" data-aria-follow-text=\"Follow Star Wars: First Assault\" data-aria-unfollow-text=\"Following Star Wars: First Assault\" data-popup=\"true\" data-force-login=\"true\" aria-label=\"Follow Star Wars: First Assault\" title=\"Follow Star Wars: First Assault\"><br \/>\n  Follow Star Wars: First Assault<br \/>\n<\/button>          <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p>It feels like distant history now, but Disney&#8217;s takeover of George Lucas&#8217; empire more than a decade ago kickstarted a chain reaction and major creative shakeup that saw LucasArts go the way of the dodo (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/lucasfilm-games-resurrected-as-new-banner-for-all-star-wars-video-games-and-beyond\">only to return as the publisher Lucasfilm Games<\/a> in 2021), and led to the cancellation of several promising projects. One of them was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/star-wars-first-assault\">Star Wars: First Assault<\/a>, and it seems it&#8217;s making a comeback&#8230; sort of.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesixthaxis.com\/2026\/03\/11\/cancelled-star-wars-first-assault\/\">TheSixthAxis<\/a>, we&#8217;ve received word the game lives through a fan effort to finish what LucasArts started. This means Disney and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/companies\/lucasfilm-games\">Lucasfilm Games<\/a> are no doubt going to Death Star the endeavour faster than you can say &#8220;twelve parsecs&#8221;, but at the time of writing, an extensive YouTube live recording with over an hour of uncut gameplay full of stormtroopers and Rebels gunning each other down is still up:<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"Star Wars - First Assault Gameplay\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wT4bHRXXMBs?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/wT4bHRXXMBs\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">Star Wars &#8211; First Assault Gameplay<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Star Wars &#8211; First Assault Gameplay. <a class=\"video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wT4bHRXXMBs\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The original stream by Unseen Halo &#8211; Corbin (who seems to be big on old Halo games, as well) takes place entirely in the Tatooine map <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/new-footage-of-canned-2012-star-wars-game-first-assault-appears\">we&#8217;d seen before<\/a>, but perfectly showcases how the matches play. By and large, Star Wars: First Assault was the franchise&#8217;s answer to Call of Duty, and despite EA&#8217;s two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/star-wars-battlefront\">Battlefront<\/a> games finding success years later, I&#8217;d say a smaller online FPS that felt more competitive would&#8217;ve made a decent amount of credits too.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, the framerate in this in-progress build (which is recreated and updated from the pre-release code which leaked years ago) isn&#8217;t the greatest, and visual bugs and janky animations abound, but the game <em>works<\/em>, and more importantly, it works online, which makes it quite valuable, at least as a piece of lost history, already. Back in 2024, former LucasArts developer Patrick Wren <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Witdarkstar\/status\/1755770647471657051\">said First Assault was &#8220;months away&#8221; from being done<\/a> and needed no extra development costs when it was binned.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, the community behind the fan project is accepting new players <a href=\"https:\/\/discord.com\/invite\/XqQ6Je4muy\">via its Discord server<\/a>, so it&#8217;s only a matter of time before Disney&#8217;s legal teams descend on the thing like Imperials on Hoth. This First Assault &#8216;remake&#8217; joins the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iNLILrbrO58\">the rebuild project of Free Radical&#8217;s cancelled Star Wars Battlefront 3<\/a>, which continues to grow as new builds find their way online after all these years. Never tell Star Wars fans the odds.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"preferred-source\" data-component=\"preferred-source\">\nLove Eurogamer.net? Make us a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\">Preferred Source on Google<\/a> and catch more of our coverage in your feeds.  <\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p>It feels like distant history now, but Disney&#8217;s takeover of George Lucas&#8217; empire more than a decade ago kickstarted a chain reaction and major creative shakeup that saw LucasArts go the way of the dodo (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/lucasfilm-games-resurrected-as-new-banner-for-all-star-wars-video-games-and-beyond\">only to return as the publisher Lucasfilm Games<\/a> in 2021), and led to the cancellation of several promising projects. One of them was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/star-wars-first-assault\">Star Wars: First Assault<\/a>, and it seems it&#8217;s making a comeback&#8230; sort of.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesixthaxis.com\/2026\/03\/11\/cancelled-star-wars-first-assault\/\">TheSixthAxis<\/a>, we&#8217;ve received word the game lives through a fan effort to finish what LucasArts started. This means Disney and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/companies\/lucasfilm-games\">Lucasfilm Games<\/a> are no doubt going to Death Star the endeavour faster than you can say &#8220;twelve parsecs&#8221;, but at the time of writing, an extensive YouTube live recording with over an hour of uncut gameplay full of stormtroopers and Rebels gunning each other down is still up:<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"Star Wars - First Assault Gameplay\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wT4bHRXXMBs?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/wT4bHRXXMBs\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">Star Wars &#8211; First Assault Gameplay<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Star Wars &#8211; First Assault Gameplay. <a class=\"video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wT4bHRXXMBs\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The original stream by Unseen Halo &#8211; Corbin (who seems to be big on old Halo games, as well) takes place entirely in the Tatooine map <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/new-footage-of-canned-2012-star-wars-game-first-assault-appears\">we&#8217;d seen before<\/a>, but perfectly showcases how the matches play. By and large, Star Wars: First Assault was the franchise&#8217;s answer to Call of Duty, and despite EA&#8217;s two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/star-wars-battlefront\">Battlefront<\/a> games finding success years later, I&#8217;d say a smaller online FPS that felt more competitive would&#8217;ve made a decent amount of credits too.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, the framerate in this in-progress build (which is recreated and updated from the pre-release code which leaked years ago) isn&#8217;t the greatest, and visual bugs and janky animations abound, but the game <em>works<\/em>, and more importantly, it works online, which makes it quite valuable, at least as a piece of lost history, already. Back in 2024, former LucasArts developer Patrick Wren <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Witdarkstar\/status\/1755770647471657051\">said First Assault was &#8220;months away&#8221; from being done<\/a> and needed no extra development costs when it was binned.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, the community behind the fan project is accepting new players <a href=\"https:\/\/discord.com\/invite\/XqQ6Je4muy\">via its Discord server<\/a>, so it&#8217;s only a matter of time before Disney&#8217;s legal teams descend on the thing like Imperials on Hoth. This First Assault &#8216;remake&#8217; joins the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iNLILrbrO58\">the rebuild project of Free Radical&#8217;s cancelled Star Wars Battlefront 3<\/a>, which continues to grow as new builds find their way online after all these years. 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