I know that title is enough to warrant a sizable nerdgasm from our diehard Battlefront fans, but I want to warn you, this is strictly based on a bit of mongering from our friends at Kotaku.

Apparently, they’ve a super secret source at Lucasarts who claim that Star Wars Battlefront 3 is in development, and that it’s production relies entirely on the success of Star Wars First Assault, a first person shooter set to release this fall. Based on the brief bit of video footage we’ve managed to sneak, Assault looks like a traditional Call of Duty clone, you know… just with stormtroopoers and laser guns. Even though this game is meant to mirror the classic Battlefront series, it seems more alike Republic Commando, a highly praised one-off starring clone troopers and squad based gun play.

[springboard type=”video” id=”687485″ player=”ulfb001″ width=”480″ height=”400″ ]

While I’d love nothing more than to see Battlefront 3 released for the next gen of consoles, we can’t vouch for the veracity of this report. Although, Kotaku isn’t exactly known to peddle rumors for pageviews. Here’s the proper quote from the site:

Star Wars: First Assault, our source says, would lead up to Battlefront III. This new Battlefront would use nothing from the Battlefront III that has already been in production at studios like Free Radical and Slant Six, our source says. Instead, LucasArts would build Battlefront III based on code from First Assault.

I’d still like to play the Free Radical version (evil Sith Obi Wan Kenobi and Darth Yoda!), if it ever sees the light of day, but I’d be more than happy with a COD copy cat. What say you?

SOURCE: Kotaku