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LucasArts E3 Heating Up 23 Apr, 2002, 20:04 / 28 comments

By Jake


It's finally that time of year. LucasArts has started teasing us with one screenshot after another from unknown games.

On Friday we got a mysterious ninja-like guy, and today their E3 page has some crazy tank. Is it from a Star Wars game? Who knows? You can never tell with these futuristic tanks.

Update: Yes, it's a Star Wars Episode II game. Note the Republic emblem all over it.
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  • Sloth on 25 Apr, 2002, 13:07…
    The tank is from a game called "Clone Wars". There's a scan at theforce.net.

    I'd send this to the guys at Mojo, but I'm too lazy. One of them will see this eventually.
  • Crocodilic on 25 Apr, 2002, 10:01…
    Wars ,or Warrior, or Walrus
  • sneakerramius on 25 Apr, 2002, 08:15…
    SOTW maybe Shadows of the ????
  • Remi O on 25 Apr, 2002, 11:11…
    Or "Screen of the week"?
  • sneakerramius on 26 Apr, 2002, 08:03…
    i see.. yours is more likely
  • Crocodilic on 25 Apr, 2002, 03:12…
    oh wait you said: ROFL
  • Crocodilic on 25 Apr, 2002, 03:12…
    Probably missed that someone has already said this but the tank has the Starwars rebel logo on it.
  • QueZTone on 25 Apr, 2002, 08:12…
    really? looks more like imperial to me :P
  • Jake on 25 Apr, 2002, 10:10…
    It looks like the old Republic logo
  • QueZTone on 25 Apr, 2002, 02:40…
    hmm the ninja could be from the new indy game btw..

    in the indy novels indy faced japanese or chinese warriors more than once..
  • red tentacle on 25 Apr, 2002, 00:19…
    ... and what's about Totally Games' Eldorado or Factor 5's Thornado??? They could also be E3 titles ...
  • red tentacle on 25 Apr, 2002, 00:04…
    When I heard about the second image of LucasArts' E3 Line-up, I clicked on it to get information about the filepath. It was: http://www.lucasarts.com/e3/sotw.jpg.
    Later the day I tried it another time and the path was changed into http://www.lucasarts.com/e3/images/2.jpg. So SOTW could/should be the abbreviation of this new title ... Hope you enjoy this information =8)
  • iisaac on 25 Apr, 2002, 04:36…
    I believe XOTW stands for "X of the week", which might make the screenshot "shot of the week". Perhaps that was its original designation.
  • kungpaojake on 24 Apr, 2002, 17:04…
    NINJAS IN EPISODE II!!!!!!!




    ...or not
  • Narrative on 24 Apr, 2002, 13:04…
    Ahh young jedi, too early... it is... to tell the future.
    Concentrate on the here and now.
    Anyway, that Ninja imagine could be anything from Wrath, to a SW eu character, to MI, to FT, to Humourous token action game #1.
  • Deepthought2k on 24 Apr, 2002, 09:30…
    Theres 5 games right?

    Now, we already know that one is Indy.

    We also know one of them is gonna be a WW2 Flight Sim.

    That one we've just seen is Starwars.

    Theres also that game wrath, which is what I reckon that ninja screen is.

    The other is that humourous action game

    Thats 5 right? Bugger.
    Their 50:50 ratio of original to license games is correct. That unfortunately doesn't cover adventure games this year.
  • Remi O on 24 Apr, 2002, 09:34…
    Well now, you don't know if we'll see the Luftwaffe game,the Planet Moon game or Wrath. My guess is that they're not far enough in development yet. Then again I could be completely wrong - guess we just have to wait and see.
  • PTDC on 24 Apr, 2002, 07:20…
    AHHHHHH! NOT MORE STAR WARS! Should've known there would be something for Ep II.
  • DasJan on 24 Apr, 2002, 06:59…
    hope one of them is an adventure...
  • QueZTone on 24 Apr, 2002, 01:05…
    three more images to go..

    hope one of them is from Indy
  • netmonkey on 23 Apr, 2002, 22:19…
    the second screen on the lec e3 is definitely from star wars... I can see the republic logo ;)
  • Metallus on 23 Apr, 2002, 22:36…
    I only see an imperial insignia :\.
  • Jake on 23 Apr, 2002, 22:35…
    Ah yes :)
  • Trapezoid on 23 Apr, 2002, 20:29…
    The annual race is on to try and find prematurely uploaded images from LA's E3 games. Maybe they're smarter this year.
  • Remi O on 24 Apr, 2002, 07:11…
    I think they are. I've tried already.
  • spaff on 24 Apr, 2002, 07:22…
    they didnt like it when you did that before.. we got shouted at.. hehe :)
  • Jake on 24 Apr, 2002, 09:40…
    Yeah companies don't like it so much when you pre-announce all of their games (and their logos) ahead of time. Of course, what did we announce? Demolition? wooo!
  • Remi O on 24 Apr, 2002, 07:26…
    Hee, really? I did send an e-mail to the webmaster about it though!