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New Game: Free Agent? 24 Jan, 2004, 12:17 / 38 comments

By DJG


Boy, we sure have had some fun looking up trademarks for LucasArts in the past. After all, that's how we first heard about Gladius.

Well, TheForce.net broke a story yesterday that LucasArts filed for a trademark on January 14th for a game called Free Agent. Nothing else is known, although it's interesting that the word "adventure game" is mentioned in the goods and services description... of course that may not mean anything. Read about it.
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38 Comments

  • jp-30 on 30 Jan, 2004, 20:17…
    Uh Oh. It's been cancelled!
    _____________________________

    LucasArts has decided to stop production on Free Agent.

    ?We do not want to disappoint the many fans of Free Agent,? says Mike Nelson , president of LucasArts, ?and hope everyone can understand how committed we are to delivering the best quality gaming experience that we possibly can.?

  • Zomantic on 01 Feb, 2004, 05:47…
    We all knew this game was crap.
  • Moosferatu on 30 Jan, 2004, 15:50…
    Is it just me or is this page broken?
  • QueZTone on 30 Jan, 2004, 10:25…
    where's the bathroom in this place??
  • Marek on 30 Jan, 2004, 08:46…
    I'll just add another comment so that the total number will increase, and this whole Free Agent thing will seem like an even bigger deal.
  • jp-30 on 30 Jan, 2004, 20:07…
    Good idea!
  • jp-30 on 30 Jan, 2004, 05:07…
    Why is http://freeagent.mixnmojo.com down?

    I'm totally sick of these server problems you keep having.
  • spaff on 29 Jan, 2004, 21:36…
    *yawn*
  • Metallus on 30 Jan, 2004, 04:44…
    Calm before the screenshot.
  • mercatfat on 29 Jan, 2004, 02:59…
    i suppose by now we all realize it's a sequel to Nightshift.
  • Metallus on 29 Jan, 2004, 00:51…
    I already hate this game.
  • Marek on 29 Jan, 2004, 07:59…
    Yeah, Free Agent is a lame title. You can make a really cool game but it will never fix the title. I doubt I'll buy this.
  • jp-30 on 29 Jan, 2004, 05:41…
    Me too. The graphics are shit for starters. Why-oh-why did they have to make it 3D?

    Damn LucasArts - haven't released a decent game since KOTOR, Armed & Dangerous, Gladius and SWON.
  • InsoFox on 26 Jan, 2004, 09:47…
    This is unbelievably wild speculation but... let's say that it's a new game and it's an adventure game... Well, if that's the case, then the title kind of interests me. Maybe they are trying to make a very open ended adventure game... like... morrowind, but in the style of an adventure game... with lots of different plotlines and outcomes and you play a part in how the whole thing pans out. Remember Blade Runner? That was a kind of semi-successful attempt at doing that with... multiple multiple endings, and random elements in the plot for replayability, and various important plot-affecting decisions. Wouldn't it be interesting to have that? But longer, and better?

    But like I said. that's just way too much speculation.
  • Scummbuddy on 26 Jan, 2004, 02:41…
    its a game thats made for the game player to create their own gaming company and make it into a booming buisness. they are so tired of us yelling at them to make games that won't yeild them enough profit, so they are making this game for us to play and then shut up. :P
  • mercatfat on 29 Jan, 2004, 02:59…
    yeah, it'd be like wall street kid!
  • mercatfat on 25 Jan, 2004, 20:23…
    lucasart's links to al qaeda are becoming incrasingly apparent. if you look at the original trademark, there was the word 'orange' after the word 'agent'.

    we must attack san fernando valley immediately.
  • Entity on 26 Jan, 2004, 02:02…
    Sounds like a plan. :)
  • Marek on 25 Jan, 2004, 12:30…
    Wheee Star Wars: Free Agent! Sorry.
  • Jake on 25 Jan, 2004, 22:33…
    I think you mean "Free Agent Calavera"
  • tabacco on 25 Jan, 2004, 22:54…
    Sam and Max: Free Agent ;)
  • Remi O on 26 Jan, 2004, 00:44…
    The Dig: Free... No, that one's going too far.
  • LucasTones on 26 Jan, 2004, 00:52…
    Nah, "Bobbin Threadbare: Free Agent" is going too far ;
  • Jake on 26 Jan, 2004, 01:17…
    PHM Pegasus: Free Agent. There.
  • jp-30 on 26 Jan, 2004, 03:49…
    Ballbreaker 2: Free Agent
  • Udvarnoky on 26 Jan, 2004, 09:46…
    Club Caribe: Free Agent
  • QueZTone on 26 Jan, 2004, 10:23…
    Outlaws 2: Free Agent
  • Maximar on 26 Jan, 2004, 10:28…
    Actually, I think it's a new Monkey Island!
  • spaff on 28 Jan, 2004, 13:44…
    Spaff: Free Agent...

    hang on, i'm sure free agent means somehting else...

    oh no.. I'm right

    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=free+agent&f=1
  • Marek on 28 Jan, 2004, 15:30…
    So WONKY has been renamed ... ??
  • Zomantic on 25 Jan, 2004, 12:12…
    Oh my...

    It's time for that little crazy thing we are used to call:
    WILD SPECULATION!

    I'd wet my pants, if I wore any!
  • DasJan on 24 Jan, 2004, 16:57…
    Wrath Unleashed has almost the same "goods and services" description as Free Agent, also with "adventure game" in it.
  • Huz on 24 Jan, 2004, 16:24…
    Obviously a newsreader. In adventure game form.
  • Udvarnoky on 24 Jan, 2004, 14:28…
    It seems clear to me that we'll be getting a new Zak McKracken game.
  • Remi O on 24 Jan, 2004, 12:59…
    Dude. A football ("soccer") game from LEC.
  • ZeroXcape on 28 Jan, 2004, 09:56…
    yes, best idea so far
  • Marek on 29 Jan, 2004, 07:57…
    Come on, they wouldn't know how to market it!
  • Jake on 02 Feb, 2004, 03:23…
    They won't have a problem since its really Star Wars Free Agent World Cup '04 EX (hyperfighting)