Canceled Star Wars Game Footage Teases Boba Fett Bounty Hunting Action

Star Wars 1313 footage was recently discovered wiling away in an animator’s online portfolio, providing us with yet another brief glimpse at the canceled game.


Late last night, a YouTube channel known as The Vault uploaded a little over three minutes of work-in-progress Star Wars 1313 gameplay capture showing protagonist Boba Fett in various scenes. It’s pretty rough and mostly bounty hunting-related, with footage of the newly-revived Disney Plus Star Wars anti-hero prowling a grimy bar, chasing down an uncooperative mark, and engaging in some basic fisticuffs.

 


The footage isn’t entirely new, though. It may just now be seeing the light of day, but a deeper dive shows that former LucasArts animation director James Zachary uploaded these videos to his personal Vimeo account years ago, and fans are only discovering it now. Some of the footage is almost a decade old at this point, and while we’d love to embed the original videos, strict privacy settings mean we have to settle for The Vault’s compilation.


Star Wars 1313 was in development at LucasArts up until Disney closed the studio in 2013. And while Disney left the door open for potentially licensing the game to different developers, someone close to the project told Kotaku at the time that the chances of that happening were “effectively zero.” Star Wars 1313 enjoyed a single public showing at E3 2012, after which its focus was reportedly changed from original characters to Boba Fett at Star Wars mastermind George Lucas’ direction.


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