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New president looks to rebuild studio’s reputation with focus on Star Wars games

LucasArts boss Paul Meegan has told MCV he feels people look at the firm ‘and wonder why it hasn’t done better’.

In his first interview since becoming president of the firm a year ago, Meegan says he wants to reverse that perception with a focus on decent Star Wars games.

There are two big Star Wars games set for E3 – Star Wars Kinect and The Old Republic – but neither are made by LucasArts itself. When Meegan took over, the firm restructured its development teams as production finished on The Force Unleashed II and is now working on new projects.

“LucasArts is a company with tremendous potential,” he said. “I think people look at it and wonder why it hasn’t done better in recent years.

“Lucasfilm has some of the most beloved and powerful brands in entertainment, we have a loyal community of fans, and talented people in every discipline. We’re surrounded by staggeringly bright and creative people at the top of their games.

“In recent years, LucasArts hasn’t always done a good job of making games. We should be making games that define our medium, that are competitive with the best of our industry, but we’re not. That has to change.

“Our priority is to create authentic, immersive, high quality Star Wars games.”

http://www.mcvuk.com/news/44581/LucasArts-eyes-return-to-form

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Nice to see Lucasarts realised they are sitting on a  gold mine.

1. PS Move (PLUS) Lightsaber 1:1 game = $$$$$$$$$$$$

2. Retake the point n click adventure genre by storm




All hail the KING, Andrespetmonkey

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Glad to hear they're acknowledging it. Now let's see some results.



Battlefront 3! HOW LONG DO I HAVE TO WAIT?

its E3 soon, please don't disappoint again LucasArts



TeddostheFireKing said:

Battlefront 3! HOW LONG DO I HAVE TO WAIT?

its E3 soon, please don't disappoint again LucasArts

It WAS coming

Free Radical had done most of it

And you could go from ground into SPACE all seamlessly

But it was canned when they shut down



All hail the KING, Andrespetmonkey

darthdevidem01 said:
TeddostheFireKing said:

Battlefront 3! HOW LONG DO I HAVE TO WAIT?

its E3 soon, please don't disappoint again LucasArts

It WAS coming

Free Radical had done most of it

And you could go from ground into SPACE all seamlessly

But it was canned when they shut down

I saw the videos online when they first came out, it was torture to know it was so close, but so far away :'(



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Sounds great, but I am not getting my hopes up for anything good to come out of GoiterArts ever again.



Dark Forces5/Jedi Knight 4 would jump up to my top 10 anticipated games immediately. It's so weird that Lucasarts abandoned their already popular first person shooter right in the dominat era of first person shooters.

A good Jedi Knight 4 would easily sell 5 million copies.



Meh, I don't care for Star Wars games. Bring us more adventure game remakes please. Because I know they're never going to make original adventure games again...



No troll is too much for me to handle. I rehabilitate trolls, I train people. I am the Troll Whisperer.

I hope we don't get a new force unleashed, they should just pretend the second game never happened



"I don't know what this Yamcha is, but it sounds just like Raditz."

Lol... no shit?

THEY CAN MAKE FREAKING STAR WARS GAMES, HOW MUCH BETTER CAN AN IP GET????!!

(LOTR trolololololol)