Sequels I'd like to see: Star Wars Battlefront

It has been talked about for years. And years. It seems like now at least we can safely say at some stage the third instalment of the iconic third shooter Star Wars Battlefront series will appear, although the dates are a bit sketchy, with the best estimates being sometime next year.

Ironically, despite not having had a release date for a Battlefront game since 2005, the franchise was one of the most popular to be first released on the previous, previous generation (is there even a real term for that generation other than PS2 domination period), as well as arguably the most popular Star Wars gaming series ever.

It didn't really matter if you had a preference to one of the two games (I always thought the second game seemed a bit sleeker but the Jedi/Sith/Hero thing was just a bit unnecessary), you knew that you shared some common ground with the majority of the rest of your controller bashing friends, and if you didn't it was generally accepted that there was something wrong with your friend.

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So why hasn't there been a new game up to this point? Well, I suppose I might hazard a guess at the lack of new material that has been produced following the end of Obi-Wan's time as Ewan McGregor before his transformation into Alec Guinness. With a new trilogy of films due for release starting at the end of next year, a new game with intel on some of the plot and content of these new films would be fantastic for game and film fans alike. 

I could then stop here. Fantastic, the series hasn't been inappropriately milked but we're still being given (hopefully) good new content when the time is right. Yet, for some reason I find myself questioning the lack of game for what will have been ten years: surely if there is so much demand for a product, someone out there, whether the original rights holders or not, creates makes the product. It just makes most sense, particularly if we're talking about a potential decline in console based video games. Using the most popular games more frequently must sell more consoles generally.

All that said, how would I be approaching this now if our beloved Battlefront had been churned out once a year, every year, like many of the first person shooters we love to hate?