Star Wars: First Assault
LucasArts built a compact online Star Wars shooter close to release, but Disney closed the studio before its planned announcement and the finished test build stayed hidden for thirteen years.
Quick facts
- Existence state
- Never Born
- Peak stage
- near release
- Research confidence
- high
- Last verified
What it was
A cancelled downloadable multiplayer first-person shooter developed by LucasArts for Xbox 360.
First Assault placed Rebels and stormtroopers in small team matches and was intended to test demand and technology before a larger Battlefront project.
Existence timeline
LucasArts develops a downloadable team shooter for Xbox Live Arcade.
A multiplayer build reaches late internal testing.
LucasArts reportedly prepares to reveal the near-release game.
Disney ends internal development and cancels First Assault.
The public sees extended gameplay from the cancelled build.
Preservation work enables online play through emulation.
Why it ended
The project was cancelled in 2013 when Disney ended internal game development at LucasArts following its acquisition of Lucasfilm.
Last confirmed trace
Leaked footage appeared in 2015, and preservation work in 2026 made a surviving technical-test build playable through emulation.
What it left behind
The recovered build shows how close LucasArts came to restarting multiplayer Star Wars combat before the licence moved to outside publishers.
How we classified it
The proposed archive unit never reached ordinary public access in the form being documented.
The strongest verified milestone maps to near_release under Arrival Score V1.
Sources & verification
Last reviewed 2026-08-01. Sources are linked so readers can inspect the evidence directly.