New SW Battlefront Title Emerges For Handhelds News

LucasArts' Star Wars Battlefront series will get its first outing on Nintendo's DS if recent postings by the American game ratings board, the ESRB, are anything to go by.

Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron is listed for both Nintendo's DS and Sony's PSP in the game ratings, which have surfaced prior to any official announcement from LucasArts.

Here's the ratings blurb on the PSP version:

"This is an action game in which players experience different battles from the Star Wars universe. Presented in a third-person perspective, the game allows players to engage in space, land, and air battles or build troops and upgrade armies in a strategy-based mode. Players can use laser guns (i.e., blasters), explosives, and lightsabers to destroy enemy robots (i.e., droids) and humans who often cry out in pain when attacked. During one dramatic cutscene sequence, an unarmed man is sliced by a lightsaber, while another character is shot in the back with a blaster."

And the DS version:

"Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron is an action adventure game in which players experience different battles from the Star Wars universe. From a third-person perspective, players engage in space battles, 'speeder bike' chases, and top-down battling. The ground battle includes constant laserfire combined with hand-to-hand combat using 'lightsabers.' A depleting health bar and various "yelps" indicate damage inflicted upon certain characters."

LucasArts' last Battlefront game, Renegade Squadron, was exclusive to Sony's PSP and actually wasn't half bad. Given the Elite Squadron title on the ESRB's listings, we can only assume that this new game will be a direct sequel to the last PSP game.