On a Battlefield Far, Far Away

by Omar Yusuf , BITMOB STAFF

Monday, November 30, 2009

Tags: Call of Duty, Star Wars, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, modification, George lucas, Galactic Warfare, Total Conversion Mod

A group of German modders wants you to put away your M-16 and take up a blaster.

The modding team Black Monkeys has spent the last year developing Galactic Warfare, a total-conversion mod for Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. The project's set in the galaxy made famous by George Lucas and focuses on multiplayer skirmishes between the Rebel Alliance and the Empire.

The mod replaces much of COD4 with models, maps, and environments inspired by the Star Wars films. The Black Monkeys actually replaced the Harriers called in during an airstrike with Y-wings and TIE Bombers! That's quality you rarely see in the modding community.

Galactic Warfare is set to debut "before Christmas." So say goodbye to the deserts of Afghanistan and welcome to the deserts of Tatooine.

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Comments (10)

Chris Cosmo Ross

November 30, 2009

Wow, that's actually really cool! They must've spent a ton of time making that, what a great job.

Demian Linn

November 30, 2009

I wonder how Lucas's lawyers are going to like this one.

Toby Davis

November 30, 2009

I want to play Star Wars vs Cod :)

Jason Wilson

November 30, 2009

This may get me to reinstall COD4, just to see how they pull it off. I've played some total-conversion mods of other games -- one mod of Starfleet Command 3 turned all of the Next Generation-era ships into hulls from the original series.

Kevin Zhang-xing

November 30, 2009

I'd love to see how this goes, the screenshots look pretty awesome so far. Piew piew indeed.

Jeffrey J. Wilson

November 30, 2009

Now why, why, WHY the *%^& can't Lucasarts make as cool a game as this mod? A fast paced, well tuned, FPS set in the Star Wars galaxy would be AMAZING... blasters, driods, ion cannons, c'mon, it's all there George, put some poeple on it.

Battlefield I & II come close, but they aren't well tuned. Oh well, I suppose the man with more money than god has other things on his "to do list" than making kick ass video games (like making terrible sequels to his kick ass movies of yesteryear). I guess we'll have to make do with Old Republic when it comes out...

Davneet Minhas

November 30, 2009

Omar returns! Turn up the Pharcyde.

I'm surprised the mod made it this far. Cease and desist orders usually find their way into mailboxes much sooner.

Travis McReynolds

November 30, 2009

I liked the battlefront games, but this looks pretty damned incredible.

Christopher Quach

November 30, 2009

wow!

I agree with Jeffrey (and If lucas Arts attempts to place shelf this concept, I really think they should re-consider. This is more like a respectful homage to two really great concepts by merging them into one).

Michael Keegan

November 30, 2009

Wow, I really want to play this!

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