New Starcraft: Ghost Trailers

Bobartig writes "Blizzard Entertainment has put up gameplay trailers for their upcoming console title, Starcraft: Ghost. It looks hot. It's available both in both Quicktime and DivX, with plenty of mirrors."

Nihilistic

[kmac06]

Its a third person shooter, not first, and although Nihilistic is doing most of the work, Blizzard is still watching it closely.

Also, Nihilistic was started by a group a programmers that left Blizzard after working on StarCraft.

Direct download link

[nstrom]

Direct download link for DivX, worked for me:

http://www.nforcefiles.net/afilesa2aa/movie/Ghost_ Gameplay2002.avi.zip [nforcefiles.net]

Re:Nihilistic

[Longinus]

Its a third person shooter, not first, and although Nihilistic is doing most of the work, Blizzard is still watching it closely.

Also, Nihilistic was started by a group a programmers that left Blizzard after working on StarCraft.

Actually, Nihilistic is a bunch of ex-Lucasarts guys who left after doing Jedi Knight I.

Re:Another point...

[DevilJeff]

Actually, this is a console only game. They mention Linux on the download page, because divx can be played in Windows or Linux (Yes, I know it can be played on Mac, too...but that's what quicktime is for)

Re:Nihilistic

[KikassAssassin]

Robert Huebner, Nihilistic's president and lead programmer, did work on StarCraft at Blizzard before he founded Nihilistic. That's one of the reasons Blizzard chose them to work on this project.

Re:Another point...File size.

[Alex Thorpe]

The QuickTime version is in Sorenson format, as I suspected before I even downloaded it. If it was in MPEG4, it would have been about the same size or smaller than DivX, since MPEG4 and DivX share the same video codex, just differing in audio format.

Took me a while to get the QuickTime version, though. The mirrors weren't working, save perhaps File Planet with its mandatory registration, and I couldn't reach Blizzard's own FTP server with a browser. I used a stand-alone FTP client instead to download it.

hmmm...

[Anonymous Coward]

looks like a solid snake affair but with jubblies.

Re:Starcraft as FPS?

[m4ik]

Blizzard currently denies any SC2 plans but if you finish Warcraft 3 on hard, you'll see some Space Marines, some Space Orc-Flamethrowers and alot Zerg Hydralisks, all running in the WC3 engine. They are shooting and killing each other, so I assume that it won't take long to do Starcraft2, as the engine is ready and even some models are already done .

Re:It LOOKS good...

[rufo]

Considering that every single game that Blizzard has released for PC has also come to the Mac, if by some chance it does come to a computer, Mac gamers won't be left out in the cold. Indeed, Blizzard's last two releases have been simultaneous for the Mac and PC, and even shipped in the same box using the same CD. Blizzard has their own in-house porting team, and in interviews often raves about how simultaneous cross-platform developement finds bugs on both platforms a lot faster then does working on one platform. (Not claiming this is true, just regurgitating what's been said.)