Starcraft Ghost Takes Blizzard's Franchise Stealth

Thanks to GameSpot for their hands-on preview of Starcraft: Ghost, the third-person action game being developed for all three consoles (thus negating Xbox exclusivity rumors) by Nihilistic and Blizzard. The article reveals vehicular combat added into the stealth action, saying "...the final game will let you pilot a Terran siege tank, goliath (a bipedal mech), and vulture (a small hovercycle)", and IGN has a more in-depth look at this new Tokyo Game Show build, mentioning the developers are "working together to make a more refined stealth game" but voicing a few reservations about "sluggish and unresponsive" targeting on this much-improved, early 2004-due title.

Brand names

[Henry V .009]

Is there something that is meant to interest me other than the brand name? Frankly I could care less whether this game had a Blizzard Vulture or a Microsoft Dune Buggy. What is interesting about the gameplay? I mean Starcraft was fun and all, but it is not like I identify with the characters or story from it.

Re:Brand names

[simoniker]

Interesting point, actually.

I think the game _could_ be interesting because it's developed by Nihilistic, who did the pretty decent Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption [nihilistic.com], and are mainly ex-LucasArts people from the tail-end of the 'good' era (Jedi Knight, etc.) Also, Blizzard tend to be decent about quality control (they cancelled Warcraft Adventures [warcraftiii.net] when it wasn't up to scratch.) But.. a license does not a game make, and we'll have to see how this stacks up.

Re:Brand names

[Ty]

I played it in Nihilistic's studio. (I know someone who works there.) The gameplay rocks. It's on par with the gameplay of Metroid for the Gamecube.

If you played starcraft a lot, it's quite thrilling to see all of the enimies and units rendered in a 3D world. Somehow, a zergling or hydralisk looks a hell-of-a-lot more scary when they're running at you in a first person perspective.

In short, if you liked starcraft a lot, and you like 3D shooters, you will like this game.

Re:-1, DMCA wielding jackbooted thugs

[Anonvmous Coward]

"*yawn* Are we going to bring this up again? They didn't even use the DMCA."

Seeing as how many people have stated that they would boycott Blizzard/Vivendi (including this game) over the BnetD for using the DMCA, I'd say his point isn't so off-topic.

Stealth/vehicle combat game?

[ScorpiusFan]

I guess Blizzard is breaking new ground again, with a combined stealth/vehicle shooter? It's hard at this point what kind of game this is going to be.

Re:Stealth/vehicle combat game?

[jwriney]

Drive VERY quietly.

--riney

Aw come on

[_Sexy_Pants_]

Nobody's complained about it yet? WHERE'S THE PC VERSION? there. It's been said

Re:Aw come on

[dsyu]

Sadly, I think Blizzard (well, ok, Nihilistic, with Blizzard providing 'executive' support) is only releasing this one on consoles.

Re:Aw come on

[Ty]

I wouldn't be suprised if they were to release a PC version in the future (especially because of the XBOX release.) Yet, Nihilistic is pretty small - 20 to 30 people I think, which is stretching it to produce the game across the 3 console systems.

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The Other Kind of Ghost...

[mraymer]

Here's Penny Arcade's take on Ghost, which I think is all too true... heh.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2002-09 -20&res=l [penny-arcade.com]

somebody has to say it

[fyrewulff]

Hmm, I didn't know Command and Conquer: Renegade could be modded so well.

mm hmm

[wuHoncho]

>early 2004-due title.

read: actual release date - summer 2005

why does everyone complain, where is the positives

[goster]

I don't see all the negativism towards XBOX and other consoles vs PC's. Yeah, I know that the PC is better, but who cares really. Be happy that there are companies making great games for people to enjoy. I can't stand the whinning about, "why is it not on PC"