Ghost In The Shell : SAC Game Confirmed

Thanks to GamerFeed for their confirmation that a Playstation 2 GITS: SAC game is in the works. It will be released in November to coincide with the series premiere on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim.

"Ghost In The Shell : SAC Game Confirmed"

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow, welcome to almost a year ago. Hell, the game was PLAYABLE at E3, which was back in May.

All kidding aside, it would be nice if the original poster had read the article, which focused on the confirmed DETAILS about the game, not the game itself.

Re:"Ghost In The Shell : SAC Game Confirmed"

[Jeff Reed]

There's even a demo included with this month's issue of Official US Playstation Magazine. Not that anyone noticed, since the Metal Gear Solid 3 demo is on the same disc.

Re:"Ghost In The Shell : SAC Game Confirmed"

[Anonymous Coward]

Ooh, I've been waiting for that one, even though I'm expecting the same demo from E3 on that as well (which I can't complain about, as there was a decent amount of stuff to fool around with).

Has that hit newsstands yet?

Light on Info

[the morgawr]

That story was light on information about the game. Does anyone know more?

Re:Light on Info

[meanfriend]

In the article there was a link to the official game website:

http://www.ghostintheshell-thegame.com/ [ghostinthe...hegame.com]

The site has a slick but overproduced flash presentation of the game that includes gameplay clips. Essentially it appears to be a 3D platformer with plenty of running, jumping, shooting, and hand-to-hand combat. Throw in some slo-mo Matrix style camera action for good measure too.

As with all games of this type, it may *look* cool (and it does), but the control scheme is everything. Until it's actually r

Re:Light on Info

[SaturdayNight]

The current edition of PLAY magazine has a pretty in depth article on the game, and the GITS movie. Pretty good read actually...

Old news

[cpt kangarooski]

The game came out a while ago in Japan. All that's new is that it'll be translated and sold in the US market. That's not a huge surprise.

Re:Old news

[corran__horn]

I think it may be the same translator for both the tv series and the game. Or rather I know the guy doing the translations, and he is doing both.

Old News

[Cap-America]

This is really Old news, we've know it was coming to the US sincs E3, hell I've had it pre-ordered from GameStop sinces June.

Production I.G Details - Dating August of 2002

[eclip5e]

Production I.G forums had details on this back in Aug of 2002.
http://www.productionig.com/Forums/index.ph p?s=2a9 2fa94f9ae51b2d8894e60596c01cf&act=ST&f=14&t=202&st =0