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."

Comments

It LOOKS good...

[blitzoid]

Yes, it looks good... but how does it PLAY? I'm waiting till the release. Blizzard pretty much outsourced most of the work to Nihilistic, so it might not have the same 'feel' as blizzard's other games. But I guess it would be hard to capture the feel of RTS games in an FPS anyway, heh.

Re:It LOOKS good...

[jcsehak]

It probably plays something like Bungie's "Oni," which was really fun. Except it looks even cooler. One thing I loved about Oni (and warcraft III, too) is that the models were somewhat blocky, but at the same time really fluid and beautiful. They moved like a real person (or a real cartoon), and were nicely proportioned. It looks like Starcraft:Ghost will be no different. This is where Everquest fails for me. Their models are like robots from the '50s.

And kudos to Blizzard for releasing it on all consoles at once. Now if only they'd make a PC version. Not likely, esp. considering the fact that my definition of PC specifies to "Mac."

Another point...

[blitzoid]

Something I notice on their site is that they'll specifically mention Linux on the trailer download page... perhaps they see Linux (Or *nix/BSD users in general) users as a potential market? One can only hope.

Direct download link

[nstrom]

Direct download link for DivX, worked for me:

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

Re:Direct download link

[berniecase]

Ya know, they could've just used MPEG-4 on the Quicktime file and saved themselves a lot of bandwidth and time.

Ghost in a shell?

[baywulf]

If I used the AAlib library (http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/aalib/), can I get ghost is a shell?

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.

love/hate blizzard

[nebenfun]

Damn! I lost my schedule again.
Could someone please remind me if we hate blizzard this week?
thanks.
nbfn

Re:love/hate blizzard

[eyez]

Yes, of course we hate them; They're an evil company trying to take our rights away to create interoperability software.

But, jesus, that game looks sexy. It's very VERY hard to keep up your morals when the companies do that to you; I hate blizzard, and I've sworn off Diablo, warcraft AND starcraft because of what they've done. But it's going to take every last drop of willpower left in my body to stop me from buying this game when it comes out, and there's a chance that it just won't be enough.

Don't count your Zergs until they hatch

[realgone]

Blizzard Entertainment has put up gameplay trailers for their upcoming console title...

Yup -- just so long as by "upcoming" you mean well over a year from now. More likely two years, given Blizzard's track record on meeting projected shipping dates...

Re:Don't count your Zergs until they hatch

[Anonvmous Coward]

"More likely two years, given Blizzard's track record on meeting projected shipping dates..."

Blizzard can get away with it. They release their games when it's ready to be released.

Personally, I'd prefer companies take a cue from Blizzard and consider the quality of their games instead of trying to meet trade-shows. With all the crap out there, there's room for companies that actually care.

Um...

[The Bungi]

OK, I don't want to troll here... or something. But... the movie... isn't that voice the same that used to do the "descriptions" for bad 70's porno films from Sweden?

Re:Um...

[mshiltonj]

He was Optimus Prime! Cool!

I'll buy it if...

[EvilStein]

..we can still click frantically on the terran units and make them say funny things. :P

...at least 8 glasses of fan service a day...

[fenix down]

I never knew that the SOUL of the WARRIOR had so much to do with wearing form-fitting wetsuits and posing suggestively...
Will there be dramatic netative-color fade-outs that make her ass crack glow in the game too? If not, wanna run out a patch for that? Thanks.
Fwoosh! Blinded by da booty! Take that, Zerg overlord!

Goodnight everybody!

a bit disappointed

[selderrr]

apart from the cool cloaking effect and the fish-eye view, I see little or no revolutionary stuff. From what a trailer can tell, I'd put it in the oni/halo category, which happens to be a rather crowded one.

It's been a while (since the doom3 trailers actually) since I've had a 'wow... this shit is awesome...' reaction, and SC-G doesn't trigger that for me.

Then again, I might have played just a bit too much fps games to get wowed anymore. All I see in those trailers is cannon fodder :-)

cup

[selderrr]

is this just me, or are her boobs to small for an average digital female warrior ?

big fat ass tho... might spurr ideas...

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 .