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Cool8man
09-19-2002, 09:50 PM
Starcraft: Ghost impressions



Blizzard shows off portions of its just-announced console game at a press event in Tokyo.

At its Tokyo Game Show press event, Blizzard briefly demonstrated the playable Xbox version of Starcraft: Ghost, its just-announced tactical action game. The demo begins with Nova being sent into a rogue Terran base for the purposes of collecting information for the confederation. After she drops from the ceiling and lands on the top of a Terran drop ship, players can fully maneuver the camera around to look for any enemies in the area. In this case, a couple of marines are patrolling the area, so you can decide if you want to engage in a full fire fight or use the ghost's cloaking ability. The person giving the demonstration opts for stealth and quietly walks by the rogue marines and through a door, and down a ladder located nearby.
Once inside this new area, Nova spots a camera over a door leading into yet another room. Unlike Metal Gear Solid that shows a camera's line of sight through a radar, Starcraft: Ghost actually displays it in the game, so you'll see a bright yellow streak indicating where the camera's currently looking. After avoiding the camera, Nova walks into the next area, but instead of just charging right in, she starts to use her special sight ability that enables her to see objects behind walls to see if there are any marines scouting the area. Unsurprisingly, her sight reveals the neon-outline of a Terran marine walking just around the corner, so Nova walks around the corner and begins to open fire with her standard assault rifle. However, it appears that the marines can take quite a bit of punishment as Nova unloads a constant stream of fire for about 20 seconds before taking the marine down. Interestingly, if you don't kill these marines in a timely manner, an alarm will sound and additional marines will come in to help, but the marine that came running in to help his comrade met with Nova's grenade launcher and was dead within seconds.

After going through another door, Nova reaches a generator room with an enormous spinning fan located at the bottom. Here, Starcraft: Ghost resembles more of a platformer rather than a tactical action game because you have to make several hair-raising jumps in order to make it to the bottom of the generator and avoid being chopped to pieces by the blades on the fan. Once she safely reaches the bottom, another character back at the confederation base tells Nova that this particular facility was being used to study the Zerg, and that the specimens somehow managed to escape from their containment areas.

At this point, a couple of zerglings start to break through the metal panels in the floor and come charging at Nova, but because she's a ghost, she has the ability to move at hyper sonic-speed, which causes everything else in the environment to slowdown—it's somewhat similar to the bullet-time effect seen in The Matrix or recent games such as Max Payne and Dead to Rights. The zerglings are summarily destroyed and Nova goes into the next area where a large zerg hydrolisk pushes over a table while running at Nova. Instead of using her speed ability again, Nova busts out the flame thrower that bathes the room and all of the objects inside in a bright light as the hydrolisk catches on fire and then falls to the ground.

One of the last areas we were shown seemed to be located on a balcony overlooking the central power area of the base. As a side note, we were told that each enemy in Starcraft: Ghost will have a different AI routine. For example, you'll know if a marine has gone into alert mode if the visor on his helmet is either raised or lowered. In addition, marines can be killed much faster with a head shot from the sniper rilfe if the visor is up. We got a chance to see Nova's sniper rifle in action as she took out a couple of zerglings from long-range. This triggered a cutscene similar to some cutscenes from Starcraft in which a group of marines are barricaded behind a door being broken into by the zerg. Once the zerg bust through, the marines start opening fire, and the demo ends.

For a game that was just announced, Starcraft: Ghost looks pretty far along. The character model for Nova as well as some of the zerg looked quite good and the environments are already sporting some nice special effects such as mist spraying from pipes and some impressive lighting. The game appears to play like most tactical action games in terms of the stealth element, but there appears to be much more to it as shown by the portion of the demo that took place in the ventilation area. We'll have more on Starcraft: Ghost tomorrow so stay tuned.

By Giancarlo Varanini, GameSpot VG [POSTED: 09/19/02]

xbox4lif
09-19-2002, 10:41 PM
This is going to bring even more ppl to the power of xbox.

**** is really starting to get serious.

Xtopia
09-19-2002, 11:27 PM
Starcraft is a RTS right?

Koopa
09-19-2002, 11:41 PM
xtopia, where have you been the last 4 years?

SC is immensely popular, so even if you don't know what it is it's got brand name recognition...add that to a stunning graphics engine, great gameplay ideas, and...well..its BLIZZARD...and i think you've got a great game in the works.

Batman2372
09-20-2002, 09:32 AM
For those of you that don't know Starcraft:

In the original Starcraft game (which is a real-time strategy game) if you play as the Terran race, you may develop a soldier called a Ghost. This ghost had cloaking capabilities, and was able to light a target for a nuclear strike (assuming you had nukes).

The new Starcraft:Ghost game is a tactical-action game (think Splinter Cell) in which you play a character that is one of these ghosts. Some of the abilities you will have in this game include:

* Outmanuever your enemies at sonic speed
* Infilitrate bases and sneak past guards using the cloak device
* Lock down vehicles and electronic devices to immobilize them
* Engage in both face-to-face and planet-scale warfare.

I for one am really excited about this. I can't tell you how much time I've logged on Battle.net and lan party Starcraft games. This will be great.

Nato King
09-20-2002, 09:38 AM
I was just saying to JJaX that if a new Starcraft ever come out I would buy it so I think this is the one.:)

Dre
09-20-2002, 10:14 AM
Blizzard on Xbox.. woohoo! This is a great start to my day. I think Blizzard games are the only games I actually ever buy on PC.

ShannonX
09-20-2002, 12:29 PM
its gonna be on several consoles... the press release stated "next generation consoles" so hopefully, they will make it for the xbox, and downgrade it for the ports to whatever system they bring it to.

Xaminor
09-20-2002, 01:53 PM
NIhilistics, I know I have heard of them, but can anyone tell me what they have been involved in?

Evil_Dr_Beefy
09-21-2002, 11:48 AM
Sounds great......But i been hoping for Starcraft 2 for the longest....:eek: