{"id":109313,"date":"2020-02-18T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/02\/new_footage_of_blizzards_axed_third-person_shooter_starcraft_ghost_surfaces_online"},"modified":"2020-02-18T05:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T05:30:00","slug":"new-footage-of-blizzards-axed-third-person-shooter-starcraft-ghost-surfaces-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/02\/18\/new-footage-of-blizzards-axed-third-person-shooter-starcraft-ghost-surfaces-online\/","title":{"rendered":"New Footage Of Blizzard&#8217;s Axed Third-Person Shooter StarCraft: Ghost Surfaces Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9f2ad6d7cd1f5\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9f2ad6d7cd1f5\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Starcraft Ghost\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9f2ad6d7cd1f5\/starcraft-ghost.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9f2ad6d7cd1f5\/starcraft-ghost.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Starcraft Ghost\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>During the GameCube, PlayStation 2 and original Xbox generation in 2002, Blizzard was working on an all-format third-person shooter known as <em>Starcraft: Ghost<\/em>. The game experienced a bumpy development cycle and the GameCube version was cancelled in 2004. This followed with the project being completely axed in 2014, well after this particular generation.<\/p>\n<p>Now, nearly two decades later, leaked footage of an early Xbox build has leaked online. While this might not be footage of Starcraft: Ghost running on the GameCube, we imagine it would have looked quite similar on Nintendo and Sony&#8217;s platform if it had seen the light of day. While much of the leaked footage has already been taken down, there are still a few clips online (view this while you can):<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>As you can see, it&#8217;s a pretty standard-looking third-person shooter. Still, it would have been a nice change of pace from Blizzard&#8217;s main offerings at the time. Below are some additional screenshots of the Xbox version, supplied by the Twitter user who contacted <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kotaku.com.au\/2020\/02\/it-seems-a-playable-xbox-build-of-starcraft-ghost-has-leaked\/\">Kotaku<\/a> about the leak.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Who would have thought a month ago that Starcraft Ghost would leak in some form? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/24wCp4XBsE\">pic.twitter.com\/24wCp4XBsE<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Andrew Borman (@Borman18) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Borman18\/status\/1229064541289447427?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 16, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p><em>Is this a game you were anticipating back in the day? What do you think of the above footage and screenshots? Share your thoughts below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the GameCube, PlayStation 2 and original Xbox generation in 2002, Blizzard was working on an all-format third-person shooter known as Starcraft: Ghost. The game experienced a bumpy development cycle and the GameCube version was cancelled in 2004. This followed with the project being completely axed in 2014, well after this particular generation. Now, nearly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}