A brand new shooter set within the StarCraft universe is within the works at Blizzard, in line with Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier’s ebook Play Good, through Eurogamer. The challenge is headed up by Dan Hay, who labored varied main roles on Ubisoft’s Far Cry collection, and likewise a 1999 CGI movie starring Jim Belushi named “The Nuttiest Nutcracker”. The true-time strategy spinoff was additionally talked about throughout an IGN podcast that aired yesterday.
This’ll be Blizzard’s third try at a Starcraft shooter. Nihilistic Software program’s Ghost was introduced in 2002, placed on indefinite maintain in 2006, then formally cancelled 8 years later in 2014. Ghost’s protagonist, Nova, finally confirmed up in Starcraft 2 as a part of Challenge: Nova, a narrative enlargement containing a number of single-player missions happening after Legacy Of The Void.
Extra lately, one other shooter named codenamed Ares was rumoured to have been cancelled in 2019. It was ““like Battlefield within the StarCraft universe,” one supply told Kotaku on the time. “The crew had constructed prototypes through which the participant, as a Terran marine, might gun down Zerg aliens, and there have been plans to experiment with playable Zerg as nicely.“
As for this new shooter, particulars appear pretty scant in the intervening time. It is not Hay’s first sport for Blizzard – he additionally labored on Odyssey, a survival challenge that was cancelled this January. The cancellation coincided with almost 2000 individuals throughout Activision Blizzard, ZeniMax and Xbox groups being laid off.
StarCraft: Remastered and StarCraft 2: Marketing campaign Assortment arrived on sport go this week, when you someway haven’t performed the best RTS marketing campaign in historical past, and likewise Starcraft 2.