StarCraft Ghost Might Be A Thing … Again?
If It Happens It’ll Dethrone Beyond Good and Evil 2 For Longest Development Time
Star Craft Ghost predates StarCraft 2 by eight years, which means if it is eventually released it will have been in development for at least 22 years. That blows past Duke Nukem Forever’s 14 years and 44 days which you may mistakenly believe is the record holder. That is not true, as Beyond Good and Evil 2 which was in development for just over 15 years. That includes them being cancelled, revived, cancelled again, and passed between developers like a bad penny.
What we do know about StarCraft: Ghost is limited. The new Blizzard project will be headed by Dan Hay, who brought us Far Cry and as well as Blizzard’s cancelled survival game called Odyssey. That is all we, and Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN know for the moment but who knows, maybe we will finally get that Star Craft FPS … and maybe they’ll revive the plans to let you play as a Zerg!
This’ll be Blizzard’s third attempt at a Starcraft shooter. Nihilistic Software’s Ghost was announced in 2002, put on indefinite hold in 2006, then officially cancelled 8 years later in 2014.
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