According to Jason Schreier, a gaming industry reporter for IGN and Bloomberg NewsInterviewIn his new book "Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment," which will be published on October 10, he discusses the past, present, and future development of Blizzard Entertainment, and reveals that Blizzard Entertainment still plans to create a third-person shooter game based on "StarCraft."
Jason Schreier revealed that Dan Hay, who was the executive producer and creative director of Ubisoft Montreal Studio and participated in the production of Far Cry 3 and subsequent series of works, joined Blizzard Entertainment to be responsible forA new survival game codenamed OdysseyAfter being canceled due to Microsoft's large-scale layoffs, it seems that they are now working on creating a shooting game based on "StarCraft".
Microsoft and Blizzard Entertainment have not yet announced any details about the content of this shooting game, but they did previouslyExternal RecruitmentThe positions include creative director, design director, combat-related artificial intelligence system, senior art director, senior special effects artist, narrative director, etc. It was also mentioned that the new game will include multi-season story content, which means that this game will attract more players to support it through continuous updates.
In fact, this isn't the first time Blizzard Entertainment has planned a third-person shooter based on StarCraft. As early as 2001, StarCraft: Ghost was announced, and Nihilistic Software was responsible for development. It was expected to be released on Nintendo GameCube, Microsoft Xbox, and Sony's PlayStation 2 platforms. The plot was set four years after the end of StarCraft: Under Fire, and the game character Nova explored the world of StarCraft through a third-person perspective.
However, in 2004, the game was transferred to Swingin' Ape Studios, which was acquired by Blizzard Entertainment. In 2005, it was announced that the GameCube version would be canceled. In 2006, it was even announced that the game development plan would be postponed indefinitely. Although it was stated in 2008 that the game had not been canceled, gaming websites including IGN believed that the game could no longer be put into production.
Blizzard Entertainment was later reported to have been developing a first-person shooter game codenamed "Ares" (God of War), but it seems that the related development work was subsequently canceled in 2019.
