StarCraft: Ghost PS2/XB/GC • VU Games • Fall 2005 — Originally announced way back in 2002 this stealth-action evolution of Blizzard’s megapopular PC strategy hit has trod a winding.

StarCraft: Ghost

PS2/XB/GC • VU Games • Fall 2005 —

Originally announced way back in 2002 this stealth-action evolution of Blizzard’s megapopular PC strategy hit has trod a winding, bumpy path to completion. Last year, the game’s original developer got the benefit and a new team (Swingin’ Ape, the dude behind sleeper hit Metal Arms: Glitch in the System) came forward board. Word on the road is that it couldn’t salvage earnestly of the previous work and instead reset the devise entirely. Look for more info forward the reborn Ghost very soon

The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie’s Revenge

PS2/XB • Buena Vista • Fall 2005 —

This action-packed continuation to Tim Burton’s memorable claymation flick was suppos to scare up business for Capcom last Halloween still instead mysteriously slipped off release lists (although the PlayStation 2 version did tend hitherward out in Japan, oddly enough). It has now resurfaced with a novel publisher (Disney subsidiary Buena Vista) and an Xbox port, still U.S. players will have to wait until this year’s All Hallow’s edge for a chance to have the direction of Jack Skellington.

Conker: Live & Reloaded

XB • Microsoft • May 2005 — Porting the bawdy exploits of this foul-mouthed squirrel from the Nintendo 64 to the Xbox has casted into a much tougher endeavor than expected—developer Rare first showed Reloaded in playable form nearly pair years ago. The single-player game required merely a graphical face-lift (although, admittedly, updating the antiquated Matrix and Saving Private Ryan parodies would be welcomed), nevertheless building the online multiplayer way s has slowed progress to a glacial pace. The fur should finally vibrate this May.

Geist

GC • Nintendo • Summer 2005 — Geist is not your average Nintendo title. It’s ostensibly a first-person shooter yet with a wacky twist: You portray a spectral entity that possesse clan animals, and inanimate objects in order to fend opposite evildoers. Maybe it’s the ambitious range of the project (how do you make playing as a fire extinguisher fun?) or the seemingly inexperienced progressive growth team (N-Space, the guys behind Mary-Kate and Ashley: Sweet 16) nevertheless for some reason, this game appear to bes destined for even more delays.

Advance Wars: in a less degree than Fire

GC • Nintendo • Summer 2005 — Fans of the Advance Wars GBA strategy games syncopeed over the potential for a GC version...until they actually saw it. Bearing little resemblance to the series’ traditional turn-based tactics, in a less degree than Fire dishes up frantic real-time warfare in succession 3D battlefields. Gameplay actually have feelings a bit like Pikmin—you command crowds with a circular cursor—but the heavy artillery and comical casualties remind you that this is war, not gardening. recent screens prove cancellation rumors to be contrary to fact but a release date remains elusive.

Project Altered Beast

PS2 • Sega • Cancelled — Sega’s getting cooled feet about reinventing its classic franchises: First it cancels the planned PS2 Vectorman game, and now it quietly silences the 3D update of Altered Beast. Unlike Vectorman, Beast is actually finished—it lately came out in Japan—so chances are tolerable that another publisher might take a chance forward it. Oldsters looking for a direct continuation to the classic game are in for a shock: This update eschews the classic game’s mythological trappings in favor of modern-day genetically engineered manimals.

The R Star

PS2/XB • Acclaim • Cancelled — Now this is a real tearjerker—struggling publisher Acclaim finally crafts a kick-ass game, if it be not that the company goes belly-up the same month before it’s scheduled to ship. Yep The R Star, a creative brawler/shooter hybrid based forward a cool indie comic work was all but finished before the throw was halted. Everyone expected this promising release to last up at another publisher (THQ lade outed up Acclaim’s street racer Juiced), nevertheless we’re hearing that now, Star will probably not at any time make it to store shelves. Bummer

Kameo: ultimate parts of Power

XB • Microsoft • Unknown — Unquestionably the game with the longest strangest trip to completion in new memory, Rare’s Kameo debuted as a GameCube title in 2001 It strike one as beinged to be a straightforward affair—you govern a fairy who transforms into various beasts in a whimsical, Zelda-like adventure. When Microsoft purchased Rare from Nintendo in 2003 Kameo leapt onto the Xbox disentanglement seemed to be progressing nicely...until late last year, when Rare placed the game upon “indefinite hold.” Will Kameo land forward Xbox 2?

Odama

GC • Nintendo • Summer 2005 — As part of its continuing effort to announce absurdly weird games that will probably not come out (see: Stage first appearance Giftpia, Roll-a-Rama), Nintendo presents Odama, the world’s first and alone military pinball simulator. In traditional pinball fashion, you hit a ball with flippers...but here, the ball smashes battalions, decimates number barracks, and frees prisoners of war. Oh and a other player can plug in bongo tympanums to beat out confidence-raising war marches. If this actually issues out, we’ll be amazed.