Old Blizzard project that never saw the light?

[DiGG]

I seem to remember, back in 98 or 99, buying a PC GAMER magazine, that came with a cd (with games and mostly demos), and on it was a RPG-like 2d cartoon animated cell game (or maybe my memory is fuzzy on that), which depicted how humans discovered baby Thrall and how he was raised in Durnholde Keep and... I remember a picture of a human handling baby Thrall, hands in the air... not even sure how the game would go about...

What was that game to be? As far as I know it never saw the light of day, I think it was dropped for incoming Warcraft III (I think that was the story back then).

[Lovestar]

Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans

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[alade]

http://www.wowpedia.org/Warcraft_Adv...d_of_the_Clans


This?

[Enders]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warcraf...d_of_the_Clans

[Eurhetemec]

It's a real pity that they didn't do it, as I think it would have given them a chance to hone their storytelling skills, and we'd probably have got a better story through WoW as a result, especially if it was successful enough to warrant sequels etc.

[Deleted]

Lord of the Clans, I think it was going to be like Monkey Island type of game.

[DiGG]

Yes thank you for the quick answer! I still think it would have been cool...

On the Wiki: http://www.youtube.com/user/0manbiker0
Videos of the game to be... wow it's ugly, when you see it from today's perspective hehe.

[Mechazod]

I still say Blizz should go back and finish this game along with StarCraft Ghost, I don't see why they don't look for a good reputable game company to finish the games instead if they themselves are to busy on new projects. I am sure there would be tons of smaller/newer companies out there jumping at the chance to prove their skills especially to a major company like Blizzard.

Reminds me of a lot of other great games I couldn't wait to play but never ended up getting released like Sonic Xtreme, EarthBound 64 and Mario's Wacky Worlds.

At least this inst as stupid as Nintendo never releasing Star Fox 2 even though the game was pretty much 100% finished.


Also I am not sure but I don't think the game was so much stopped because of WarCraft III but more like the adventure game genre was sort of dieing out at the time, I could be wrong.

[Specops]

I still say Blizz should go back and finish this game along with StarCraft Ghost, I don't see why they don't look for a good reputable game company to finish the games instead if they themselves are to busy on new projects. I am sure there would be tons of smaller/newer companies out there jumping at the chance to prove their skills especially to a major company like Blizzard.

On the "unofficial" Blizzard product slate some months back, it said Starcraft Phoenix. I'm thinking Phoenix will be Ghost making a comeback.

[Deleted]

and we'd probably have got a better story through WoW as a result

but worse story in warcraft 3 instead... we would have entire orc campaign taken out

---------- Post added 2011-09-05 at 01:03 PM ----------

On the "unofficial" Blizzard product slate some months back, it said Starcraft Phoenix. I'm thinking Phoenix will be Ghost making a comeback.

would make sense, starcraft had codename hydra hence the 3 parts (like 3 hydra heads), and phoenix = reborn, so starcraft phoenix might be reborn starcraft ghost

[ManiaCCC]

here is the list of Blizzard canceled games
http://www.unseen64.net/2008/05/27/b...ncelled-games/

there are "few" more

[malloyevelyn110]

thanks for sharing!

[Wildmoon]

There are 2 famous games of Blizzard that never saw the light. It's Starcraft:Ghost and Warcraft Adventures:Lord of Clan. Rob Pardo said that SC:Ghost didn't meet Blizzard quality but he think there would have been many companies that would release SC:Ghost in that state O_O. I really wanna see.