I happened to be looking at these covers, and thought I’d add them to this thread as a different kind of “terrible magazine ads”
August, 2003
April, 2004
This was one of the last big titles I remember turning into vaporware. Seems like that happens less often these days. Or maybe its more appropriate to say that these days a lot of games enter early access and then are never finished. Or launched with a price tag, quickly enter free-to-play, and then have the servers shuttered. Having something disappear like Ghost, especially after all the early press it had received, doesn’t feel like something that really happens anymore.
Anyway XBOX magazine was near and dear to my heart for a while there as a kid, even before I owned an XBOX. Lots of nostalgia looking at these two covers in particular, since I had been (and would still be) excited about a sci-fi third person steath game. Was disappointed when Ghost eventually stopped being talked about.