Giants went through four years of development before Interplay Entertainment published it on December 7, 2000, for Microsoft Windows a Mac OS X port was published by MacPlay in 2001, and the game was also ported to the PlayStation 2 later that year.
It was the first project for Planet Moon Studios, which consisted of former Shiny Entertainment employees who had worked on the game MDK in 1997. Giants: Citizen Kabuto is a third-person shooter video game with real-time strategy elements. Single-player, multiplayer (Windows and Mac OS X only)
