Stargate SG-1 games announced

Kevok

Press release from JoWooD:

Rottenmann, Austria, 22nd of March - JoWooD Productions Software AG will handle worldwide publishing and marketing of videogames based on MGM Television's hit science-fiction series, "Stargate SG-1."
As part of the agreement, Australian developer Perception PTY Ltd. will develop videogames based on the current TV series "Stargate SG-1," and any spin-off series such as the upcoming "Stargate: Atlantis." Perception PTY licensed the rights to develop "Stargate SG-1" videogames from MGM Interactive, a unit of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc. (NYSE:MGM).

"Stargate SG-1" is one of television's best-known science-fiction properties, garnering the genre's best ratings in the United States as the No. 1 series on the Sci Fi Channel. It is broadcast in more than 60 other countries as well. Its popularity also has fueled a successful series of DVD releases of the show's episodes.

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More here.

I hope they're pretty good, obviously an FPS is pretty much guaranteed, I wouldn't mind an adventure game though.

mr_angry

Dammit Kevok! You beat me to it!

The MGM press release can be found here.

Kevok

This is from the Perception website:

While producing its own original content titles, the company is also working
closely with a major film studio on a licensed property for all major platforms,
which it hopes to announce shortly. The game is an action packed First Person
Shooter.

So it's just in fps they're working on. I hope we have the ability to go to various worlds using the DHD's, the game will probably be linear with missions to complete but we can hope all the same.

I'd say we'll see some of it come E3 in May.

User45701

The first game being made is a RPG. I was hopeing the first game would be a FPS but if the rpg is anything like SWKOTR then we are going to be very happy people.

mr_angry

Originally posted by User45701
The first game being made is a RPG. I was hopeing the first game would be a FPS but if the rpg is anything like SWKOTR then we are going to be very happy people.

Did I miss the word RPG somewhere there usr? Looks an awful lot like FPS to me...

I'm hoping the DHD is a bit like Doom3's button interface, i.e. you walk up to it, and the crosshair turns into a mouse pointer where you can select the keys yourself. With a bit of background lighting to guide you to the correct Chevrons, of course!

bizmark

cool looking forword to this

i foresee a Battlefeild vietnamish game at some point

Peace

I can't say the RPG wpild light my fire but i'd give it a go anyway.

But the FPS would be ledgend IMO....ofcourse they could always screw it up and push out some load of crap.... not beyond the real of extreme possibility.

Just imagin though if they decided to intergrate everything into the game...gliders/staff weapons/normal projectile weapons/gould weapons.... PHOA!!!!

Now i'd buy that for a dollar.

Washout

Originally posted by bizmark
cool looking forword to this

i foresee a Battlefeild vietnamish game at some point

you and your obsession with BFV bizmark :P

bizmark

Originally posted by Washout
you and your obsession with BFV bizmark :P

i know im a dice/ea whore .............But you have to admit the tv show lends itself to a large online fps muiltplayer like BF Jafa on one side humans on the other death gliders flying around and im sure you could come up with a good reasion why humvees and tanks are there

it would be class

Washout

you do knoiw that there was a mod in development for Battlefield 1942 based on SG1.

I pray for the day it comes out or hoefully all attention will now be directed towards creating the mod for BFV.

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bus77

Im glad Jowood got it, I like the stuff they do.

bizmark

Originally posted by Washout
you do knoiw that there was a mod in development for Battlefield 1942 based on SG1.

I pray for the day it comes out or hoefully all attention will now be directed towards creating the mod for BFV.

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Ya i heard about that but i assume all mods will port to Vietnam now takeing advanage of the better game engine and new fetures

ANYWAY when should we expect a sg1 game ? jowood are only a publisher not developer (arent they) and what games have they made/published ?

Kevok

The announcement was made in time for E3, which suggests an E3 unveiling. So we'll get all the juicy details then.

Twould rule if they licenced source.

User45701

Excelent, what date is E3 again>?

Kevok

May 11th - 14th

orangerooster

Originally posted by bizmark
jowood are only a publisher not developer (arent they) and what games have they made/published ?

Nothing great-chaser,neighbours from hell and loads of other tat noone bought.

Raskolnikov

I hope this is as good as the original Stargate on the SNES.

User45701

Im confused i thought it was on the Saga. Saga boughtn teh riights to make a Stargate game and thats why it toook so many years to make a SG1 game wasent there some confusuion over if Saga still had the rights. Some legal mix up?

gaelic cowboy

It will obviously be crap as it will be cross platform which means xbox and ps2 the dev's will the end up realeasing a totally pants game for the pc mark my words.

User45701

If they do, then they wil die. And i am not jokeing.

McClane

http://www.stargatetc.com/

Thats a Half-Life mod that has been under dev for years. The game itself is pretty impressive in parts and pretty pathetic in others.

The gate graphics are excellent and the weapons are class too.

You can pick to be a Go'auld and u can throw symbionts at other players and the symbionts will chase the tari round the level.

gaelic cowboy

I always thought stargate was a good idea for a game most likely suited to FPS the killer application in it that i see is you could dial differant planets and the in game graphics of travelling thruogh the wormhole could hide the fact the dreaded loading screen is operating you pop out the other side and to the gamer it looks seamless.
There is nothing worse than all those loading screen's to spoil a gaming experience Max Payne 1 or 2 being the classic example:(

joshcork

Muahaha this will be quite cool and a long time coming lets just hope they keep it flexible with various routes to objectives. A mothership for example massive and should be made to feel that way

ixoy

Stargate does indeed have a great potential for a game. You would get handed missions from the SGC and off you go. You could add an adventure element into it by having a log of gate addresses that you can dial, allowing adventures that span multiple planets without having to keep returning to the SGC.
Other great ideas would be:

* A mission where you get to fly a Tel'tak harboring a bomb for some purpose or another
* A proper Zat'nikatel that disintegrates opponents on the third shot
* Massive battles against Jaffa armies
* Getting to board a Ha'tak (mothership)
* Including various races/factions like Asgard, Tollan, Tok'ra, et cetera.
* RPGesque elements such as a portable naquadah generator for when the DHD is busted on certain planets

What I would really hate to see is what was mentioned in that Half Life mod: a Goa'uld lobbing symbiotes at opponents. It makes no sense in terms of the show given how precious a symbiote is seen to be. It should stick to established continuity.

Draupnir

Has the potential to be damn good alright, I quite like Star Trek Voyager Elite Force, cool weapons and stayed true the show(of which I wasnt a fan)

joshcork

What I would really hate to see is what was mentioned in that Half Life mod: a Goa'uld lobbing symbiotes at opponents.

That would be mad funny though think of the mayhem ;D

Draupnir

funny for all of about 20 seconds

joshcork

true but funny none the less:)

Draupnir

true

McClane

What I would really hate to see is what was mentioned in that Half Life mod: a Goa'uld lobbing symbiotes at opponents.

Well its not exactly lobbing them like rounds from a rifle. Only a System Lord has them and he only has 3. They're almost like the go'auld equivalent of heat seeking grenades.

Btw don't judge the game on that alone. Its actually very very well done (for a crowd of people doing it in their spare time for free)

The zat-nikatel, Stargate, ring transport, Staff weapons etc all look and work very well.







I think people should try this game before actually buying a commercial game simply because this is probably alot better. Look at the complete utter flop the matrix game was and the most popular game in the World (counter-strike) was developed the same way as this one. By amateurs.

I actualy didn't know till just now but there is a Single Player Conversion under development as well. They have developed models for the Asgard, nox and many maps.