I waited to comment on this until I could find it on YouTube because words alone wouldn’t do it justice either way. During the premier of SG Atlantis we had our first look at the first ever trailer for Stargate Worlds. It’s short, it’s mostly CGI, but it’s still so dang cool to see Stargate take on a MMO look. From what I can tell the trailer featured a Jaffa, SGC Soldier, and Asgard (with drone). What appealed to me most of all though was the world and potential environments we’ll be privy to exploring. So much potential.
If anyone is interested in a few new details about what Stargate Worlds will have to offer us I found a pretty good list. Thanks to Massively for compiling the list from the Gamespot behind the scenes.
- Unreal 3 Engine and Big World back end
- Two factions
- Classes: Jaffa, Goa’uld, Asgard, human soldier, scientist, archeologist, and commando
- No vehicle combat or player controlled starships
- The MMOG will follow the events from SG1 but feature different stories: Replicator War, the Apophis War, the Tok’ra war with the Goa’uld, etc.
- Beta testing starts this spring and with the launch to follow in the fall
- 15 USD monthly subscription rate
- Possibility that SG cast members to do voice-overs
- Evolutionary Combat and Advanced AI
Aside from a few consistancy issues with the story lines these features sound awesome. Enjoy the trailer!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo3pVzxZbcI[/youtube]
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NO STARSHIPS!!!!!! thats insane, it could have been limitless, it could have been 100 times better than wow, i really hope they’re keeping it as a possible expantion pack, because it would add another dimension to the game completly,……..NO STARSHIPS, outraged!
Star Wars Galaxies didn’t have ships either for a long time and it was… Star Wars! I preferred SG-1 back when they weren’t so into space combat anyway though.