Firesky and Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment, the studio behind the financially troubled but still-in-production MMO role-playing game Stargate Worlds, is working on a second video game title, they announced today. Stargate Resistance is an online, third-person shooter currently in the final stages of development.
The game’s official Web site went live today at StargateResistance.com. The game will be released in the first quarter of 2010, according to the site.
Resistance will let players take on the role of Stargate Command or the Goa’uld System Lords, with the fate of the galaxy in the balance. There are six character classes: Soldiers, Commandos, and Scientists on the S.G.C. side, and Goa’uld, Jaffa, and Ashrak assassins on the side of the System Lords. Each class will come with its own unique blend of weapons, items, and weaknesses.
Players will be able to work with teammates in three multiplayer modes (up to 16 players at once): “Team Death Match,” “Capture the Tech,” and “Domination.” Additional game modes are planned for release shortly after the game’s launch.
The game will be available for the PC only, and is powered by the Unreal 3 engine. It will be open to future expansion packs.
Stargate Resistance is “currently in the polishing stage,” according to the site.
Weapons in the game include the Goa'uld hand device.
“Resistance brings to our fans the kind of gameplay SGW never planned to deliver,” said Chris Klug, the game’s creative consultant and the creative director for Stargate Worlds. “Resistance delivers the combat, weapons and tactics seen so often on the show that many of you have been asking for. I know this game will excite fans who have longed to go toe-to-toe with a Jaffa as well as those who always wanted to dominate the galaxy in ways the MMO could only hint at.”
In the full letter, Klug also speaks to the difficult last year faced by the studio, its decision to remain silent, and its recognition that it needs to rebuild its relationship with fans.
“As well as building this new exciting product, paramount to Firesky’s long-term future is restoring your confidence and trust in us,” he said.
NEXT: Straight talk on why Resistance is coming out before Stargate Worlds
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Thanks for the nod to me at the end mate.
supremeaaron
PC only...... Disappointing.
I'm rapidly losing hope for a Stargate console game. It wouldn't even be that hard, just scale down the Mass Effect or Oblivion engines and you've got gold. In fact, every time I play those games, I imagine how amazing it would be if set in the Stargate Universe. I'll even take an XBL shooter, I don't care. I just want a zat in my hand and a wraith to shoot with it.
Im still holding out hope for a console game. Hopefully if Resistance and Worlds are a success it may push them to developing one. Still this sounds awesome and I will definitely be signing up to play.
YAY. A game that's not a stupid MMORPG. Isn't that nice :)
Id be happy just to have a proper game related to Stargate tbh.
Is this vaporware, too? I mean, how long has Worlds been in development but not (seemingly) getting anywhere?
I'd love to see a Stargate game, but I'm not going to play an MMO or console game. In fact when Shelter comes out I'm going to make my own Stargate mods for it.
YESSS!!!!!!!!!! i cant wait
I think the problem is this, Stargate SG-1: Alliance was a standard game and despite problems between the publisher & developer is the type of game that needs to be developed.
Stargate Worlds is an MMO, that's not cheap. That is hugely more costly. It just wasn't the right move.
Stargate Resistance? No co-op? Sorry, but this just seems like a way to get some money for technology created during the production of Stargate Worlds. While not a bad idea, it doesn't really help with it being competitive modes and not adventure campaigns.
I really, really, really want a Stargate game. I've been waiting for one since the N64. I pretended the portals in Turok were Stargates. Gosh, why is it so hard to create a good stargate game?