‘Trailer’ For That Unreleased Aussie Stargate Game

33 responses to “‘Trailer’ For That Unreleased Aussie Stargate Game”

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   Jedikilla

   December 27, 2011 at 11:43 am

   Looks like a half life 2 mod. To be honest I’m kinda glad this fell through.

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      Kyall

      December 27, 2011 at 6:49 pm

      Unreal engine actually. Not a half like mod….

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   Jane Saunders

   December 27, 2011 at 12:09 pm

   Not enough particle effects and it’s running a very low resolution. Characters lack expression, even though they were detailed enough, they really need some fluid motion capture and walking routines. They just look like character skins for Counter Strike characters.

   I think this game could have been really good.

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3. 

   Link

   December 27, 2011 at 12:33 pm

   ^ guys you do realise this game is from years ago right?
   for some reason while watching it kind of looked like a first person mmo

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4. 

   Nuclear Pi

   December 27, 2011 at 12:35 pm

   I remember seeing an ad for that game on a stargate DVD, too bad it got cancelled – looked fun

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5. 

   Chazz

   December 27, 2011 at 12:55 pm

   It would be rad to get a full-on Stargate game, so much to work with and so much potential. Though that also means so many ways to get it wrong :S

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   Sam Timmins

   December 27, 2011 at 12:57 pm

   Kotaku, you really need to fix your Facebook links. I had to rewrite this link.

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      Logan Booker

      December 27, 2011 at 1:31 pm

      Hey Sam,

      I’m not sure I understand. Could you provide some additional info and I can get the tech guys to follow it up when they’re back on deck.

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7. 

   Daniel

   December 27, 2011 at 1:39 pm

   Can someone just leak it already.

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8. 

   cbrate

   December 27, 2011 at 2:04 pm

   Release this game 10 years ago and it would’ve been decent. I still don’t think anybody except SG fans would’ve gotten it.

   Then again, it could’ve been much worse. Anyone remember the Farscape game?

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9. 

   Senor Freebie

   December 27, 2011 at 2:16 pm

   For pre-alpha footage from 6-7 years ago this is actually pretty good. I don’t think you guys really appreciate how much of the polish occurs post-alpha. They’re clearly barely using any post-processing, even anti-aliasing and it’s not very well optimised so it’s res is very low.

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10. 

    Alinos

    December 27, 2011 at 3:07 pm

    Yeah i love the people ragging on the graphics.

    The game was officially cancelled in 2005.

    This is 6 year old tech.

    The game would have been designed mostly with the Xbox and Ps2 type graphic’s in mind, at most early 360 graphics.

    There is good reason it looks like half life 2 which was released at the same time.

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11. 

    TUALMASOK

    December 27, 2011 at 3:39 pm

    A quick search of google has revealed, to my surprise, that the Stargate franchise is still alive. OMG. You sick bastards. Just give it up already.

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    1. 

       Christopher

       December 27, 2011 at 11:11 pm

       Try again. Last series was SG:U which already ended.

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          matt

          December 28, 2011 at 9:45 pm

          and any real fan shouldnt count that battlestar galactica wannabe pile of trash as real stargate anyway, the show died with the last movie (ark of truth? or the one after that)

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12. 

    Hyperthx

    December 27, 2011 at 5:14 pm

    *Imagine Irrational developing this game

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13. 

    Hyperthx

    December 27, 2011 at 5:14 pm

    *imagine Bioware developing this game

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14. 

    Kubi

    December 27, 2011 at 5:48 pm

    Digging up painful memories, Logan.

    I spit on your grave, JoWood.

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15. 

    Stevorooni

    December 27, 2011 at 6:38 pm

    Did you see the sharp knees on those character models? It’s way below my standards

    (I’m a Stargate dork and probably would have loved this)

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16. 

    Michael

    December 27, 2011 at 6:41 pm

    I’m also a developer that was working on this game when it got cancelled.

    For those of you ragging on the visuals…well…duh. It was a Xbox and PS2 game for a start, and these videos and screenshots, if they were taken at the time of the game’s cancellation, would have been taken at the point where we were late alpha stage. A great deal of polishing still needed to be done, but I estimate there was probably 5-6 months of solid work left on it.

    All of the levels were present and playable (some of them in a near-complete state), pretty much all of the official voice acting was in the game. Some of the enemies were still pretty rough around the edges with placeholder animations, and the weapon and damage balance was off as well. Many of the cinematics were still placeholder as well (but they typically don’t get added until beta anyway). All in all, all of the components were there, they just had to be put together and fine tuned. Mind you, the PS2 version was a bit of a mess…we would have needed to shift a lot of focus onto that platform to get it up to the standard of the Xbox and PC.

    And as a side note, we were using Unreal 2.5, not Source…so if anything the game would have looked more like games such as Unreal 2, Republic Commando, Deus Ex: Invisible War and Pariah than Half-Life 2.

    I still have the last stable build we had before the cancellation on a portable hard drive. We got so close, it’s such a shame it met an untimely end in the way it did. At any rate I don’t think my NDA from Perception applies there anymore so if anyone has questions, ask away.

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       Kyall

       December 27, 2011 at 6:51 pm

       Knew about it, never seen it, props to the character modellers, even ps2/xbox gen those models were really accurate to the characters. Man I would have loved to play this.

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       nebarik

       December 27, 2011 at 8:10 pm

       hows this for a question; any chance of a leak onto the interwebs 😉 not like the game has any income potential these days.

       i ask mainly as i was super psyched for this game back in 06-07 before it got cancelled. hung around quite a lot in the forums, may have been one of the highest posters there actually. seriously, as crap as the game may be (being in alpha), i want to play the hell out of it

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          Michael

          December 27, 2011 at 8:43 pm

          Haha no, no chance, sorry. Even though the game was canned I don’t know if any of the assets we used are still owned and under copyright from MGM. Could be a serious violation if I was to release it.

          For the record, the project was terminated in January 2006.

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             nebarik

             December 28, 2011 at 7:54 am

             ah right right, fair enough.

             it was so long ago i just remember a vague “during my high school years”. i get dates mixed up 😀

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17. 

    mattroe

    December 27, 2011 at 7:39 pm

    An open world game based on SGU… yes please. Would be an awesome way to finish the story, and Destiny would be a fantastic setting, especially for an open world game.

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18. 

    OzHuski

    December 27, 2011 at 8:07 pm

    Just gimmie a good damn Stargate game that continues the story >.< Be it SG1 or SGU!! Maybe even SGA..

    /sigh. Life without Stargate just sucks.

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       matt

       December 28, 2011 at 9:44 pm

       i have every season on sg1 and sga and tbh i would not go near a SGU game. that show sucks DONKEY PENIS! srsly

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    John

    December 27, 2011 at 11:19 pm

    Did anyone else nolstagia badly at the music?

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    1. 

       jw

       January 2, 2012 at 6:58 pm

       sure did . I’d have bought this if released -and suspect worldwide fan base would have to, it had huge following if add up all the fans in all the countries where it aired

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    nogood

    December 28, 2011 at 10:25 am

    Why would a company pump so much money into a project just to cancel it when it was so close to completion. Even if it didn’t make millions they would still have recouped some of the costs. Dissapointing, even if it was released now i’d still jump on it, pretty graphics are just the icing on the cake, not the be all and end all of a game.

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21. 

    matt

    December 28, 2011 at 9:43 pm

    TEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLL’C!

    why didnt they finish this game.. shooting jaffas.. omg..

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22. 

    Adam

    May 31, 2012 at 10:38 am

    So sad. This would have been awesome.

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23. 

    Frank

    August 26, 2012 at 11:36 am

    I remember why this didn’t make it, Jo Wood didn’t like the product that they were paying Perception to make, and re-negged on the contract, a half finished game or near to finished, was a court case and Perception won, but still no game ?, I don’t know why that wasn’t released where did it go, who ended up with the game and all the content that were worked on ? did Warner Bros own the content seeing as it was all under licence from them ?
    As far as I know all voices were done by the actors, so lots of money that was spent on quality work went down the toilet.
    Then in 2005 another company tried to make a game on SG1 ,”Stargate Worlds” this too had difficulty trying to fly, bad management killed this and they tried to fob off another game that seemed to be a quick buildin liu of getting money to get the original out, that seemed way to quick, like it was what they had in the first place and wasn’t what they promised, and this just made ppl mad that they didn’t release the first promise of what they said they had even if they made a release that was in build progress would have kept ppl happy that they were getting the game, but the developers wanted a gold game release rather than a release at all, this left a lot of ppl scratching heads, specially investors in the start up company, this made investors scared and lost them their start up capital
    The company that was making Stargate Worlds, seemed to be at most a start up company and should never have been given a licence until the game was at full release, Warner Bros seems to have dropped the ball on this game and has had good games licenced under their banner, Lord Of the Rings and Dungeons and Dragons are just 2 that have been welcomed by gamers online.
    If a Stargate type of game was ever to be made its now way past the use by date and at most there are ppl out in the world that have made some very good mods for other well known games, and those that have made those mods have given up on waiting for WB to pick up the ball and issue a licence for this game to a well founded game company.

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