See Test Footage From The Stargate: SG-1: Alliance Video Game
You can bet that if it was, at one point, a high-profile science fiction TV show (especially if it’s part of a franchise) or in a big-budget sci-fi movie, someone, somewhere, is working on an accompanying videogame.
Just because there’s work going on, however, doesn’t mean that the game will ever see the light of day. Such is apparently the case with the game Stargate SG-1: Alliance, a first person shooter that never made it to store shelves.
For Stargate fans wondering what Stargate SG-1: Alliance might have looked like, though, two videos appeared online showing off the work done on the project before its cancellation. Check them out, they’re long enough that you get a pretty good feel for what game play would have been like.
In Stargate SG-1: Alliance players have the opportunity to use a bunch of iconic weapons from the Stargate universe, and you’ll recognize characters and creatures from the series as well.
Stargate SG-1: Alliance had reached an advanced alpha stage. And the game was going to feature some of the the show’s cast like Richard Dean Anderson and Amanda Tapping. Players would have controlled characters like Jack O’Neill, Samantha Carter, Daniel Jackson, and Teal’c on missions against enemies like Anubis and a new alien threat called the Haaken.
But a bunch of issues plagued Stargate SG-1: Alliance, mostly between JoWooD Productions and Perception who had major disagreements over money, timelines, and the other things that get in the way of this kind of video game development. There were legal battles upon legal battles and the game never came to fruition.
Over the years, the Stargate franchise has ground to a halt and could be fading into the background all together. At this point, a video game just isn’t going to be in the cards for the franchise seeing as how new stories have been very few and very far between.
Such is the way with the sci-fi universe that can be quite fickle with its franchises. And with so many video games coming along over the years, Stargate SG-1: Alliance or anything like it just wouldn’t have the foothold it needs.
