By Garrett Fuller, Industry Relations

Stargate Worlds continues to gain in momentum as the year progresses. After their debut trailer at the beginning of 2008, the team is now starting to show off some game play elements as well as give us a closer look at the environments. The Cheyenne Mountain team gave us a walk through of the different environments while at GDC and also answered some technical questions about the development of the game.

Kevin Balentine and Demetrius Comes were on hand to run through a new trailer that the Stargate team is working on currently. Hopefully it will be released soon. However we got a good look at some very cool environments in the Stargate universe players will have the chance to travel too as well as fight it out. Using the gates to travel to all these different worlds the design team has several planets to build while creating the game.

Agnos was the first planet we got a chance to look at. It is an artificial planet that was constructed by the Ancients. The Ancients were killed off by plague and decided to build Agnos in order to ascend. Some succeeded and some did not, however the planet remains. Kevin described the planet as a giant battery. Players will have the chance to explore and learn a lot about the Stargate universe from this planet.

We got a chance to check out the icy wastes of The Castle zone. The Castle is a prison zone that is one of the starting locations for the OP-Core. Players are submerged into a storyline that walks them through the Castle and gets them started on quests and the developing plot in Stargate Worlds. The snow outside is unforgiving and players will have [...Mehr...]