Blackhorse contender : Stargate Worlds

Like a lot of people, I keep abreast of what Massive titles are in development and slated for future release, always on the lookout for ways to satisfy my MMO ADD. Recently I noticed myself checking up a lot on Stargate Worlds, my eyes being immediately attracted to any mention of it on news feeds and MMO related websites. This is strange because I don’t really see myself as a Stargate fan. Sure I watched the original movie, I even own the soundtrack, and I did catch of few episodes of the series on SpaceTV, but to say that I have an avid interest in the Stargate universe would be a stretch.

After seeing a gameplay trailer showing off the game’s combat engine, which I found quite interesting with it’s action-oriented approach similar to Tabula Rasa’s,  things have changed somewhat. My interest in the setting has grown, to the point where I have rented the two Stargate feature length movies, Stargate : The Ark of Truth and Stargate : Continuum,  to get back into the lore of the series in anticipation to playing the game.

I don’t really understand why I am so into this upcoming title, what makes me so want to check it out, but my interest for it is very real, which is all a bit suprising. Is it bacause it is a sci-fi title in a relatively fantasy dominated market? Is it because after playing DDO and Tabula Rasa, I am in fact becoming a fan of faster-paced combat in MMOs?

Who knows. Maybe it’s just that I have a repressed need to have a toon dressed up in pseudo-ancient Egyptian garb shooting bolts of energy at anything that moves !