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Viacom, Activision Stand Down From Red Alert 22

Posted by Zonk from the hailing-frequencies-open,-captain dept.
GameIndustry.biz has the word that Viacom and Activision has settled their dispute over the Star Trek license. The settlement was reached last Friday in a confidential agreement that ends a series of suits begun back in 2003. From the article: "If the two are collaborating on new Star Trek projects, however, they remain under wraps. The last Star Trek game announcement came from online game developer Perpetual Entertainment, which announced in September that it was producing a massively multiplayer game based on the sci-fi series."
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  • Does anyone know if the MMORPG for Star Trek is really going to ever make it? Is it still being worked on?

    • Re:MMORPG Star Trek a reality? (Score:4, Insightful)

      by blueZhift ( 652272 ) on Monday March 14, 2005 @04:22PM (#11936749) Homepage Journal
      Hard to say. There haven't been any recent announcements about work on the MMORPG. I think the MMORPG market is currently saturated leaving little room for newcomers even if they have a big name license like Star Trek. And given that the performance of Enterprise has tarnished the brand a bit, this wouldn't be a good time. Still, there could be money to be made. If I were them, I would wait a couple of years before seriously pushing the project forward.

  • MMORPG (Score:5, Insightful)

    by yotto ( 590067 ) on Monday March 14, 2005 @02:35PM (#11935415) Homepage
    Let's hope Berman's hand isn't in the MMORPG. I don't want to be defending the Federation from Nazis.
  • For those interested in seeing the list [gamerankings.com]... There are some good, some bad, some awful. Personal fav was Elite Force - not much of a ST game though other than being in the ST universe. Klingon Acadamy was worth the FMV alone.

    • Far too many were awful, sadly. Elite Force and Elite Force II were the only good recent releases. They were both based on the Quake 3 engine, if that tells you anything. (EF2 may have been the last commercial game based on Q3... it was one of the last anyway.)

      Before that, DS9: The Fallen (based on Unreal) and the Academy games are the only ones that stand out in my memory. My personal favorite is EGA Trek, a graphical DOS clone of the trek game that ships with all BSDs. It used Mongols and Vandals rather
      • Man, you youngin's missed out on the best Trek games of them all. The best games by far were the Star Trek 25th Anniversary and Star Trek: Judgment Rites adventure games. I think they are both legal abandonware now, so you should probably have no trouble finding the games and downloading a DOS emulator. The graphics aren't much (hey, it was early 90s), but the stories were great. Also, the original cast did the voiceovers.
    • I loved the 25th Anniversay adventure game produced by Interplay. And the follow-up, Judgement Rites. They often felt more like the 4th and 5th season of TOS than a game, and I mean that as a compliment. I wonder if I can track down Final Unity...
  • Perpetual is still developing the Star Trek MMOG, but first they will be releasing Gods and Heroes [godsandheroes.com]. Don't expect to see Star Trek Online for another 2 years at least.

    Bruce
  • It's too late for a Star Wars MMORPG.. From my perspective as an MMO gamer, the market has already been flooded. The only crowd that a STMMO would draw would be hard core trekkies and frankly, there aren't that many of them around anymore.
    • Assuming you mean Star Trek and not Star Wars the second time...

      Actually, while the market did seem very crowded in most of 2004, World of Warcraft proved they could grow the market, and brought in literally hundreds of thousands of new MMOG players. These people are all potential customers of a Star Trek MMOG.

      Another thing is that, while the fantasy space is very crowded, the sci-fi space is not. There are only a few sci-fi based games out there, most notably Star Wars Galaxies, Eve Online, and Anarchy

  • Star Trek MMORPG? (Score:3, Funny)

    by Glytch ( 4881 ) on Monday March 14, 2005 @05:58PM (#11937916)
    Oh boy! Now we can all be redshirts!

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