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Late yesterday afternoon, publisher JoWood issued a press
statement informing us of the cancellation of their current
contract with StarGate-SG1: The Alliance developer,
Perception. "The title in its current form, initially scheduled
for an October 2005 release,  does satisfy neither our quality
requirements nor the fans expectations. We will not release
anything that does not do justice to this well known license" says Albert Seidl, CEO JoWood Productions Software AG. In recent
months we have invested a lot of time and resources in helping
Perception finish the development, but we now simply have lost
confidence in their ability to finish this project in time and
sufficient quality."
Having
played a very limited amount of the title at E3 2005 in May,
the title looked fairly crisp and well into development, however,
even within this very restricted viewing many minor problems with
the title were discovered. In its current playable form, StarGate-SG1:
The Alliance is merely an average run-of-the-mill
First-Person-Shooter with a few nice touches - and it seems that
the later levels of the title are not progressing as JoWood had
hoped, and the possibility of facing an endless string of
competitors within the same genre could be a little bewildering to
say the least.
The future of StarGate-SG1: The Alliance is currently
anyone's guess. In the press release, it is clearly stated that
"There are several options to consider, among them potentially
moving to next-gen consoles for the title" but with JoWood
cancelling the contract with Perception and "following the
termination JoWood has asked for repayment of their investment in
development and further expenses" it hard to see JoWood backing
the title at retail – will Perception have the funding to
continue without JoWood? Or will another publisher step-in?
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