Stargate MMO?

I’m a big fan of Stargate (as well as its spin-off Stargate Atlantis).  Given this, my interest was piqued today when I read a press release that announced a partnership between a developer named Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment (http://www.cheyenneme.com/)and MGM Interactive to create a Stargate MMO called Stargate Worlds.  Here is the description of the game:

Stargate Worlds is an MMO that provides players with a form of exploration, adventure and ranged combat set in worlds of historical human time periods, alien environments, and outer space locations. Players will travel through the Stargate as a team of soldiers and scientists where they can forge alliances, establish trade, investigate ancient mysteries, and defend Earth from such hostile forces as the Goa’uld and the Ori in an immense multiplayer universe.

Obviously time will tell whether this works.  The videogame market is littered with the decaying corpses of failed MMOs (can you say…Matrix Online).  However, the Stargate universe does provide an interesting opportunity for expansive and immersive gameplay.  And besides, beyond the upcoming Marvel MMO, Stargate is probably the only thing that would lure me into paying a monthly fee to play an MMO. 

To read more, check out the press release at http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060131/latu006.html?.v=43