“We have spotted an army of cultists heading in your direction”
- Release Date: 2007
- Set: Season 10
- Developer: SkyZone
- Publisher: SkyZone
- Writers: N/A
The second Java Stargate game is thankfully a bit more thought out, set during the final two seasons. Despite this you still play as Jack O’Niell, with no mention as to why he is at Stargate. Daniel Jackson doesn’t appear in the game at all, which is a bit odd.
After a brief QTE shooting section (like Typing of the Dead but with Arrow and an OK button), the main game starts. Jack and Carter return from the Asgard to find some kind of plague has been spread but the Ori. Jack has to make it around Stargate Command, which involves lots of puzzles.
You walk between different rooms where you encounter quick time events. To fight an enemy, you have to stop a sliding bar, or tap a button to move boxes around, balance on beams or swing over gaps. It doesn’t really look like Stargate Command.
There’s also a few puzzles. Buttons can be activated with games of Pairs or Mahjong Solitaire, and Jack has to do some engineering and synthesise a virus with some colour based minigames that I really struggled with. They’re a bit annoying.
Between Jack’s missions are two Teal’c sections, these are autorunners and you just move left and right and occasionally jump as Teal’c automatically shoots enemies. Ba’al says that they’re working together then vanishes from the game and it’s not really clear why Teal’c is shooting though a ruined New York.
After the Ori virus has been dealt with, the Lucian Alliance hijack the Odyssey and kidnap the President, so Jack is sent on board to deal with it. This is a stealth mission and is horrendous, get caught slightly in the enemy’s cone of vision and it is instant game over. Which isn’t helped by how slow you move and getting caught on scenery.
The final level does let you fight everyone you had to sneak past (shame they’re just the boring quick time events over and over), with Mitchell giving you your orders on this mission. Once you’re done, the president thanks you but Carter tells you that diplomats needs help on the planet Orilla.
This game isn’t horrendous (outside of the stealth mission), and the story is a bit more coherent than the other Stargate Java game, but there’s also not much to it, either. Not something I would recommend.
