Cryptic Studios will be treating Star Trek fans to the first gameplay footage of Star Trek Online, and they'll be showing a live webcast of the event with special guest Leonard Nimoy.

If you cannot be in Las Vegas on Sunday to see the first reveal of gameplay footage and information about Star Trek Online (and Leonard Nimoy!), please join us here for a LIVE webcast of the event at 1:30 p.m. PDT.

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This will hopefully be very exciting stuff... I think I'll actually set a reminder to make sure I tune in and not miss it. STO is using IP that's just as sacred as Star Wars or Lord of The Rings. I'm really hoping they pull this game off with strong quality

Yea Cryptic has a hard road making this. I am a bit sceptical myself as it already looks a bit cartoony.

I just hope they go for a bit more realism in the graphic style. I don't think STO will work well trying to appeal to kids.

Cryptic just got the rights to the game a few months ago (after Perpetual went out of business).

That means that if they are already showing gameplay, its nothing more than what PE had already completed.

Point being, a segment of the Trek fans (that play MMO's and post on forums) were already extreamly upset by PE's work on STO.

Originally posted by Keogh

Cryptic just got the rights to the game a few months ago (after Perpetual went out of business).

That means that if they are already showing gameplay, its nothing more than what PE had already completed.

Point being, a segment of the Trek fans (that play MMO's and post on forums) were already extreamly upset by PE's work on STO.

from Jack Emmert on The Associated Press (http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ikj6V-CYYWISldz8cmkiJ9avC11QD92E92UG0)

"We had a friendly relationship with them," Emmert said. "As it became apparent they weren't going to continue to function, they decided to sell off the license. We swooped in and grabbed it. We took no assets. There was nothing to be had, to be honest. We're building everything from the ground up."

I have tons of respect for Cryptic Studios and I trust them with STO. I may be a HUGE Star Trek fan, but I know I will like it way more better than if PE actually did complete it, cuz that version was just garbage.

i'm probably on board with most of you when it comes to being a little leary of this one. i really hope that it is good but i don't know much about cryptic studios. have they done any mmorpgs before? anything else memorable???

Originally posted by Samjuel

i'm probably on board with most of you when it comes to being a little leary of this one. i really hope that it is good but i don't know much about cryptic studios. have they done any mmorpgs before? anything else memorable???

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This web cast is kind of exciting

Now thats how you introduce a game . The questions at the end where excellent and Jack Emmert spoke with a lot of passion for the I.P. which came off a genuine , never felt like he was trying to sell me the game . The footage was excellent but looks like it needs a bit more work on the shader and animations.

It sounds to me it's going to be some sort of hybrid of mass effect and eve....sounds damn interesting, looking forward to seeing/hearing more

Originally posted by jinxit

It sounds to me it's going to be some sort of hybrid of mass effect and eve....sounds damn interesting, looking forward to seeing/hearing more

Yeah, that doesn't really attract me. Seems like there is going to be very little interaction between players in this game.