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First Great Star Trek PC Game?

Posted by Hemos on from the probably-not dept.

Bones writes: "You know how all Star Trek games are so full of promise but then suck when they get released (unlike the Star Wars games). Well we must be up to game number 590,000 on the Star Trek license and I think we might for the first time have a good egg according to this review of Star Trek: Voyager - Elite Force. That Beatdown guy actually liked it, which means it must be good. Plus it uses the famed Quake III Arena engine. Yay!"

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  1. Next Generation: A Final Unity by Fervent · · Score: 5
    Star Trek Next Generation: A Final Unity was an amusing one (#349004 of the Star Trek games if I believe).

    It had all the voice actors from the show including Reading Rainbow's Levar Burton, along with all kinds of fun and interesting ways to disarm your opponents (having the doctor kill enemies with the medical reader was highly enjoyable).

    Sadly, the game suffered from too many flaws: it only ran in DOS (don't even try to run in it Win95/98), Captain Picard's voice was extremely repetitive (if I had to hear "Make it so, number one" one more time I'd shoot myself) and there was a number of strange graphic blunders, the funniest being the way number one continually turned and stared at Picard's butt whilst on the bridge. No joke.

    Nothing I found more funny then having Picard issue the order "Make it so, number one" and have number one stare at his ass right afterwards. He kind of had this look on his face that said "Captain? Right now?"

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    - I don't care if they globalize against free speech. All my best free thoughts are done in my head.

  2. I'm not all THAT impressed with it... by Malor · · Score: 5

    There are definitely good points to it, but the character interaction is weak and the 'puzzles' are really stupid -- they mostly consist of finding the right switch panel and pressing it. Oooh, that took brainpower. And most of the battles have been pretty repetitive.

    I am presently in a level that has a really massive, huge fight, and it's fun but frustrating. If you're into lots of Star-Trek style shooting of bad guys, you might like this one.

    On the whole I thought Deus Ex was a much, much better game. Star Trek is flashy. Deus Ex uses sort of a creaky engine that isn't nearly as fast and doesn't look as good, but the story is vastly better and the situations and puzzles a lot more interesting.

    I think all of Star Trek has gotten that way -- most of it is plastic and cardboard, with very little substance to it. "Quick, hand me the spanning phase-inductance tool, the transmudiating resistance coil is out of alignment!"

    Blech.

    Oh, one caveat: I have played both games only single-player. I haven't done multiplayer with either.