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To be honest ... it sucks!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 14
Date: October 31, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Sorry all you trekkies and trekkers out there, but I "encountered" a few problems that made me didn't want to play through "Star Trek Encounters" any longer. Ships didnt go fast enough, the controls are EXTREMELY CLUNKY, cheesy graphics, difficulty in locking on to specific areas of an enemy ship to fire weapons at them, but the MAIN problem was the stupid radar/sensor that I constantly had to use in order to find warp trails from enemy ships and lock on to them. To give you and ideal of what i'm talking about, picture yourself blind and sitting in the dark, when suddenly, one of your contact lenses pop out of your eye and you stoop down on the floor to try to find it. Yes, that's how bad trying to find things with the radar/sensor is. Now don't get me wrong, I like star trek, I like it very much. And I really really REALLY tried to like this game. But, unfortunately, it wasn't a very good play, and given the history of the star trek franchise, (all you trekkies and trekkers out there can agree with me on this one) that this game could have and SHOULD HAVE been way better.

On a nicer note, the game did have pretty exposives. But that still don't make it a good game. It's a boring game!

Anyway, to make a long story short, I took the game back to the store and got my money back. Now I will use my refund and spend it on the next star trek game that comes out. Noooo, not "Star Trek Legacy" ....., the OTHER star trek game. The one that comes out tomorrow and is of a more higher quality... (the one called "Final Fantasy VII") Yeah... now that's what I call a REAL star trek game.

star trek encounters

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: October 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Good game. Fun. Although I am stuck already trying to follow Zindi warp trails.

I Hope This Is A Fun Game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: November 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game when it came out and have yet to see what the actual story mode game is like. The reason is that I can not for the life of me get past the first level with the rings! I have tried several times and have given myself carpal tunnel syndrome trying to get past it. Even my brother and his girlfriend took several turns to beat it.

You have to fly the ship through the rings and you are timed, and I never beat it. I feel like such a video game loser! Does anyone know any kind of cheat code for this?

Game was unreadable

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: November 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game did not work at all, it was a rip off, I see I was not the only customer with this problem. Waste of money very unhappy about this seller.

Horrible gameplay mechanics

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I love the concept of flying around a starship shooting at enemy ships in the trek universes. Problem is, the game control mechanics are the absolute worse I've ever seen in any 3D space game. X-Wing in the mid 90's had vastly superior gameplay mechanics. Which the basic concept of the game is a good one, the implementation is just so poor that it isn't even worth $15. You're locked in to playing just the "Enterprise" series ships until you complete some totally obtuse objectives that mainly exist to teach you the horrible gameplay mechanics. Avoid it.

Bethesda Design company big let down

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: December 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I've played alot of Star Trek Games. Going back to the original Star Trek game for the Nintendo 1!

This is by far the stupidest game ever designed. The training course alone is enough to drive you insane.

The visuals are not stunning. The game play is pretty lame. And you can't even skip the cut scenes! Almost 90% of PS2 games allow you to skip cut scenes if you want to go on with the game. Plus it takes like two minutes to load the Main menu! Its billed as shoot em up, but you view it from a semi bird's eye view.

My purchase was an impulse buy. If you are reading this stay the hell away from this game.

I think that the design company went extremely cheap with this game as if though it was designed by 15 year old high school students or something. This has given me serious second thoughts about Bethesda's other game for the PC Legacy.

BY FAR THE WORST TREK GAME EVER!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: December 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

i saw this one on the shelf and grabed it and ran to the check out, didnt even know it was coming out (thats a red flag right there) put it in and the first thing i noticed was the bad music, star trek games allways have good music in them much like the movies and shows, this game replays the same tune over and over. gameplay?? sucks. took me longer to learn the controls good enough to pass the first three missions than the rest of the game took to finish, and the process was very enrageing. there is no story line at all. some cheap narator who sounds like shatner (hopefully its not, it sounds that bad) reads the mission title and briefing at the begining of SOME of the missions. the only good thing i can say about this game it the graphics look great, the ships and explosions are cool. its my hope that this was a bare bones model for how legacy is going to be because this game had potential, but it either ran out of money or didnt have much to start with. definately do not buy this game, rent it, borrow it from your die-hard trekie buddy, but dont buy it.

A value title, and it shows

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

While Bethesda has been working on the Star Trek franchise for some time, this was the first game to come out of the gate. It is not a great game, but it is a fun game for the value price. The control scheme is complicated and sometimes requires some dexterity, but it can be overcome.

Stuff blows up real nice in this game, and the onslaught mode needs to allow you to play the alien races' ships, but for just flying around blowing up stuff with starships, this is a good fun romp.

You get what you pay for

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: January 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Without exaggeration, this game is the worst game I have every played.

I feel taken advantage of. Game develops know that they are guaranteed a certain level of sales if they are able to license the Star Trek name and stories from Paramount. Bethesda has taken advantage of every single Star Trek fan out there by creating a steaming, unplayable turd of a game and calling it "Star Trek."

Don't waste your hard-won earnings on this game like I did. I will never buy another game made by Bethesda ever again.

Both games were rushed!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: January 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

To rate Star Trek Encounters is real simple;I paided $15 for it,you get what you pay for.Its ok for a quick game of shoot'em up,but like the reviews for its big brother(Star Trek Legacy),developer should spent more time instead of try to put it out for the holidays.Hoping for a sequel,and maybe hopefully they'll do it GTA style(open space,do what you want to do),and just focus on one era(TOS,TNG,DS9,VOY,and ENT).

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