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On second thought...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Well here is my second review, This game dosen't hit it's mark, Interplay has once again botched up anouther game(new worlds, Klingon Academy), how may you ask? They kicked this baby out of the crib before it could barely walk, there's only one scirmish, the first one had a bunch, NO officer slection(picking a Vetern or cadet fresh out of the academy, like in the first one), The mission start of good but jump up to higher difficulty way too soon,(after 3 missions I was expected to combate advanced warships with only 2 escourt class vessils, Kobyashi maru any one?) The online world that Interplay was headling for this game is non-exsistant, So now all we have is Star Fleet command gold w/ new lighting and damage, with no scirmishes, multiplayer, with insaine suicide missions.

But keep the faith, Taldren(ppl who actually made it)has completely backed this game, when Interplay's Brian Fargo said " thank god this is the last ST game we'll ever make", Taldren has basicly devoted thier website to help us all make this game better, witch you'll see none comming from Interplay. This will be the last ST game from Interplay, and thank God, Activison now holds the liecences for TNG, Voyager,TOS and TMP, Simmon&Schestur hold the liecence for DS9, and from what I've seen they will and have made much better ST games.

poor software design

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: August 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I would warn anyone to not purchase this game due to the increasing problems I've had with it. I found the game to be a bit plodding over time with no real end goal in sight.
As I continued to play the game it began to glitch more frequently and for longer periods of time to the point where the game would not load but would spool without end. I would have to reboot my computer to disengage the game. I tried the downloads from the net, and that didn't help either. I have sufficient memory etc. on my computer and don't believe I have a hardware problem, Windows 98, 128 ram, 600+ pent processor, 100 mhz clock, etc. I believe this is a poorly designed game. I hesitated buying the game based on prior Star Trek game revues which said the same thing that I am writting now.
If this is the extint of Interplays software capabilities I won't be buying any of their products in the future, as it would be a waste of money.
Oh yea, I am a bit of a Trekkie, enjoy the shows etc.
I very much enjoy the Star Wars simms and have purchased all of them. Needless to say they have all performed flawlessly, hoping that the Star Trek game might do the same I gave it a try.
Be careful what you buy and good gaming.

Huh?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 28
Date: October 05, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Um... this game isn't yet released, Mr. Capslock.

This is a sequel to Star Fleet Command, widely regarded as one of the best Star Trek games. This title is for the hard core trekker, not the casual tv show watcher. Lots of strategy, decent graphics, it's a chess match in space with gigantic starships as pawns. Should be good.

Wait untill about version 3.0, as the game is full of bugs

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: January 15, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Once you actually get to fight other ships, the game is a blast. Complicated, but learnable. You will spend time mastering stratagy and controls. Unfortunatly, the game crashes A LOT. As you progress through the campaighns, the time between battles stretches to 10 minutes, as the computer does "something" (800 mhz athalon is doing something, as the hard drive and CD aren't doing anything, and the graphics it is changing are minor). It will crash to the desktop with unacceptable frequency. You will reinstall it at least once. And, if you are like me, you will put up with this because the actual battles are visually awesome and really fun. Stratagy is challenging and not covered by any documentation real well (trial and error). I am playing with patch 2.0.0.4 and have read that othe patches are a LITTLE better, but none of them qualify as good. 3.0 will probably be playable.

The Best Star Trek Game to date

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: May 21, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Admittedly, I an a big fan of the series, I might be a little biased. But if you really take your time to play this game, you will be biased too!

This is one of those games that have everything, Stunning graphics, immense details, and tactical thinkings.

you have control of every aspect of you ship, loaded with 1 of 800 possible combination of weapons and secondary systems. you get to tractor someone, board the ship, smash starbases, eveyrthing you can think of. it also has a great multiplayer support and a strong community. Once you get the AI beat, you can then try your luck with human players. it's so very gratifying if you just shoot down someone's Starship, and watch it in flames.

However, be aware that this game remains true to its origin, Star Fleet Battles. So it's not exactly what you see on TV. The are specific rules of porbabilities governing everything down to the last possible detail, from the weapon hit% to the success rate of spinning the ship, and that's the beauty of it. This makes commanding the ship an art. For example, the Photons don't hit every time. It has a specifit range v. hit% chart. eg. at range 5~8, photon hit 50% (5 out of 6) This game is based on the Movie era's (somewhere around ST:VI) so there is no Galaxy or Sovereign, only Constitution and Excelsior. Also note this game is played on a 2D plane. NO ramming stuff.

If you love Quake and Elite force so much, chances are this ain't for you. but if you love the capital ship tactics (Jane's Fleet Command, Age of Sails 2 (minus the bugs...)) This is definitely for you.

Also with the release of version 2006, the Persistent universe (dynaverse2) is online and operational. All the promises on the box have been fulfilled. There are only few system specific problems, and balacing issues left. (which will be addressed, possibly, by further patch)

Trek Fans, The time is now!

Josh aka 3dot14

The game-play's OK; the shell needs work

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: December 27, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I snagged this game as soon as I could; heck, I pre-ordered it.

SFC1 had me stuck in front of my computer for whole weekends. I thought I had outgrown the Star trek genre (and I have) but letting loose a swarm of missiles with "I got yer Prime Directive right here" written on their nose from a Drone Heavy Cruiser caught my fancy. The only problem I had was with the shell outside the simulation; it was a bit clunky, and I felt railroaded into situations I had little control over.

SFC2 did not improve on this situation.

The simulation aspect is just great; no worries there. But the shell... for the love of tribbles, the shell! It's difficult to maintain the supply levels on the ships, and it's a KNOWN BUG(tm) that buying missiles is hosed up. How could the QA team let the game ship with that glaringly obvious bug? The scaling on the shell screen is odd, too. They programmed it for 800x600 (I think), so when you play the game in 1024x800 to 1286x1024, the shell interface is shrunken. How hard is it to write the interface for 1280x1024 and shrink it to fit the smaller sizes?

Most of these problems should be fixed by patches (especially the missiles buying problem, Interplay!), and until then, I think I'll let the game sit quietly on my hard drive while I play something else. I won't unload it... yet.

Complete waste of time...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: January 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

After seeing the first one, I thought that this would be a distinct improvement, and the bugs in the first one would be ironed out in the second. Of course, I was completely wrong. The "campaign"-level interface is completely useless: if you think that you are getting some kind of strategic deployment of forces, think again. In fact, the new "Dynaverse" engine seems to do practically nothing except to hand you random and pointless missions that are either way too easy or way too hard.

Due to these inadequacies, coupled with the myriad bugs present in the game (which have not really been fixed with the patches), I would not recommend this game. Stick to the first one.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 9
Date: June 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Play this game for about 20 minutes if you can't sleep. You'll be out in no time.

how is the game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 81
Date: August 24, 2000
Author: Amazon User

THIS GAME IS EALLY GOOD. NOT THE BEST BUT VERY GOOD. YOU SHOULD BUY IT PLAY IT & IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT RETURN IT

Cool Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: July 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is the best!!!... No other game beats it.

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