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Don't bother to dream it because you can't build it.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 12 / 13
Date: November 23, 1999
Author: Amazon User

You can't mix and match parts from different ships or rearrange the how the parts fit together. You only get three options for each standard part on each ship. The Missions are sit back and watch .........until you grow old. There is absolutely no interaction between you and the mission. I will never buy anything from this software company again. Star Trek should never have licensed their name for this product.

Great!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: November 26, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I loved this sofware, and anyone who likes Star Trek: TOS through Voyager should get this, and anyone interested in the technichal structure of Starships should buy this! I loved it!

It's O.K., If You Are a Star Trek Fan

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 27, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This game can be satisfying for a Trek fan, but for an average computer game enthusiast, this game can put you to sleep. There are several complaints that are explained in the previous review that I completely agree with. I'm not saying that this game is horrible, but it is relatively limited. For Trek fans, this game may be appealing, but it's not a game that's going to draw you into a story line or something. it is more like a game you can full around with on your spar time, you won't be cough up in it for hours.

Not worth a dime

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: November 30, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This "game" is very primative, and not worth anywhere near what they charging for it. In all honesty, i wouldn't keep the game if it was freeware, much less having to pay for it.

The concept of it is great, but the product just isnt any good. the missions are incredibly slow, and boring, where you get to watch a vague resemblance of your ship slowly make its way across the screen, while you read about stuff its going through. no interaction whatsoever. the designing part doesnt get very far either, where there is no origionality. If the game was made so that you could design ships that you would use in other games, maybe it'd be worth it, then. but as of now, it just doesnt make the cut.

Very dissapointing!

What A Piece Of Junk!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 04, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Unfortunately I have to agree with most of the other reviewers. Starship Creator is very lacking and restrictive in its abilities. There is little flexibility. Hopefully the Star Trek franchise will come out with something much better soon. Let's keep our fingers crossed! Where is Q when you need him?

It creates nothing

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 07, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I bought this product with the intent of being an interactive game. Instead, you just watch the screen for what seems an eternity seeing this little blip of a starship that you had just created reach its final destination point. There is no action at all. Very boring just watching the screen and doing nothing. After the first week, I was board after creating the starship you choose. And there very few missions to pick from. Thumbs down.

Hate to agree, but I do.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 8 / 10
Date: December 08, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I really hate to agree--I work for MacMillan!

The game is simply not enough--I was hoping for a great deal more, and it doesn't deliver.

First--the software itself. It uses a Quicktime-based format that should result in some pretty spectacular graphics. Unfortunately, the game doesn't deliver them, and what is delivered is delivered with infuriating slowness. The "Systems" screen, especially, is terrible; slow to load almost everything, no matter how much RAM you give the program. It's annoying to select something on the clunky drop-down menus, then have to wait for (no exaggeration) 20 seconds or so before the selection even STARTS to load. Other problems abound; don't even try to use the page that supposedly allows you to preview your ship in a "wireframe model"; it doesn't work, and often crashes. So does naming your ship. you will more often than not get a "code error" that crashes the game then and there. And the "Missions"--these are missions? If I want to see a static display where the only action is a scroll of words, I'll just read a "Star Trek" novel--which is probably more exciting. I've learned to simply go read or watch TV--let the ship run along on its own.

In fairness, I will mention that the new "Expanded" version is a bit better--the bugs that crash the machine in the naming and preview areas are now fixed, and it also adds some missions with actual graphics (static ones, anyway) as well as a few new ships. However, those are the only improvements--not nearly enough for my taste.

Did I mention that MacMillan is under new ownership now? =-)

A disappointment

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: December 10, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I love everything Trek, but this product is ridiculously overpriced. The only fun part is assembling and naming your ship. You don't even get to edit the structure! Every option is built into the game. I had visions of actually designing my own ship, not a "choose your own warp nacelle" game where you have only about 3 options each time. I had visions of sending it on interactive missions. Instead, a pathetic rendition of your ship plods along a map while you read "dialogue" between your crew. Dialogue that would never actually be spoken in a Star Trek series, mind you. And the "missions" you can go on are idiotic. I could have come up with better adventures in 2nd grade. What a waste of a really great concept. DON'T BUY THIS PRODUCT.

Doesn't Quite Live Up to its Name

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: December 11, 1999
Author: Amazon User

The makers of Star Trek: Starship Creator came up with an intriguing idea. A great idea, really. Ingenius. However, after coming up with that idea, they handed it off to mediocre programmers. It would be much better on a superfast computer, i.e. a Pentium II 266 MHz. (My friend has one that I played this on.) It works fine on that, or at least it works how it was intended. The graphics suck, and there are no options (i.e. only seven classes of ship, and you can't change anything.) The missions are not interactive at all, and very time-consuming. And don't even try swapping ships with others. If it works at all, it will take forever, and it probably won't work at all. I can say two things on the plus side: 1) The music is really good, and 2) On a fast Pentium, the 3D rotating images are spectacular. Nevertheless, I found myself tossing the disc into the trash can after two weeks.

FUN IF LIKE TO BUILD AND STAFF THINGS

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 21, 1999
Author: Amazon User

THE BEST PART OF THE GAME IS BUILDING AND STAFFING THE SPACESHIPS YOU CAN BUILD. WHEN YOU THEN SEND YOUR SHIP OUT ON IT'S MISSION YOU JUST SIT BACK AND WAIT AND WAIT AND IT GET BORING BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO LET THE PROGRAM RUN IT'S COURS -- THERE IS NO ROOM FOR IMPROVE.

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