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Star Trek Starship Creator

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: August 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game was kind of cool, but it could have been better. I am playing it on a Windows 2000 system, and it runs pretty slow, but if you have Windows '98, it should work fine. This game was a bit boring, as the missions were just one of the things that you would watch and that was that. You could almost sleep through it. On a lighter note, it allows you to change the ships around, so that, for instance, if you wanted to re-create the Defiant, you could change 3 things: the warp nacelles, the main body, and the back of it. This is the same in all of the ships varied from 3 parts to 8. A cheat is that you can export ships, import them to your favorite admiral, build up a fleet, then de-comission them all to get a ton of credits, as the ship and upgrades cost something but changing the parts around do not. It's a very good game, and I would reccomend it. You can even choose the crew, and change around the drew dossier!

The coolest Mac program ever that was.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: November 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I love this game.
You can mix and match your favourite characters, add on all the starship systems you like, and send your starships on missions.
the part I didn't like was that all the starships followed a traditional design, and you can't create anything completely original. Other than that, this is a blast! (and a phaser blast at that)

Not even worth one star

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: July 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I, like the others here, thought that this game would be wonderful. The idea of designing, building, testing, and flying ones own Starfleet vessel was very intriguing; then, I played the 'game.' It was a complete waste of time, far too slow, and did not offer any exciting aspects that are present not only in the series' but in other ST games as well. This does not even come up to the level of a screen saver--a total waste of money.

Good Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: January 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

From what I read in reviews, I thought it was bad, but the people aren't always right. It was pretty cool, designing the ship. The lowest point is that you have almost no control in the missions. I didn't see what people meant by seeing if you had the right crew. I just picked a bunch of my favorates and it turned out fine, everytime.

Worst Game Ever?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 28, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game because it sounded good, make your own ship and fly it around. When you are building your ship the only thing limiting what you can put in your ship is energy, but you have enough energy to put in the maximum of everything. Then when you are picking your crew it doesnt make any difference who you pick, ther are no specials, and the crew never does anything, you don't even have to pick anyone. There is no plot, you just pick a mission from the list and it does it, then you pick another one. Finally, you don't even get to fly your ship! You just watch a picture of a ship move slowly across the screen and read the occasional messages. The only interaction is one or two questions per mission witch usually are things like "What are our orders? Return to Base or Stay Here?" Don't Waste your money on this game, if you can even call it that.

Screen savers are better.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 27, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The title of this review says it all. You go through a lot of clicks and set up to maximize your budget to build a new design of Starship. The missions when you test your vehicle are much more boring than most screen savers. Many warn this is not an action game but battle chess has more interesting items to please the viewer and much more hands on control.

Create a Starship and then what...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: November 24, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Starship Creator sounds like every Star Trek fan's dream: Build your ship, choose your "dream" crew and then fly it.

Once you start to build your ship, you will soon see that there isn't much freedom to build a ship. You have a pre-set amount of parts to choose from and that is it.

Then you get to choose your crew, which is fun, because you can choose from many of the established characters.

But once you get to fly your ship, the programs looses all of it's since of awe. It is very boring from this point forward.

Yes, this is yet another collectors item, but nothing more.

Boring but OK

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 19, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Star Trek: Starship Creator is somewhat limited since you really don't have control over everything. You have to make the ship out of pre-selected parts and you really cant customixe the ship. What about the money? I thought that in the Star Trek Universe money didn't exsist and it also limits you abilities. On the inside you can only add systems and you really cant build a cool interior and explore it! You cant even see anything but the hull. I also dont like the limited characters since you cant cross over officers such as putting James Kirk as Captain of Voyager etc... The missions do run on Real time and are very dull and boring since the computer does it all buy it's self. You can speed up the mission by hitting the Accelerate button but that only speeds it up a few seconeds. I would recommend Star Trek Creator: Add On since its a little better but not by much. Also if any of the Star Trek: Starship Creator producers are reading this they need to make a new game that you can design every inch and fill in every crewman, the missions should be made to be like the ones in Star Trek: Armada since you control everything. If your planning to make your own mission and make yourself an officer forget about it. It takes forever to read all of the instructions. If your a full-fledged Trekkie this game is OK but if you've seen about 15 episodes it'll bore you to sleep.

Star Ship Creator

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 01, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Well, first off, I must say I was dissapointed when I got to the "Man your own mission" part. But otherwise, I liked the product. It starts out with a prompt for your name, then you can go from there. You choose a class of starship, then you retro fit it with your choice of nacelles, hulls, and saucer sections. I was slightly dissapointed here, because you only get 3-5 choices with each item. What would be nice, is if you could take parts from other classes of ship, and add them to your ship. For example: a set of Defiant class nacelles, on an Intrepid class ship. But the 3-D view of your ship is incomplete. In several places the hull is discolored, and mishapen. Pity there' s a 12 character name limit. Pity it assigns you a registry #. As for the innards, you must really study the TNG Tech Manual before you can fill up your ship in the Expert mode. I like the fact though, that you can choose whether you want high quality, or discount parts in your ship, and you can forego the holodecks, and luxury quarters, until you get some more credits. As a Star Trek nut, I wish there were some more things you could do with the bowels of the ship. The missions are pathetic. It starts off with exciting music when it automatically throws itself into warp, but after those thirty seconds are up, it's quiet until you get there. Don't run real-time mode unless you have all day to play with your game. What also really stinks, is you can't just minimize the window, and do something else until your mission is complete. And if you do go into "stealth" mode, you can't get back into the game. Good if you want to know more about the insides of a ship, bad if you've seen 10 or fewer ST episodes. My advice, wait until it goes in the sale bins, or check out the sequel coming soon.

Creater game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: March 21, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I really didn't like this game very mutch....it was borring and had very poor graphics...

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