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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!

Live Long And Prosper, Starship Creator!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: February 05, 2000
Author: Amazon User

"Starship Creator" is one of the best software games I have ever bought. With seven ships (ten with the add-on pack) and tons of missions to test your ship's capabilities with, you can make-belive you are the Admiral of a great "Star Trek" fleet. If you don't have it, buy this product today!

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 as bad as everybody says

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: January 03, 2000
Author: Amazon User

most evrybody who has this game basically says that it's a bad game with a few nice points. but, i think it's a good game, with a few weak points. the music is AWESOME. you'd think John Williams directed it! i must admit, the selection of starships is rather low, and when i heard about the game, i thought i could mix, say a sovereign-class nacelle with an intrepid-class saucer. turns out ya can't. but, you can come up with some pretty different designs. and, after the deluxe version, 3 more classes, 2 being extremely awesome! is starship creator slow? not for me, but my comp. has 333 mhz and 64 RAM. maybe it just works better on Macs, i dunno. don't evn think about getting this if you don't know the trek world, but if you are a hard-core trekkie, i strongly recommend it.

Good Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: February 05, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is quite good if you are able to master it and don't mind the long wait for a mission to finish

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!

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.

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.

My thoughts

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 07, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The game is a little limiting, but the missions can be different depending on your starship. Just the other day I almost lost a starship to some parasites. And to all those that say the missions are very slow, there is a button that accelerates the mission time. I do, however, agree with other reviewers on this point. THIS GAME IS FOR TREKKIES ONLY. Anybody else will be bored in an hour or two. Also, those that say the game runs slow must be running it on a 486,100 MZH computer. And even on that speed computer it isn't that slow. However I recommend a Pentium 200 MZH or faster computer. Well, that's all.

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? =-)

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