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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.

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? =-)

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.

Great premise, short on action

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: February 04, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Being an admitted Trekkie, I was excited to try Starship Creator to try my hand at creating the ultimate starship and blasting some pesky Klingons. The problem is, there are a lot of obstacles in the way of accomplishing this. The game touts itself as a "starship creator," with several class types to mix and match from. In actuality, you have a few ship types and a few customizeable options for each. It doesn't allow for too much creativity. And my dreams of teaming up James T. Kirk with Jean-Luc Picard were dashed. When selecting a crew for your ship, you can only choose a crew from the ship's time period. For example, only characters from the original series can fly in the original Enterprise ship class... Kirk cannot be selected to pilot the ship classes from Next Generation or Voyager. Thus, Kirk and Picard can not serve on the same crew, or Data and Spock, or Sulu and Janeway. This took a lot of the fun out for me. The missions you fly with the ship are simply brutal. There's precious little action and it takes a LONG time, even with the time acceleration on. So I'd say even if you're a Trek fan, I'd be careful of this one.

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.

I am going to regret all my life for purchased this game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: December 31, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I purchased this Starship Creator Deluxe Edition. I thought I got a good deal and can't wait to load it into my Pentium II computer. Until I found I just made one big mistake in my life for purchased it.

No! Even if you are a Star Trek Fan you won't like it. And even if you have the best computer, this game won't do any good.

First of all, you won't get to create or design anything. I am an aerospace engineering student at UCLA, and I found it neither entertaining or educating. Second, you won't get any real 3-D graphics at all. The graphics is slightly better than the X-Wing game came out in 1993.

If you try to name your own starships and print them out to show your friends, they will laugh at you. Because the poor graphics looks like you download them from some freeware, and this program can't even put the letters in their actual place on the ship's hull.

Anyone who gave even one star to this title was too generous!

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.

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!

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.

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

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