User Reviews (31 - 41 of 120)

Show these reviews first:

Highest Rated
Lowest Rated Newest
Oldest Most Helpful
Least Helpful

really cool but bug problems

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: August 02, 2000
Author: Amazon User

this game is cool, cool details, cool weapon and weapon sound affects and cool storyline i like how it tells you your mission but it would be better if some of the bugs or should i say all of the bugs were wiped out i think activision didnt take there time on this one

Awesome Game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: June 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I bought Star Trek Armada last year, and I am very impressed! At first I thought the game was very boring, but once I really got into it, it became my favorite game on my PC! The ships are very cool, and the weapons systems are awesome (especially the Borg assimilator weapons). The one-player missions are sort of lame at first, but after you get deeper into the game, they become challenging and difficult. The main goal of the single player missions is to capture, or destroy, the Omega particle. The campaigns fit together very smoothly, and every side is very unique.

The weapons in this game are very cool! Each ship in the game has it's own special weapon, which makes it even more fun! Once you have researched them, they are automatically integrated into your ships. I especially enjoy the Romulan and Klingon superweapons (The Rift Creator and Subspace Shockwave). The phasers sound just like in the show, and the quantum torpedoes are also very cool, not to mention the tricobalt torpedoes!

I also like this game because it makes good use of the space terrain, like nebulas, black holes, and asteroid belts. This game's tactics are based more on your weapons and how or when you should use them, but the space terrain still has a great impact on the game. Star Trek Armada doesn't have all that many ships, about nine per race, but I don't think you need more than the ones that they have, and each ship serves some sort of purpose.

In conclusion, Star Trek Armada is a very good game, and I recommend it to everyone. Have Fun!

Set Phasers To Stun!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: September 15, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Good another Star Trek game but only now, I have been taken where no man has gone before. Star Trek Armada boasts in my opinion to be the most dominant strategy game in the Trek series. I bought Star Trek Armada last year, and I am very impressed! The FMV at the beginning was something I was really impressed with...I love the firing of phasers in inter galactic combat!!! Once I adapted to the games operations, I soon ranked this game as one of the better games I had and not one of those games I play a few times then tuck it away in the drawer.

Graphics in the game with aid of a decent graphics card (Voodoo 4 PCI in my case) made this game really enjoyable. I first played this with a 4mb Graphics card which was really slow but my enthusiasm for the game was so great, I set all the graphical details to it's bear minimum for it to operate at a good frame rate...but now I enjoy it even more. Ships are rendered brilliantly as are all the little features in the galaxy maps. Strange space anomaly's and particals which float in space can be to your advantage or disadvantage...this game has it all.

My final verdict despite this review being short is that this game is one of my must buys. And with a optional multiplayer gaming option, you can battle your wits against other people around the world making the game the ultimate challenge. You'll be at it for some time...no BS.

Star Trek - Armada

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: March 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I thought the game was very fun and good. You have the Federation,Borg,Romulans, and Klingons. The Ferengi, Dominion, Breen and Cardassians also make appearances. It has the habit of sometimes crashing but that doesn't happen a lot. One thing I was disappointed with is how short and easy the missions were, even with the setting on hard they were easy. The graphics were good. It has a good multiplayer connection and instant action against the computer. If you are a trekkie it wouldn't hurt you to buy it! Also the game I have does work on Windows XP.

I was assimilated by Star Trek: Armada...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: March 30, 2000
Author: Amazon User

"Aramada" is the best real-time strategy game I have ever played. You commmand either the Federation, Klingons, Romulans, or even the Borg in the name of conquest. What makes it even cooler, is that it's in 3-D. If you don't have "Armada", buy it today!

Ok Game - no great

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: September 19, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I've played ST: Armada all the way through all the scenarios and I must say that while the game is fun, the Borg were made just way too powerful. The Federation ships are ok, but the Klingons and the Romulons are too weak to be belived. Not to mention that the AI is NOT (intelligent, that is). When I play multi-player, I play the borg and it's a rare occasion when I loose ships and/or structures to anything but stupidity.

If you are an absolute ST fanatic, go ahead and get this game. But if you are in to the RealTime Strategies, better if you skip this one for now. At least untill some of the sudden abort bugs are fixed (bugs that cause the game to abort and exit back to windows without any notification or warning).

Great interface/graphics, but only average gameplay

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 06, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The ships are gorgeously rendered, and the Enterprise even has ncc-1701-e written on the hull. Scaling for Borg ships a bit too small, however. Sound effects and music are top notch, and the voices of actors Patrick Stewart and Michael Dorn add authenticity to the game.

Gameplay became repetative and boring after awhile, with the only strategy being "whoever has the biggest and baddest ships wins." Its essentially warcraft 2 in space.

Overall an entertaining game and a must have for trekkies, and certainly better than Command and Conquer, but I still like warcraft 2 and starcraft better.

This Game Exceeded my Expectations

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 17, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game has the best graphics that I have ever seen in a Star Trek Game. It is also very addictive, and has an excellent interesting story line to go along with it. I recommend it to everybody, not only Trekkers.

A good Star Trek

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 25, 2000
Author: Amazon User

It is very similar to other RTS games, but the Star Trek theme makes that somewhat forgiveable. The gameplay is good and the interface is easy to learn, but the highlight is the storyline. The story running through all the missions is interesting, engaging, and plausible.

One criticism is that the game has crashed on me a few times at the end of missions (during cut scenes) and I have to replay the whole mission (or go back to my last saved positions).

Great real time strategy

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The first thing I'd like to say about Armada is that it is definitely not just for Trekkies. I wouldn't remotely qualify as one, and I still loved it. Anyone who appreciates a good RTS should already have this.

More than being good strategy, Armada is also an excellent graphical experience. The ships fight with cinematic intensity, with realistic damage and attractive projectile action. You can even go to a 'movie mode' where you can view a melee from a floating 3-D perspective (although at the expense of control).

On the strategy side, there is only one resource- dilithium. You harvest it from dilithium moons that can be finite or infinite. It's a pretty straightforward resource model, and things are automated enough that you won't have to micromanage it. A welcome balance tweak is the starbase armament, which makes a rush basically impossible. Bad news for all the battle.net fools that like to send zerglings or zealots (you know who you are). Each race has an superweapon of immense power, but in every case they are prohibitively expensive and slow to build. If you see one anywhere in the first 20 minutes of the game, someone is probably hacking. However, once someone gets one, they have a pretty major advantage against anyone that's technologically deficient. You can also make good of the potentially powerful- though also very physically weak- science vessels each race offers. They're expensive and slow, but can be the deciding factor in a major battle. All of this serves to make advancing your tech a very feasible strategy over a simple 'build more warships, wear them down' method.

The single play campaign is excellent. It has a neat plot and you'll see a lot of unique starships that you won't see elsewhere- such as the two Cardassian types, Dominion vessels, and a Breen battleship. None of the levels are especially hard, but they can take some thinking. I especially liked one where you have to pilot USS Avenger to safety with a Klingon fleet hot on your tail.

Multi-play is probably the weakest aspect of the game. It's choppy even on a direct connection and hunting down every last one of your enemies can be utterly tedious. Playing online also makes the game notoriously crash prone, and if you have eight people in one game it is both extremely slow and crashy. The computer plays a lot like the Dark Reign AI, building up until it has a huge force and then trying to swamp you. If you survive that one big assault, the computer is plenty ready to die. Rather than improving the AI to be a bit smarter, the difficulty settings give it a handicap- a very huge one on hardest. They build things faster and everything costs less, so they can send a bigger attack at you earlier in the game.

Now, I know enough about Trek to realize that some of the ships aren't accurately specified. The Defiant, especially, is incredibly weak for something that could take and dish out so much damage in Deep Space Nine. Nevertheless, the actual sides are very well balanced and the models are so well done that the specifications are a minor point. Each side has its strengths and weaknesses. For example, all Romulan ships can cloak, but the Romulans are at a severe penalty when being boarded or trying to board ships of other races. There were a few balance problems with special weapons- such as the chain reaction pulsar- but they have been fixed in updates. The patch also (in my case at least) makes the game far more stable. Be sure you download it.

All right, so the game has a few weaknesses, but other than that it is a huge load of fun. For strategy fans or Trekkies, this is a must-buy.

Review Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next 

Actions