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Give it a few months.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: September 05, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Straight and simple: Wait for a couple more patches. It has the potential to be a great game, but the game is presently just loaded with bugs that Activision was just too lazy to fix in the Beta versions.

Buy it, but not yet.

Anohter Good Trek Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: November 23, 2000
Author: Amazon User

In the past year, Star Trek games have gone from worst to almost first. Armada is a Warcraft type game, in which you have to build up your resorces to mount an attack on the enemy. While games like Age of Empire do this better, Armada isn't bad. It has good graphics and the game play is easy to understand. It seems a little buggy, but it hasn't crashed on me once. Activision has good support, so a new patch is never hard to get. Again, this is one of the better Trek efforts and it should please all Trek fans and non fans alike!

Its OK if you have a decent PC.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 16, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The game can be alot of fun to play if you have a decent machine (lots of memory)! I liked the graphics and the user interface, but I wanted more control over my ships.

Friends who own this game are always telling me about the bugs: the game crashes at startup or when a cutscene is about to be shown.

Happily Ever After

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I'm a first time buyer from here. I forgot I ordered the game, but was happy when I got. I can't wait til I get off work tonight to play it again. It was exactly as advertised. I'd order from the seller again, no doubts about it.

Snap Judgement: 3 of 5

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: March 25, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Cool use of ST: TNG, but the game play good be a little more dynamic...StarCraft is still the barometer, and this doesn't beat it. Nice graphics, though

Save Your Money for Star Craft

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 13
Date: March 25, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is a semi-decent game. It will keep your attention for about 2 hours. Basically you play the Federation, Klingon, Borg or Romulans. You control ship production and deployment. Of course there is mining and resource management. For the most part this is basically Star Craft with Star Trek ships. The graphics are mediocre and the AI is horrible. The AI doesnt re-build once you destroy the enemy bases. I would wait on this game until it goes into the sale bin (and it will head there fast). This could have been a really promising game, the ship designs and attributes are ok-and I like the feature of being able to transport troops onto enemy ships and then take it over. Aside from that, there really isnt anything special about this game.

Thumbs down!

Awesome! With Some Few Minor Setbacks

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: May 27, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is awesome! It truly brings out the trekkie in everyone. It get extremely hard at times. Here are a few cheat codes I picked up:

kobayashimaru - Completes your mission for you and jumps to the following mission.

showmethemoney - 2800 more dilithium points

canofwhoopass - increases maximum number of officers. reduces upgrading and need to build starbases ( I didn't get any results after I typed this in )

To use these codes, press enter in the game. At the bottom above the control bar thing on the left, it will say yourname: then type in the code and hit enter.

One of the minor setbacks are it's not compatible with allot of video cards/chips. I have a SiS530 and it blinks during the game. It was annoying at first but you get used to it.

The last setback is, you need to close everything or the bar at the bottom turns black and you can see where the ships are on the map but all you can really see if you try and get them big up top is moons. That's it.

I've seen people say it's buggy. Well, Activision put a patch on the Armada website that fixes some bugs. It upgrades Armada to v1.1b.

Overall, This is a really nice game. I'd recommend it to any trekkie, new or expert.

A short sharp shock from Activision

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: July 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Star Trek Armada promised to be what Trekkies had always wanted, a strategy game allowing control of the fantastic ships of the Star Trek universe. At a first glance Armada appears tto do just that. However, beneath the glamarous surface, Armada hides a rather dissapointing game play.

The graphics of Armada are fantastic, truly capturing the different ships and creatures in their best lighting, you could truly be looking at the special effects of a Star Trek episode when zoomed in. However, the gameplay is frankly, dull. The sides all have different units, but underneath they are virtually identical. While the federation Sovereign and Romulan D'deridex Warbird look completely different and have two different special weapons, otherwise they have identical shield and weapon values. The reaces each have a scout ship, which are all equally powerful, a destroyer type ship, alll equally powerful, a cruiser, all equally powerful etc.

The different special weapons hardly make up for this, and the base defences are far to powerful and effective, meaning that you need only your command centre and a few torpedo turrets to survive any attack. Also, the simplistic units mean that once you've reached the most advanced level, there is never any need for you to purchase the more primitive ships.

The campaigns ar ealso depressingly short, a mere four missions for each race then four bonus missions at the end, and the missions are dull, sparked only by a few special ships. There is no real difference between playing as any of the different races.

It's not that Star Trek Armada is a particularly bad game, it's just that there are so many ways in which it could easily be improved. We can only hope that the sequel will be more varied in units and more enjoyable in game play.

Excellent game.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is a really cool game. The graphics are great. They're better than the two dimensional graphics of Starcraft. If you liked Starcraft you'll like this one. My only complaint would be the unrealistic size relationships between the Borg and other ships and between the starships and starbases.

Try and find Armada 2 if you can

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This review is written in light of owning a copy of Armada 2, so I will begin by saying that if you can find a copy of Armada 2 (they've become somewhat rare) then I reccomend that title over this one, but failing that, this is also decent.
Armada has several flaws that keep it from being a truly great game, but several nice touches as well.
Armada fails in it's strategic edge for gameplay, and further in the simplification of both Borg graphics and the function of various ships. In this game, the ships you produce behave much like footmen in Warcraft 3, the only difference being that your ships can be seen dogfighting and shooting each other with phasers and from time to time, being assimilated.
The function of ships also carries a few flaws, and the races are diverse enough to offer a few different options to battle, but for the most part, the same strategy works for any race: Blockade an enemy base and use built (or captured) artillery vessels to pummel its defenses until you can safely attack with your battlefleet.
The games economy is also overly simplified, starbases produce officers, a unit cap, each starbase you control adds to your crew pool ( a resource you will never find yourself running short of) and dilithium moons provide the only demand resource. Gameplay therefor has the same frustrating tendancy seen in Starcraft, victory is a function of who can gather the most dilithium the fastest, and not a question of who can outwit thier opponents.
The scaling on the ships is also terribly off. A Soveriegn is a fine, powerful ship, but it should not be able to singlehandedly eliminate three borg cubes, and although I understand this was a balance issue, I feel that it ultimately detracts from the games potential.
The next borg related quam I have here is the borg art. They have chosen to use a mesh-like mass to represent the borg utilitarian look, all wires and pipes and stuff showing on the surface, but it rather just ends up looking like a big green (or try pink as your player color, that's really funny) blob that is only reminiscent of a borg cube.
Where this game shines, and it does a little, is in its singleplayer campaigns, which have a decent set of storylines and some good voice talent. The federation campaign has the benefit of Patrick Stewart and Micheal Dorn, Stewart reprising locutus for the borg campaign, and as a special surprise to those who were her fans, Denise Crosby returns as the wily Admiral Sela, to champion the romulan cause in a souped up D'Deridex.
Overall, it's not a bad game, but given that Armada 2 exists, it pales and loses a lot of its appeal.

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