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Great Star Trek game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 57 / 102
Date: February 18, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I have played a lot of Star Trek games and this is by far thebest.My friend told me about it so I looked it up.Real action andstratagy make this game da'bomb.Get it right now you'll love it!

"Innovative and (Finally) decent Star Trek game"

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 35 / 40
Date: March 24, 2000
Author: Amazon User

For many years Stars Wars games from Lucas Arts such as Jedi Knight have been superb and high quality. This is unfortunately not true from Star Trek games such as "Birth of the Federation" which are downright dull and boring. Almost all Star Trek games with the exception of StarFleet Command have not captured the essence of the Star Trek Universe, and have not been known as good games. StarFleet Armada changes this, and in a drastic way. Using the popular RTS format it succeeds in making the Star Trek Universe enjoyable, and allows you to control ships you always wanted to see in action such as the Defiant. It answers many questions concerning how many Defiant class worships would be required to blow up a Borg Cube. The minimal requirements are ectremely low considering the beautiful eye candy that abounds in the game from a wormhole opening to the destruction of a Federation Starbase. The game is fun to play, and was well worth the wait. To say that it is a complete innovation is a lie since it borrowed alot from Starcraft in the way of story driven missions, and the special weapons idea. However for Strategy lovers or Trekkies this game is a blessing. I doubt it will sell millions like Starcraft or Halflife. However it will have fanatic following. Buy and be on the fun side of the Borg.

Star Trek Fans Rejoice! This title definitely does not suck!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 22 / 24
Date: March 28, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I am about %30 through this game. It is a Real Time Strategy game which borrows several design and layout themes from Starcraft. This is not a bad thing. Armada delivers a hugely satisfying real time strategy experience, while also pushing every Star Trek fan's button you could hope for. After seeing the intro movie I was PRIMED to play this game. And the missions deliver; varied, challenging(not too bad on medium difficulty) and featuring great ship, environment and battle animations. Add to this nebulae, fog of war, cool ship capture options and special weapons and you get an experience that is fun to play and as a real bonus - a real time strategy where there are no true "throw away" units. Great job by Activision bringing this game to the masses!

great action mixed with stratagey

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: August 16, 2000
Author: Amazon User

you control any of the 4 races federation,klingon,romulan,and borg,and the fighting is neverending good for the people who are bored with all them talking games.thats all

What a Blast!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 10
Date: May 14, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I am not a big gamer, but I really enjoy Star Trek, so I figured that this might be fun. I was wrong. The game is a total blast.

Forgive me for not commenting on technical aspects because I don't know enough about it to do so. What I do know is that this is a fun and challenging game to play and to watch! The graphics are cool, the opening movie sequence is very impressive, and the "plot" for the single player game is respectable.

Patrick Stewart, Denise Crosby, Michael Dorn, and H.G. Hertzler lend their voices to the game, reprising their respective characters from "Next Generation" and "DS9", and it gives the game an excellent feel of authenticity and continuity.

I've always been a big fan of starships from the "Star Trek" shows, so that makes the game even more enjoyable. Build your fleet and send your ships into battle! The strategy aspects of the game are decent, and a good deal of micromanaging is necessary, so your skills as a gamer and a tactician all come into play.

The only suggestion that I would make is that Activision produce a follow-up package with more ships. There are a lot of great ships missing from the game. For instance, the Galaxy-class, Excelsior-class, and Miranda-class were all major parts of the TV shows, as was the original Klingon Battlecruiser. They may also benifit by adding original series ships like the Enterprise-A or the Romulan Bird-of-Prey.

I found the game fun, challenging, and worthy of the "Star Trek" name.

Resistance always has been, and always will be, futile

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 13
Date: April 10, 2000
Author: Amazon User

If you are a Star Trek Fan you will love this game! The graphics are great! Yes there are bugs in it, but if you cut down the graphics detail a little bit (I think i have it on half) you don't notice any! And I don't see any differnce in the detail anyways. The internet multiplayer keeps freezing for me though, but there's probaly a simple way to fix it. And I'm sure a patch/fix will be available soon. The opening movie is very, very good. You can barely tell Picard is computer generated, and the ships in the movie look like they do in the shows and movies. Don't let the bugs keep you from getting this game! Today is a good day to buy Armada!

It's fun. What else is important?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 12
Date: April 09, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is actually very fun to play. While it's not quite up to the same league as Homeworld, it is possibly the first Star Trek game that was pretty engrossing to play. Now the thinking puzzles of strategy are not calculus equations, so don't expect to duel with a real Artificial Intelligence, but it's at least as amusing as Starcraft. Oh yes, it is true. This is version 1.0 after all, and it is pretty buggy. I figured out how to avoid the bugs on my system by not going into any higher resolutions past 640X480, 16 bit color (although I tried 32 the last few times...seems okay...), and disabling all residual programs in the background-especially Antivirus programs. While it is disappointing that Activision couldn't make this a real wonder to the senses, at least the bugs are livable (Ultima Ascension folks know what I mean). What matters to me though is that I thought it was fun to play-we'll work out the rest later. (patches...sigh...why does it always have to be patches?)

A Star Trek Admiral's Dream!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: April 06, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I wasn't sure if I wanted to get this at first. I mean, after-all, if you really look at the previous Star Trek software that came out, it's pretty boring and useless.

But not Star Trek: Armada. Not only do you get the decide how to attack the enemy, you have to have at least a general knowledge of the Star Trek TNG episodes to do any good.

I also like the 'episode' way it plays. This way, you can complete one and don't have to worry about making sure you saved it to continue.

Anyone who loves Star Trek, and who has ever fantasized that they could do better in a battle than Picard, this is your game.

Kick ass Star Trek game.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 10
Date: May 24, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Finally there is a Star Trek game that is really good! This game is the first game that does the Star Trek name sound even better. Activision did a very good job in creating this game, they have managed to bring the Star Trek feeling to your home PC. The game takes you through five campaigns, Federation, Klingon, Romulan and the Borg. In the final campaign the first three races bind together to defeat the Borg. The storyline has been nicely woven through the game and is an important part of the game. The between games animations are great and there are very good voice overs from the original crew. The gameplay is also great, it is foing to take some getting used to, but once you are it feels great. Relatively new options such as: Scout and Search and Destroy make the game even more playable. The game looks much like Starcraft, only better. You can Zoom in to the ships so far that you can see them in full glory, it's almost like in the movies. This ofcourse is useless to play with, but it still looks great! The in-game sound is also fantastic, you can hear real voices from the series and the sound of the weapons is also great. There is just one point of comment, the game can be a little "buggy" at some times, but this is will be overcome when you download the upgrades from the Activision homepage. To Conclude all this: I strongly recommend this game to all Star Trek and RTS fans, it has all the makings of a great game. Lets all hope the next Star Trek games are as good as this one.

Action - Strategy - Coolness

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: March 25, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I've played a lot of the other Star Trek games and most of them are full of brand name and completly devoid of gameplay, ST: Armada manages to full fill both.

It also has amazing community support!

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