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Very Disappointed - This One's A Sleeper (MP)

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 10
Date: June 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I think a clearer distinction should have been made between Single Player (SP) and Multiplayer (MP) in some of the magazine reviews.

I was pleased with the SP component but MP was horrible! I say "was" because I "binned" it after trying to force myself to like it.

Most Annoying Aspects about MP:
1) There are only three Capture the Flag (CTF) maps!
2) There is no 1 vs 1 mod!
3) The scoring system in CTF is such that wins are based on score (not flag captures) so essentially it's just Death Match with flags (frag your opponents more than they frag you and you win)
4) The jumping is slow (almost like a perpetual low gravity)
5) You have to reload the weapons even though they are energy based weapons, which slows down gameplay (reload ENERGY weapons?! c'mon!)
6) BORING global taunts (no individual taunts/gestures).
7) The chat/HUD font is microscopic if your resolution is set to 1024 x 768 or higher (it's not adjustable...trust me).
8) The netcode is awful (if you try to run a server). it eats bandwidth like King Kong Bundy at a pie eating contest. Normally I could support 16 players on my network (lag free). However, there's tremendous lag if even eight players connect.
9) No support for Linux?! wtf? Are they serious? I'm not running Linux, but I intend to have a Linux comp. online shortly. c'mon! In the past that was acceptable but in this day and age you would think they would KNOW to provide Linux support right out of the box.

The game play mechanics are similar to UT2K3 (without the double jump). It's not at all what you would expect from a game based on the Quake 3 engine...and that's a bad thing. If I wanted to play UT2K3, I would play UT2K3 because it has FAR better graphics.

No wonder they didn't include a MP component in the demo. If you're looking for an average single player PC-based First Person Shooter game with a Star Trek theme, this game is for you. I wanted a good (not even great) multiplayer First Person Shooter. A total waste of money. If I could have borrowed it from a friend or rented it, I would have done that because it is definitely not a keeper. Let the buyer beware!

Best Game Ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: November 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I thik that Star Trek Armada 2 is on the map. The frist one was bad, but they fixed the 3D engine and it has stunning efects.
I'm also a big fan of Star Trek and this hit the spot for me. It also remminds me of Age Of Empiers... in space. And for people who like to blow thiings up this is your game. Don't touch me! La La La La La La La! You got to buy Star Trek Armada 2. You get to play as three races Klingons, humans, or the the bad scary cyborg Borgs. STA2 contanis 30- 40 diffrent classes of ships, and you can controll up two 16 diffrent ships. Also the maps has doubled in size so you can travle at warp a lot. (...)

WOW! This certainly is some sequel.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: June 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game features much better graphics, more challengine fight scenes and battles, and hidden areas. I've played the demo several times and each time I have dicovered something new about the game - something I had missed the time before. This game will keep you playing for hours. Since the story line changes based on your actions or reactions (unlike the first Elite Force), you can play this game many times and not get tired of it.

Could have been much better

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: June 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

When the first Armada came out, I was hooked. I played all summer, over and over again. The AI challenged me, and the game never seemed dull.

When Armada II came out, I jumped up and got it, and the second I started playing it, I turned it off. The storyline is old and reused - yet another Borg threat. The graphics are sub-par to the original (in my opinion), and the game itself suffers from unrealistic timing.

While any RTS needs to produce units fast, the speed which Sovereign class vessels are built is utterly ridiculous. The balance is way off, allowing you to build two or three 16 ship fleets of your top class, and utterly wipe everything out easily. Instead, the game should focus on making small, tough armies using multiple tactics to force your way through, like Warcraft III. The idea would be maybe 4 Akiras with 2 Galaxys, 2 Sovereigns, 6 Sabers, and 2 Intrepids - each with their own strategies and special weapons. Then you can use each class to it's fullest.

Worst is the resources - the cost of ships is so low, you never truly have to worry - honestly! I never worried. All I concentrated on was building up enough Sovereigns to wipe everyone out.

The AI is the worst - the AI never does anything other than try to take all the resources, and then just launch constant strikes - thats it. Even worse, Instant Action games fail to work most of the time. The AI builds a resource base, then simply never work anything again - no ships, no defenses, nothing. It's pitiful.

I recommend buying the game, even with it's flaws. It can still be fun sometimes, and there are a wealth of mod sites that improve balance and playability (such as armada2files.com)

Armada 2

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

This game is awsome dont get me wrong, but they made a few things worse than before, like, The Ship resolution is terrible, all the ships are so tiny you almost lose them on the screen, and why did they try to improve the cinematic window? yah, like anybodys going to try to fight in that mode? give me a break it was ok the way it was. There are a lot more ships in the game though, reduceing the mirror affect that the first game had.BUT WHAT THE HELL IS UP WITH THE TACTICAL FUSION CUBE? This ship is toatally invincible, why you should kill any borg enemy you have before they have the chance to build this thing. One of my other problems is what happened to the ships? are they made of paper now? in the old game every ship could take a moderate beating, now, if youre trying to deliver a subspace explosive to youre enemy's base, there bases puney little pulse lasers can take it out in one shot! Overall this game is definetly worth the price but the shuold of left the strenghts the old game had intact...

Great Follow Up to a Great Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is a wonderfully fun and very intricate game. My only complaint is to agree with the other reviewers who think the smaller class ships are now so weak as to be hardly worth building. I usually just gamble on not building ships till the research station is done so I can begin with Akiras.

I'm also a bit surprised that the second edition of Armada featured only 4 storylines to play in, just like the first game, but don't particularly mind as I ususally play against the AI in Instant Action mode anyway. One reviewer writes that the AI is too easy to beat, but I find plenty of challenge given that the game allows you to raise the stakes by playing against multiple players -who you can set to cooperate with each other if you wish (otherwise every player attacks everyone else).

Sometimes the AI screws up and only has one or two opponents go active, while other ones just sit around --but usually you can get really challengin and interesting games. I also enjoy that in Instant Action mode, you can now set maps to be generated randomly, which also adds to the possibilities.

I've never tried to play someone else over the net, given a pathetically slow 56K connection, so can't comment on inadequacies there. I really enjoy this game, especially the addition of ship formations, more detailed AI settings, and adding the Cardassians and Species 8472. At worst, one could say it is similar enough to Armada I that if you tired of the first version within a few months, you won't gain enough to be drawn back in by the second. But if you still enjoy Armada I, months after having finished the setpiece battles it provides you, then I don't see how you can be dissapointed with this game.

Great Buy!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 11
Date: May 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User

you get two high quality Star Trek games for a very small amount of money. even though they are in jewel cases, there are instruction booklets in each case so you do get a printed manual. i have WinXP on my 1 year old Pentium 4 system with a GeForce3 Ti200 graphics card and Audigy Gamer sound card and both games run flawlessly.

you can't lose at this price.

Added:

a helpful tip: i did have some mouse lag problems with Dominion Wars when i first began playing a campaign. i was not sure exactly what the problem was because it seemed to work OK in skirmish mode. so i searched the net and discovered that resetting screen colors to 16-bit instead of 32-bit would solve the problem and it seems to so far. so all you have to do is to reset your screen color resolution before playing and then reset back when you are done. is easy to do.

DS9 The Fallen played flawlessly right from the beginning. and it is a good, high quality game too. it is a first person shooter with nice graphics and a good DS9 story line.

If I only knew

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: January 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If I only knew what I was buying, I would have given the money to a charity. No, not to a charity, to the first person I meet on the street.

It took me about 3 hours to understand that that was it, this WAS the game, and I was not going to get anything else. By that time my eyes were closing and I was falling asleep.

This is what you do in the game - you listen to endless and pointless conversations directing you to do something, you go and do it, and when all of a sudden time comes to shoot, you shoot and run and shoot and run and turn and shoot and run and shoot and run and shoot and turn and run and shoot and run and run and run and shoot and shoot and shoot and turn and run.

This game cannot be called strategic, because you are totally limited in choices, it cannot be called arcade because it is not only slow, there is no word in the language to say how slow it is. What kind of game is it?? I don't know...

The BEST action packed one yet

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 12
Date: July 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The new star trek game is the best of them all.I have to say this game show's REAL potential to the activison componay.

WTF!!!!!!!!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 12
Date: September 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

How in the world can anyone justify $144.00 for any one game. Especially one that came out that many years ago. I WAS going to buy Armada 2 but after seeing the price.............there is NO WAY on god's green earth I would ever pay that much for a pc game.............It's no wonder Piracy has become the problem it is. I'll settle for the first armada thank you very much, I've seen it for 5 bucks at the game store down the street.

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