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Great, wonderful game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: March 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Wow! This really tops my list of "Star Trek" games. I've already spent hours on it and love it. It's rather difficult, even on the easy setting. Your enemies shoot back at you, and it take some real effort to knock them down. Although in real life it's better to stun your enemies rather than kill them, it's better to kill in this game. Stun just makes them come back more mad than before.

I recommend this game for any "Star Trek" fan, or just anyone that wants to have a good time shooting up everything. Get this one today.

Very Good and Challeging Game.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: April 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The entire game focuses on the idea of stealth. You cant just go running with phasers firing at random. The away team is an ELITE away team who use lastest starfleet technology to enter into missions with the maxmium stealth. You can use phaser, phaser rifles, sniper rifle, grenades and plenty of special tools to do a stealth operation. This is not a shot'em up game, its a stealth game. You cant just go into a mission and shot the enemy because in some missions, that will cuz a mission failed. In one level, you cant even be seen by any guards. So buy this game and think of ways not to be seen by guards and sneak around corners. There is no beginners level to this game, however first 3 are easy enough to get your stealth up. Buy the game and prepare for stealth operations.

Excellent Game! A Must for Star Trek and Strategy Fans!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 08, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is a wonderful game. The gameplay is spectacular, the controls are easy to learn and use, and the screen layout and look are stupendous. This is one of my favorite Star Trek games out there. It provides hours of challenging and exciting fun. The characters are intelligent and witty. Also, be on the lookout for some of the crew of the enterprise (NCC-1701D that is).

Star Trek: Away Team

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 11
Date: September 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I just got this game at Bookmans last night. I have played it and the gameplay is pretty hard. The plot is also weird. Data wants you to incapacitate the Romulan with a Neural Disruptor instead of using a phaser. What is up with that? I am just rating this game 5 stars because I have not played it that much and that I have hopes that the game will be better

st-at

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

great game. had the demo years ago but could never find the game. good game play. don't need a high end system to enjoy this one.

Easy to play and Excellent Story

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: March 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Star Trek games keep getting better and Away Team is good entry in the growing library of quality titles.

You are in control of 4 (sometimes up to 6) crewmembers on an away team. Before each mission, you are given an excellent briefing and then you are allowed to choose the members who are best suited to the mission. Once your selection is made, you beam down and begin the mission.

Each mission contains a briefing before and during the mission. The controls are very easy to master and memorize. While the main screen doesn't contain a "fog of war," there is still a lot of strategy involved in completing the missions.

The graphics are nice but not earth shattering. The sounds, used on my SoundBlaster Live! are excellent, using both front and rear channels.

On a whole, this game is fun but quite short. When played on the easy level, you an complete all of the missions in one night (if you had the time.)

While this isn't a major title (like Elite Force and The Fallen,) it is a quality Trek title and worth the purchase.

The curse is broken

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 10
Date: March 16, 2001
Author: Amazon User

It seems that the Elite Force has broken the ST curse. This is a very good game. It is commandos in the ST universe. You are in command of the crew of the USS Incursion, a defiant variant prototype. You have 22 men each with different abilities. In most cases you select four of them for the missions.

The gameplay is very similar to commandos.The maps are well designed. In addition to large outdoor maps you can get in the buildings. The places where you play are really very well done. For example the inside of the Borg Cube, or the Qu'nos or the Romulus. You fight klingons, romulans, rogues starfleet personne and the Borg.

The story is very well designed. You can feel yourself really like a member of starfleet.

After all this is a very good game. Not a cheap commandos imitation. If you like this kind of game you wont be disappointed.

Mission Impossible meets Star Trek

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: March 21, 2001
Author: Amazon User

It's an exciting, strategic game with a large number of ways to complete the missions. Kill the Romulan with a phaser blast? (Not easy, they shoot back!) Waste a grenade on him? Try to sneak around him? Can I sneak a Vulcan behind him for a neck pinch?

So why only 4 stars? Because after you play the 17 (18?) missions, it's game over. The missions aren't really playable "over and over again", and without a mission creator for the Internet community, this game will probably be deleted from your hard drive after its initial play. Contrast that to some excellent, replayable games, "UT, Quake 3, RollerCoaster Tycoon....."

Again, a very good game, and worth the time, but it's gonna be a short time.

Now this is fun.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

What a great game. The graphics are solid, the game play is easy to learn and there is a lot to do. I have heard this game being compared to X-Com. I will not do that because I never played X-Com. Instead I will compare it to Commandos. You actually have to think to play this game. It's not some mindless 3d shooter. There is a lot of strategy involved. Mainly you will run covert missions in enemy territories, each mission getting harder than the last. There are a lot of neat gadgets to use along the way as well as unique skills for certain races.

Desperados in the ST universe

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I was leery about buying this game because it had gotten so many mediocre reviews from the general public, but I bought it anyway in 2002 because I found it at a reasonable price on Amazon. I must admit that my Trek-addiction really paid off here, as I found the game to be a pleasure.

For those of you who have played the squad-based Cowboy game Desperados; you will find that Away Team is very similar in progressing through the missions. Stealth is the better part of valor here and it makes for a very exciting game as you try to flank your enemies, evade detection and coordinate attacks at just the right times.

You play as the captain of the USS Incursion, a Federation vessel that uses holographic imaging to change shape. As such, the plot of the game is to go behind enemy lines and win covert battles as you try to figure out the ultimate solution behind the plot. You send down away teams of 4 crewmen (each with thier own special characteristics) on clandestine missions.

On the positive side, I found the all the "sneaking around" in the game to be very "realistic" (or I should say "consistent") with the way that events play themselves out in the Star Trek universe. Vulcans can do mind-melds, phasers can be set to kill or stun (but they do set off alarms sometimes) and most importantly, you only get a few shots before the Borg "adapt". This makes the game very intense; especially at those times when you evade being detected by a gnat's hair. Also, the storyline is thoughtful and makes you want to finish each mission to see what happens next.

On the negative side, I do agree with some of the reviewers on at least 2 points. First, the game is very linear (as opposed to more open-ended squad-based games like Fallout BOS) and you will have to save often as many of the "appropriate" ways of winning missions can only be discovered by trial and error. Second, I agree that the characters are not as well developed as they could have been.

But, in general, the game is a great buy if you are a PC gamer and a Trek fan.

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