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HORRIBLE game! How can anyone like this game?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: September 24, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I suspect the board meeting for this game went something like this:

Boss: Hmm. You know, We need money.

Designer:Yeah...

Boss: Hmm.

Designer:Oh well, I'm going to go play a game called Sanctum - I just paid $40 for more digital cards! Later-

Boss: What? You paid for digital cards? We can do this!

Designer:Yeah, but I don't really have a plot for the game, a story, game design experience or a development team worth a troupe of trained monkeys.

Boss: True...hmmmm... I know, We'll just slap "Star Trek" on it and someone will buy it!

For those that do not know, Let me make you a bit more familiar with what type of game ConQuest On-Line is.

ConQuest is an online strategy game that deals with digital pieces. You actually buy these pieces from "Starter" and "Booster" packs, much like collectable card games. You can then trade them with other players.

Different pieces have different rarities and abilities, and the game is separated into rounds where you can play certain pieces and try to defeat your opponent.

While this can be a great concept, After all, Sanctum by Digital Addition accomplished just that, this version of it has very serious flaws.

1. The logic in the game in terms of movement, times you can play pieces and move things as well as actually winning is all hokey and flawed. It makes very little sense. For a digital strategy game, this part is essential and I could overlook all other shortcomings if at heart it was a good logical game.

2. The digital pieces that you obtain are not customized. You simply have a picture of a miniature with most of them. No unique artwork like there is with Sanctum.

3. What Star Trek game would be incomplete without bugs? This game made up for that and took all of Voyager and Armada's bugs (Other Star Trek games which are actually good) Most of these bugs effect game logic.

4. The interface is clunky. Simple tasks are uneededly complex.

5. Horrible graphics. (Generally unneeded in this type of game, assuming the rest of the game is good.... which it isn't.)

6. The game is just plain boring.

If you are a fan of collectable card games and enjoy strategy akin to chess, I strongly recommend that you check out Sanctum - a game that is worth your time and money and leave this game behind, nay, run from this game as quickly as you can... It is the worst one I have played this year.

A Poor Game- Activision at its Worst

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: October 31, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Aside from the fact that the game is painfully complex and boring, the thing that got me the most is that after you spend money to buy the game-- you have to spend MORE money to actually win against opponants. It's like buying a car, and then having to pay extra for the keys, it's simple exploitation. Activision ought to be ashamed of itself.

Fun and Addictive Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: June 20, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is GREAT! One I figured out the interface (there's a tutorial) I started playing games against people and I became really engrossed in the game. It isn't easy! There's two play levels, Basic and Advanced, but Advanced was easier for me to play than Basic. The whole setup of the game is that you are Q and you are trying to put another Q in "CheQ" in a chess-like game, using the Star Trek characters as pawns. It is also a collectible game, so if you don't have all the pieces you want, you can buy/trade with other players to get the ones you want. All in all, this game is HIGHLY addictive and I recommend it to fans of Star Trek AND strategy games!

Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: June 20, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is the best Star Trek game yet. It's a lot of fun. You can trade the pieces with other players and the game is always different because of different strategy. I highly recommend this to any gamer.

Broken Game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

So I got this game and guess what I could not get it going looks like they terminated the whole server and the site to where you could not play it anymore. So each time I tried to play the game it said the site had been terminated so O well.

AWESOME!!! Star Trek: Conquest OPEN BETA available to downlo

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: February 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

AWESOME!!! I'm gonna give it a try after I do homework! AWESOME!!!

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http://www.startrek.com/news/productnews.asp?ID=111879

Activision's new online Star Trek game, "Star Trek: ConQuest Online" is at the Beta testing phase and Star Trek fans can get first crack. The open beta of the game is available for download.

"Star Trek: ConQuest Online" is a turn-based game in which players assume the role of a member of the Q Continuum to try to accumulate galactic real estate by taking over planets, and whoever ends up with the most planets wins.

Choosing from three types of game pieces (Ships, People and Items), players have to construct offensive and defensive forces to take over new planets and protect the ones they already control. Turns are broken down into three phases, Deploying pieces, Moving pieces and Attack/Defend.

The game is played online, with players going head-to-head from their own computers. Ultimately, once the testing is complete, the game will be available in stores featuring bonus pieces not available online.

http://www.startrek.com/news/productnews.asp?ID=111879

A GREAT INTERACTIVE GAME

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: January 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

THIS IS NOT JUST A GAME BUT A GAME COMMUNITY. The great thing about this is that the manufactures are always creating new pieces as expansion packs and working out the bugs on an on going basis. There are tournaments every month with PRIZES. Chat rooms exist for the players even a trivia room with an automated trivia bot. AWESOME GAME can't say enough about it.

Beware

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: February 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game stinks it is a poor try at combining chess and Magic the Gathering it got a 17% in Pc gamer and its entire purpuse is to make you buy stuff at high prices STAY AWAY!!

AWESOME! Star Trek: Conquest OPEN BETA available to download

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: June 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

AWESOME!!! I'm gonna give it a try after I do homework! AWESOME!!! (...)

Activision's new online Star Trek game, "Star Trek: ConQuest Online" is at the Beta testing phase and Star Trek fans can get first crack. The open beta of the game is available for download.

"Star Trek: ConQuest Online" is a turn-based game in which players assume the role of a member of the Q Continuum to try to accumulate galactic real estate by taking over planets, and whoever ends up with the most planets wins.

Choosing from three types of game pieces (Ships, People and Items), players have to construct offensive and defensive forces to take over new planets and protect the ones they already control. Turns are broken down into three phases, Deploying pieces, Moving pieces and Attack/Defend.

The game is played online, with players going head-to-head from their own computers. Ultimately, once the testing is complete, the game will be available in stores featuring bonus pieces not available online. (...)

AWESOME! Star Trek: Conquest OPEN BETA available to download

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: June 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

AWESOME!!! Star Trek: Conquest OPEN BETA available to download.

AWESOME!!! I'm gonna give it a try after I do homework! AWESOME!!! (...)Activision's new online Star Trek game, "Star Trek: ConQuest Online" is at the Beta testing phase and Star Trek fans can get first crack. The open beta of the game is available for download.

"Star Trek: ConQuest Online" is a turn-based game in which players assume the role of a member of the Q Continuum to try to accumulate galactic real estate by taking over planets, and whoever ends up with the most planets wins.

Choosing from three types of game pieces (Ships, People and Items), players have to construct offensive and defensive forces to take over new planets and protect the ones they already control. Turns are broken down into three phases, Deploying pieces, Moving pieces and Attack/Defend.

The game is played online, with players going head-to-head from their own computers. Ultimately, once the testing is complete, the game will be available in stores featuring bonus pieces not available online. (...)

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