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Excellent Game, Worthy of the name "Star Trek"

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 19 / 26
Date: November 18, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game, I havent beaten it yet and I'm only on Mission 3, but so far it looks very promising, Excellent Graphics and the effects are great, if You liked Insurrection You'll probably like this game

Good try but falls short..

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 17 / 20
Date: November 27, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I am a Star Trek fan. I admit it. And I look forward to interactive games about Star Trek. However, most releases are not very good (Starfleet Command, Starship Creator to name a few) and it makes we wonder if we are finally going to get a great Star Trek game. Hidden Evil is a good attempt, but has many faults. There is no mouse or joystick support. The game is pretty easy and way too short. And for the best "cut scenes," you have to install the complete game on the hard drive. To say things in it's favor, the graphics are good (I only tested the 3DFx version,) the sound and music are well done, and the game approaches greatness several times, but falls flat. If you are a Star Trek fan and like to collect the software titles, I would recommend this, but don't expect too much. I give this title a "C."

Good Trek Experience, Horrible Game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 11 / 12
Date: November 29, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This game is for Trek diehards only. Its incredibly easy. Even Forrest Gump could beat it in about six or eight hours. It does a great job of recreating the experience of a Trek episode with beautiful graphics, interesting storyline, and a nice soundtrack. However, the game control is clumsy and the puzzles are very simplistic. Again, good Trek experience, but a miserable game.

Graphics are the only saving grace...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: December 04, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Definitely not worthy of buying. The graphics and general design are the only thing that save this game from 1 star. It had a lot of potential but the story is poorly developed, the game play is waaaay to easy, and the ending is just the pits. Great idea, nice graphics, bad game.

Good follow up to "Insurrection", but too easy to play

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 10
Date: December 05, 1999
Author: Amazon User

The game, storyline, graphics, music, etc. were all great in this game. However, it was a bit too easy to beat. It took me a week to play (being that I work 8 hours a day and don't have too much time to play video games), but usually other games take forever to beat. I'm hoping the upcoming "Voyager" and "Armada" games will be better than this one. I like battling enemies, like you do with "Starfleet Academy" and "Starfleet Command".

It was rumored a hint book is out for this game, but don't even bother. Anyone using common sense could beat this game. It just takes thinking.

Hidden Evil is a fun follow-up to Insurrection.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: December 24, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Although the puzzles are simplistic and easy to solve, graphics and sounds are out of this world. Furthermore, the actual story line is quite fascinating if you're a Star Trek afficionado. The role playing is superb, a style which I have not seen since the old King's Quest adventure series. Control is totally keyboard based, which, I feel, increases the level of enjoyment since you're not just clicking around. YOU control the game. It's great fun. I just wish you could increase the difficulty settings. Email me if you'd like to discuss this review, Star Trek, or computer games in general. Masterific@aol.com

Graphics are the "Enemy" Here

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: January 04, 2000
Author: Amazon User

In many ways, "Hidden Evil" hits all the right notes in a genre that has had precious little serious attention paid to it. In its Star Trek adventure debut, Activision comes close to reviving a disappointing genre. The storyline is strong--stronger perhaps than the movie on which it's based. The voice characterization is, no pun intended, engaging. And the puzzles, while perhaps easy for hard core adventure gamers, are hard enough to amuse those of us with busy lives.

Where the game fails, really, is in its graphical quality. The graphics are hardly better than designers obviously believed they were doing better work than that early entrant into the genre, because they keep forcing 'artful' camera angles on the player, whether she wants them or not. These constantly-switching camera angles don't quite make the game unplayable, but they are annoying enough to waste your time. Often, you'll lose track of where you are in a particular room because the cuts from the various camera angles are so severe, your location is in no way obvious. In a few rooms the problem is so acute that you have to move on faith.

Don't worry, though. The gamemakers have made it largely impossible for your accidental movements to get you into trouble. In one especially laughable scene, it's *impossible* for you to fall off a rail-less bridge, but entirely easy for you to get gobbled up by an unseen monster. This, of course, is a significant problem in a game which otherwise strives for plausibility.

WIth these somewhat glaring design faults hanging over the game, the inevitable Insurrection. It does wonderfully amplify that plot. You should also buy it if you need to keep abreast of the development of the Star Trek genre. This is an important stepping stone in that process. And if you're a young adventure gamer, still uncertain of whether you like adventure games, this one will help hone your adventure-playing skills while keeping you in a familiar environment.

But if what you really want is to be immersed in the Star Trek universe, be surrounded by known characters, and solve puzzles while galavanting around the galaxy, buy the much superior "Starfleet Academy" on DVD. It's often miscast as an action game, but in truth it's a grander adventure than this.

Good Star Trek - Poor Game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: January 05, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Hidden Evil is a great game plot in search of a real game. Activison did a very good job capturing the feel of the Star Trak genre. The graphics and sound quality are quite good. However, as a game Hidden Evil falls woefully short of the mark. The puzzles are not challenging. The overall enviroment is very two dimensional despite ustilizing true 3-D for generating the main characters. You can't fall off a bridge even if you try. But the worst part is the keyboard-only control. It is extremely cumbersome and remeniscent of the late 1980's, when PC adventure games were just crawling out of the "text-only" primordeal soup. In fact, much of the game's combat difficulty comes from the interface instead of the opponents.

It's a shame such a good concept was wasted by apparent laziness on the part of Activision.

Star Trek: Hidden Evil - Rotten Graphics

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: January 08, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The game seriously lacks in graphics, comparible maybe to the graphics in the older Star Trek games like Judgement Rites, etc. I did however like the story line, and it was fairly easy to play. I would recommend this game to anyone who is a true Trek fan.

Good Game for Trekkies, Bad Game for Gamers

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: January 09, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game has some great graphics and a good story to it. But the controls in the game are very hard. And the story is WAY too short. (2-5 hours for most people to complete it). This game also has almost no replay value in it.

So basically, if you are a diehard trekkie, and you are willing to fork over $30 for 10 hours max of playing time, then this game is for you. However, if you are a gamer to any degree, you'll probably find this game a boring experience.

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