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New world

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 58
Date: June 10, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is awesome! Cool graphics! it is an rpg.

Good game.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 13
Date: August 31, 2000
Author: Amazon User

While I don't have the game yet.. it is on order. I have played the demo and have watched the progress of this game over the last year. I sincerely, think it will be great game and can't wait till I get it. However, I don't agree with last review which said it was "An RPG". It's a real time strategy game.

Not bad, so far. A vacation from the ordinary space combat!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: September 01, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I just got this two days ago, and so far it's pretty good. I need to spend some time reading the book on it so I can build and colonize, but the graphics are good. It's well worth it. I'll let you all know as time goes on how great it really is.

Another almost.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: September 15, 2000
Author: Amazon User

As with the other Star Trek games, New Worlds provides some interesting game play. It however does not provide any new or unusual twists. In this game, the player builds and manages one-colony base and generates ground vehicles for mining, exploring and destroying other enemies. Oh by the way, it really doesn't have the feel of an RPG, you can assign "personnel" to accomplish certain tasks but you cannot give the personnel any attributes or personality.

Star Trek, When oh when will you learn?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 10 / 10
Date: September 25, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I have played every Star Trek game that has been released. Wait- Did I say play or beta test? Same difference with most of them. Nearly every Star Trek game has been an immense let-down...

Star Trek, New Worlds was certainly a let down to me. Is my objective to play the game or to try and see something preferably before it blows up? Unfortunately, The view controls are extremely complex and don't make a whole lot of sense. You can use the number pad keys to rotate the view (That's right, no simple hold down the right mouse and move to rotate) but, of course, that is depending what view you are in.

Are you in First Person view? Are you in Birds Eye view? Do you control-left click, or shift-left click to zoom? If you double-click something, will it bring up stats on the building, or lock your view on it? When you zoom, is it zooming to where your curser is pointing or to the center of the screen? You would think it would be pretty obvious what First Person view vs Birds Eye view would be, but depending on how you zoom and tilt the camera, both of these views could look exactly the same... Does this sound confusing? It was to me too.

A typical game session:

Okay. Great. There is my base. Okay. lets build stuff.

Clickity Click.

Hmm... Is that a group of ten transport APC's or are those science vessels. They all look like ants to me, is that a tree or a rock? I guess I could click on each one... Nah, I don't want to do that, I just need to look at them.. Okay.. Zoom... Hmm, That would be number 8. Okay, AGH, I didn't want to zoom there!!!

That's an awfully big tree....

I see a Red dot on my radar! I don't see it... I should see the bad guy.. Maybe it's just really small... Okay, I can zoom, I remember how to do that.

That's an awfully big dilithium crystal.....

Uh oh, What is that sound of shooting? I don't see anything... What just blew up? Oh, Wait a minute, I have to hit F1 then hit the number pad 2...

Mastering the view controls the majority of the game. And after you mess with control-this and shift-that and hold this down and double-click that only after pressing F-1 and then F-2 you may be close to yelling F-U and proceed to take out vengeance upon the mouse and the keyboard, which makes you feel like it is taunting you the entire time...

For those that do not know, New Worlds is a RTS (Real-Time Strategy) game akin to a mixture of Command & Conquer, Age of Empires and the increasing line of RTS games.

The graphics are certainly good and you can't really complain about the sound, but the game does have a steep usability curve. However, sooner or later you will realize to stay mostly in the same view and just use the Tab to switch between Tricorder views (Oh boy, I didn't even mention that in the above equation, phew) At times, You will be tempted to just leave it in Tricorder view, reverting this game into something from the 70's... Which brings me to another problem.

In most RTS games there is usually a close up display (the main screen) and then a smaller map that covers a wider area (radar/map screen). ST:NW is the same way. Normally, if you want to jump to another place on the main display, you just click what you want to see on the map. Not in this game, You use a hot key (That's right, Control-this, shift-that) or scroll all the way there, slowly I might add.

After playing it for some time, looking through the manual and re-visiting the Tutorial (and I'm a person that normally says "What is this Tutorial you speak of?" when it comes to games, but with this its a necessity)

The game has it's moments, but most likely you will be in the wrong view to see them.

If you are a Star Trek fan, Like I am, save your money on this game and spend it on a game that deserves it.

Star Trek - Elite Force is one of the best games I have played in a while, Especially for a Star Trek game. Elite Force is a First Person Shooter using the Quake3 engine.

Alternatively, You could go with Star Trek - Armada for a Real Time Strategy game if you really wanted a Star Trek RTS.

Either of these games will give you an enjoyable experience and at the same time satisfy your Star Trek fix.. but I certainly don't recommend this one.

Quite possibly the worse game I have ever played.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: October 03, 2000
Author: Amazon User

It is certainly the worst strategy game ever. Not only was it a HUGE dissapointment, it was just an all-around bad game. Besides from slow units & a horrible interface to work with, the game was plagued with many problems. Some of the bigger ones are that there isn't a costum game mode, and you can't save your games ever! I read some PC magazine reviews that called it "Star Trek meets StarCraft", well this isn't true at all. Each race only has about 3 units that are combat-related, one of wich doesn't even has weapons! Don't buy this game if you're expecting a Star Trek based strategy game with lots of awesome battle units. You get the exact opposite.

The coolest game ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: October 16, 2000
Author: Amazon User

When I got the demo CD with this game on it i rushed to my computer to try it out. I tried it out and I immediately fell in love with it. It is a combination of StarCraft (one of my all-time favorites) and StarTrek. The weapon effects and explosions are exquisite and all the units are so cool. But there is one setback to the game. There is no in-game options menu, and therefore you can't save it in-game. That is one thing I would like to change. Other than that, it is the coolest RTS game I have ever seen.

Is this even a game?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: November 06, 2000
Author: Amazon User

My God, if this is a game, it needs to be called Destruction Derby because of all the crashes. My computer is WAAAAAAAAY above minimun specs for this game, and I experience crash after crash. The fact that there is no in game save option really [stinks] also because you have to start the mission over after your game crashes. The only reason this game got a star was because the graphics and movies are cool, but as far as game play and interface.... it [stinks]. The game isn't hard, it's just time consuming, and gets really frustrating when you have to restart you computer every half an hour or so because of the crashes. Don't ask interplay if you there will be a patch out soon either, they won't respond, lately they have just been shoving games out on the market half finished and then not providing help to the customers who bought the games. I know I'm not the only person experiencing these problems because I bought the game with three other people and they have them also, and feel the same as I do. Quite frankly this is the last game I will ever purchase from them.

too bad there aren't any negative stars

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 14, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Whew, first of all, this game ..., second it is NOT star trek, the whole idea is stupid, It's too bad interplay even made an effert to put this game out when they could have put some more time into Klingon Academy( a great game, would have been better if it had some work done to it, 2 patches later and everything still hasn't been fixed), This game has issues, very buggy, very unhelpful mission briefings(you play around for an hour and a half untill you stumble on what it is your soppossed to do), the graphics really aren't that great or inovating, the movies are ok, one thing it has going for it is that the manual has doesn't have any spelling error's? ( at least thats what pcgamer says)

It's time for interplay to live by thier motto " By gammers, For gammers" and finnish " Secret of the Vulcan Fury " it's a preview on starfleet academy, They have all the voice actors for it done, including the late DeForest Kelly, also the grapics on the preview looked really good and the story was compelling, But interplay is more concerned with making a fast buck instead of putting a " Finnished " product on the shelf.

A true experience in colonization

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 18
Date: December 29, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I can appreciate the reviewers who have given this game a low, or negative, star-rating. They must have made their purchase on the misguided assumption that Star Trek games are created for electronic hedonists in pursuit of yet another distraction from the cruel world outside. Such has never been the case. Those disaffected gamers would do well to remember that to enjoy a true Trek experience in the context of New Worlds, they must avail themselves of the unique opportunity it presents to experience (in plodding real-time, no less) one of the more accurate virtual depictions of the hardships of pioneering class-M planets in uncharted space. Like actual soldiers on an expedition of conquest - which will read as "non-interference" to all the brainwashed Federation apologists - STNW forces us to stumble around in the dark as gutsy adventurers embracing the peril of an unknown land. Armchair Indiana Jones types seeking to douse that flaming passion to actually go outside and feel the rigors of an unforgiving ecosystem would do well to spend hours in this game, figuring out how to best navigate its puzzling user-hostile interface, whilst trying to avoid being consumed by the game's most dangerous elements: boredom, fatigue, and atrophy brought on by the mind-numbing stupor of trying to challenge the left brain in a place as predictable as a hundred miles of Texas Interstate highway . . . Watch out for the armadillo!

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