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Looking much better with age

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

After playing and completing this game some years ago, then re-installing and running it from the Gamefest package recently, I was absolutely stunned by how good the game looks to me now, compared with the original reviews.

Granted, young first-person-shooter twitch-gamer-consolers will find this game far above their heads, but for more sophisticated trekkers who can handle an intelligent interface by reading the manual and the Unofficial Strategy Guide by Stratos Group, the game brings a fascinating Star Trek scenario to life.

It's strange, but the opening movie, mission briefing sequences, unique command interface, admittedly somewhat dated 3D graphics, and simulation-style action all give an actually authentic, immersive, engaging, intelligent level of computer gameplay that is not seen in current real-time-strategy games.

Despite somewhat fragile game stability, this game reminds one of the promise that computer games held for creating new worlds to live in and explore, deep, rich, constructive, and with a sophisticated plotline requiring strategic planning. This game itself cannot quite live up to that ideal, of course, but gives you that idea of where computer games could have headed, instead of the MMORPG's and same old now incredibly boring, dumb, first-person-shooter based games that require absolutely zero intelligence to play with nothing but high-end graphics and no lasting value whatsoever.

Star Trek New Worlds shows where we could have gone, and seems to provide just a glimmer that maybe there's still hope for an intelligent future in RTS gaming after all.

What a disappointment for a Trekkie

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: October 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I love Star Trek, so all movies, games, and books I can afford and get my hands on I buy. This game is a real disappointment. Don't bother buying it if you have any kind of an up-to-date computer, it won't run on XP Pro. I did get it to run on Win2000, only to discover it wasn't worth the effort.

Good Idea - Horribly made

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: May 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

As the title said it is a great idea and looks like the best star trek game ever then you start to play. First mission-explore, explore some more... fight the klingons OCCATIONAL RAIDS then explore some more...that continues to keep going for a long time until tour mine runs out of resources (constantly)! I could live with all that but no, they can't bother with the must have common sense option any worthwhile game has, The SAVE button. Personly I was imagoning security officers runing up in front of a tank fireing at some klingons, and all that classic stuff. But No they decided not to put in infantry! Basicly I am supprised I gave it 1 star.
!DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY!

Worst Trek game made

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: January 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

So, what was the point of this game? I never could distinguish the baddies from the Feds during alien battles. And, I could never finish the second mission. In my opinion, don't waste your hard earned money on this one. Total waste. If you're looking for fighting on a starship or beaming down to hostile worlds, this is not the game for you. You're better off with "Bridge Commander" or "Elite Force".

In the year 2292,a game with deep strategy and policy

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 10
Date: December 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

New Worlds is a not an ordinary game this game is a game created for Real Strategy on ground,and the player stands as an officer of each one of these Star Empires,New Worlds game is about the importance of a star system named Tabula Rasa Anomalies,this system has been appeared because of a Romulan Test,that put the whole region on the map(of all star Empires known to eachother)
there is no good or bad in this Game,and if you stand and fight is for the good of your goverment,this region has a very strategical importance for all 3 star empires,first we must know that these anomalies appeared in the Neutral zone,M-Class Planets,new Races,and the rich Dilithium Planets that are far richer than a ordinary dilithium planet are the reasons of its importance,of course all the goverments are on the rush to have these systems,the Federation and Romulan Star Empire,look at this situation as a oppertunity to uphold their strength,but due to the loss of Praxis(Klingon Moon)the klingons look at the sitiuation as a golden oppertunity to escape the peace treaty
that is going to be negotiated with the federation,and uphold the honor and strength of their Empire,
This Game was Created in 1999 and due to that time here are the ratings i give to it,
Graphics 9/10
Story 10/10
Sound and Music 10/10
Gameplay Control 8/10
Overall:9/10
You have the oppertunity to play as each of the Goverments and
help the goverments to hold the upper hand in Economy and Border Strength(dont forget the neutral zone),and also this game is a very deep game,and you cant win too soon,it will take a lot of time for every misson,and a you need to have a real strategy and plan for this game,you also get promotion after having success in several missons,and if you really are a man of strategy go and have it.
i hope success for you Lieutenant Commander

worst star trek game ever!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: August 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

this game totally ruins the star trek name..please, i beg you, for your own sanity, DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!

A flawed game.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Sure, when you read the features on this game, any sane Trekkie will have their mouth watering, but when I bought the game I noticed it had a lot of problems. The missions are way too complicated and take hours to finish, and if you screw up when you've almost finished it's very frustrating. There's no way to save or minimize so it takes forever to do anything. While it's cool to see your colony grow and to see how the different races handle different scenarios it's not a great game.

All work, almost no play, and no save.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: May 18, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The 3d aspect of this game certainly makes it interesting to look at, but that's just about where the fun ends.

By the time I made it through the tutorial to learn the game, I was so bored with all the time it took to build a base that I played a little combat just to see what it looked like and then shelved the game.

This game requirs a lot of work to play. Much time is spent on base building and upgrading structures several times so you can assemble a useful fighting force. The designers might have done a careful study of the Command and Conquer games to see how to build an efficient user interface.

Finally, you can't save your game during a mission. If your computer crashes, the doorbell rings, the baby cries, etc. you just have to walk away from your machine or lose your game. Sheesh!

My advice: Get Emperor of Dune. Now THAT's a 3d RTS game!

Disappointing

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

At first it looked very cool but as I started to play it I realized there is no way to save except after completing a level. Considering how much time it takes to complete a level and how much time I have I can't play. It really stinks!!!!!

Star Trek: New Worlds

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: August 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This have been better. It was fun for a while. The gameplay could have been better. It needs better mission plots. The grahics for this game have been improved also.

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