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Star Trek Fan and Gamer

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: January 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Finally I thought they would make a Star Trek game good. But nooooooo, they have to make it one of the hardest games I've played in a while. First of all let me say that the one star is for the graphics. They did a great job bringing the ships to life but thats where the fun stops. Do the people that make these games ever try to play test them. Come on!!! All the computer ships do is fire straight at you until you hit them or until they pass you. There is no skill on their part. And how about 10 enemies vs 1 little ship...BOOM! I do have to say that fighting the big ships is fun, at least once you figure out their blind spot. Why can't they make a Star Trek flight sim fun instead of fighting for 30 minutes just to die at the very end or have the Ecselsior blow up and have to start all over. Save your money or rent it and make your own conclusions.

Shattered Universe shattered my nerves

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: January 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

It's rare I find a game which makes me run screaming from the room. Shattered Universe is one of those. My quick thoughts:

The good: decent voice acting from the actors who made Sulu and Chevokv famous; set in the Star Trek universe.
The bad: Game play is repetitive and boring after just a few missions.
The ugly: The game is just too damm hard on some missions. The aiming controls don't work well, and when you are trying to save the dead in the water Excelsior from 2 capital ships and 10 or so bombers, it's not worth wasting your time.

BOTTOM LINE: Beam this piece of garbage into space Scotty!!

Don't be fooled!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: July 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I admit it... the package got me. On the front cover is a ship that looks like the Enterprise, locked in the heat of battle against other ships. I believed that I would be piloting the Flagship of the Federation against evil versions of the good guys.

Wrong.

Firstly, you're in the Excelsior, not the Enterprise. Sulu is running the ship and seems to need the player's help more often than not. You DO NOT get to pilot the starship! Instead, you are manning an awkward, clumsy fighter craft with horribly designed controls. Good luck.

I have a pet-peeve with flying games... most of them have solved this problem, but others like this Star Trek game, haven't... I like having the ship go up when I press the up button and down when I press down. I cannot stand the inverted method of flying. Most game designers have understood that there are people like me out there and have created different configurations to fix this. Not Star Trek.

I could rant about this game forever... bad graphics, bad music, pointless scenarios, blah, blah, blah. Instead, I will wrap up this review by saying how disappointed I am. This could have been a fantastic game if one person had a little bit of an imagination. This is a flying game, plain and simple... it's just got a Star Trek theme. Don't be fooled like me.

Rent first!

Bad bad bad ...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Wooden acting ... even for Star Trek, CG that would have looked impressive five years ago, awful physics, a miserable targeting system (you're flying fighters btw, not capital ships), and having to do the same "gnat against an armada" mission over and over again without appreciable support from any of the AI ships on your side makes this frustrating at best. Barely even worth renting. I can see why this didn't come out until after christmas. There would have been an awful lot of geeks disappointed at this in their stockings.

Good premise, promises but fails in the end. :)

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: February 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I was so looking forward to this game. Whereas most previous Star Trek shooting games involved massive ship battles, this game took a different direction and went with smaller ships to do the battles. But that was where they didn't pull the game together.

My biggest quip of the game, the difficulty settings don't mean a darn thing. I have changed the difficulty settings so many times to try and make the game easier, but there is no noticeable difference in gameplay. For example, in easy mode, there are no fewer ships, no greater fire power on your ship, nor can your own ship sustain greater damage.

My next biggest quip: except for the earlier levels (currently in level 6) you are the only fighter and the dang Excelsior doesn't help in fighting, even when other capitol ships fly in and start shooting at it. Currenlty, in level 6, after I play it for over 1/2 hour, I fought over 60 enemies, with the player being the only ship fighting. How does that make sense?

My third problem with this game is that the targeting system does diddly. I have aimed at the "lead the target" area and the phaser bolts (the only weapon, which you do get as well as torpedos and phasers, you can do this with) usually don't hit the enemy.

All in all, this game sucks. Levels are too long, almost 30 mins, making it a terribly frustrating and ungratifying game. There just isn't much to this game that I wish I had known about, except for the beautifully rendered graphics, before laying money down for this game.

HUGE DISSAPOINTMENT!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 10 / 12
Date: January 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I'd been looking forward to a good space action shooter and i'm a big star trek fan but this game is rediculous. I like the theme with the Excelsior crew in the mirror universe but the game is far more difficult than it should be. You just get frustrated when you've been playing for 3 hrs straight and are only on the third frikkin' level. Also the scenery is way too visually loud. Every level so far has some kind of colorful nebula or something that makes it more difficult to see the small fighters in the distance, space is mostly BLACK and dark anyway! My advice, wait 6 months and buy it used from other suckers like me who are fed up with it. If i'd paid 20 bucks i wouldn't have been as disapointed.

A Waste of Money

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: November 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game thinking it was a capital ship type combat game. Instead it is a shuttle combat game. The missions are extremely tedious and HARD even on easy. I got really frustrated with the difficulty of the game and the repetion. The only decent feature is the graphics, which is why it gets two stars overall. I do not recommend buying this game, even if you are a Star Trek Fan.

A somewhat entertaining -somewhat frustrating -time-killer

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Not nearly as bad as some reviewers would have you believe. I'm a casual gamer with a wife and a job, so I'm always looking for titles that promise more fun than obsession. As a Trek fan, I thought this might be one of those titles, and by and large it was. If you're looking to kill time and blow off steam, nothing beats blowing up Klingons (although, personally, I'd rather be the Klingons) and this game gives you that opportunity in spades. Toss in the 'Mirror,Mirror' storyline and it ends up being an enjoyable time-killer.

Unfortunately, that's all it is, a time-killer giving you opportunity after opportunity (or level after level) to blow up your enemies in ever increasing number with ever decreasing rewards. And its not that easy to do either with awkward targeting and controls. Sure I can turn on a dime, but I can't hit what I'm pointing at. When you're killing 1/2 hour you don't mind so much, but if you're playing to complete all the levels you're going to go ape-sh*t.

Other reviewers will discuss the pro's and cons in much greater detail. I'll stick with the description above. Some-what entertaining, some-what frustrating. Really depends on what you're looking for and for that I would strongly advise you to
RENT it before you plunk down the 40.00 bucks and decide for yourself.

Less than I had expected

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: June 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game look promising but it had some fatal flaws. There were no training level. The control is too complicated to figure out. The action sequences get very repetitive after awhile. This game resemble the first target shooting game of Interplay's Starfleet Academy - Starfleet Command. Unless you are a die hard gamer, this game is not for the average game player.

star trek s.u. it's good but not the best

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: June 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

i love star trek ever since i was seven. i will buy all star trek games if i can. i like this game fore how they did the starship enterprise. but gameplay was ok but i hate the ships exploding. it suck!. they could have did better. it's a good game but if they make another game, make it better, like star trek voyager elite force.

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