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At Last

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 53
Date: October 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Wow, this is goooooooooood. I'd been waiting for a game like this to come out. From what I've heard of it, it's extremely interesting. I intend to purchase it the first day it comes out -- or pre-order it here, if it's easier that way. :) Whenever I see an ad for the game in the magazine, I usually first see it out of the corner of my eye, and I get the vision, every time, of "Shatnered Universe," which is totally disconcerting. Every time. Well, maybe after I get it and play it a million times, that'll go away. I can't honestly vouch for it as if I've played, but I swear this game is good.

About Time!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 44
Date: October 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

All I can say is it is about time. I have been waiting for a new Star Trek game to come on PS2 since Elite Force. This one was going to come out in Feb of 2002, but TDK had to stop production to fund other games they thought would be more profitable. They finlly started working on it again in March 2003. I already ordered it 2 mouths(forgive me if I spelled that wrong) in advance!! I can't wait

Its fun and not as bad as others would make you think..

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 17, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I thoroughly enjoyed this game and on the easy setting it isn't all that difficult. It also offers something different then the other Star Trek games. Instead of flying a big lumbering slow starship you are in a fighter, a more rapid paced game! Plenty of episodes in this with good graphics of old star trek nemesis's that I won't reveal here. I have played nearly every Star Trek game that has come out and almost everyone seems to get bad reviews, it just seems thats the fashion now days. Yes I liked Star Trek Legacy too, though it did have some flaws it was still fun. If you like Star Trek you will like this game, if you don't you might still get some enjoyment out of it, but I think some serious effort went into it. Not at all deserving of the one star reviews etc.

I loved it!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: February 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Well, I read the user reviews and went ahead and got the game anyway, and I'm glad that I did!

This game is a fun shooter with a great Star Trek story around it. It starts out with an accident that sends your ship, with Capt. Sulu at the helm, into the mirror universe (introduced in the episode where Spock had a goatee.) The rest of the game is basically about your efforts to get back to the "normal" universe. Right off the bat, the one good thing about this setting is that you get to go up against all the federation ships, since the federation is your enemy in the mirror universe! You ultimately have to make friends with the Klingons and the Romulans who'll in turn help you to get back to the "normal" universe. The story includes a lot of references to the original series, so I really enjoyed it.

As for the graphics, all the ships in the game look exactly like I remember them from the show and the scale is dead-on accurate. The backgrounds are nicely done, not just dull black space, but a lot of nebula's, planets, and stars to add to the whole feel of the game. As for sound, the music is OK, but what I really liked was playing the game on my surround-sound system. It's great to hear photon torpedoes coming at you from behind!

Where the game falters a bit is in the physics, which are very rudimentary (you pretty much just bounce of other ships) but for me it didn't distract much from the game. The controls are also standard space-combat fare.

Has Classic Trek Been Forgotten?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I should have waited for reviews from people who've actually PLAYED the game to show up before I spent money on it. I was hoping for something like Interplay's "Starfleet Command" series, which was only okay to begin with. This is nothing more than your average "fly a fighter ship around, blow up other fighters and something really big" game (Think: any of the last 3 or 4 Star Wars games). However, the game is unnecessarily difficult--navigation and aiming are the pits.
Now for my rant--
Classic "Trek" has been given a bum deal ever since the movie franchise and "Next Generation" were successful. Not to take anything away from Picard & company, but the TV series that started it all has been forgotten. I'm not talking about the first 6 movies--I'm talking about the original 3-season wonder. THE TV SERIES IS CLASSIC "STAR TREK!!" Why not a game set during the time of yellow & blue velour suits, rounded warp nacelles, and Klingons without lobsters on their faces? Even the "Enterprise" series foreshadows things to come in the movies and spinoff series while bypassing the original. George Takei should have been given an "Excelsior" series instead. Now THAT would have been a hit.
This latest Star Trek game is just another gut punch to THE Star Trek TV series. Classic "Star Trek" deserves better.

Horrible game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is a complete waste of your money. Even on the easy level it's extremely frustrating, you will repeat levels over and over again, no matter what your skill level. It's pretty much the same thing each level as well, just described differently. The character models are articulated like undead zombies and the lip syncing with the dialogue is non existant. Characters sound good, having used the real Sulu and Checkov actors, but man did some putz do an extremely poor job on the graphics for them. Face it folks it's a complete stinker, you're better off spending your money elsewhere.

A Surprisingly Good Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

At first I was a little apprehensive of this game. As far as I was aware fighter-style combat is not something that there is a lot of in Star Trek.
However, after giving this game a fair hearing I was pleasantly surprised. The first thing that grabbed my attention was the graphics which are very crisp and clean for a Playstation game, and there is very little sign of the pixelisation normally encountered. The ships look great, especially the capital class ships, which look fantastic and authentically styled (especially the Original Series Constitution ships, they are damn perfect!). The story line, though featuring a few poor character animations is compelling, edgy and very true to the canon of Star Trek, especially the nods to the orginal series of which there are many. Both of the celebrity voice actors (Geogre Takai and Walter Keonig) reprise their roles as Sulu and Chekov well, and really add atmoshere to the plot.
As for the game itself, the learning curve is admittedly steep (I was rather shocked when I had to take on 4 Federation Battlecruisers virtually single handedly in my fighter!) but thanks to a well designed combat system it is up to the player to discover the tactics necessary to defeat your adversaries, including the phaser blind spots on capital ship and the correct weapons to use. All the major races' craft are featured, and all in all it is a fine game, well designed and balanced.
The only bad point as far as I'm concerned is the repetition of a couple of the mission types, but as I enjoyed it so much I am happy enough to brush over what seems to be a bit of padding in the mission structure. As there are relatively few space flight combat games on the PS2 I think that this a good example of the genre.
At least its easier than Blast Radius on the PSX!

Dave's review of Star Trek, S.U.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: June 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I loved playing this game. I am a Trek fan from back in the 60's.Obviously, the idea was taken from the episode "Mirror, Mirror".It was great playing as an under cover bad guy through pieces of various episodes from the classic series, even though you dont get a chance to pilot a star ship, you get to engage and destroy them as a shuttle pilot, taking orders from Capt Sulu. The game play is challenging and the graffics are great. The Best Trek game Ive ever played.

An ok game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: April 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is pretty good. I like how it features the voices of George Takei and Walter Koenig, and takes place in the mirror universe of Enterprise, Original Series and Deep Space 9 fame. It is a lot of fun shooting at Federation [or Terran Empire] ships in this case, and watching the damage increase before they explode. Same goes for Klingon, Tholian, and other ships. The only problem is that it's very difficult, I had to enter all the cheats from gamewinners.com in order to make progress. The game isn't too expensive, it's much like an enhanced version of Star Trek: Invasion for PSX. I would recommend it.

Why is it so hard to do?!?!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: January 31, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Why is it so hard to produce a good, quality, well thought-out Star Trek game? Not since Birth of a Federation has there been a really good ST game.

The game showed much promise, especially since we would finally get to see some of Captain Sulu in action (without a bloated Kirk interfering). I really enjoyed the animations of Sulu and Chekov. They are really well done.

With that said, the rest of the game is pretty bland. As mentioned by one of the other reviewers, space is primarily black! What is up with all the colorful nebulas? It greatly detracts from game play and makes it really hard to fight the enemy ships. Yes, the game designers got to show their artistic side... great... but that is not why I play the game!

And as for the fighters, I would think that 24th century fighters would have better targeting systems than that of WWII aircraft. Yes, you can lock on to a target and keep track of it, but no, your weapon systems are not smart enough to do the same. Dont think so, folks!

I would have really enjoyed a chance to get at the helm and weapons of the Excelsior. Such a grand ship would have had a field day on those pesky fighters...

I'm afraid this one is just a rental. Sorry. Please keep trying guys! I want a really good ST game. PLEASE!!!!!

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