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When will it actually be sent to me???

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 16
Date: November 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I preordered this game about 3 months ago. It seems everyone has their copy but me, when do you think you guys could ship it?

DO NOT waste your money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 16
Date: April 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Although I am trekkie and purchased this game with high hopes, I was immensely disappointed. The only positive thing I can say about the game is that most of the graphics are impressive. (One notable exception: when characters' lips move when they are talking, it looks ridiculous and unrealistic.) Every other aspect of the game is horrendous. Gameplay is very slow, and you spend a lot of time just watching events unfold, in sickeningly slow speed, on the screen. The game even manages to make battles boring--you just instruct your tactician, with a series of mouse clicks, to attack, and he fires at the enemy ship for a good five minutes until it blows up. This relegates you to the role of observer rather than participant, which makes for a boring experience. Also, you do not have the ability to save during a mission, so if you make a mistake and fail a mission, you are doomed to repeat the entire boring experience. I strongly recommend against this game.

cool game - great improvment

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 9
Date: September 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I've played already the "Armada 1" game and I enjoyed it very much but it had many problems in subjects like: graphicks,interface and bugs.
From the info that I read in the syte of "Armada 2" the improvmentsare very extensive:
the gameplay is now in complete 3D, the bugs were minimized and solved, the campaigns are now far bigger and more detailed(9 missions per race), you have two times more ships than in 'Armada 1"(very iportent-you w'ontget board from the game) and the graphics is now really beautiful.
There are also several good things in armada 2 that you won't find in any other strategy game like:
1. many subsistems to asingle ship (life-support, engines, sensors, weapons and shilds). 2. crew in yoar starships (no crew no starship). 3. very large differnses between the races and their capabilitis.

This game pulls you in and does not disappoint

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: October 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I love first person shooters. I happen to also enjoy Star Trek. Does this profile match yours? If so, go get this game...now! I had my doubts. Reading endlessly through reviews of games in magazines and online, I have seen other games that reviewers shove down my throat about being worth my hard earned dollar. This game was installed in the mid afternoon and it's nearly tomorrow. After so many recent purchases that turned out to cost more and just disappoint, I can honestly say that I will play this game until I've beaten it. Now, as far as replay value, this game does not top my charts, but very few single player games do. The multiplayer on this is fun, but if you want multiplayer buy Unreal Tournament. This game is based off of the tried and true Quake III engine, but don't let that fool you. Its visuals are on par with Rainbow Six III: Ravenshield.

Take home message: If you want to play a first person shooter that draws you in because of what's happening all around you, has familiar handling, involves the star trek universe, and you either can't wait or have the money to spend before half-life 2 is released, this is the game you want to get.

Might be good, but beware!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: December 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Somthing they do not -ever- state in the manual or the box (read both, cover - to - cover, is that you MUST have Microsoft Game Voice in order to use this. Which requires an ADDITIONAL [$$] purchase. If you have it to spare, go ahead for the thrill of commanding a starship with your voice. Otherwise, I most heartily reccomend Star Trek: Starfleet Command II: Empires at War.

Finally Boldly Going...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: June 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

When first Starfleet Command came to store shelves, I couldn't wait to get my hands on it. Then I did, only to find the game was a piece...The case was similar with the slightly improved Starfleet Command II. Starfleet Command III, however, showed me that not all the SFC games have to [be so bad]. First, the graphics are far better than the visuals in the previous two. The textures are extremely detailed and the ships look absolutely fantastic. Also, even though the graphics look great, the minimum requirements are surprisingly low (unless of course you have a CPU that is below a Pentium III and a graphics card that [is bad]. Plus, while SFC purists may not like it (which I can't understand), the interface in this game is simplified to the point where you can actually access everything easily. The interfaces of the previous two games were way too convoluted and seemed to only serve to slow down the pace of the combat; you pretty much had to go through about 50 submenus to simply reinforce a shield! Its surprising how much more enjoyable an SFC game is when you simply take out the 1 million or so menus and submenus from the interface. There is also a very eclectic collection of ships to choose from; each ship varies in speed, maneuverability, and weaponry and can by customized. While the game is very enjoyable overall, it seems to be missing the strategic challenge present in the previous two titles and the combat can actually become tedious at times. Also, while the previous games enabled players to choose from six or more races to play as, SFC III's number of races is restricted to four (the Federation, the Klingon Empire, the Romulan Star Empire, and the Borg). Overall, if you like Star Trek and have the urge to pilot one of your favorite ships from the Star Trek: TNG universe, this game is for you.

A poor excuse for a sequel...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: March 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Overall, I well... strongly disliked this game. But, since I don't want to start the review on a negative note, here are the pros. Well let's see now... the game is virtually bug-free, the interface has been improved (although it is a bit complex), and many many new ships, stations, and two races have been added.
Now for the cons (insert "Taps" music). To put it bluntly, the single player is downright boring. On all the missions I found myself uncaring about the fate of my fleets and wondering why I was doing this. The good news is they have fewer capaigns than the first one, at a whoping 3. You can't even play with my personal favorites, the Romulans, except in multiplayer. Another definite, but seemingly minor, con is the new Borg voice. Apparently, the Activision executives thought the perfect Borg voice from the first game needed some "improvements", so they of course made it much worse. It sounds like something you'd expect out of a two year old or a mental patient. Thirdly, the Z axis. While the Z axis is hard to do well in games, Armada II's is well... bad. If your ships go too high or too low they disapear and are hard to find. Last, there can be too much of a good thing. There are way too many ships and stations to keep track of and most of them are useless. Some people have complained that the ships are too weak, and most are, except for the Borg's tactical fusion cube. This thing can decimate entire bases in an instant. While that may sound fun, it gets old fast.
In conclusion, take my advice and don't get this game. Get Armada I or Bridge Commander, which are much better. Once again, the folks over at Activision have proven that resistance is futile (whatever that means). I give Star Trek Armada II a disapointing 2 out of 5.

Finally a game for true hardcore Star Trek fans!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: April 30, 2002
Author: Amazon User

As a big Star Trek fan I was very hyped about this game for a long time and after finally buying it, I must say that it is almost everything I expected it to be. It's hard to please a fan such as me that knows all the little details about star trek but I think Totally Games has definitely did an amazing job with Bridge Commander in making it authentic in most areas. Despite a few minor inconsistencies, it is a very accurate re-creation of how things are done on the bridge of a starship.

There were only a couple of dissapointments I have so I'll get them out of the way first. The biggest is that the graphics although looking spectacular sometimes, look kind of bad in other areas (close ups on some stations and blocky body models). I have a midrange system with a GeForce 2 64MB MX400 and 200MB RAM....more than enough to run this game well. Yet moving around the bridge is choppy and the framerate drops dramatically with more than 3 vessels in the area at once. I was dissapointed by this because the game should have been programmed a lot better than this because my system should be able to run it very fast, but it appears that you'll only get this game running good if you've parted with a big wade of cash for a high end GeForce 3 or 4!

My other complaint is that saving is only allowed once u complete a mission. So if you fail halfway through u have to start all over again and watch the same cutscenes over and over. That's not fun at all, TRUST ME.

If you can get over these noticable flaws (and u probably will), then there lies a truly unique style of game here but only star trek fans will really appreciate all it's authenticity and atmosphere but I can assure you, it is unlike anything you've ever played before and I highly recommend this game to anyone with a powerful PC who loves star trek. And if you love star trek and don't have a powerful PC, you might want to consider upgrading :)

Star Trek Elite Force 2, The End of the EF Saga :(

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: August 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I know, it sounds pretty bad doesnt it? Let me just say before you skip this review, that the single player is pretty good. The enemies can be challenging at times, the puzzles are a nice touch and the graphics are top notch. Here lies the problem.

Ever try to play a fast paced multiplayer game? You clanners know what I'm talking about ;) That blurring speed with wich you rocket jump over your enemies, snag the flag and strafe jump like theres not tomorrow for your team-mates? Dont expect that here. :( Imagine EF's low grav settings being made the standard. Yup, try strafing in that! This game's graphics are way too intensive for multi-player action, and the weapons fire way too slow.

Great game types though, all refreshing from the standard CTF DM, TDM game types. One thing though, if you want to "Kill" an opponent, not "holofrag" them, get another game.. this game is just too lame for MP :(

And no, Im not talking as some kid who just randomly picked up this game, I'm not a n00b. I'm [SR]Warpcore, I've been in clans for 2 and a half years, and Star Trek Voyager Elite Force was my first FPS game. Since then I've played games like UT2k3, Halo, RTCW, BF1942, Red Faction, Jedi Knight 2 and Quake 3.

Core
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reviewing the free demo

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: July 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Whoever designed the free demo made the big mistake of making it too hard! I have never played the first Star Trek Elite Force and this second one is new to me. The purpose of a demo should be to give the player some feel of the game without it be too difficult for the first time player of the game. Not in this demo! The minute the game starts you are attacked by hordes of aliens not even giving you a second to orientate yourself to the setting or to familiarize yourself with the weapons.
I kept getting killed because the game also did not run smoothly on my system for some reason. I tried changing the video settings but the frame still clipped and had many slowdowns.
My computer has no problem running quake 3 smoothly on high settings but with this game even on the low setting the graphics slowdown was horrible.
If Activision is trying to pursuade people to buy the full game with this demo, in my opinion they failed miserably!
I have no intention now of buying the retail game and will soon delete the demo from my computer!

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