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star trek armada 2

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is great. The graphics are more than I had expected and I loved them. There is so much more play time and missions than armada 1 and it makes for a wonderful gaming experience. I would recommend this game to everyone.

Perspective

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I tried the Demo and was intrigued, but not happy with the rendering of the bridge crew. I purchased the Full version and can say that it's everything I expected and a bit more.

Plusses: Absolutely beautiful renderings of starships and stellar sights and sounds. This game provides a different sense of ship to ship combat with large vessels, where position and energy management count.

Minuses: An annoying First Officer. Lacks one of Klingon Academy's more interesting features, which is the ability to issue commands (attack, defend, stand-down, etc.) to friendly vessels. You are trapped in the Captain's chair. It would be nice to explore the ship or at least the bridge. Also, it would be nice to have a choice of Bridge Officers with different strengths and weaknesses.

Very good game, only one bug....

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is a good game: great graphics, interesting story, a very satisfying assortment of weapons and you get an up-close view of the Soveriegn Class Federation starship (nice looking main shuttle bay, and big too!).

BUT: Before installing the game, make sure that you have DirectX 9 compatible video and audio hardware and drivers installed on your computer or else the game will completely lock up your PC on the second part of the game. I had to download new drivers for ATI video card and Soundblaster sound card to fix this problem.

Other than that, this game is better than the first Elite Force in many ways and its worth the $$.

Single player great, multiplayer technically challenging

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

SINGLE PLAYER: GREAT! Very Long and involved story, fun sub plots occuring in the background.

MULTIPLAYER: Very Fast. Weapons hit hard, this is not a game where you take a little damage and run around looking to get healed.

TECHNICAL SUPPORT: Their support has responded, during the business week, within 1 day to any inquiry. When they have offered support, it has been accurate. No Support of console features, such as cheat modes or hosting your own server.

ONLINE PLAY TECHNICAL ASPECTS: You can not host and play on the internet on the same machine. Two machines are required. Only one player per license can play on line at any given time. LAN play does not have these restrictions.

Trekkies Review

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I found this game quite auxilerating as I played it. I hope that activision decides to make an expansion pack for this game and then it will most certainly be better than the first. I played the demo and instantly ordered the game. I found it 10x better than the first and I hope people are urged to try it.

Make it so...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Fun game but very heavy on the processor. Hope you have a PC above 1GHz.

Great game for all ST:TNG fans

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Star Trek Bridge Commander is a great game and its unique "on the bridge" feeling makes it a great game for all trekers, but the fun dosen't last too long. It's a great game to come back to after not playing it for 5 months but that does not mean that I regret buying it. Graphically Bridge Commander is great, the ships practically flew out of the show and the phasers ant torpedoes look fantastic, however "For every good, there is evil" (see Star Trek: Nemesis). The lip syncing is the worst in history. There mouths move in a set pattern no matter what there saying making it look like a horribly badly dubbed Godzilla movie, but if you dont care about lip syncing, then GET THIS GAME!

Star Trek Bridge Commander

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Best Star Trek based combat flight sim ever! Storyline and plot are excellent and the games run both player and machine hard. No more flat plane combat. You fight from a full, 360 degree in all directions, universe. Hope Taldren is taking note before completing SFCIII. Can't imagine it could be this good.

Great idea, mediocre execution

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 22, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The idea of blending the adventure and the action of Star Trek is fantastic, and Totally Games and Activision made a very good stab at it. From the beginning of the game, you feel like you're watching an actual Star Trek episode with a driven story line and recurring characters. Unfortunately, you don't feel like you're INSIDE the story... you're just an observer. For instance, you come across a Ferengi smuggler whose been making illegal trades with the Cardassians. The Ferengi captain talks to you, but it's your XO who talks back and responds for you. There really isn't any sort of a role-playing component, and you wind up feeling very much like a third wheel, just along for the ride and watching a moderately "interactive" movie, where you put into action the suggestions made by your subordinates. At no point do you actually have to solve a problem yourself... you always know exactly what you're supposed to do, because someone just "suggested" it. (On a personal note, it took me about an hour to realize that when someone was speaking to "me" as the captain and a woman's voice responded, it isn't "me" who is a woman, but the first officer speaking for you as if she were the captain and you're just to stay dumb and happy and let your subordinates act as your voice and mind.)

Combat also puts you very much in the observers chair. Felix, your tac officer, basically orchestrates the whole combat. You can do it yourself, but the interface is pretty cumbersome, especially for 3D combat. As for weapons firing, if you want to do it yourself all you have to do is keep the mouse cursor within a one-inch square in the center of the screen as the target "moves" around and hold down the left mouse button. Not exactly a massive taxation of your combat abilities.

So, it sounds like I'm bashing the game and I don't mean to. Despite this flaw, it is a very fun and engrossing game. It does feel like a real episode (with COMBAT) and that has been something Star Trek games to this point have been completely unable to emulate.

The space and combat graphics are well executed (however, the bridge templates--in the age of GeForce3 and 4 graphics cards--leave something to be desired), and one you turn the sound up it's very compelling and adds significantly to the sensation. The combat model is well designed, creating an experience of a very colorful (and explosive) ballet of graceful giants. Felix's dialogue during combat is a nice addition, letting you know what's going on and how the ship is manuevering. Damage reports are straight out of the episodes, and if you're observing from the bridge (as opposed to the chase camera) torpedo impacts cause sparks to shoot out from consoles and lighting to flicker--GREAT!

The mission design has a nice range from the easy to the difficult, usually due more to combat as opposed to "intellectual" challenges of solving problems. Unfortunately, you're left feeling somewhat helpless as you attempt to get through the difficult challenges b/c (again) combat is the purview of Felix and is very much an automated process. You basically wind up just going back to the battle several times until Felix "gets it right".

So, we've got a game with a great concept, putting you in the captain's chair and gallavanting around the galaxy as you try to save the Federation... but unfortunately you wind up feeling like an extra on the set who just happens to be sitting in the captain's chair, as opposed to actually being the captain.

It seems like in trying to blend the role-playing/adventure and the simulation genres, Totally Games wound up creating what is more of an interactive movie and less of a game. In doing so, it fails on both counts but makes such a valiant attempt that you can't help but enjoy it.

Great Concept

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is a great concept, and with a bit more work it could have been an outstanding game. Visually it was quite stunning, the only problem I could see was that your first officer didn't "Look you in the eye." Her eye graphics always seemed to be looking elsewhere when talking to you. Minor problem I know, but something that irked me everytime I saw my number one on the screen.

AI also seemed to be a problem. as two examples, Your AI tactical officer would only fire torpedoes when they were set to single fire. When you tell your Science officer to scan the system he would generally fail to pick up anything significant, except when it was scripted for you to find something, even when you have enemy ships shooting at you!

My four biggest disappointments in order are: 1) No manual saves. The only time you can save is when finish a mission (and this is an autosave). If you fail the mission, "Oh well, you have to do the whole thing over, including scripted dialogues." 2) The First officer seems to be a built in snitch. If you fail to accomplish any task, even a task as insignificant and non-game affecting as saving a drifting freighter, she calls the Admiral and you get fired. No second chance, no chance to work it through without that information or get the info another way...just game over. 3) In tactical mode there isn't a "gun sight" You have no way of knowing where your phasers and torpedoes are going to fire without actually firing them. 4)The intercept command under the helm officer's menu seemed to work only sporatically. This a major problem since you need to use that command atleast twice to win the game.

Despite my problems with the game, it was enjoyable. I would just buy it used if I were going to buy it again.

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