User Reviews (31 - 41 of 102)

Show these reviews first:

Highest Rated
Lowest Rated Newest
Oldest Most Helpful
Least Helpful

Unplayable Mess For Lefties

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: December 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game has the movement keys mapped to W,A,S, and D with firing being mapped to the mouse. This setup may work for right-handers but, as a lefty that uses the mouse with my left hand, this setup does not work at all. It is uncomfortable and intolerable. Now, anyone familiar with PC gaming of the past 15 years must be wondering why I am complaining about I don't just remap the keys - THE DEVELOPERS HAVE FAILED TO PROVIDE THAT FUNCTIONALITY! Can you believe it? There's even an official response on Bethesda Software's website in the FAQ that states as much.

This is a huge slap in the face to the consumer. From what I was able to play of this game before I became fed up with the controls I can say: outdated graphics, poor pacing, unclear objectives, and a rather boring game. But their disdain and disrespect towards left-handers (and really, anyone who wants to control how they play the game with a really basic feature) has got me really mad. I've emailed customer service asking how I would get a refund but I expect they'll be passing the buck on that one.

Based on this anti-consumer sentiment (specifically deciding that they know the best control scheme and I don't), I will never buy another Star Trek property or a game by Bethesda Softworks.

Hard to play, even harder to unload

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: December 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is bad. I was skeptical about buying an Xbox 360 port but i dont think that really matters. This game is bad on whatever system it is played on. The controles are absolutly terrible (unforgivable on a PC game), the game play is boring, repetetive and flat. No mid-game saves leave you playing the same missions over and over again becuase they are so poorly designed you are left wondering what to do next. The edxplosions of the larger objects like the Borg Cube and Space Stations is god awful. Its only saving grace is the graphics and those are only good if you have a high end graphics card. Ive got an Nvidia 7800GS (250$ price tag) and it runs good with that. If you have anything less than a Nvidia 6200 I dont think you should even bother (dont bother at all for that matter). I played the game for about two days before i decided the space on my hard drive could serve a much better purpose. I tell the game to unload and behold, it just doesnt want to! Since this has never happened while trying to unload anything from my computer, Im pretty sure its the crappy software from Bethesda's fault i am having trouble removing it. This game is so bad i cant even remove this plague from my system! Please for the love of Christ save yourself the money (and agony) and DO NOT BUY THIS GAME. Hopefully i can get some sucker to buy this game from me off of Ebay. If you want a descent Star Trek game i suggest Bridge Commander, atleast it will unload if you dont like it.

CONTROLS EXTREMELY SLUUUGGGGISSSHHH - DO NOT BUY

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: December 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I do not recommend this game. It is not worth the money. The controls are extremely sluggish which makes the game not fun to play. Spend your money on something else. BEWARE.

Junk for your buck!!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: March 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Start off with the positives. (a short list) Good ship model detail & OK voice overs from actors. So much for the positives. Now for the reality check; This game is a total let down & only succeeds in sucking more life out of the Star Trek name. . With a title that includes "Legacy", I was stoked at the possiblity of a finely tuned, technically detailed game that made you feel like you were commanding a starship that could "level a planet". (as Doctor McCoy once stated) What you get is a game that has all the fullfilment of a quarter driven video game that you might find in a bowling alley. Controls for the game are the pits! There is NO way to customize the keyboard controls so you are stuck using the A,S,D,E,W, keys. For a lefty like me, it really, really sucks. The ships themselves do NOT move like ships in space! They are tethered to an invisible vertical axis like a stippers pole. Forget about yaw, pitch and roll.... if an enemy is directly over/below you, you are hosed as you can never point your ship straight up or down. PHASERS???.... they are WEAK. per the game, phasers are used to take down shields and photon torps are used to damage the hull. What a joke! The list goes on with an impossible system target menu that has to be pulled up on the target screen while staying on the moving target. Damage effects are better in the Bridge Commander game by far. Example: a destroyed ship has parts blowing up around the ship model... but the ship model itself is untouched, it is like an overlay of graphics on top of the untouched model. The only combat item I liked was that photon torps did not travel at a snail's pace as they do in Bridge Commander. Think you can have fun with the skirmish battles you pick for yourself?... think again. You cannot chose what your opponent's ships will be. The game choses that for you as well. Don't waste you hard earned dollars on this game. I have more fun playing the old "Dungeon Keeper 2" game, at least it is enjoyable and gives a good laugh.

Double check your equipment requirements

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: March 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

While I'm sure the game will run on the newest PCs capable of supporting the graphics, memory and processing demands of Windows Vista, if you have an older PC, bought sometime around 2002 running XP you may want to pay close attention to the hardware requirements necessary to even launch the game one time after installing it.

The worst - ever

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: December 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I can't think of anything positive to say about this piece of junk. I really was looking forward to it, but the controls suck, the mission play is unsavable and confusing, the bugs at frightening numbers ... it just sucks, period. The exact thing that shrinkwrap license laws were designed to foist off on us. If it weren't for them, it would be back at the store for a refund with warp speed. Too bad I can't give negative stars, because I'd rate this turkey a negative ten.

A disaster!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: January 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

What a disappointment for a Star Trek Fan.
I couldn't even finish the tutorial without restarting it again to get the instructions again. The controls are so bad you have no clue on what to do even with the manual in hand. You can't save in game and controls can't be reconfigured. I had no clue what to do and was ripped to shreds in the tutorial - till I cheated. Then I just couldn't get anything accomplished. Whoever coded this should pay everyone back who bought this game! DON'T BUY IT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES!!!

Better off tossing your money to a bum - it will be more fun

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: March 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

That's right, this game is funless. It's a dumb, boring, old-fashioned arcade-style shooter. The guy who modeled the ships did a great job but everything else is next to worthless. I kept waiting for a patch to fix many of the most annoying problems and when they finally issued a patch, it too was worthless. Oh, the box art is nice so it makes for a nice shelf decoration but if your looking for a fun, engaging, re-playable, intelligent game, forget about it.

Bad Coding, bad design, poor marketing

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: January 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I was really looking forward to this game, but was very disappointed with it. First, it lagged badly, even in the opening and welcome screens. It would take me 2 minutes just to select campaign. Now, after a graphics driver update, the program doesn't run at all. Apparently, they don't support the ATI X300 or any other graphics card over 1 year old, which is pathetic. I wouldn't mind some lag now and then, knowing my computer isn't a graphics powerhouse, but not running at all is very irritating. In gameplay, the controls are awful. I assumed this was a PC game ported to XBox, when it's the other way around, so they don't take very good advantage of the keyboard. Also, their website claimed you could customize the ship, like in SFC3, but that was also a false claim.

Poor Graphics and Game Play

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: January 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Graphics are not as good as promoted. I should have expected since the only pictures I saw were art work and not game enviroment. All I can say to the developers and team that made it is take some pride in your work. I was think of upgrading my computer even more to see if that might improve my game play but after reading these reviews I have declined. The team and management developing this game have handed off another dissapointment to the startrek community.

Review Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next 

Actions