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another xbox 360 port.. :(

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 14 / 26
Date: December 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Well.. just as the topic says.. It's a 360 port. You cannot change the key mappings without editing an XML file in the game directory. There is already a patch out for it because multi player doesn't work out of the box. 4 player (2 ship) limit on multiplayer mode (which has two modes, deathmatch and coop wave) The game runs OK I suppose, but there are little to few options for a PC game. I would have preferred they left this game as a 360 game only so at least that way it would have saved me the disappointment. Personally I wouldn't buy this game if I were you guys.. just look at a friend's copy and you'll see what I'm talking about. This game is a step below Bridge Commander (which wasn't all that great either). Maybe I'm just too much of a hardcore trekkie :(

WARNING before you buy this game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: December 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

WARNING before you buy this game

Make sure your computer has a CD/DVD drive. I'm not sure why it requires a DVD drive but my computer does not have one. Now I need to go out and bye a new driver just to play this game. BUMMER!!!

Where is the bridge?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: December 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

While the graphics are nice, this game does not capture the feel of being on or commanding a large starship. There is no bridge, no crew, and no fun.

The action is very linear and you have to be successful with each mission before progressing to the next. Once you finish the last mission, you might as well uninstall the software. This program really doesn't provide for exploration in the universe you find yourself in.

As for difficulty in the missions, you can easily just move off and repair your ship damage by hitting the R key (Repair) and then clicking the 5 or 6 sections to regenerate the designated system. I thought it was stupid that I had to constantly start the repair jobs myself - where is a good engineer when you need one? Oh, yeah - did I mention that there was no crew? Once the ship is repaired, you can continue your mission - I thought it was really nice that the borg wouldn't chase me around but wait for me to complete repairs and then let me decide when to reengage.

However, I really don't think that I'll reengage this game after having completed the last mission. While I had high hopes I realize that my disappointment was that it is a game and not a simulation. Having played Bridge Commander, I realize that a bar was established to give you the feel of being in the command chair and unfortunately there is no command chair in Star Trek Legacy.

Things that need to be patched

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: January 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I learned to play the game by changing the config so that the speed is faster and I take 1% of damage. I'm just playing the missions again with the normal parameters and it's actually not that bad. The gripes people have (e.g. crappy controls and impossible to follow directions because of poor porting from Xbox) are true, but here's what they need to fix for the 1.5 patch:

1. Real directions for how to target subsystems (remember Bridge Commander?)
2. More missions that make sense (do you want me to destroy the biotoxin carrier or disable its engines??)
3. More missions, period. In fact I would not pay money to buy an improved version of the game unless they give me 15 more missions.
4. Realistic explosions and fix those damn graphics errors!
5. More multiplayer options (take a hint from Bridge Commander again, which is an infinitely better game) and modes (how about some planets to take over)
6. More reaction when you try to change the y axis (right now it takes 10 secs to tilt all the way up or down)--or just make it a 2-d game!
7. Auto-repair needs to be an option (telling all 4 of my ships one by one to repair takes at least a minute)
8. When I say warp, please warp (not after I press the R mouse button 3 or 4 times)
9. Some warning when I'm getting close to a nebula would help (right now I can't tell unless I'm already in it)
10. Tractor beams in combat can be useful (especially if I'm targeting a smaller ship)

Bury it quick, it's a turd!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: December 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Please don't waste your money. I knew I was in for trouble when during the first mission I went where I was supposed to go and nothing happened. The ship models look nice. The controls are terrible, the ships move nothing like they are supposed to. When you fly up close to a planet, the texture mapping on them is horrific, it pulls you out of the game, it looks nothing like orbiting a planet. Bethesda decided to ship this turd out quickly before Christmas to be done with it. I can only hope that they lose lots of money and no one buys this. There, quit reading about this game and find a good one. Try Oblivion, or Galactic Civilizations 2.

PC Version Overrated. XBox Good

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: January 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Son is a trek fan and has most known trek PC game, does mods the whole nine yards. I even upgraded his PC video card in anticipation. According to him, through research, after the buy, this was an underdeveloped version of the XBox game (very good according to the blogs), and is not happy with it at all. He found one blog that the player actually threw it into the street and let a car run over it. Again, not happy. Shame on the company for doing a quick knock-off just to meet a release schedule. Purchased Encounters, a quick shootem up, which I even play, and he likes this cheaper game better.

Apparently it is Impossible to make a great Star Trek game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: March 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Seriously,

If Paramount cared for this license they would put a lot more love into this property. Star Trek: Legacy has nothing, and I mean nothing, that is compelling. The story arc is flimsy and the combat controls are arcane. If AutoCad was a PC game, it would have similar controls to Star Trek: Legacy. Get this - the mouse doesn't move your ship around, no, when you move your mouse it PANS THE CAMERA. So what about the direction arrow? They do the same thing! It's like you can turn the whole galaxy but your ship is always going straight. Alright, so if you want to bank your ship you have to use keys A,W,D,S. Why those keys? I have no clue. Almost every control is equally absurd.

So here it goes, this is what I - and I imagine every Star Trek fan out there - want out of a Star Trek game.

Storyline -> There is a Romulan conspiracy that the character will unearth throughout the game. As the character progresses new technology, character, ships, etc. become available to them. It will span 25 years.

How it works -> The main character (Let the player build the character = race, sex, traits, etc.)is a brand new commissioned Captain in Star Fleet circa 25 years before Star Trek Nemesis. The Character earns prestige points by going on different exploratory missions, etc. The more you play, the more points you get. Think "Myst" meets "Privateer" with a little Mission: Impossible. "This mission, should you except it . . ."
After every five years, there's a major jumping point in the plot where the character gets a new ship commission and promotion.

The character - depending on the amount of prestige they've accumulated - can get better crew members and better sensors and armament for their ships.

Finally, in the last climatic part of the game the character is a full Admiral who can custom design ships and designate captains, etc. HECK, you can even use Star Trek: Legacy's combat engine, just as long as you lose that whole steering with A,W,S,D thing.

Bang! I would play that game all day long.

Terrible

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is horrible, what a waste of money even spending $40 and not the usual $50 on this game is a scam. It is worthless coding like this that makes the PC gaming industry suffer- not the gamers.

The key thing to remember is since the gaming industry is only interested in making a quick buck that gamers must be patient on purchasing and read reviews and not patronizes games that are released for the sole purpose of profit (the big Christmas push). There are many great games out there to play and with new mention of expansions too, like Oblivion, Titan Quest, NWN2 (small bugging), Total War: Medieval II and for space Star Fleet Command III, Independence War 2: Edge of Chaos and even MS MechWarrior was great in comparison.

I am so tired of wasting money on games that do not perform as promised. Save Your Money!

ABOMINABLE ---

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

As a Star Trek fan I was very excited about this. However, since wasting my money on it I have discovered the following disappointments:

1 - Boring and one dimensional
2 - Awkward controls
3 - BUGGY
4 - Terrible skirmish mode
5 - Extremely hard (to the point of ridiculous) and no in mission save mode

Overall, simply disappointing, graphics are good tho.
I would recommend Star Trek Armada 2 or Star Wars Empire at War instead.

After playing the game a bit more, I feel this game is so bad that I must revisit my first review and qualify my initial rating of two stars. I was wrong, in fact, why on Earth I gave it two stars is beyond me, it doesn't even deserve one star.

Horrible

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Unfortuantley I waisted $40 on a crappy game =/
Controls are horrible, graphics are okay looking, but like multiple people stated there's no depth whatsoever to this game. Not worth buying unless you're rich and want to spend money for the heck of it. Haha.

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