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Disappointing

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 17 / 17
Date: March 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

When I finished playing this game, I thought about what could have been...maybe this could have become Star Trek, "Crimson Skies" style, with the kind of great aerial/spaceborn combat that is so rare these days. Even a Star Trek version of "Jedi Starfighter" would have been acceptable. But that's not to be. This may be the worst Trek game produced to date, with shoddy graphics, awful controls, and overall terrible gameplay.

The idea was intriguing: Borrowing from the classic Trek episode "Mirror, Mirror," which featured an alternative universe that was completely alien to Kirk and his crew, this game finds you as defender (in an admittedly cool small starfighter) of the USS Excelsior, captained by Hikaru Sulu (voicework from George Takei; that's Walter Koenig as the voice of Chekov, as well) in a hostile environment. The Terran Empire has replaced the Federation, and you must defend your ship from constant attacks. Sounds good so far...but when one's missions consist of little more than keeping attackers from weakening the Excelsior's shields or shooting asteroids in order to gather needed materials, one gets bored very, very quickly. The sub-par graphics (barely PS One calibre, even on the XBox) are distracting, with some of the worst visuals seen on any game in recent memory. Large explosions and impacts are graphically inferior, more like firecrackers than earth-shattering blasts. Character imagery (like Sulu and Chekov) is so bad that you wouldn't recognize either character if you didn't know what game you were playing. Animatics are nearly static and often clumsy. Controls are just terrible--your ship handles poorly (like piloting a refrigerator in a hurricane), and the built-in targeting system is inconsistent at best. Overall, I can find very few positive things to say about this game.

What could have been an excellent game--possibly giving Trek a leg-up into the sci-fi gaming world that Star Wars has so long dominated--ends up being a great disappointment. One may end up feeling that this game was released simply to capitalize on the Star Trek name.

THIS GAME SUCKS A$$

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: March 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

No fun at all, IMPOSSIBLE to finish, where is the Enterprise? You fly a small ship which sucks, even on easy its super hard. Shame on you game develpoers...i wasted $4.00 to rent this. Game absolutley sucks!!! 0/10 rating.

Whoa what a mark on Star Trek gaming

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: November 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Im not really sure what this drivel is. This has to be the worst concept for a game I have ever seen. There is no way, a fan of Star Trek developed this game. Had to be some goofball who enjoys pitiful flight simulators. Stay away from this title.

Crappy

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Some of the levels are seemingly impossible. Even with cheats like infinite shields, the game is insanely hard. In one of the levels you have a couple minutes to destroy an insane amount of ships. Don't waist your time unless you are a serious trekkie and really good with this type of game.

Please Save Your Money!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: February 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I consider myself a gaming afficianado. So having been self proclaimed I feel duty bound to let you know this is perhaps one of the worst games I have ever played. Please save your money. Go out and buy Crimson Skies for a truely great shoot'em up flying game.

this game totally sucks

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: September 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

what does this game have to do with Star Trek??? the scenario is totally contrived, and even if it weren't the game play is horrible

Absolutely Dissapointed

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: September 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

What is this? Maybe it's just me, but I thought I was a pretty good gamer, I normally beat all my games, mostly in the first week easy. But, after or during the 5th mission I flat out couldn't beat it. After 5 or 6 tries at 30 minutes a pop, I gave up. This could be quite possible the worst gaming experience I have ever had.

Disappointed Star Trek Fan

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 22 / 22
Date: January 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I love Star Trek in its many forms. I am 38, I grew up with Star Trek. Unfortunately,..

1. This game is difficult enough that the what fun there could have been is sucked out of it. The controller configurations are not intuitive, it takes a lot of effort to get used to them, I finally choose the second configuration. The missions are very very long, and they typically cresendo to very difficult challenges at the end. If you fail, and you will until you figure out the best strategy, you go all the way back to the beginning of the mission. What happened to intermediate save points?

2. Nice graphics but after getting over the excitement of protecting the Federation, I noticed that the missions involved the same kind of action really, and it became boring and incredibly tedious.

3. How many times has this storyline been rehashed. Let it go already.

This game looks pretty for a while, but it takes advantage of Star Trek fans. We deserve better, especially for the money.

I wanted to love this game, but I just cant.

My head hurts

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: January 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Ok, I got suckered into this would be a cool game, luckily I rented it from WalletBu$ter and didn't shell out $40+ for this loser.

Run down of what makes this thing a 3-Day rental or $10 Used Game:

1. Control layout is awful. They crammed three weapons, forward & reverse thrust, direction & rolls, target selection and view selection into three awkward layouts. Come-on guys, this could have been simple: TRIGGERS=GUNS, A=THRUST, B=HONK HORN! Half the figging time I trying to figure out what to fire while my 5 other punk shuttles are bearing down on me!

2. The first mission is a major disappointment. You are first told to jump into a shuttle craft with a phaser duck-taped to the hood and ordered to defend the Excellsior. You need to chase off a capital ship and blow-up 3-4 other shuttles - all while Sulu is barking, "You have 30 seconds left mister!"

3. They have this "cinematic" view...forget using it. I tried this out, lost control and watched my shuttle fly into an asteroid.

4. You have a photon-like weapon, but no auto/computer assisted targeting. Man, with a all this advance technology and Sulu sends me out on a weak shuttle, he deserves to blow up!

5. No skirmishes, atleast not without Xlive that I'm aware of. I like mission-based games, but sometimes I wish I could select the Enterprise, upgrade the Photons, bolt-on another engine and stick on those neon "Aero" wiperblades. With my modified Enterprise I'd go blow things up like: other capital ships, pesky shuttles, people accidentally beamed into space, etc.

6. The game has quite a bit of 3D animation of Sulu and Chekov. Every scene you could count on Sulu slowly blinking 2-3 times...really annoying, I was waiting for another crew member to come up with a tazer and shock some life into him.

7. I think I was hoping for a real good capital ship vs. capital ship game (i.e. FIRE PHASERS AT ENGINEERING and watch Scotty get plasma burns), but got stuck flying tiny shuttles with no balls - well maybe a half a ball.

Oh why did I buy this silly game?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: February 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

That is what you will ask yourself after a few minutes of playing it. The story begins with Sulu commanding the Excelsior and when he responds to a distress beacon from Enterprise (commanded by Chekov) the ship flies into a "vortex" and is suddenly transposed into an alternate universe. The Federation is no longer a peacful utopian organization and Sulu is accused of treason. Excelsior is on the run and in the typical Star Trek fashion Sulu and the crew must battle their way through the universe until they discover a way home. Thats all fine and dandy except that the game play has little, if anything to do with the story.
The missions are silly. Your character (who remains unidentified the entire time) pilots an array of fighter craft and is usually charged with something like holding off the enemy fighters - while the unseen crew of Excelsior is working on the story line. Each mission has a time limit and a vague set of instructions. Sulu is constantly baby sitting you during the mission by barking orders and changing your objective. The controls are difficult and the onscreen targeting interface is barely helpful. There is a convoluded radar and ship readout which don't help much either. To top it off the pointless cut scenes are really boring.
This game requires no thought or problem solving skill. It is a straight forward "fly around and shoot stuff" game. The story is lame and in no way related to the game play. There are no special video or audio effects, and no ability to alter the controller settings. Save your money - hook up your PSone and play Star Wars Rogue Squadron. Or for a cool dog fighting game try Crimson Skies.

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