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Review of the single player Campaign (Limited in many waysý)

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Summary: Very good story by D.C. Fontana. The scripted mission format is quite heavy handed leaving you no real choice but to follow the almost obvious choice always given to you. Information is spoon feed to you and there is real deviation from the singular plot line of the campaign. If you choose to play on the harder campaign levels (captain, admiral) be prepared to listen to the same story line over and over to get back to the point where you failed your last attempt. This gets very old very fast. There is no way to jump over what you have already seen as the scripted dialog can not be bypassed. The single player skirmish mode(quick battle) is fun for a while, but quickly becomes boring since there is no User Interface to change the ship you fly. It can be done by renaming some of the gaming files. This was fine for the demo version but is much needed for the shipping product. Overall the game can be entertaining, just don't expect it to tax your mind that much. Would give it 2.5 stars. Suggest waiting for it to hit the bargin bin. If you want to spend 50+ dollars on something get the Star Trek Movies on DVD.

Lets look at each of the Major claims:

1)You are the Captain ". Prepare to face the consequences of your decisions, as you issue orders affecting the course of the game" The game really falls flat here. The missions are highly sequential. You must do A before B and B before C. You are also spoon fed almost all the information you need as you need it. This is not a game where your creative solutions will fit. Either you do the missions as they are scripted and you are spoon fed information or you fail and the whole campaign stops right there. The missions are more like 1st year star fleet cadet missions then anything you saw Picard or Kick do on TV.

2)You have the bridge " Take responsibility for the fate of your ship and your crew, directing maneuvers, giving orders and managing individual stations" Yes and no. You can control each station manually and/or give orders to be carried out, but after playing a short time. You could easily become frustrated with the limited combat (tactical) controls for maneuvering your ship. If you have played a game like Star Fleet Command and are looking for that degree of control, then look elsewhere. However, you want to give are not looking for a high degree of control the controls probably fine.

3)You are in Control "Be prepared to react to a host of offensive and defensive scenarios, including enemy ambushes as well as escort and seek and destroy missions. Master many complex maneuvers including evasion, stealth, pursuit, combat, retrieval and deployment." This sounds much more exciting then the reality of the game. Your options are very limited here by the game controls. The scripted missions put you in a very sequential `episodic' adventure with few real choices. The missions are very heavy handed in dealing with success or failure. It is almost purely black or white. This is unlike the TV episodes where picard or kirk did not always face clear choices with all the information spoon feed to them.

Voice-Activated Technology
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Featuring D.C. Fontana
There is a fine story here worthy of series we have come to know, but the limits of the mission scripting really take away from any real control of events. You are driven down the plot line and feed just enough information at the right times to really make our choice almost always obvious and there is no real room for the `creative' solutions you have seen on TV. D.C Fontana has an interesting and engaging story. However the mission format just does not do justice to really being in `the big chair"

Multiplayer Gaming
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3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: April 22, 2002
Author: Amazon User

My brother and I got this yesterday. I thought it was fun for the first hour before it got boring. As star trek fans we downloaded the demo and liked it. Than we got the real thingfive days later. Here are the things about it:

PRO:
Excelant graphics
Very interesting story
fun combat
wide varriaty of ships, weapons, and theatres

CONS:
horrible dubbing
bad saving system
first officer is a snicht
very scripted
you fail the mission if you don't follow the script
your first officer bosses you around
your first officer makes diccisions for you
you're like a observer, not a captain
you don't pick your own ships/people
very little stratagy

Sad sad sad

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: February 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game puts you in the captains chair only to be the puppet of your officers. New meaning to the term, on rails. I give this game 2 stars only because combat did raise my blood pressure.

Download the demo, avoid the game.

awesome force 2

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: July 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

THIS IS THE BEST GAME I HAVE EVER PLAYED IN MY ENTIRE LIFE! And belive it or not, I HATE star trek. My friend convinced me to try it for a minute. And I played it for an hour. The graphics are completely outstanding! There are tons of different guns and this something called a holodeck is awesome. you can play awesome games on it. The storyline is great and the levels are awesome, from destroyed hulls of a spaceship, to mercenary spacestations, to frozen military bases on a mountain, to harsh volcanic planets, and you get to fight all these awesome alien things. I THINK THIS GAME AT LEAST COMPARES WITH GRANDTHEFT AUTO VICE CITY! And you have to be crazy, or it has to be an absolutly fabulous game! ( the answer is the latter one) Get it! You won't regret it.

Elite Force Strikes Back

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: May 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I recently ordered Star Trek Elite Force 2 and from what I have learned the game will include brand new weapons, never before seen, more holomatches on holodeck, and of coarse- what we have been waiting for-Roaming mode, where you can walk the Enterprise vessel controling all that happens, and interacting with Members on the ship. I own Star Trek: Voyager Collectors edition and I know the graphics are very nice...but with Elite Force 2 the graphics look almost like a humanlike movie. Even if you dont watch Enterprise on UPN every Wednesday night at 9pm you will enjoy this game.

great games, great value

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: March 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

There are 4 games in this pack. Two are first-person-shooter (FPS) games and two are real-time-strategy (RTS) games. The FPS games (Elite Force) are really only one game; if you install both games at once, you have to have the expansion disk for all game play (which is fine, but I was expecting to play one disk and then expand to the second one). I enjoyed the Elite Force games the most. The graphics and sounds are really good. The game play is easy to get used to (as are the controls). The selection menus are a little confusing and hard to read.

The RTS games are called Armada and Armada II. I didn't like the RTS games as much; I'm used to playing Dune and it really made sense; the Armada games are different and will take some getting used to. There are more controls than there needs to be and the screen is cluttered with several sub-screens (which can be turned on/off). The intermission sometimes appears to interupt game play rather than happening after a battle takes place (and the battles seem rushed sometimes...when I'd like to have a chance to explore the surroundings a little). If you like movie Dune and want to play a really fun RTS game, buy "Emperor: Battle for Dune".

The small disappointment is the lack of paper instruction manuals; there are online TXT and PDF files that come with the disks. You really can't beat the price for 4 games.

A star trek maniac

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 12
Date: July 15, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Hardly worth my [money]! I thought it would be a great SFC game but I thought wrong. The first two SFC were spectacular but ORION PIRATES went wrong in everyway possible!

CD key dont work???????

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: June 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User

i bought this game[starfleet command volume II empire at war] at sam club i tuck it home load it up and it ask for cd key i enter it time after time it would notwork it sade [ bad cd key coad] so i tuck it back to the stor to get a new one and when back home and stared over i got back to cd key and same thang happend agen bad cd key coad so i whent back to the stor agean and to get one moer and gest what happen ? you gest it. it happend agen [ bad cd key coad] plese help me let me know what to do the gm at the stor is look funny at me is ther some way i can by pass the cd key coad or do i have to keep returnning it to the stor until i get one that works ????? thank you your coustomer

sweet!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: November 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

... i have a bad gpu, and it runs smothly even with all settings to max! game is funn, decant grafix, good plot, and it cums with a free ticket to stx! i highly recomend it
only down side is that it takes forever to lod but that might jest be my pc. and its better to lod befor the game then to have a slow game itself. interface is much inproved, and much simpler to use ofer sfc2, and the models are good even running my 16 mb laptob gpu!

100% good!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: August 08, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is the gem of the Star Trek Universe. A nice feature is you can use Quick Battle, a simulation in which you choose your own ship, add friendly and enemy ships, and put them to battle. demo: 5 star. game: 5 star. Id definatly reccomend it to anyone who is looking for a very high quality simulation game with extreme graphics and sound with excitement. Here's some more of #1startrekfan's games:
1. Starfleet Command: try this 1st level
2. Dominion War: no, this is bad
3. Armada: excellent quality 100% satisfaction
4. armada2: super! 175% satisfaction + added WARP SPEED!! YAY!

thanks for reading

#1startrekfan

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