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Not the fun it claims to be!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 14
Date: March 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

As an incurable Trekker who loves all things Star Trek I purchased this game thinking it would be lots of fun to play, but found it extrememly limiting. One has to be quite computer savvy to close applications to get it to work marginally faster than snail pace. Although I have a brand new computer with a great processor, large hard drive and lots of memory and all the 'bells and whistles' I found this game 'eats' so much memory that it takes forever to get your ship across the quadrant. It certainly is a game where you can cook dinner, do the laundry and shop for groceries while your ship and crew fly the 'deep space' mission and still arrive back in time to make the important decisions about where you're going to send the crew next. The 'still' graphics are okay but the 'animation'is pitiful. The one great feature is the sound effects and the Star Trek music. After you've run through all the pre-set missions there's 'nothing new on the horizon'. I'm not into programming so that was the end of the game as I couldn't compose my own missions. I found it was a nighmare trying to 'make' my own crew by importing images and bios and finally gave up in frustration. There's no scope for upgrading your ship beyond the 'default' specifications so some missions are doomed to be failures from the start as not all 'fleet' ships are capable of successfully completing all the missions. Once the missions are complete (flown) there's only one word I can think of to describe this game ... Boring!

Star Trek: Armada 2

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 11
Date: December 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Save your money, this game is a dog. It couldn't carry A1's lunch-box. If you liked Armada 1, you will really be shocked at how bad this game is. It reeks from top to bottom...

Starfleet Command Orion Pirates - A Run for Your Money

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Star Trek: Starfleet Command Orion Pirates is the sequel to the Star Trek: Starfleet Command II Empires at War. Unlike other expansions to PC games, this expansion does not require Starfleet Command I or II to run. You can play Orion Pirates without installing the previous Starfleet Command games. This game has slightly improved graphics from the Starfleet Command II. There are two new Federation ships that you may use in this game (One that resembles the Akira or Enterprise NX-01 Class and another ship that resembles a Challenger class ship). In this game, the player can now play and control the Orion Pirates as they use different modified ships with various weapons and ship designs taken from the Gorn, Romulans, Klingons, Mirak, Lyran, Hydran, and Federation (Imagine the Millennium Falcon from Star Wars with all it's custom parts). Some ships feature X Phasers which are the phasers used by most ships in The Next Generation and also A Phasers which have the capability to short circuit the systems of enemy ships temporarily upon firing. In terms of story, - the plot is not as exciting as the Starfleet Command II game. The action of this game is more intense. The game features new single player skirmishes which include famous scenes from the Star Trek series and Star Trek movies such as "The Wrath of Khan" where you can dog fight with Khan. So in terms of whether or not to purchase this new version of Starfleet Command, is really a hard decision to make. There are not many improvements in this game that would really make the game any different from the previous Starfleet Command games. If you are a die hard Star Trek fan, I would purchase the game for your collection of Star Trek games. However if you are just a gamer who wants naval combat of some sort, I would hold out and wait for Star Trek: Bridge Commander to come out (This game has richer graphics and appears to have a better story line).
Gameplay = 8/10
Graphics = 6/10
Sound = 8/10
Value = 7/10

TOOOOOO good

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: July 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

this is going to be the best star trek & stratigy game out and that is before it is finnished so just think what is will be like when it is. i've seen a heck of a lot of pics and data on this game and if anyone out there thought Armada 1 was good well i say this is 100 times better and with a 3D battle field,ships,stations,nebulae and planets what else could you ask for in a game {dont answer ;p }.

this is a must for stratigy fans as well as star trek fans

CodiacPride©

No good if it doesn't work on your computer.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: August 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game will not work on newer computers. Even though tech support sent directions to allow me to play the game it still didn't work.

This is awesome!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 22, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is the perfected version of the original Star Trek Armada! It's so great to get away from games such as starcraft and age of empires whose graphics are really two dimentional. in tactical mode you can view a ship from all angles and the battles in this view are spectacular! apart from that, new resources to gather adds another element to the original game. the borg tactical fusion cube is absolutely awsome. it is also nice to get away from equal races. yes, much is the same between races, yet much is different. this game truely stands on its own without the star trek name to hold it up. it is finally a game that can give a better name to the rather unsuccessful star trek gaming industry. the original is great, but in this case the sequel is far better.

the best Star Trek game yet!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The graphics are unbelivable and the battles are very realistic. A Star Trek gamer or not you will love this game. If I walked in and saw someone battling, I would think it was a Star Trek eposiode! It is great.

Observing

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.

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.

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