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Star Ship Creator

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 01, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Well, first off, I must say I was dissapointed when I got to the "Man your own mission" part. But otherwise, I liked the product. It starts out with a prompt for your name, then you can go from there. You choose a class of starship, then you retro fit it with your choice of nacelles, hulls, and saucer sections. I was slightly dissapointed here, because you only get 3-5 choices with each item. What would be nice, is if you could take parts from other classes of ship, and add them to your ship. For example: a set of Defiant class nacelles, on an Intrepid class ship. But the 3-D view of your ship is incomplete. In several places the hull is discolored, and mishapen. Pity there' s a 12 character name limit. Pity it assigns you a registry #. As for the innards, you must really study the TNG Tech Manual before you can fill up your ship in the Expert mode. I like the fact though, that you can choose whether you want high quality, or discount parts in your ship, and you can forego the holodecks, and luxury quarters, until you get some more credits. As a Star Trek nut, I wish there were some more things you could do with the bowels of the ship. The missions are pathetic. It starts off with exciting music when it automatically throws itself into warp, but after those thirty seconds are up, it's quiet until you get there. Don't run real-time mode unless you have all day to play with your game. What also really stinks, is you can't just minimize the window, and do something else until your mission is complete. And if you do go into "stealth" mode, you can't get back into the game. Good if you want to know more about the insides of a ship, bad if you've seen 10 or fewer ST episodes. My advice, wait until it goes in the sale bins, or check out the sequel coming soon.

My thoughts

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 07, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The game is a little limiting, but the missions can be different depending on your starship. Just the other day I almost lost a starship to some parasites. And to all those that say the missions are very slow, there is a button that accelerates the mission time. I do, however, agree with other reviewers on this point. THIS GAME IS FOR TREKKIES ONLY. Anybody else will be bored in an hour or two. Also, those that say the game runs slow must be running it on a 486,100 MZH computer. And even on that speed computer it isn't that slow. However I recommend a Pentium 200 MZH or faster computer. Well, that's all.

Worst Game Ever?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 28, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game because it sounded good, make your own ship and fly it around. When you are building your ship the only thing limiting what you can put in your ship is energy, but you have enough energy to put in the maximum of everything. Then when you are picking your crew it doesnt make any difference who you pick, ther are no specials, and the crew never does anything, you don't even have to pick anyone. There is no plot, you just pick a mission from the list and it does it, then you pick another one. Finally, you don't even get to fly your ship! You just watch a picture of a ship move slowly across the screen and read the occasional messages. The only interaction is one or two questions per mission witch usually are things like "What are our orders? Return to Base or Stay Here?" Don't Waste your money on this game, if you can even call it that.

Live Long And Prosper, Starship Creator!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: February 05, 2000
Author: Amazon User

"Starship Creator" is one of the best software games I have ever bought. With seven ships (ten with the add-on pack) and tons of missions to test your ship's capabilities with, you can make-belive you are the Admiral of a great "Star Trek" fleet. If you don't have it, buy this product today!

Star Trek Starship Creator

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: August 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game was kind of cool, but it could have been better. I am playing it on a Windows 2000 system, and it runs pretty slow, but if you have Windows '98, it should work fine. This game was a bit boring, as the missions were just one of the things that you would watch and that was that. You could almost sleep through it. On a lighter note, it allows you to change the ships around, so that, for instance, if you wanted to re-create the Defiant, you could change 3 things: the warp nacelles, the main body, and the back of it. This is the same in all of the ships varied from 3 parts to 8. A cheat is that you can export ships, import them to your favorite admiral, build up a fleet, then de-comission them all to get a ton of credits, as the ship and upgrades cost something but changing the parts around do not. It's a very good game, and I would reccomend it. You can even choose the crew, and change around the drew dossier!

Not even worth one star

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: July 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I, like the others here, thought that this game would be wonderful. The idea of designing, building, testing, and flying ones own Starfleet vessel was very intriguing; then, I played the 'game.' It was a complete waste of time, far too slow, and did not offer any exciting aspects that are present not only in the series' but in other ST games as well. This does not even come up to the level of a screen saver--a total waste of money.

Starship Creator: Review

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 03, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Starship Creator: Review by, Jay

I would say that this is a good game if you are intrested in the different classes and staffing ships. However, when I bought this, I was expecting to design my own ships, not choose a class, name it, staff it, and choose parts for it. The missions are horrible. They are time consuming and you have no power once they are started. The dialoge, which supposedly happens between different crewmembers, is the same each time, boring, and they would not really say those things. The graphics and sound are the best part of this game, as well as the background information on the crewmembers. There is no differece between the Intrpid class and Constitution class, except in capacity in equipment and etc. Don't waste your money, the games on startrek.com are cheaper, and better than this game right here.

Well?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 29, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This program has great graphics and sound effects, but when you run a mission, it's boring, if only it was more interactive.

FUN IF LIKE TO BUILD AND STAFF THINGS

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 21, 1999
Author: Amazon User

THE BEST PART OF THE GAME IS BUILDING AND STAFFING THE SPACESHIPS YOU CAN BUILD. WHEN YOU THEN SEND YOUR SHIP OUT ON IT'S MISSION YOU JUST SIT BACK AND WAIT AND WAIT AND IT GET BORING BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO LET THE PROGRAM RUN IT'S COURS -- THERE IS NO ROOM FOR IMPROVE.

Not worth a dime

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: November 30, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This "game" is very primative, and not worth anywhere near what they charging for it. In all honesty, i wouldn't keep the game if it was freeware, much less having to pay for it.

The concept of it is great, but the product just isnt any good. the missions are incredibly slow, and boring, where you get to watch a vague resemblance of your ship slowly make its way across the screen, while you read about stuff its going through. no interaction whatsoever. the designing part doesnt get very far either, where there is no origionality. If the game was made so that you could design ships that you would use in other games, maybe it'd be worth it, then. but as of now, it just doesnt make the cut.

Very dissapointing!

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