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A somewhat entertaining -somewhat frustrating -time-killer

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Not nearly as bad as some reviewers would have you believe. I'm a casual gamer with a wife and a job, so I'm always looking for titles that promise more fun than obsession. As a Trek fan, I thought this might be one of those titles, and by and large it was. If you're looking to kill time and blow off steam, nothing beats blowing up Klingons (although, personally, I'd rather be the Klingons) and this game gives you that opportunity in spades. Toss in the 'Mirror,Mirror' storyline and it ends up being an enjoyable time-killer.

Unfortunately, that's all it is, a time-killer giving you opportunity after opportunity (or level after level) to blow up your enemies in ever increasing number with ever decreasing rewards. And its not that easy to do either with awkward targeting and controls. Sure I can turn on a dime, but I can't hit what I'm pointing at. When you're killing 1/2 hour you don't mind so much, but if you're playing to complete all the levels you're going to go ape-sh*t.

Other reviewers will discuss the pro's and cons in much greater detail. I'll stick with the description above. Some-what entertaining, some-what frustrating. Really depends on what you're looking for and for that I would strongly advise you to
RENT it before you plunk down the 40.00 bucks and decide for yourself.

A Surprisingly Good Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

At first I was a little apprehensive of this game. As far as I was aware fighter-style combat is not something that there is a lot of in Star Trek.
However, after giving this game a fair hearing I was pleasantly surprised. The first thing that grabbed my attention was the graphics which are very crisp and clean for a Playstation game, and there is very little sign of the pixelisation normally encountered. The ships look great, especially the capital class ships, which look fantastic and authentically styled (especially the Original Series Constitution ships, they are damn perfect!). The story line, though featuring a few poor character animations is compelling, edgy and very true to the canon of Star Trek, especially the nods to the orginal series of which there are many. Both of the celebrity voice actors (Geogre Takai and Walter Keonig) reprise their roles as Sulu and Chekov well, and really add atmoshere to the plot.
As for the game itself, the learning curve is admittedly steep (I was rather shocked when I had to take on 4 Federation Battlecruisers virtually single handedly in my fighter!) but thanks to a well designed combat system it is up to the player to discover the tactics necessary to defeat your adversaries, including the phaser blind spots on capital ship and the correct weapons to use. All the major races' craft are featured, and all in all it is a fine game, well designed and balanced.
The only bad point as far as I'm concerned is the repetition of a couple of the mission types, but as I enjoyed it so much I am happy enough to brush over what seems to be a bit of padding in the mission structure. As there are relatively few space flight combat games on the PS2 I think that this a good example of the genre.
At least its easier than Blast Radius on the PSX!

Horrible game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is a complete waste of your money. Even on the easy level it's extremely frustrating, you will repeat levels over and over again, no matter what your skill level. It's pretty much the same thing each level as well, just described differently. The character models are articulated like undead zombies and the lip syncing with the dialogue is non existant. Characters sound good, having used the real Sulu and Checkov actors, but man did some putz do an extremely poor job on the graphics for them. Face it folks it's a complete stinker, you're better off spending your money elsewhere.

An ok game

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

This game is pretty good. I like how it features the voices of George Takei and Walter Koenig, and takes place in the mirror universe of Enterprise, Original Series and Deep Space 9 fame. It is a lot of fun shooting at Federation [or Terran Empire] ships in this case, and watching the damage increase before they explode. Same goes for Klingon, Tholian, and other ships. The only problem is that it's very difficult, I had to enter all the cheats from gamewinners.com in order to make progress. The game isn't too expensive, it's much like an enhanced version of Star Trek: Invasion for PSX. I would recommend it.

star trek s.u. it's good but not the best

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: June 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

i love star trek ever since i was seven. i will buy all star trek games if i can. i like this game fore how they did the starship enterprise. but gameplay was ok but i hate the ships exploding. it suck!. they could have did better. it's a good game but if they make another game, make it better, like star trek voyager elite force.

Bad bad bad ...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Wooden acting ... even for Star Trek, CG that would have looked impressive five years ago, awful physics, a miserable targeting system (you're flying fighters btw, not capital ships), and having to do the same "gnat against an armada" mission over and over again without appreciable support from any of the AI ships on your side makes this frustrating at best. Barely even worth renting. I can see why this didn't come out until after christmas. There would have been an awful lot of geeks disappointed at this in their stockings.

Don't be fooled!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: July 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I admit it... the package got me. On the front cover is a ship that looks like the Enterprise, locked in the heat of battle against other ships. I believed that I would be piloting the Flagship of the Federation against evil versions of the good guys.

Wrong.

Firstly, you're in the Excelsior, not the Enterprise. Sulu is running the ship and seems to need the player's help more often than not. You DO NOT get to pilot the starship! Instead, you are manning an awkward, clumsy fighter craft with horribly designed controls. Good luck.

I have a pet-peeve with flying games... most of them have solved this problem, but others like this Star Trek game, haven't... I like having the ship go up when I press the up button and down when I press down. I cannot stand the inverted method of flying. Most game designers have understood that there are people like me out there and have created different configurations to fix this. Not Star Trek.

I could rant about this game forever... bad graphics, bad music, pointless scenarios, blah, blah, blah. Instead, I will wrap up this review by saying how disappointed I am. This could have been a fantastic game if one person had a little bit of an imagination. This is a flying game, plain and simple... it's just got a Star Trek theme. Don't be fooled like me.

Rent first!

Good premise, promises but fails in the end. :)

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: February 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I was so looking forward to this game. Whereas most previous Star Trek shooting games involved massive ship battles, this game took a different direction and went with smaller ships to do the battles. But that was where they didn't pull the game together.

My biggest quip of the game, the difficulty settings don't mean a darn thing. I have changed the difficulty settings so many times to try and make the game easier, but there is no noticeable difference in gameplay. For example, in easy mode, there are no fewer ships, no greater fire power on your ship, nor can your own ship sustain greater damage.

My next biggest quip: except for the earlier levels (currently in level 6) you are the only fighter and the dang Excelsior doesn't help in fighting, even when other capitol ships fly in and start shooting at it. Currenlty, in level 6, after I play it for over 1/2 hour, I fought over 60 enemies, with the player being the only ship fighting. How does that make sense?

My third problem with this game is that the targeting system does diddly. I have aimed at the "lead the target" area and the phaser bolts (the only weapon, which you do get as well as torpedos and phasers, you can do this with) usually don't hit the enemy.

All in all, this game sucks. Levels are too long, almost 30 mins, making it a terribly frustrating and ungratifying game. There just isn't much to this game that I wish I had known about, except for the beautifully rendered graphics, before laying money down for this game.

Dave's review of Star Trek, S.U.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: June 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I loved playing this game. I am a Trek fan from back in the 60's.Obviously, the idea was taken from the episode "Mirror, Mirror".It was great playing as an under cover bad guy through pieces of various episodes from the classic series, even though you dont get a chance to pilot a star ship, you get to engage and destroy them as a shuttle pilot, taking orders from Capt Sulu. The game play is challenging and the graffics are great. The Best Trek game Ive ever played.

At Last

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 53
Date: October 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Wow, this is goooooooooood. I'd been waiting for a game like this to come out. From what I've heard of it, it's extremely interesting. I intend to purchase it the first day it comes out -- or pre-order it here, if it's easier that way. :) Whenever I see an ad for the game in the magazine, I usually first see it out of the corner of my eye, and I get the vision, every time, of "Shatnered Universe," which is totally disconcerting. Every time. Well, maybe after I get it and play it a million times, that'll go away. I can't honestly vouch for it as if I've played, but I swear this game is good.

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