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About Time!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 44
Date: October 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

All I can say is it is about time. I have been waiting for a new Star Trek game to come on PS2 since Elite Force. This one was going to come out in Feb of 2002, but TDK had to stop production to fund other games they thought would be more profitable. They finlly started working on it again in March 2003. I already ordered it 2 mouths(forgive me if I spelled that wrong) in advance!! I can't wait

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.

HUGE DISSAPOINTMENT!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 10 / 12
Date: January 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I'd been looking forward to a good space action shooter and i'm a big star trek fan but this game is rediculous. I like the theme with the Excelsior crew in the mirror universe but the game is far more difficult than it should be. You just get frustrated when you've been playing for 3 hrs straight and are only on the third frikkin' level. Also the scenery is way too visually loud. Every level so far has some kind of colorful nebula or something that makes it more difficult to see the small fighters in the distance, space is mostly BLACK and dark anyway! My advice, wait 6 months and buy it used from other suckers like me who are fed up with it. If i'd paid 20 bucks i wouldn't have been as disapointed.

Has Classic Trek Been Forgotten?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I should have waited for reviews from people who've actually PLAYED the game to show up before I spent money on it. I was hoping for something like Interplay's "Starfleet Command" series, which was only okay to begin with. This is nothing more than your average "fly a fighter ship around, blow up other fighters and something really big" game (Think: any of the last 3 or 4 Star Wars games). However, the game is unnecessarily difficult--navigation and aiming are the pits.
Now for my rant--
Classic "Trek" has been given a bum deal ever since the movie franchise and "Next Generation" were successful. Not to take anything away from Picard & company, but the TV series that started it all has been forgotten. I'm not talking about the first 6 movies--I'm talking about the original 3-season wonder. THE TV SERIES IS CLASSIC "STAR TREK!!" Why not a game set during the time of yellow & blue velour suits, rounded warp nacelles, and Klingons without lobsters on their faces? Even the "Enterprise" series foreshadows things to come in the movies and spinoff series while bypassing the original. George Takei should have been given an "Excelsior" series instead. Now THAT would have been a hit.
This latest Star Trek game is just another gut punch to THE Star Trek TV series. Classic "Star Trek" deserves better.

Star Trek Fan and Gamer

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: January 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Finally I thought they would make a Star Trek game good. But nooooooo, they have to make it one of the hardest games I've played in a while. First of all let me say that the one star is for the graphics. They did a great job bringing the ships to life but thats where the fun stops. Do the people that make these games ever try to play test them. Come on!!! All the computer ships do is fire straight at you until you hit them or until they pass you. There is no skill on their part. And how about 10 enemies vs 1 little ship...BOOM! I do have to say that fighting the big ships is fun, at least once you figure out their blind spot. Why can't they make a Star Trek flight sim fun instead of fighting for 30 minutes just to die at the very end or have the Ecselsior blow up and have to start all over. Save your money or rent it and make your own conclusions.

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.

Shattered Universe shattered my nerves

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: January 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

It's rare I find a game which makes me run screaming from the room. Shattered Universe is one of those. My quick thoughts:

The good: decent voice acting from the actors who made Sulu and Chevokv famous; set in the Star Trek universe.
The bad: Game play is repetitive and boring after just a few missions.
The ugly: The game is just too damm hard on some missions. The aiming controls don't work well, and when you are trying to save the dead in the water Excelsior from 2 capital ships and 10 or so bombers, it's not worth wasting your time.

BOTTOM LINE: Beam this piece of garbage into space Scotty!!

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.

Why is it so hard to do?!?!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: January 31, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Why is it so hard to produce a good, quality, well thought-out Star Trek game? Not since Birth of a Federation has there been a really good ST game.

The game showed much promise, especially since we would finally get to see some of Captain Sulu in action (without a bloated Kirk interfering). I really enjoyed the animations of Sulu and Chekov. They are really well done.

With that said, the rest of the game is pretty bland. As mentioned by one of the other reviewers, space is primarily black! What is up with all the colorful nebulas? It greatly detracts from game play and makes it really hard to fight the enemy ships. Yes, the game designers got to show their artistic side... great... but that is not why I play the game!

And as for the fighters, I would think that 24th century fighters would have better targeting systems than that of WWII aircraft. Yes, you can lock on to a target and keep track of it, but no, your weapon systems are not smart enough to do the same. Dont think so, folks!

I would have really enjoyed a chance to get at the helm and weapons of the Excelsior. Such a grand ship would have had a field day on those pesky fighters...

I'm afraid this one is just a rental. Sorry. Please keep trying guys! I want a really good ST game. PLEASE!!!!!

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.

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