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Pocket Starfleet Command

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 11 / 12
Date: November 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Pros
- a pocket version of Starfleet Command (SFC) that you can carry around.
- opening menus are very nicely done.
- contains campaign, skirmish and multiplayer modes.
- compaign plays like in SFC. You finish a mission and it awards you upgrade points that you can use to assign to your crew to improve your ship's performance (so it's like upgrading in RPGs).
- You are incrementally awarded command of better ships as you progress thru the game.
- Skirmish is instant action mode where you can choose from fighting in 1 to 4 teams of either ally or enemies simultaneously.
- AI is not bad. Enemies will keep their exposed shields away from you and cloak and re-appear on your weaker side to attack.
- Missions do not have to result in a large fight. By hailing ships negotiations are possible in certain levels.
- Load times are very fast compared to other PSP games.
- User interface is easy to handle.

Cons
- game graphics is under-detailed and quite aliased.
- sound effects are rather weak.
- gameplay is repetitive. You are constantly circling each other firing at openings.
- space scenes are not dense enough (nor interesting enough) so there is limited ability to use asteroids etc for a tactical advantage.
- no ability to beam commandos to take over other ships.
- no tractor beam to hold ships.
- ie it is a really watered down SFC.
- no targeting of specific systems so hull damage is defined as on the whole ship.

The short load time suggests that more could have been done but wasn't just to play it safe with this first release.

Buy this at full price if you want to encourage them to release future versions. Otherwise wait for it to come down in price.

Tired retread of old ST games - boring and unimaginative

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 10
Date: November 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Star Trek Tactical Assault - I was really looking forward to this game for my PSP - the ability to command starships on my PSP made this Star Trek fan really excited. Imagine my disappointment when I fired up the game and the first screen, a Star Trek quote had the word "Dr. MCoy" (sic) misspelled! This didn't bode well for the gameplay that followed. Navigating through the menus, I was aghast to see the individual low polygons on the starships - these ships have never looked worse in a Star Trek game, unless you go back to the days of DOS or Windows 95. The designs for the Federation and Klingon ships are unimaginative, and not based on anything in Star Trek lore (except for a couple signature vessels) - they look really slapped together. A Destroyer has two warp pods underneath, the Dreadnought three on top, same markings, same drab textures, same hacky modeling. The gameplay is "Starfleet Command - ultralite". But it is really boring. You basically, give the ship some throttle, then spin in circles until your ship's weapons come on line. Spin, fire, spin again, fire again, blow up your enemy or be blown up - sounds really fun, doesn't it - NOT!

The game takes place in 2d space (no ability to move in 3d) - so you have amusing situations where you are hovering on top of your enemy - no damage from ramming, you're just able to (unrealistically) fire over and over again, and the enemy too. It looks really bad.

Another ill-informed design choice was to remove the player from targetting mode when he is about to impact one of the objects in space. This is because you are typically running away from your enemy to fire rear weapons, and so you can't really see where you're going. But it is hard to reacquire your enemy quickly after you have dropped them. There are several better choices that could have been made here (like giving the player the option of "auto-avoid"). It's just bad and unimaginative again.

I am really thrilled that EB Games was nice enough to take this waste of plastic back - I really felt like a sucker after buying this game.

Send a message to Bethesda, Quicksilver and CBS Paramount that hack, retread Star Trek games [Star Fleet Armada III? = Legacy; Star Fleet Command 4 UltraLite = Star Trek Tactical Assault] won't be tolerated - don't buy this turkey. It isn't even worth $1 - maybe the unsold copies would make good landfill though, although I suspect the trash birds would probably gag on it.

Couldn't give this "0" stars or I would have.

Great Graphics and Concept, But...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

... same old mistakes.

It's fun! If you like Star Trek, add a star here or there. But they get the same thing wrong that all the others do, these are supposed to be BIG Star Ships. You can't "Dog Fight" in a ship like this, they should be huge, lumbering ships that turn slowly... SFC is the closest thing to getting it right so far.

This game sucks!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: May 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I swear this is easily one of the worst games I've ever played and the worst PSP game I have played so far. Granted every Star Trek game I've ever played have been very poor games. So I can't say I was all that surprised. Why can't anyone make a decent Star Trek game?

Do not buy this game unless you are a hopeless Star Trek fanboy/girl who lives in their parents basement and can't buy a date. Yes, the game really is that bad. Just a crappy shooter set in the Star Trek Universe. Taking your $20, rolling it up and smoking it would be more fun than playing this game.

Great game all the way around.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: December 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Loved this game. Great even in skirmish mode. The federation missions are a blast as are the klingon and they play much differently because the ships are different play styles and strategy. If some reviewers don't think there is strategy to this game, then obviously they played it like some stupid sci fi shoot em up instead of the methodical game it is. The better you do, the more you unlock allowing different kinds of ships for multiplayer or skirmish. I HIGHLY recommend this game for anyone.

Better than NOT bad

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: January 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is pretty good..
I like it WAY better than "Encounters" for the PS2...THAT game had TRUE clunky controls...

It IS sort of a hybrid between Starfleet command and Starfleet/Klingon Academy...

Most of the complaints seem to be complaining about things that could ONLY be fixed if the game was on a computer, not a HANDHELD....

I like it alot...
missions are challenging and the cheats for unlockables come in REAL handy!!

TOO bad either SONY or Bethesda/Quicksilver decided NOT to allow modding of the game AFTER 5 or so were ALREADY introduced!!!

Whats up with that...

Good game Good star trek game..Hope they make another!!

I'll prolly buy it when I return the rental.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Ok, so it's not as deep or as polished I'd like. But you can't compare this game to X-Wing or Tie Fighter (Oh how I miss those.) You have to compare this game to every other Star Trek game out there. In which case it comes out (sadly) near the top.

The Good:
It is fun. Once you get used to the controls and the emergency power system you realize that there is some strategy after all. The crew upgrades were a cool idea. Though if they're gonna flirt with Japanese design conventions they should have just gone all out and given each crew member a special action of some sort that could be used during battle.

The Bad:
The controls are so-so. The play is 2D. And while you always auto-dodge other ships, you will run straight into asteroids and die while you're locked onto that Bird-of-Prey behind you. Grrr!

Also, if you've ever seen some of the goofy ship designs from the Star Trek technical manuals that FASA put out years ago for Starfleet Battles, I am sad to say that quite a few of those made their way into this game. Some good ship designs from the films are absent (Grissom?), while the big Klingon Dreadnought from ST:TNG is now a "Klingon Destroyer". That's as bad as using the Bird-of-Prey model as a Klingon cruiser was during the NextGen Episode "Yesterday's Enterprise". But then again Trek fans are used to such sloppiness.

Waste of Money

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: December 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I don't like long reviews, so I'll keep it short. This game is poorly put together and simply not fun to play. Please don't waste your money.

Good Game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: March 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

A good shoot em up game but I found myself wanting 3d space and tractor beams.

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