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With this month's arrival of Star Trek Online -- the very first MMORPG (or role-playing game of any kind) based on Star Trek -- fans are now able to command their own starship and spend hours in a world they have come to love through decades of television series, movies, and novels. But STO is just the latest in a long series of games based on the enduring sci-fi franchise.
Incredibly, the very first Star Trek videogame adaptation was developed nearly 40 years ago. The ensuing years have seen the release of over four dozen additional titles, on virtually every platform imaginable, from the Amiga to the Apple II to Super Nintendo to the Wii.
The Ferengi's 54th rule of acquisition states that a wise man doesn't waste latinum on a lousy Star Trek game, and, unfortunately for fans, the 'Star Trek' name printed on a videogame box has only rarely indicated a quality product. Let's take a warp-speed tour through the best and worst titles in the franchise, starting with games for the PC.
Game | Genre | Year | Critic Grades | User Score | ||
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1 | Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force | FPS | 2000 | 86 | 25,0,0 | 9.3 |
2 | Star Trek: Bridge Commander | Simulation | 2002 | 82 | 20,4,0 | 8.1 |
3 | Star Trek Deep Space Nine: The Fallen | 3D Shooter | 2000 | 81 | 18,5,0 | 8.5 |
4 | Star Trek: Starfleet Command: Orion Pirates | Strategy | 2001 | 78 | 7,2,0 | 7.5 |
Star Trek: Starfleet Command III | RTS/Simulation | 2002 | 78 | 11,7,0 | 9.2 | |
Star Trek Elite Force II | FPS | 2003 | 78 | 21,7,0 | 7.4 | |
7 | Star Trek: Starfleet Command Volume II--Empires at War | RTS/Simulation | 2000 | 77 | 9,7,0 | 9.3 |
8 | Star Trek: Klingon Academy | Action/Sim | 2000 | 74 | 5,9,0 | 10.0 |
9 | Star Trek: Armada II | RTS | 2001 | 65 | 4,7,2 | 8.0 |
10 | Star Trek: Away Team | RTS | 2001 | 64 | 3,16,3 | 8.5 |
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Dominion Wars | RTS | 2001 | 64 | 1,4,0 | 6.2 | |
12 | Star Trek: ConQuest Online | Strategy | 2000 | 63 | 2,6,2 | n/a |
Star Trek Online | MMORPG | 2010 | 63 | 4,6,1 | 6.4 | |
14 | Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force Expansion Pack | Action | 2001 | 62 | 2,6,2 | 8.6 |
15 | Star Trek: Legacy | Action/RTS | 2006 | 56 | 1,20,4 | 4.0 |
16 | Star Trek: New Worlds | RTS | 2000 | 52 | 4,9,10 | 8.1 |
17 | Star Trek: D-A-C | Action | 2009 | 50 | 4,19,0 | 4.1 |
Older PC games not in Metacritic's database *: | ||||||
Star Trek (aka Super Star Trek) | Text/Strategy | 1971 | N/A | -- | n/a | |
Begin: A Tactical Starship Simulation | Simulation | 1981 | N/A | -- | n/a | |
Star Trek: The Kobayashi Alternative | Text/Adventure | 1985 | N/A | -- | n/a | |
Star Trek: The Promethean Prophecy | Text/Adventure | 1986 | N/A | -- | n/a | |
Star Trek: The Rebel Universe | Action-Adventure | 1988 | N/A | -- | n/a | |
Star Trek: First Contact | Adventure | 1988 | N/A | -- | n/a | |
Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Transinium Challenge | Adventure | 1989 | N/A | -- | n/a | |
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier | Action | 1989 | N/A | -- | n/a | |
Begin 2 | Simulation | 1991 | N/A | -- | n/a | |
Star Trek: 25th Anniversary | Action-Adventure | 1992 | N/A | -- | n/a | |
Star Trek: Judgment Rites | Adventure | 1993 | N/A | -- | n/a | |
Star Trek: The Next Generation - A Final Unity | Adventure | 1995 | N/A | -- | n/a | |
Star Trek: Klingon | Interactive Movie | 1995 | N/A | -- | n/a | |
Star Trek: Borg | Interactive Movie | 1996 | N/A | -- | n/a | |
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Harbinger | Adventure | 1996 | N/A | -- | n/a | |
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | Simulation | 1997 | N/A | -- | n/a | |
Star Trek Generations | FPS/Strategy | 1997 | N/A | -- | n/a | |
Star Trek Pinball | Pinball | 1997 | N/A | -- | n/a | |
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Klingon Honor Guard | FPS | 1998 | N/A | -- | n/a | |
Star Trek: Starship Creator | Simulation | 1998 | N/A | -- | n/a | |
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Birth of the Federation | Strategy | 1999 | N/A | -- | n/a | |
Star Trek: Starfleet Command | RTS/Simulation | 1999 | N/A | -- | n/a | |
Star Trek: Hidden Evil | TPS/Action | 1999 | N/A | -- | n/a | |
Star Trek: Armada | RTS | 2000 | N/A | -- | n/a |
The Metascore is a weighted average of scores from top professional critics, on a scale from 0 (bad) to 100 (good). The pie chart for critic grades represents the percentages of individual critic scores falling into the categories Good (positively-reviewed games with a Metascore of 75 or higher), So-So (mixed or average reviews, 50-74), and Bad (negatively-reviewed games, 0-49). The User Score is an average of scores submitted by Metacritic users, on a scale from 0 (bad) to 10 (good). The scores for Star Trek Online are from February 18, 2010.
* Only titles for Windows, IBM PC, and/or MS-DOS are listed. There were several other Star Trek games released for other computers in the 1970s and '80s, including games for the Atari 800, Commodore 64, and Apple II.
* Only titles for Windows, IBM PC, and/or MS-DOS are listed. There were several other Star Trek games released for other computers in the 1970s and '80s, including games for the Atari 800, Commodore 64, and Apple II.
Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force (2000)
Despite the fact that it was released a decade ago -- and based on arguably the worst television series in the Star Trek franchise (okay, okay, the second-worst) -- Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force86 is still the gold standard against which all other Star Trek videogames are compared. The best-reviewed of all Star Trek game titles (PC or console), Elite Force is also one of the few first-person shooters in the series. Many critics hailed it as not just a great Trek game, but a great game in general -- with terrific graphics and gameplay -- and it spawned a slightly less-acclaimed 2003 sequel set on board the Enterprise (Star Trek Elite Force II78).
Virtually all of the other Star Trek game titles released for the PC over the years fall into the adventure, strategy, or simulation genres (or some combination thereof), including second-place title Star Trek: Bridge Commander. This 2002 release offered a fun, immersive and innovative starship simulation, and captured the Star Trek flavor better than many of the titles that have followed. Bridge Commander was released at the tail end of the Star Trek game craze; the number and quality of releases has dropped since then, much as the Star Trek brand itself slumped over a large portion of the past decade.
Though it is still early -- any MMO title will evolve and potentially improve over time -- the newest entry, Star Trek Online, also falls toward the lower end of the quality spectrum, with critics labeling the game repetitive, incomplete and unworthy of anything other than a quick look. The new game, at least, is true to the standard Star Trek canon (it's set after the events in Star Trek Nemesis); to date, only Star Trek: D-A-C is based on the J.J. Abrams-created alternate timeline established in the 2009 film.
At least STO bests the only two other Star Trek PC games released in the last five years. Those games -- the frustrating ship combat strategy title Star Trek: Legacy and the dull arcade-style shooter D-A-C -- were ports of lousy console games. 2000's Star Trek: New Worlds, on the other hand, takes the crown as the worst-reviewed Star Trek PC exclusive. That real-time strategy title was pegged by critics as 'horrible' and 'verging on unplayable' and was partially saved only by some nice graphics and the Star Trek tie-in. (Although we probably shouldn't use the word 'save,' since New Worlds notoriously failed to include a mid-mission game-save feature, driving players crazy.)
As for those pre-Metacritic titles, take a look at the release year for the very first Star Trek game: 1971. Written in BASIC shortly after the series originally aired, the first Star Trek game inspired a number of knockoffs, and became better known later in the 1970s when it was included (as Super Star Trek) in a book of BASIC programs.
A few more text-based Star Trek games emerged during the PC boom of the 1980s, and in 1988, the first fully graphical Star Trek title, Star Trek: The Rebel Universe, was released for MS-DOS and the Commodore 64 (an Atari ST version was released the previous year). Rebel Universe puts players on the bridge of the Enterprise on a mission to investigate a new Klingon weapon that is causing other Federation crews to mutiny, and featured a universe with thousands of planets that could be investigated.
Star Trek: 25th Anniversary (1992)
Out of all the early Star Trek computer games, the one widely considered the best is Star Trek: 25th Anniversary, released in 1992 to commemorate the birth of the original television series in 1966, a mere -- uh -- 26 years earlier. Combining a combat flight simulator with an adventure game over the course of seven distinct missions (or 'episodes'), the anniversary title was the first Star Trek game to score with the public. A CD version of the game added dialogue voiced by the original cast, and the game was so successful that it spawned a 1993 sequel, Star Trek: Judgment Rites.
The remaining years in the decade brought a sharp increase in the number of Star Trek titles, including the well-received Star Trek: The Next Generation - A Final Unity (featuring hundreds of hours of new dialogue voiced by the entire Next Generation cast), Star Trek: Starfleet Academy (a 3D simulation allowing players to complete missions as a Starfleet cadet), Star Trek: The Next Generation: Klingon Honor Guard (perhaps the best of the small number of titles allowing gameplay as a Klingon), and the hugely successful Star Trek: Starfleet Command (a simulation based on the classic 1979 board game Star Fleet Battles).
Game / Platform | Genre | Year | Critic Grades | User Score | ||
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1 | Star Trek: Invasion PSOne | Action | 2000 | 76 | 7,5,0 | 9.0 |
2 | Star Trek: Legacy 360 | RTS/Action | 2006 | 64 | 8,29,4 | 5.5 |
Star Trek: D-A-C PS3 | Action | 2009 | 64 | 0,4,0 | 6.0 | |
4 | Star Trek: Conquest PS2 | Action/Strategy | 2007 | 54 | 2,10,3 | 8.8 |
5 | Star Trek: D-A-C 360 | Action | 2009 | 53 | 3,14,9 | 7.8 |
6 | Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force PS2 | Action | 2001 | 52 | 2,6,4 | 8.0 |
7 | Star Trek: Encounters PS2 | Shooter | 2006 | 51 | 2,7,8 | 8.7 |
8 | Star Trek: Conquest Wii | Action/Strategy | 2007 | 49 | 1,9,8 | 5.1 |
9 | Star Trek: Shattered Universe PS2 | Action/Shooter | 2004 | 42 | 0,9,10 | 8.9 |
10 | Star Trek: Shattered Universe Xbox | Action/Shooter | 2004 | 41 | 0,9,12 | 3.7 |
Older console games not in Metacritic's database: | ||||||
Star Trek: Phaser Strike Microvision | Shooter | 1979 | N/A | -- | n/a | |
Star Trek: The Motion Picture Vectrex | Shooter | 1982 | N/A | -- | n/a | |
Star Trek: 25th Anniversary NES | Action-Adventure | 1991 | N/A | -- | n/a | |
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Future's Past SNES | Adventure | 1993 | N/A | -- | n/a | |
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Echoes from the Past Genesis | Adventure | 1994 | N/A | -- | n/a | |
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Starship Bridge Simulator SNES/Genesis | Simulation | 1994 | N/A | -- | n/a | |
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Crossroads of Time SNES/Genesis | Platform | 1995 | N/A | -- | n/a |
Yes, there is just one decent Star Trek console game from the past decade. Set in the Next Generation universe but featuring mainly new characters, Invasion was among the better Playstation shooters at the time of its 2000 release, and came from the team behind the hit (non-Star Trek) game series Colony Wars. Still, it was far from perfect, and some critics felt that the heavy emphasis on combat wasn't true to the spirit of Star Trek (a criticism that echoes today in reviews of the new Star Trek Online).
However, that game is a masterpiece compared to a title like Star Trek: Shattered Universe, the 2004 shooter set in Star Trek's goatee-filled mirror universe. While an edgier, darker version of Star Trek seems like a brilliant concept for a videogame, Shattered Universe instead turned out to be 'as fun as watching a pet die,' in the words of IGN. Other critics lambasted the title as 'glaringly ugly,' 'abysmal,' and 'a disgrace to the gaming industry.' Faring only moderately better was the Next Generation-universe title Star Trek: Conquest, a too-simplistic and poorly-reviewed 2D strategy game for the PS2 that somehow emerged even worse when released for the Wii (sadly, it's still the lone Star Trek title available on the latter console).
You've seen most of the other recent console games above, in our section on PC releases. As for the earlier releases, 1982's Star Trek: The Motion Picture was basically a slightly more advanced version of Asteroids, switching the action from third- to first-person. The title, released for the Vectrex Arcade System (a small console with a built-in monitor), was also the first Star Trek game release to tie into a particular movie, although the game itself had nothing specifically to do with the film (and what that flying sombrero has to do with any element of Star Trek is beyond us). Our favorite part of the game: when you are hit by an enemy torpedo, your windshield cracks.
https://taoever791.weebly.com/blog/arduino-nano-serial-to-usb. Note that Future's Past and Echoes from the Past are virtually the same game; the latter, for the Sega Genesis, is considered superior. Both put players on board the Enterprise-D and depict a number of Next Generation characters. Crossroads of Time is the first videogame for any platform based on Deep Space Nine, and was reportedly created before that series even debuted.
Game / Platform | Genre | Year | Critic Grades | User Score | ||
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1 | Star Trek: Tactical Assault PSP | RTS | 2006 | 64 | 2,12,1 | 8.7 |
2 | Star Trek: Tactical Assault DS | RTS | 2006 | 63 | 4,9,2 | 7.3 |
Older handheld games not in Metacritic's database: | ||||||
Star Trek Generations: Beyond the Nexus Game Boy / Game Gear / Super Game Boy | Action/Puzzle | 1994 | N/A | -- | n/a |
Despite coming from the same developer as the hit Starfleet Command, Star Trek: Tactical Assault -- still the lone handheld Star Trek title released for current generation platforms -- was mediocre at best. 1994's Beyond the Nexus, released on the biggest handheld platforms at the time (including in full color on Sega's Game Gear!), was one of several Star Trek games based on the movie Star Trek Generations.
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Gene Roddenberry's original Star Trek series began in 1966 and even though that series ended after just three seasons. The Star Trek franchise has grown to immeasurably over the decades. There were the successful films which focused on the original crew with Captain Kirk and co. Then there was Star Trek: Next Generation which was a massive hit with fans, helped revitalize the series in the 90s. Since then there has been several spin-off series, novels, comics, video games and the recently rebooted movies.
Excitement for the Star Trek franchise has piqued once again with the new Star Trek: Discovery series which is due to premiere this year, and the promising looking VR game Star Trek: Bridge Crew which is due to be released on the 30th of May 2017.
While we anxiously await the new series and the upcoming VR game, let's take a look at 8 of the best Star Trek games and 7 of the worst ever released.
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15 Best: Star Trek Online
Star Trek Online is a massively multiplayer online game developed by Cryptic Studios, and is available on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and on PC. The game is set thirty years after the events of the Star Trek: Nemesis movie,and the game's central plot revolves around the collapse of the alliance between the Klingon Empire and the United Federation of Planets.
The player gets to be the captain of his or her own ship with a choice of factions such as The Federation, The Klingons, or Romulans, while also micromanaging all the ships crew with individual duties.
Star Trek Online switches battle modes depending on the scenarios. The first is space combat using the Starship, and the second, a run gun combat system after 'beaming' down in person. The space combat and the excellent visuals definitely helped elevate this above most console iterations of the Star Trek franchise.
14 Worst: Star Trek D-A-C
Star Trek: D-A-C (Deathmatch. Assault. Conquest) is a top-down space shooter that looks like a modern day version of Asteroids with multiplayer features. The game's single player mode is a survival mode that has no actual story features with it all. The multiplayer modes have a 6 player co-op and a 6 on 6 deathmatch mode.
Despite not being a bad game, there isn't anything at all spectacular about it either. Star Trek D-A-C is a fairly basic top-down arcade shooter, that may keep some players entertained for half an hour or so, but beyond that, there's no real lasting appeal even for die-hard Star Trek fans.
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13 Best: Star Trek The Next Generation Klingon Honor Guard
Star Trek The Next Generation Klingon Honor Guard is first person shooter on PC and MAC, that was based during the events of Star Trek: The Next Generation television series. As a member of the Klingon guard, the player's mission is to prevent the assassination of Chancellor Gowron. The game contains 19 missions across 26 maps which include a variety of environments and planets.
Honor Guard is a fast paced shooter that creatively used the Unreal Engine with its enjoyable level design, meaty campaign, and its inventive weapons such as the 'Ding-Pach Spin Claw' a gun that fires off a blade and returns. Fans were thrilled to get a solid Star Trek based on the phenonmenal Next Generation saga.
12 Worst: Star Trek Voyager Elite Force (PlayStation 2)
The PlayStation 2 version of Star Trek Voyager Elite Force wasn't developed by the same team behind the PC and MAC version of the same game and suffered as a result.
Elite Force is a first-person shooter where the player is a member of the Hazard Team known as Ensign Alex Munro. Munro and his team are tasked with protecting the USS Voyager from attacking forces whilst repairs are being carried out.
Despite being a real classic on the PC and MAC, the PS2 version was badly ported to such a degree that the artificial intelligence was almost non-existent, the aiming system was a mess and the downgraded visuals were a glaringly obvious.
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11 Best: Star Trek Starfleet Command: Orion Pirates
PC title Star Trek Starfleet Command II is a Real-Time Strategy game and, like its predecessor, was based on the tabletop war game called Starfleet Battles. The gameplay consisted of the player maneuvering their ship into battle and trying to exploit the opposing ships weaknesses. The game has a very steep learning curve, but its rewarding tactical and technical gameplay make worth the time and effort.
In addition, Starfleet Command II features three single-player campaigns that consist of two story modes and a Conquest campaign, which was a welcome feature due to the lack of a narrative in the original game. The standalone expansion known as Orion Pirates added two more single-player modes which focused on the pirate cartels.
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10 Worst: Star Trek: Hidden Evil
The plot of Star Trek: Hidden Evil acted as a sequel to the ninth Star Trek movie Star Trek: Insurrection with the player assuming the role of a character called Ensign Sovok who works alongside the rest of the Next Generation crew.
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Despite Patrick Stewart, and Brent Spiner reprising their roles as the characters Jean-Luc Picard and Data, Hidden Evil's campaign was both bland and far too short. The pre-rendered backgrounds looked great, but gameplay consisting of mundane puzzles and dull combat made this on Star Trek game to avoid at all costs. Of course, given the game's premise and characters, fans were devasted by the shoddy result. Star Trek fans deserve better. https://taoever791.weebly.com/poison-ivy-2-movie.html.
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9 Best: Star Trek: Armada II
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Star Trek: Armada II (like its predecessor) is a Real-Time Strategy game that is set during the events of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and was released on the PC.
Star Trek: Armada II is far more simplistic RTS to pick up and play than the Starfleet Command series, but it was still well paced and technical enough to draw gamers into its tactical gameplay.
The story campaign only focused on The Federation in this game, but the game's plot was well developed and will definitely satisfy longtime fans of the TV and movies series. Additionally, Patrick Stewart also lends his voice to his iconic character Jean-Luc Picard further adding to the game's authenticity.
8 Worst: Star Trek: New Worlds
Released in the year 2000, Star Trek: New Worlds is a Real Time Strategy Game that plays similarly to the Command and Conquer series. Like the venerable C&C series, you must increase your defensive and offensive capabilities by mining for resources.
The game showed a lot of promise in previews, but it was as if the developers decided 'the previews are decent, so that will do.' Unfortunately, the game had so many silly design flaws that it dragged Star Trek: New Worlds into the realms of mediocrity. For example, if your science vehicle discovers a new area within the 'Fog Of War' you would expect that area to remain visible on the map. On the contrary, when the vehicle moves on, the newly discovered area turns black again. Throw in a few more lazy design decisions, game and audio breaking bugs, and you have yourself a game to avoid at all costs.
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7 Best: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Fallen
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Fallen is a sci-fi third-person shooter, that made good use of themes that you would usually find in a survival-horror game. The game had a solid, focused, single-player mode, and didn't suffer without multiplayer mode (although some critics beg to differ).
The Fallen also featured non-combat based levels which just allowed the gamer to explore Deep Space 9 and the Defiant. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Fallen is a game for true fans of the Star Trek Franchise, but is a good enough game that stands well enough on its own that even non-Trekkies will enjoy this game.
6 Worst: Star Trek: Conquest
Star Trek: Conquest was another attempt at reaching the console market with this title for the PlayStation 2 and Nintendo Wii. Unfortunately, it was just another bad console iteration for the long-running sci-fi franchise.
The game is set during the events of Star Trek: Next Generation series and featured two distinct modes of play: a turn-based strategy mode and an RTS option which could be played in the campaign, skirmish, and Admirals. The tactical aspect of this game was completely wasted because of the lack of variety in the combat, with each battle feeling and looking exactly the same as the last.
Conquest uses mostly hideous looking 2D sprites, which is unfortunate, because in the right hands 2D sprites have the capability of being quite timeless. The visuals in this game are an ugly and unimaginative use of the series universe. The audio would have been forgettable if it hadn't been so repetitive with the same call-outs repeating over and over.
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5 Best: Star Trek: Invasion
Star Trek: Invasion was released on the original PlayStation and despite its dated visuals still holds up very well in 2017. The battles in the game are reminiscent of naval campaigns, which means it does a great job of recreating the battle scenes of the Star Trek series. The game implements, stealth combat, tactical evasion, and rewards the player for combat skills.
The game's sound design is still a treat to play now, helped by the real voice cast from The Next Generation reprising their roles. Additionally, the sound effects and soundtrack are a fantastic edition to the game's well-told storyline. Star Trek: Invasion proved once and for all that the console could be a good home for the franchise.
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4 Worst: Star Trek Shattered Universe
Unlike Star Trek: Invasion which successfully adapted the Colony Wars space combat system on the original PlayStation, Star Trek: Shattered Universe completely 'shattered' anyone's hopes that Universe's success would be repeated again a console generation later on the Xbox and PlayStation 2.
The player takes control of a completely un-Star Trek-like space fighter which quite frankly looked more like it was a rejected design found on the cutting room floor of Star Wars: Phantom Menace.
The shallow gameplay and the misuse of the Star Trek license can't be forgiven here. To make matters worse there's no recognizable music, and instead of the narrative borrowing from a near endless source of TV shows, movies, books and comics, it uses a completely throwaway story that couldn't be less Trek if it tried.
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3 Best: Star Trek The Next Generation Klingon
The developers Totally Games had already made the brilliant TIE Fighter and X-WingStar Wars space sims. So they were the natural choice to handle the Star Trek license too — and sure enough: Star Trek: Bridge Commander is still one of the best space sims available today.
The attention to detail in Bridge Commander and its faithful adaptation of the Star Trek universe is enough to keep Trek fans happy and coming back for a long time to come. Despite the game's short length, the exciting combat and their faithful recreations will draw gamers in every time.
All of the sound effects and space ship details associated with Star Trek are present, as are the likenesses from Star Trek: The Next Generation tohelp solidify Bridge Commander as one of the most engaging titles in the franchise.
2 Worst: Star Trek: The Video Game
Star Trek: The Video Game was the tie-in for the 2009 blockbuster J.J Abrams reboot of Star Trek. The reboot was a critical and commercial success, although fans have divided opinions on it. Some older fans didn't like the new action orientated direction, while others thought that it was the perfect way to reboot the franchise while still paying tribute to the originals.
Additionally, the reboot certainly helped Star Trek gain a lot of new fans, but where the film was divisive amongst viewers, the tie-in video game didn't have the luxury within the gaming community. It's very fair to say that Star Trek The Video Game is the worst Trek game ever made — you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who would argue the point. The game was a buggy mess with zero variation, terrible graphics, and bad level design that which will frustrate as much as it will bore you. Dawn of war digital download free.
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1 Best: Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force
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Unlike the lazy PlayStation 2 port, Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force the PC may possibly be the best Star Trek game ever made. The game's premise is exactly the same as the PlayStation 2 version, but the execution is so much more enjoyable when the game is played exactly how it was meant to be.
The visuals were great for the time, and the sound was absolutely spot on, and again, unlike the PS2 version, the enemy AI was really well done. More importantly, for Star Trek fans it had a great twisting story that was later adapted into a graphic novel. The controls were solid and good enough that actually felt you were a member of an elite force within the Star Trek universe.
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