Star Trek: Starfleet Command
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Video Game Reviews of Star Trek: Starfleet Command
Customer Review: Okay, but disappointed
Summary: 3 Stars
This game is a decent enough battle simulator, and I have to give it that much. My problem with this was actually with my expectations of it, and I guess I should take part of the blame for that for not reading more reviews. However, from looking at the box, and reading the marketing descriptions, it seemed to me that this game was going to be what I had been waiting for: a non-mission-based fly-around-and-do-what-you-want space game. Unfortunately, as has been stated before in the reviews, it is entirely mission based, there is no warp drive, and you pretty much just show up where you're supposed to be, do what you're supposed to do, and exit the game when you're done. I find this boring. I'm still waiting for a good solid free-choice type of space game, where you can jet around and get yourself into trouble on your own, without the hinderances of specified missions. As I said, I should've checked more reviews before buying this, because I didn't realize it was just a battle simulator, but from what I and my friends had determined, we thought we would have a lot more free choice as to our actions, the battles we wanted to fight, and the places we wanted to go. Unfortunately, this is not so. This is probably a good game for what it is, I just wish the marketing had more explicitly revealed the game's objectives.Customer Review: A fresh look to an old genre
Summary: 5 Stars
While this game has it's problems, I'd have to say it was hands down the best game of 1999 that I purchased. It captures all the best elements of both the old Starfleet Battles board game and a real time strategy computer game, while wrapping it up with excellent graphics, sounds and a fresh, new look that should please old fans of both. Unlike the old Starfleet Battles, the ships have been redesigned to have a more current look, rather like those seen in the movies. The weapon effects are well done, and the damage algorithim stays true to the board game...though, for some insane reason the torpedoes for the Federation only hit about half the time.
While the interface can be overwhelming due to the amount of control you have, the designers put in a pause feature that lets you issue orders and set up for combat in relative peace. This comes in handy.
The biggest gripes I have with the game are the poor mission breifings and the mindless wingman A.I. The breifings are next to useless, and will leave you feeling frustrated and confused. The wingmen you can have are worse than useless. Not only will the not follow your instructions, many times they will shoot up targets and destroy them after you've expressly ordered them not to, loosing the mission for you.
Despite it's flaws, I still think this was a great game, and look forward to a new, improved "gold edition."
Customer Review: I liked it
Summary: 4 Stars
For me it works fine, i was expecting something else but it delivers. However i do have to agree on three defects on it, The Torps only hit once every 10 shots, The graphics are sometimes poor, for example you can see the deflector from the top of the saucer of a Federation ship. And the lack of Warp capability. We need warp, what's a ST sim without warp ? But the game has it's good points, the music is nice, the sounds are awesome the interface is kinda cool and the 3d effects are nice. I would recommend to try it before you buy it.Customer Review: Very Disappointed
Summary: 2 Stars
I'm not sure what the game designers were working towards when they designed this game but it reminded me of something you might come across on Sega Genesis (that is to say, low tech and predictable).Customer Review: Nice game. For SFB fans, not enough like the board game.
Summary: 4 Stars
First, let me sya that I like this game. It is fine 3D space combat sim. What disappointed me, however, is that it was marketed as a computer version of the ever popular "Star Fleet Battled" board game. What dis appointed me was that I was misled: it is a fine game but it is not a computer version of SFB and does not mirror the "beer and pretzels" feel that makes Star Fleet Battles so much fun.This is basically a well done real-time space combat simulation with the words "Star Trek" in the title. I was expecting a straight "computerization" of Star Fleet Battles. This is what I was led to believe by reading the reviews in the computer games magazines. This kind of conversion has been done successfully before (try a copy of Hasbro Interactive's "Axis and Allies").
I don't really need the memory and processor intensive 3D views and first person perspective. A 2D, top-down view of the game, with a hex grid map, would have been fine. And the "OK, we all move one space, then we all move another space, then we all move another space, etcetera" movement scheme in Star Fleet Battles was great and I was expecting a computer version of that. The real-time movement is fine, but it doesn't really simulate the feel of the board game.
Bottom Line: If you like good 3D space combat simulations, give this game a try. If you wan't the computer version of Star Fleet Battles, you will have to wait some more!