| Review : |
One of the best Star Trek games, Elite Force 2 is a significant improvement over the first Elite Force, but not without is irritating moments. Enemy weapons fire is underpowered, the projectiles fly slowly and you can easily evade them with only some distance and strafing. Fourtunately, after some searching of the game's config files (you need a .pk3 file editor like PakScape to open the .pk3's to get to the config files), I found a way to change how weapons fire behaves for all the enemies in-game, and tripled the speed of enemy projectiles. Problem solved! The second annoyance are the final few areas, where you simply fight wave after wave of those annoying Exomorph creatures, many of them with enough health to deplete your entire arsenal before falling, and the final battle, far too arcade, kill the big bug while defending yourself from the hordes of smaller ones... Still, there are also highlights, like the mission to infiltrate a secret Romulan installation, and that little skirmish with the Romulan Informant (though I knew she would betray me the moment I overheard those two guards talking about the prisoner), and the mission when Idryll try to capture the Enterprise, the chance to walk on the ventral surface of the ship like Picard did in "First Contact", using the sniper rifle to vaporize the Idryll saboteurs, and use the auxilliary pulse phaser cannon against Idryll ships (though I don't recall Enterprise even having such a weapon). Overally - 3/5, because of the boredom of those last monster-grinding two levels, and ease of the game at the beginning (on the Sphere). |
