| Review : |
Mein gott, so the German version might say. Now I've got no problem at all with revisionist history, the Star Trek universe has had more than its fair share of screwing with its own past. The story line of STL is quite compelling really, if very light. It's a short story, not the epic we'd otherwise expect. It has no depth and starts very slowly. This, however, is not the problem. The problem is moronic mission design and poor controls. The controls are normalised to a 2D plane, this isn't much of a problem but it can get clumsy when trying to hit something above or below. The first few missions are tutorial and plain worthless, both as missions and as tutorials. You'll learn simply by trying and failing. Failing lots of times.................... The game is completely ruined by just one mission, the first in the post-TMP era, just before TNG. You're leading the Stargazer under Picard and you have to blow up a bunch of asteroids before they hit planets. No problem so far. One asteroid, a REALLY big one, will not blow up. You tractor smaller ones into its path and though the voiceover SAYS its been blown up, it actually does not, so proceeds to blow the planet up. This one mission highlights everything wrong with the game in one easy step. NO in-mission saving. You must start each mission all over again, which gets very old very fast. The missions are clumsily designed and objectives as clear as mud..................... Is there any good at all to this game? There is, just. The visuals are the best we've yet seen, rivaling the SFX of the actual show and often exceeding it. Once you get used to the control system (and I use 'system' lightly here, it's more random key assignments) it's pretty easy to work around its numerous flaws and do what you want to do, more or less.................... It's a stinker. Plain and simple, an absolute stinker. If you want starship strategy, get Armada. Ignore this pile of trash and pretend it never happened. |
