| Review : |
I hate to be a voice of decent, but I'm shocked to read these overwhelmingly positive reviews of this game. It is hands down one of the worst Real-time Strategy games of our time. To compare it to Command and Conquer is an insult to that franchise, almost as much as to call it a real-time strategy game is an insult to the genre in general. The controls are nigh-impossible, the graphics are bland (yes, even for the time), the storyline is underdeveloped, and the gameplay, the most important part of any game, is atrocious. Units are slow and construct even slower, and to make matters worse, the maps are huge and there's fast way to scout. Plus there's no skirmish/custom mode of any kind, and no one ever played this online, so once you're done with the (largely slow and dull) campaign, that's it! I can attest that it at least works on XP home, however. For what little that's worth. Gamespot's review said it pretty well: "Star Trek: New Worlds promises to let you 'witness colony life at the most fundamental level,' but if that's true, then colony life isn't very exciting." |
