Star Trek is one of my favorite properties of all time, but it’s always been hit or miss in all of its forms of media. The Next Generation games on the Game Boy and the Game Gear are some of my favorite gaming memories. Naturally, a Kirk and Spock-focused co-op shooter has me pretty excited. It’s no modern-day Bridge Simulator, but I’ll take it. Fresh out of Gamescom, here’s a new trailer and a screenshot gallery. Oh, and it shows off the Gorn, too. Also, lens flare. -Twinfinite's Tyler Humphrey
A new Star Trek PC and console game with a story-driven focus is in development at Jumpgate subsidiary gameXcite.
Oh, f$%&! They better not mess this up. Trek is miles better than any other Sci-fi franchise.
I agree, at the same time no one can seem to make a decent StarTrek game.
I'm with you ... they better not fk this up
Keep up the good work!
They listened and made a physical version of Star Trek Resurgence, which I've pre-ordered, and I hope they make this new game both offline friendly and physical as well!
Immediate reaction - excited for new story driven Star Trek game.
Then I go and check GameXcite's website and see that the only thing they have released are a few Asterix games.
Set expectation to low
An old text-only strategy game remade with the graphics of the point-and-click adventure. The new version is now fully playable with a mouse only (also touch screen on Android tablets), but also with a keyboard only. You can also play with a controller by mapping cursor keys and Enter on the correct key.
This is very cool. I played many versions of Super Star Trek, some text based and some with rudimentary graphics. Back in the day, you’d get games like this off a floppy disk from a friend. I also played the 25th Anniversary Star Trek game. Cool to see a melding of the two.
Super Star Trek 25th is a remake / conversion of the strategy game Super Star Trek, written by Bob Leedom and David Ahl and published in the book BASIC Computer Games in 1978, mixed with the graphics of Star Trek: 25th Anniversary and the voices from ST The Original Series
Wow. Captures the look of the 2009 film very well. Especially the lighting and camera work.
Unfortunately, the engine is producing lackluster visuals...I want more. A star trek game needs to look very good because the movies are always so visually splendorous.
Here's to hoping this game doesn't suck...Digital Extremes' last few games have been kinda hit or miss. This studio co-created Unreal Tournament so I will always have faith in what they decide to create, even if they do decide to tackle a movie game.
Odds are it's going to suck. Bad.
Which is odd. Star Wars suffers from the same problem: no one can seem to make a decent game. The odd part being that it would be fairly easy to make a decent game, simply by looking at past games that were good, and following suit.
And, of course, this game is doubly cursed by being based on the JJ-verse malarky. It's 100% guaranteed to be an awful trek game.
But, maybe if we're lucky we'll get a halfway decent shooter out of it.
Looking good...