"Star Trek: The Video Game has a lot working against it. It’s a licensed game in a world where people know they usually suck, a third person shooter in a market stuffed with them, and it hasn’t exactly seen much attention or positive word of mouth leading up to its release. All signs to point to another rushed dud in need of sucking out the airlock.
With all that being said, I’m certainly open to the possibility of being pleasantly surprised, especially when the game is being helmed Digital Extremes, the developers responsible for the sublime The Darkness II and parts of Unreal which, need I remind you, is the best game of all time. With them in the captain’s seat, will Star Trek be polished, exciting and imaginative enough to be considered worthwhile, or would it have been better named Star Blech? Join us and find out as we boldly go where pretty much every review has gone before." (Michael Urban, KaboomShark.com)
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
