411mania - Star Trek: The Video Game was a game I was pretty excited about when I previewed it at E3. I love the Star Trek franchise, and a new action game where you could play as Captain Kirk and Commander Spock for the first time in basically two decades (since the Star Trek CD-ROM games with the original cast) was an exciting prospect. Based on statements from the developers, I really believed this would not be your typical rushed movie-licensed title. So here are the results, with Star Trek: The Video Game, a new game based on the current movie franchise from Paramount Pictures set between the last movie in 2009 and Star Trek: Into Darkness currently in theaters. The movie boasts an all-star voice cast featuring the entire main live-action movie cast reprising their roles, original music from movie composer Michael Giacchino, and a story developed by the movie screenwriters Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman. So almost two years after my first E3 preview of the game, how did this thing turn out?
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.
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