Ken McKown writes: The war between Star Trek and Star Wars fans has raged for decades, without any end in sight. I only mention this because I myself sit on the camp that Lucas built, thus reviewing a Star Trek game is borderline blasphemy in certain circles. Still, I was a fan of JJ Abrams’ reboot of the series, and when Namco Bandai announced a game would be accompanying the expected sequel, I had the same reaction all the true fans had as well, “I wonder how they will mess this up”. Star Trek The Video Game is as generic as the tagline implies, and proves that there is one consistent thing both factions at war can agree on; these two franchises continue to be disrespected by game developers.
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