Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network lend themselves to quick, pretty games with multiplayer – and that's exactly what Star Trek D-A-C aims to be.
Rather than licensing a full-blown movie tie-in game for Star Trek's upcoming "reboot" film, publisher Paramount is pushing for a decent game with a smaller scope. Pretty much the only thing D-A-C the game has to do with the movie is music from the film's original score. Other than that, everything is pure top-down shooter tradition and familiar Star Trek franchise naming conventions.
While the trend seems to be reversing in recent years, the overall feeling about tie-in video games is that they tend to be underwhelming, un-appealing, and poorly made. Historically, this has been quite the case with those developed around Gene Roddenberry's 'Star Trek' mythos.
VGC: "One of the most popular movie and television franchises to make the jump to video games happens to be the one with the most dedicated fans anywhere. I'm of course talking about Star Trek and its many variations including The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, as well as the movies and spin-offs (we rarely include Enterprise). So it wasn't difficult to look at Star Trek when picking a topic for a video game cosplay gallery. Below you'll find some of the best Star Trek cosplayers dressed up as recognizable (and fan-fic) characters."
Hmmm, so I can pick one gallery from that site, and post it as news here, and I get approval?
GameOn writes: "It's hard to put your finger on just what Star Trek: DAC was trying to achieve as a game, as it could quite simply be any generic space shooter. This one simply had the blessing of licenses to use the Star Trek ships, names and any other references to the Star Trek universe. It's not until you make the link between this and the recent rejuvenation of the Star Trek film series, that you realise it was simply a ploy to generate some buzz about the return of the franchise to the big screen."
