Keith Stuart writes: While Star Wars has proved a bounteous source of inspiration (and money) to game developers over the past 30 years, its closest sci-fi rival, Star Trek, has ... well ... seemed fairly resistant to translation. There have been some marvelous attempts – the serious simulator Bridge Command and Star Trek: 25th Anniversary, and the ambitious Star Trek Online – but we've hardly been inundated. The general consensus is that Gene Roddenberry's creation is a very different beast to Star Wars. The shows have often been more about characters, relationships and diplomacy than blasting stuff with lasers. And video games, especially major franchise tie-ins, tend to be about action and immediacy. There is a reason we don't have a thriving negotiate-'em-up genre. So when Sony closed its E3 press event last year with the news that a Star Trek game was in development, it was a genuine surprise. How would they do it?
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
