Finally a star trek game!! I have
been waiting for this for a while and I literally cannot compute how happy I
was when I find out about the game.
Set in
the time between the reboot film star trek and the up and coming film star trek
into darkness, the game's story is rather clever and rather enjoyable. Kirk and
Spock along with the rest of the enterprise crew are on a mission to obtain the
Helios device stolen by the Gorn race from the Vulcan people. Playing as these
characters you are able to interact with, Chekov, Sulu and Uhura on the bridge.
Although I must say I was slightly disappointed that I was unable to walk onto
the bridge as every time I tried a cut scene was initiated.
The game is able to be played by 1 or 2 players and
everything in the game is not too hard that it cannot be completed by a single
player but not too easy that a second player is completely unable to help.
Every computer that needs to be hacked or every combat sequence is made easier
by having the second player aiding in the action. Although the second player is
helpful, balance is restored when the ‘dodgy’ camera decides to freak out and
turn your character around and make you lose your perception of the
environment. The first time I encountered the Gorn as soon as the cut scene
ended and game play resumed I ended up going around in a circle and then looking
the wrong way. Although not a big issue it did take quite a chunk out of my
health, when the Gorn got a good hit on me. This happened a few time throughout
the game and I even ended up dying a few time as a result. On the up note on this
if you do survive the strike of the dodgy camera there are plenty of health and ammo
regeneration spots in every area. I rarely ran out of ammo and rarely died from
gradually losing health. They were
very well placed and always readily available when needed.
As I said earlier I would have
liked to walk onto the bridge at the beginning of the game, as I would have
liked a bit more freedom in exploring the enterprise, within the game admittedly
you do get to walk through the bridge, the engineering deck and the medical bay
which is pretty exciting but there is a set path you have to take which limits
where you can go. Maybe I’m being too hopeful in this and I suppose it is a big
ask to be able to freely explore something as big as the U.S.S ENTERPRISE.
Don't get me wrong I loved this game I
mean you get to play as Kirk and Spock, and I could forgive all the other minor
things if they could sort out the major flaw in the game. As already stated the
game can be played by one or two players, but that feature loses its appeal
when you discover that player 2 cannot upgrade any weapons or keep any of the
upgrades available unless you play the whole game in one sitting, which for
most people is not realistic as things like life intervene. When you exit the
game and then try to continue where you left off it only loads one player even
if you have played thus far with two players. You have to select chapter select
and start at whatever chapter you have saved the game in again. When you do
finally get into the gameplay with two players, you will find that player 2
has lost all of the XP they had previously earned and any upgrades they had
bought. Player 1 does keep
everything they have earned and bought so that isn’t a problem. But some of the
upgrades available help out the other player so although player 1 can help
player 2, player 2 cannot use upgrades to help player 1. In combat player 2
becomes a red shirt, drawing enemy’s attention so player one can complete a
stealth attack. When that is not an option player 2 stuns enemies over and over
until player 1 can get the kill or take down and get the XP since there is no
point player 2 getting it. If you play as player 2 you are there to make easy
tasks just that bit easier for player 1,so they are not waiting around for the
AI to run off in a different direction, shoot at random object and air and then
catch up to them. So even though the story is interesting and there are plenty
of enemies to kill, it can become a little bit boring when you are just waiting
for the other player to scan everything after a fight and get all the rewards.
Putting all these faults aside I do
love the game I mean come on your walking around as James T Kirk and Spock,
talking to the characters we love, fighting the Gorn, and going on your own
adventure while flying the Enterprise. This may be the closest I personally am
ever going to get to be a member of Starfleet and hell, I’m going to take it.
Star Trek holds a lot of meaning for me
and I’ve gone through a lot of ridicule for my love of it as well as many of
the other things that I love. I will always Love it and I hope that there will
be more games for this franchise, because Star Trek will always be around, it
will outlive many of us and will still be shown by whatever
technology is available when we are gone.
And so there really is only one thing
left for me to say and you may view it as overused and clichéd but it is still
a classic and I hope you will forgive me.
When everything is said and done the
game itself is accurate and does justice to the franchise and I look forward to
see what will happen next.
So……Beam me up Scotty.
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