Whilst making the rounds through the Playstation Network the other day I noticed that a new Star Trek game was being advertised, this one based on the J.J. Abram’s reboot film:
Now I’m fairly certain I’ve seen this game before, granted Star Trek: D-A-C has been out on the Xbox for ages and has only been released on PS3 in the past couple of months, I just can’t help but believe that this has been done in the Star Trek universe already and it made me ask why they can’t make a really good Star Trek game*?
I’m not saying that this is not a good game either, honestly I haven’t played it. But judging from that trailer I’m not particularly impressed by it, remember this is coming from a huge Star Trek fan too.
But you see that’s really the point, I’ve been burnt before because I am a Star Trek fan and I’ve been tempted to buy any game they slap the name on to.
The last Star Trek game I bought was the abysmal Star Trek: Encounters which whilst really cheap was in fact a really cheap game which essentially used the name of Star Trek and some of the story concepts to try and sell a pretty average game that I spent all of maybe an hour playing before putting back on the shelf where it has stayed ever since.
And there have been a bunch of other mediocre console games for Star Trek in recent years, I guess as the franchise floundered they saw no good reason to develop really great games for it.
The last not PC Star Trek game I played was possibly Voyager: Elite Force which in itself was nothing special, it was a first person shooter with a Star Trek Voyager mod. But it was a very professional mod and it was nice running down the Voyager’s corridors carrying phasers and shooting at aliens. Ultimately though it felt like nothing special.
I just think that in a video game world that gives such immersive experiences such as Uncharted, Assassin’s Creed and Bioshock then an opportunity is there to make a complete Star Trek game.
End of trekkie rant.
* I’m not talking about the PC games as there have been some good ones if not a little dated though.
Calling Star Trek: Encounters average is denigrating the term average.
I think the big hint it was going to be lacking was the fact that it was a CD based game for a DVD based system.
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Lee Reply:
February 16th, 2010 at 1:00 pm
LOL I only played it for an hour so I’m giving it the benefit of the doubt!!
Was it originally for the first Playstation and carried over to PS2? I know sometimes Star Trek games get caught up in development hell.
Still bitter that Vulcan’s Fury never saw light, it had an awesome trailer.
BTW First comment for the new site!!
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No, it was released in 2006, and developed by a company whose earliest credit is 2005.
It was just a cheap tie-in game.
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A very cheap tie-in
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Ooh, I just broke your comments section. It expanded when I went to type this, and now this section is underneath a the footer (thus why there are spelling mistakes in this message.
I was going to say it isn't the worst tie-in game ever though.
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I had this problem recently at my own blog when I added a new module which didn't agree with the matching columns script I am using… I used a little CSS to ensure that there was always space for that element during loading, mainly because my JS knowledge went out the window a few years back so I couldn't figure out how to call the matching columns function again after everything was done loading.
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Mmmmm what browser are you using because I just tested it in Chrome and IE8 and can't replicate the problem
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Oh and you are right this is no where near the worst tie-in I've ever encountered – I played E.T. on the Atari for instance
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Firefox 2
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Cheers for that!
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