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Summary: A great game!
Review: I think this is one of the best star trek games to ever come out on the market. The graphics are really great except the combat scenes which are ok. The inability to turn of some of the voices and leave some on is also a little annoying. Other than that, i think it has a pretty good interface. This is a game that does take a lot of micromanagement but thats what makes it fun. The only thing is that once I get beyond the simple level I have to use the cheat codes to win! It is a truly challenging game in that respect. It also takes a lot of patience. If you want a quick blow 'em up game, don't get this one. If you like intricate strategy in a difficult game that goes on and on (and on), this is your game.
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Summary: I think that this deserves 1,000,000 stars!
Review: I used to have this game before it cracked, and am now desperatly looking for it! I have played every empire, and have found Romulans and the Federation most comfortable, and I have even made an enemy: the Feringi!
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Summary: This game rocks!
Review: I'm not the biggest of Star Trek fans but this game rocks. You get to control all aspects of your empire. You can build ships, outpost, and other builds. You can build spies, gain tech, and a whole lot more. The best part is the combat. The battles are great. (Watch out for the borg and other killer creatures)
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Summary: Very good ST sim, with a few minor problems
Review: I've been interested in the Star Trek genre computer games for some time, but it seems that, with the exception of STV: Elite Force, they all stink. Every review I've ever read has rated just about every ST game in the cellar, to the detriment of my enjoyment. I was hoping for a quality sim, and it's here. BotF is a gem, with a few minor problems. First off, understand that I picked this up at a Best Buy for $2.99. (No, that's not a typo.) I hadn't read anything about it, and figured if it was as bad as its predecessors, for $2.99 I wouldn't be out a lot. What a deal I got. The game is worth ten times the price I paid for it, maybe more. If you want a turn-based, stratiegic empire-building game with Star Trek as the background, this is for you, period. The game allows you to choose between five races: Klingon, Federation, Ferengi, Romulan, and Cardassian. You can choose the level of technology that each empire begins with, in effect choosing a difficulty level. Choose the size of the universe, the number of minor races (which is always enjoyable to have many of), and a few other things, and off you go. You start at your own corner of the universe, and you find yourself frantically trying to expand while increasing your technologies for the unavoidable contact you'll be making with minor races (unless you choose to not have any at the game's set up) and the other major powers. Eventually, the colonization/assimilation will end, and you'll be swept into a wave of diplomacy, military strikes, upkeep, and espionage to help continue to carve out your niche in the universe. One of the shining examples of this game is how it makes you stick to the doctrine of your chosen race by rewarding you for playing "in role" and greatly penalizing you for not. For example, if you choose the Feds you are gifted with great diplomatic powers and are expected to use such at all times. Making contact with a minor race or a major power should result in diplomacy. If, however, you choose to be a warmonger, you will find the minor race populations very annoying and the other powers banding together to destroy you. So, you are rewarded with increased diplomacy and are expected to go that route, as the Federation would. If you are the Klingons, you are gifted with a strong (and eager!) military, and entering into diplomatic agreements are seen as a sign of weakness. The other major powers fall somewhere in the middle of all that: the Ferengi are excellent traders, the Cardassians are good at controlling populations, and the Romulans are good at spying and internal security. Use your strengths and minimize your weaknesses. Combat is incredible. You issue orders to your ships, then sit back and watch the action as if you were in a movie. You can move your view all around the screen and zoom in and out to get the best views possible. Then the turn ends, and you can change orders if you wish. Even the Borg are in this game. They will appear as a random event, and if they do...well, reset the game if you're not at the pinnacle of your technologies. I played as the Klingons in a small universe, and went rampaging across the galaxy. Within a hundred turns, a Borg cube appeared in orbit around one of my conquests and proceeded to dissect it. My huge Klingon fleet went to fight the cube (about 12 ships in all), and in one turn they were shredded like yesterday's newspaper. Oops. Reset! Okay, so now to the niggling little points. For one, the entire game is in the Star Trek: TNG format. So, even though you choose to start as the Federation and only have Earth, you don't start with the older ships. You have weaker versions of something you'd expect to see on ST:TNG. You start, in the lowest tech setting, with three ship types - colony, transport, and destroyer. They are all TNG-style ships. I would have liked to see the older Constitution-class heavy cruisers (the original Enterprise from the 60's series), then be able to upgrade as the series did, ultimately to the Galaxy-class ships. It's a minor detail, but one that would have made this game even more enjoyable. Otherwise, if you are a turn-based strategy/Star Trek fan, pick this up. You shouldn't regret it!
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Summary: Slash77
Review: In its day this was ok, but graphics are not really state of the art and in retrospect too complex with little action.
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Summary: A MUST for every Trekker
Review: Microprose earned my loyalty on this game. I LOVE IT! I've played this game a hundred times, yet each time the versatile AI guarantees a completely new gaming experience. Though the game had several bugs initially, Microprose has a patch that pretty well takes care of them. The 5 empires are so much like what you see on the episodes that playing the game is like entering the Star Trek Universe. The oddest thing about the game is its name. Each empire you play is the central empire of the game, and it's no more the Birth of the Federation than the birth of the Klingons, Cardassians, Ferengi, or Romulans. Watch out for the BORG! They are devastating! I highly recommend this game!
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Summary: This is slow, but a good one
Review: OH MY GOD CAN IT BE ANY SLOWER. I has running it on a Pentium II and lord was it slow. I like the game though. It is.... different. I have tryed playing as all the sects (Fed. Kling. Car. Rom. Fur.) and it is hard to get started, but then it goes okay until turn about 150. Then you just can't get a break. This is not a one day game it can take YEARS to play.
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Summary: All weighed out
Review: Ok, After reading the other customer reviews I tought i'd write a more 'Neutral' approach. This game really does bring turn based stratagy back to life. But yes the interface does get laggy. The Space Combat is Good except for the fact it is all over after 2 turns. If you get a ship editor up eah ships shields by 300 and you get a better result. O and the Borg, O YES THE BORG. Overall the Designers did the best they could, as with all space stratagys, there is one simple problem. It is not a stratagy. It is simply a case of who sends the most ships, This game almost solves the problem. I say well done.
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Summary: Finally, a good Star Trek game
Review: OK, I'll make the first paragraph of this review for non-trekkies, and the second paragraph for trekkies. Non-Trekkie: This game is like Civilization II, only instead of two enemys bumping into each other and one loses, there is a tactical combat screen. This is so much more fun! Your can give your entire fleet a command or give individual ships different commands. The graphics for this part are real cool. It's way better than bumping into the other guy and then the battle is over in two seconds. Even though you don't know all the "trek talk", the manual will explain everything, so don't worry. In short, BUY THIS GAME! Trekkie: Your knowledge of Technobable will make this game easy to learn. The races are true to their reputations. The Ferengi are always bribing others, the Cardassians can't be trusted, the Klingons are war-mongers, and so forth. This is truly a great Star Trek game. I'm sure you will love it, I know I did.
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Summary: Old Enemies Make Dangerous Friends...
Review: Simply, this game is awesome. There are many different approaches to winning this game. You can become a powerful alliance with everyone, send sabatuers in to destroy your enemy interally, or you can use the sheer force of your fleet of ships to win over all the empires. This game is a crowd pleaser: Star Trek fans and turn based strategy fans alike would love this title to be in their computer software library!
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