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Star Trek: Shattered Universe

Star Trek: Shattered Universe

List Price: $49.99
Your Price: $39.88
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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Whoa what a mark on Star Trek gaming
Review: Im not really sure what this drivel is. This has to be the worst concept for a game I have ever seen. There is no way, a fan of Star Trek developed this game. Had to be some goofball who enjoys pitiful flight simulators. Stay away from this title.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: THIS GAME SUCKS A$$
Review: No fun at all, IMPOSSIBLE to finish, where is the Enterprise? You fly a small ship which sucks, even on easy its super hard. Shame on you game develpoers...i wasted $4.00 to rent this. Game absolutley sucks!!! 0/10 rating.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: My head hurts
Review: Ok, I got suckered into this would be a cool game, luckily I rented it from WalletBu$ter and didn't shell out $40+ for this loser.

Run down of what makes this thing a 3-Day rental or $10 Used Game:

1. Control layout is awful. They crammed three weapons, forward & reverse thrust, direction & rolls, target selection and view selection into three awkward layouts. Come-on guys, this could have been simple: TRIGGERS=GUNS, A=THRUST, B=HONK HORN! Half the figging time I trying to figure out what to fire while my 5 other punk shuttles are bearing down on me!

2. The first mission is a major disappointment. You are first told to jump into a shuttle craft with a phaser duck-taped to the hood and ordered to defend the Excellsior. You need to chase off a capital ship and blow-up 3-4 other shuttles - all while Sulu is barking, "You have 30 seconds left mister!"

3. They have this "cinematic" view...forget using it. I tried this out, lost control and watched my shuttle fly into an asteroid.

4. You have a photon-like weapon, but no auto/computer assisted targeting. Man, with a all this advance technology and Sulu sends me out on a weak shuttle, he deserves to blow up!

5. No skirmishes, atleast not without Xlive that I'm aware of. I like mission-based games, but sometimes I wish I could select the Enterprise, upgrade the Photons, bolt-on another engine and stick on those neon "Aero" wiperblades. With my modified Enterprise I'd go blow things up like: other capital ships, pesky shuttles, people accidentally beamed into space, etc.

6. The game has quite a bit of 3D animation of Sulu and Chekov. Every scene you could count on Sulu slowly blinking 2-3 times...really annoying, I was waiting for another crew member to come up with a tazer and shock some life into him.

7. I think I was hoping for a real good capital ship vs. capital ship game (i.e. FIRE PHASERS AT ENGINEERING and watch Scotty get plasma burns), but got stuck flying tiny shuttles with no balls - well maybe a half a ball.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Oh why did I buy this silly game?
Review: That is what you will ask yourself after a few minutes of playing it. The story begins with Sulu commanding the Excelsior and when he responds to a distress beacon from Enterprise (commanded by Chekov) the ship flies into a "vortex" and is suddenly transposed into an alternate universe. The Federation is no longer a peacful utopian organization and Sulu is accused of treason. Excelsior is on the run and in the typical Star Trek fashion Sulu and the crew must battle their way through the universe until they discover a way home. Thats all fine and dandy except that the game play has little, if anything to do with the story.
The missions are silly. Your character (who remains unidentified the entire time) pilots an array of fighter craft and is usually charged with something like holding off the enemy fighters - while the unseen crew of Excelsior is working on the story line. Each mission has a time limit and a vague set of instructions. Sulu is constantly baby sitting you during the mission by barking orders and changing your objective. The controls are difficult and the onscreen targeting interface is barely helpful. There is a convoluded radar and ship readout which don't help much either. To top it off the pointless cut scenes are really boring.
This game requires no thought or problem solving skill. It is a straight forward "fly around and shoot stuff" game. The story is lame and in no way related to the game play. There are no special video or audio effects, and no ability to alter the controller settings. Save your money - hook up your PSone and play Star Wars Rogue Squadron. Or for a cool dog fighting game try Crimson Skies.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Oh why did I buy this silly game?
Review: That is what you will ask yourself after a few minutes of playing it. The story begins with Sulu commanding the Excelsior and when he responds to a distress beacon from Enterprise (commanded by Chekov) the ship flies into a "vortex" and is suddenly transposed into an alternate universe. The Federation is no longer a peacful utopian organization and Sulu is accused of treason. Excelsior is on the run and in the typical Star Trek fashion Sulu and the crew must battle their way through the universe until they discover a way home. Thats all fine and dandy except that the game play has little, if anything to do with the story.
The missions are silly. Your character (who remains unidentified the entire time) pilots an array of fighter craft and is usually charged with something like holding off the enemy fighters - while the unseen crew of Excelsior is working on the story line. Each mission has a time limit and a vague set of instructions. Sulu is constantly baby sitting you during the mission by barking orders and changing your objective. The controls are difficult and the onscreen targeting interface is barely helpful. There is a convoluded radar and ship readout which don't help much either. To top it off the pointless cut scenes are really boring.
This game requires no thought or problem solving skill. It is a straight forward "fly around and shoot stuff" game. The story is lame and in no way related to the game play. There are no special video or audio effects, and no ability to alter the controller settings. Save your money - hook up your PSone and play Star Wars Rogue Squadron. Or for a cool dog fighting game try Crimson Skies.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Awsome!
Review: This game was on of the best of all time! I really enjoyed it and reccomend it to others.

Rating: 0 stars
Summary: So lame it should qualify for disability!!!
Review: This is not only the worst star trek game since "APPLE TREK" (on Apple 2 E computer,,,anyone remember that??) but also the worst x-box game ever to foul my laser!!!! You dont get to control the big ships!! What you are given is a lame shuttlecraft that weakly blasts the big starships with a laughable phaser and torpedo effect!! WHY DID THEY EVEN BOTHER to make this game!!!
Like many I was hoping this would be similar to the old SNES star trek academy game where you could choose a starship and go against other ships from the tv and movie series!! NOW THAT WAS A GAME!!! You could play against another person as well which rocked!! Imagine the fun of a cloaking shield!!! Then out of the dark you materialise behind the enemy and blow him away !!

BUT THIS!!!! THIS TRAVESTY is the saddest effort I have ever seen!!! PLEASE DONT BUY THIS GAME AND TEACH THE DEVELOPERS A LESSON!!
P.S. the tech tv series X-PLAY gave it 1 out of 5 as well haha!!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: An innovating and suprisingly fun game, but not without flaw
Review: Truth be told, this game is the first "fighter" game of it's type.

The premis of the game is simple. The USS Excelsior, commanded by Captain Hikaru Sulu responds to a distress call from two federation ships, one being the USS Enterprise..oddly..under the command of Pavel Chekov. Somehow, the Excelsior is pulled into the alternate universe, and runs right into the ISS Enterprise, commanded by an evil Pavel Chekov. Chaos ensues for nearly 20 missions.

This game has many good points. The graphics, sound and music as well as the story line are all top notch, and deserve praise. Many Original Series moments are duplicated in the mirror universe in top form, and the capital ships are very difficult to destroy with a fighter, as they should be.
However....

The games flaws keep it from gaining a 5 star rating. The game is insanely difficult even on easy. the Imperial Fleet seems to be made up of only three classes of ships, the Refit Constitution Class, the Miranda class and an unamed Destroyer class. In all the missions, the capital ships never slug it out, you never see photon torpedos and phasers being fired between the Excelsior and the enemy ships, the only thing they do is take random pot shots at fighters.

Both Sulu and Chekov are voiced by the actors that played them, a big, big plus.

I would recommend this game for any trek fan, but be aware of it's errors before you simply jump in head first without thinking.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: this game totally sucks
Review: what does this game have to do with Star Trek??? the scenario is totally contrived, and even if it weren't the game play is horrible


Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Disappointing
Review: When I finished playing this game, I thought about what could have been...maybe this could have become Star Trek, "Crimson Skies" style, with the kind of great aerial/spaceborn combat that is so rare these days. Even a Star Trek version of "Jedi Starfighter" would have been acceptable. But that's not to be. This may be the worst Trek game produced to date, with shoddy graphics, awful controls, and overall terrible gameplay.

The idea was intriguing: Borrowing from the classic Trek episode "Mirror, Mirror," which featured an alternative universe that was completely alien to Kirk and his crew, this game finds you as defender (in an admittedly cool small starfighter) of the USS Excelsior, captained by Hikaru Sulu (voicework from George Takei; that's Walter Koenig as the voice of Chekov, as well) in a hostile environment. The Terran Empire has replaced the Federation, and you must defend your ship from constant attacks. Sounds good so far...but when one's missions consist of little more than keeping attackers from weakening the Excelsior's shields or shooting asteroids in order to gather needed materials, one gets bored very, very quickly. The sub-par graphics (barely PS One calibre, even on the XBox) are distracting, with some of the worst visuals seen on any game in recent memory. Large explosions and impacts are graphically inferior, more like firecrackers than earth-shattering blasts. Character imagery (like Sulu and Chekov) is so bad that you wouldn't recognize either character if you didn't know what game you were playing. Animatics are nearly static and often clumsy. Controls are just terrible--your ship handles poorly (like piloting a refrigerator in a hurricane), and the built-in targeting system is inconsistent at best. Overall, I can find very few positive things to say about this game.

What could have been an excellent game--possibly giving Trek a leg-up into the sci-fi gaming world that Star Wars has so long dominated--ends up being a great disappointment. One may end up feeling that this game was released simply to capitalize on the Star Trek name.


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