Star Trek: Starship Creator

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Summary: Star Ship Creator
Review: Well, first off, I must say I was dissapointed when I got to the "Man your own mission" part. But otherwise, I liked the product. It starts out with a prompt for your name, then you can go from there. You choose a class of starship, then you retro fit it with your choice of nacelles, hulls, and saucer sections. I was slightly dissapointed here, because you only get 3-5 choices with each item. What would be nice, is if you could take parts from other classes of ship, and add them to your ship. For example: a set of Defiant class nacelles, on an Intrepid class ship. But the 3-D view of your ship is incomplete. In several places the hull is discolored, and mishapen. Pity there' s a 12 character name limit. Pity it assigns you a registry #. As for the innards, you must really study the TNG Tech Manual before you can fill up your ship in the Expert mode. I like the fact though, that you can choose whether you want high quality, or discount parts in your ship, and you can forego the holodecks, and luxury quarters, until you get some more credits. As a Star Trek nut, I wish there were some more things you could do with the bowels of the ship. The missions are pathetic. It starts off with exciting music when it automatically throws itself into warp, but after those thirty seconds are up, it's quiet until you get there. Don't run real-time mode unless you have all day to play with your game. What also really stinks, is you can't just minimize the window, and do something else until your mission is complete. And if you do go into "stealth" mode, you can't get back into the game. Good if you want to know more about the insides of a ship, bad if you've seen 10 or fewer ST episodes. My advice, wait until it goes in the sale bins, or check out the sequel coming soon.

Rating:
Summary: Star Ship Creator
Review: Well, first off, I must say I was dissapointed when I got to the "Man your own mission" part. But otherwise, I liked the product. It starts out with a prompt for your name, then you can go from there. You choose a class of starship, then you retro fit it with your choice of nacelles, hulls, and saucer sections. I was slightly dissapointed here, because you only get 3-5 choices with each item. What would be nice, is if you could take parts from other classes of ship, and add them to your ship. For example: a set of Defiant class nacelles, on an Intrepid class ship. But the 3-D view of your ship is incomplete. In several places the hull is discolored, and mishapen. Pity there' s a 12 character name limit. Pity it assigns you a registry #. As for the innards, you must really study the TNG Tech Manual before you can fill up your ship in the Expert mode. I like the fact though, that you can choose whether you want high quality, or discount parts in your ship, and you can forego the holodecks, and luxury quarters, until you get some more credits. As a Star Trek nut, I wish there were some more things you could do with the bowels of the ship. The missions are pathetic. It starts off with exciting music when it automatically throws itself into warp, but after those thirty seconds are up, it's quiet until you get there. Don't run real-time mode unless you have all day to play with your game. What also really stinks, is you can't just minimize the window, and do something else until your mission is complete. And if you do go into "stealth" mode, you can't get back into the game. Good if you want to know more about the insides of a ship, bad if you've seen 10 or fewer ST episodes. My advice, wait until it goes in the sale bins, or check out the sequel coming soon.

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Summary: Don't bother to dream it because you can't build it.
Review: You can't mix and match parts from different ships or rearrange the how the parts fit together. You only get three options for each standard part on each ship. The Missions are sit back and watch .........until you grow old. There is absolutely no interaction between you and the mission. I will never buy anything from this software company again. Star Trek should never have licensed their name for this product.