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Star Trek: Armada

Star Trek: Armada

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A definite step in the right direction...
Review: Star Trek Armada is : A very good game!

What do you get when you have millions of trekkies or trekkers wanting to play Star Trek on a broad level but don't want to be restricted to one race? You get the latest game to hit the compters, Star Trek Armada. Now you can control multiple starships ranging from Federation, Klingon, Romulan and our favorite, the Borg.

Following some of the same guidlines found in Blizzard's Starcraft, you must play 4 chapters in the struggle with a fight to fend off the Borg. You mine dilitium moons and build starbases in space to amass huge armadas of ships to do battle with. Each chapter focuses on a specific race that you must control and successfully complete each mission. It does make for some fun game play and insight into a story created for this game.

The graphics are very nice and you do get a sense of what it is to control ships and manage space stations in space. Although alot of the screen is taken up by menu boxes that can be removed, the ability to zoom out my have you scrolling like crazy to manage your space battles. As for the cutscences, they are not anything to write home about, but they are nice.

The gameplay is a little awakward to get used to. You are limited on what you can build depending on your mission and even then it is time consuming to build up a sizeable force. This would have been taken care of if you were able to manipulate your ships more instead of moving near another ship and firing. I really wish they would have allowed you to allow your ships to make evasive manuevers rather than just sit next to enemy and exchange fire until one is dead. The ability to have more control over a few ships would not make it necessary to amass huge armies of ships to attack the enemy terriortory. Being able to target specific systems on ships with firepower would be nice too. Are you listening Activision? I hope so. At least enemy ships do the the brains to retreat when they become heavily damaged. But even so the AI is not too smart.

Overall this game is very nice and enjoyable to play. I especially loved playing the Borg (who wouldn't?). As for bugs others encounted in the game, I found none and you can download patches to add additional ships to build if you desire. The replay value is very minimal unless you focus on the multiplayer side. Activision has taken a good step in making this game. They have many of the basic conceptions right on the money. All they need to do now is add more functions and polish the game up a bit. I will definetly purchase any sequels to this game that might come out in the future. So Activision, plot us a course and "Engage!"

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: a good game that takes some getting used to
Review: I didn't like this RTS game that much; I'm used to playing Dune and it really made sense; the Armada game is different and will take some getting used to. There are more controls than there needs to be and the screen is cluttered with several sub-screens (which can be turned on/off). The intermission sometimes appears to interupt game play rather than happening after a battle takes place (and the battles seem rushed sometimes...when I'd like to have a chance to explore the surroundings a little). I recommend Emperor: Battle for Dune instead.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Very fun, but old
Review: This game rocks! The graphics are good. You can choose between the Klingons, the federation, the romulans, and the borg. You can go to Star Trek's website and get downloads like creating your own map. The only problem is that your computer has to be very powerful to run it.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: My Review of Star Trek: Armada
Review: Star Trek: Armada is one of the best Star Trek games I've played alough I was a bit disapointed that I coulden't build a Galaxy Class. The only way you can use a Galaxy Class is playing one of the Final Missions or using the multiplayer map "The Junkyard" by salvaging a wreked Galaxy Class. One neat thing about the game is that Patrick Stewart and Michal Dorn both voice characters in this Game (Picard/Locutus, Worf). The strangest thing about the game is how Picard meets Locutus which is strange because they are both the same person (or Borg, or whatever). If you like action I whould recomend this game. If you like action without waiting for ships to be built than I reccomend Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Where are all the Intrepid-Class ships at?
Review: I was unimpressed with this game. The races are too similar to each other. The ships within each race do not differ much except in size. Mouse control is painfully sluggish. Space is two-dimensional - ...Resource collection is uncreative. Several ship classes are missing, such as the Intrepids. Only 8 ships can be selected at a time. Whether I played the Borg or the Federation, I got the feeling that I was just building the same things with different graphics in a [copy] of Starcraft.

Generally, a rather half-hearted effort at a real-time strategy game. It's not bad, really, it's just that there are much better games out there. Like Armada II.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Buggy but good
Review: I've been playing this game for a few years on my 300mhz and just loaded it onto a 600 mhz machine. It has always been a bit buggy even with the 1.2 patch but it plays well enough to be a good time. With the addition of the mods you can find on the net the game can be changed endlessly to keep you interested. I would recommend this game to any ST fan.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Decent game, when it doesn't lock up the computer
Review: Locked up my P3 350 with 256M 5 times before I quit playing. If it worked, it would have been a reasonably good game.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Best game since Starcraft!!
Review: the game engine allows for scinerios where you don't ever face the same situation time and time again. the graphics are fair and the special effects are pretty well done. my favorite parts are when the ships go under each other and other planets.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: It is like your the Admiral
Review: You get to Command the whole entire Borg Collective, The United Federation Of Planets, The Klingon Empire, and The Romulan Star Empire. Very well done.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: A good strat. game.
Review: its a good startrek 3d strategy game but i allways had a problem with it crashing.


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