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Summary: Not bad at all.
Review: ST: Armada is a really spectacular first try for an RTS (Real Time Strategy) game. It has a decent story line for the solo missions and it's online playing capability is superb. Only complaint is that there is a severe lack of different ships and it would have been a little better if you could have had a "higher view from above" when commanding huge armadas in online play. It's worth buying, it's worth playing. It's a good game.
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Summary: The Startrek game I always dreamed about.
Review: When I got my first Commodore proto-computer back in the early eighties this is exactly the sort of game that I hoped would one day be developed for home computers. If you are like me, you daydreamed alot about the various starship designs and the possibility of all-out fleet action between the Federation and the Klingon and Romulan Empires. Well, you don't have to do it in your mind anymore. Not only that, you also get the most overwhelming of all opponents, the Borg - and the chance to team up against them. Plus you get ships from minor races showing up, like the Ferengi, Jem Hadar, Cardassians, etc.
I couldn't imagine a better interface for controlling a fleet battle. It is very intuitive and smooth. And you aren't forced to run around constantly micro-managing individual ships. Plus you get that little cinematic "screen in screen" that lets you see individual ship-to-ship action like it was on a movie screen. A tiny little movie screen, but a movie screen.
Some reviewers have complained of technical problems and crashes- I've played this game through to the end at least three times now on an out-of-the-box standard Gateway, and I haven't had any problems.
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Summary: DAMN good effort!
Review: This game turns out to be almost everything that Star Fleet Command was not. You build a bunch of ships (and the infrastructure to support them), and go out and blow stuff up! The graphics are good, and the AI isn't too shoddy either (all though there were times I tried to ask it if it was retarded!). These are my big complaints about this game:
1) A fleet can only consist of 9 ships. Where as ST: Armada 2 a fleet can be up to 16.
2) No real mission re-playability.
3) No map editor for single player games. To some, these complaints may seem big but they really arent. The single player instant action comes with several different maps built, I just think it would have been cool to include a way to make your own map as well (I seem to recall seeing one out on the net somewhere - probably cheatplanet.com or something). Mission re-playability isn't a big deal either, because once I play thru a mission-only game, I usually don't go back to it too often. And fleet size, well, it was corrected in ST:Armada 2 to allow for larger fleets and different formation flying and such, but sometimes moving just 9 ships at a time is plenty.
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Summary: ehhh a big disapointment
Review: I'm a big real time strategy fan, and when i saw that star trek came out with a game that gives me the power to create and command ships in that way,i was excited. when i finally got it it was filled with nothing but disapointments. first you'd think four different races from the galaxy would be different to use no. they're all the same, just a few cheesy special weapons. the ships look great but my opinion they should be a bit larger, i mean i have a hard time finding my scouters they're so small. the missions are very easy, any starcraft veteran as myself can set up a few defenses and rest easy. another problem is destroying your enemy, it takes forever! i've played star trek armada 2 and they're is such a huge difference. graphics are solid though. but i recommend to buy the sequel you get way more ships, which i really dont understand why you get so few in the first.
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Summary: Great Game
Review: Star Trek Armada is one of my faivorite games. The Omega Missions that you can only access by beating all the other campains was a big plus because I actualy had a reason to play through the missions and not just use the Instant Action option. Also the fact that the missions have some of the races that you can't play like the Sonia, or the Cardassians is fun. The only problem is because the builings are the same as some of the races buildings. Only the shipyards were diffrent. The Feringi had a Federation Dilitium Mining ship. Other than those flaws the game was enough to keep me occupied for several days of game play.
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Summary: Where no Real Time Strategy has gone before
Review: Yes, this is THE best RTS I have ever played. The controls are quite simple, the concept is intreaging, the graphics are blazing, and sound is blasting, and the game play is like none other. I was suprised at all the bland, average ratings and reviews Armada was getting among the game sites, but when it came down to the people's choice, Armada glittered. This game is simply amazing, with 4 different races, other Star Trek people (such as Cardassians, Jem'Hadar and Feringi) that are standing by for gaming support, and multiplayer options! Woa, overdrive. Okay, look, I didn't even know what GENRE Armada was before I bought it! I was just in the store, and it was $20! (Canadian). I had ... beans in my pocket, so I shelled 'em out, since I am a huge Trekie, I trusted that the game would be good. Noticing that it was RTS, I was suprised, and almost dissapointed, but when I played the game, it was far richer than any Sim or Action! If you have $... lyin' around, get Armada...! It will take you to the far reaches of your moniter, erm, space.
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Summary: Much better than expected
Review: I just got Star Trek: Armada a couple of weeks ago and I was extremely impressed. Upon initially starting, I thought just the opening video was worth the money. So when I actually played the game, I was blown away. I'm a huge gamer and Star Trek fan, so a real-time strategy Star Trek game is a dream come true. And Armada certainly is qualified to carry the name. Graphics are excellent, gameplay is easy to get the hang of, and the interface is great. My only complaint is that the ships of the different species are to similar. (AKA, the Federation Akira class is exactly the same in capabilities as the Romulan Griffin class.) But that is very minor, and there are different special weapons that are unique, so don't let that stop you. The story and cinematics are good (voice-overs provided by Patrick Steward, Denise Crosby, and Michael Dorn) and the campaigns are all interconnected, so you get to play both sides of the conflict with four races. (In Tiberian Sun, you get to play two different sides, but the stories arn't interconnected). All in all, an excellent game, even for non Star Trek fans.
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Summary: Great real time strategy
Review: The first thing I'd like to say about Armada is that it is definitely not just for Trekkies. I wouldn't remotely qualify as one, and I still loved it. Anyone who appreciates a good RTS should already have this. More than being good strategy, Armada is also an excellent graphical experience. The ships fight with cinematic intensity, with realistic damage and attractive projectile action. You can even go to a 'movie mode' where you can view a melee from a floating 3-D perspective (although at the expense of control). On the strategy side, there is only one resource- dilithium. You harvest it from dilithium moons that can be finite or infinite. It's a pretty straightforward resource model, and things are automated enough that you won't have to micromanage it. A welcome balance tweak is the starbase armament, which makes a rush basically impossible. Bad news for all the battle.net fools that like to send zerglings or zealots (you know who you are). Each race has an superweapon of immense power, but in every case they are prohibitively expensive and slow to build. If you see one anywhere in the first 20 minutes of the game, someone is probably hacking. However, once someone gets one, they have a pretty major advantage against anyone that's technologically deficient. You can also make good of the potentially powerful- though also very physically weak- science vessels each race offers. They're expensive and slow, but can be the deciding factor in a major battle. All of this serves to make advancing your tech a very feasible strategy over a simple 'build more warships, wear them down' method. The single play campaign is excellent. It has a neat plot and you'll see a lot of unique starships that you won't see elsewhere- such as the two Cardassian types, Dominion vessels, and a Breen battleship. None of the levels are especially hard, but they can take some thinking. I especially liked one where you have to pilot USS Avenger to safety with a Klingon fleet hot on your tail. Multi-play is probably the weakest aspect of the game. It's choppy even on a direct connection and hunting down every last one of your enemies can be utterly tedious. Playing online also makes the game notoriously crash prone, and if you have eight people in one game it is both extremely slow and crashy. The computer plays a lot like the Dark Reign AI, building up until it has a huge force and then trying to swamp you. If you survive that one big assault, the computer is plenty ready to die. Rather than improving the AI to be a bit smarter, the difficulty settings give it a handicap- a very huge one on hardest. They build things faster and everything costs less, so they can send a bigger attack at you earlier in the game. Now, I know enough about Trek to realize that some of the ships aren't accurately specified. The Defiant, especially, is incredibly weak for something that could take and dish out so much damage in Deep Space Nine. Nevertheless, the actual sides are very well balanced and the models are so well done that the specifications are a minor point. Each side has its strengths and weaknesses. For example, all Romulan ships can cloak, but the Romulans are at a severe penalty when being boarded or trying to board ships of other races. There were a few balance problems with special weapons- such as the chain reaction pulsar- but they have been fixed in updates. The patch also (in my case at least) makes the game far more stable. Be sure you download it. All right, so the game has a few weaknesses, but other than that it is a huge load of fun. For strategy fans or Trekkies, this is a must-buy.
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Summary: Endless fun
Review: Wow--what a great game. The graphics and sound are great, the strategy a blast --just 2 comments I didn't see below.
1) Even after you're done with the missions, by going into the Multiplayer area and chosing instant action, you can play against as many as 7 other Computer AI driven enemies, on a series of maps included with the softwear --so the fun literally never ends while you play game after game with no two exactly alike. The Computer AI is exceptional, and you can set AI enemies to ally with you or each other in a series of neverending combinations. 2. The graphics are not only good as the game starts, but by clicking on the "action monitor" window (that shows a tv-style image of whatever action is happening elsewhere on the board in a rotating fashion) you zoom into that area with the whole screen occupied by the much larger ships as they dogfight. You can also zoom in our out yourself. One criticism related to this --I wish you had the option of zooming out a bit more than what is permitted you, since it can be tricky to keep tabs on everything happening --there's just SO MUCH ACTION!.
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Summary: Set Phasers To Stun!!
Review: Good another Star Trek game but only now, I have been taken where no man has gone before. Star Trek Armada boasts in my opinion to be the most dominant strategy game in the Trek series. I bought Star Trek Armada last year, and I am very impressed! The FMV at the beginning was something I was really impressed with...I love the firing of phasers in inter galactic combat!!! Once I adapted to the games operations, I soon ranked this game as one of the better games I had and not one of those games I play a few times then tuck it away in the drawer. Graphics in the game with aid of a decent graphics card (Voodoo 4 PCI in my case) made this game really enjoyable. I first played this with a 4mb Graphics card which was really slow but my enthusiasm for the game was so great, I set all the graphical details to it's bear minimum for it to operate at a good frame rate...but now I enjoy it even more. Ships are rendered brilliantly as are all the little features in the galaxy maps. Strange space anomaly's and particals which float in space can be to your advantage or disadvantage...this game has it all. My final verdict despite this review being short is that this game is one of my must buys. And with a optional multiplayer gaming option, you can battle your wits against other people around the world making the game the ultimate challenge. You'll be at it for some time...no BS.
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