- Original Release: 2009
- Developer: Naked Sky
- Publisher: Paramount Digital
- Platform: Xbox 360, PS3, PC
D-A-C stands for “Deathmatch, Assault, Conquest”, the three game modes in this arcade ship shooter. I couldn’t get the game to run on PC, and because absolutely nobody cares about this game, couldn’t find any methods to try, so I tried the Xbox 360 version.
You play as Federation or Romulans from the Star Trek 2009 film (even though the only Romulans involved are from the future), each with three classes of ships: Fighters which play like a twin stick shooter, bombers which drop mines behind them and flagships which have crosshairs that they move across the screen to aim. The deluxe and PC versions added a few more, but they don’t change much.
The ships control light one-man fighters, and when you die you launch an escape pod (which is not much smaller than the ship itself) and if you survive, you respawn quicker. It feel like this game was designed as a new IP before having Star Trek quickly thrown on top. Other than the great title screen music (taken from the film), nothing feels remotely Star Trek.
Other than the escape pod mechanic, there’s nothing interesting about the game itself. Deathmatch is deathmatch, and Assault and Conquest are just variants of King of the Hill. The game later got a survival mode of just defeating waves of enemies.
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Another game I’d forgotten about. I remember playing this but getting bored with it fairly early on
I had a ton of fun playing this game back in the day. Got all the achievements, and the best thing was the cool Star Trek gamer pics you could unlock for you XBL profile. The Kelvin universe is great, we need more stuff set there.
I still play it on my Steamdeck. It’s weird but a good Trek arcade experience
What a rubbish name. It’s the sort of name they’d come up with on The Apprentice while spouting clichés about it doing exactly what it says on the tin.
Strangely one of the few games however that offers a couple more additions to Starfleet and the Romulans that I haven’t seen repeated anywhere strangely. Not even fan art even though they’re interesting concepts. Fun for a minute and survival mode can test your patience.
I still have it on my Xbox 360😅. Back then I just bought it because it was Star Trek. That being said, for being what they used to call an XBLA “arcade” game on X360, it was not bad for the 8 bucks they asked. It’s a fun little shooter, but after one hour you are done with it.
Only really played this on the demo disk included with the Blu-ray of the movie. Fun for what it was, but def not the ideal Trek game.