- Original Release: 2006
- Developer: 4J Studios
- Publisher: Bethesda
- Platform: PS2
This is a sort of tie in game to Star Trek Legacy for the PlayStation 2 – a cheap game thrown at the older generation console while all the effort was focused on the Xbox 360. This game does though all the Star Trek shows, from Enterprise to Voyager, along with a campaign called “Star Trek: Sovereign” featuring the Enterprise E.
The game is an arcade twin stick shooter. Left analogue stick moves, right analogue stick shoots. While it’s a simple game, the controls are convoluted: the left shoulder buttons change height, you have to swap between phasers, torpedoes and other abilities. What should have been really easy is now a pain due to the control setup, and the change in height makes almost no difference to the game.
While a lot of the game is shooting, you’ll encounter various obstacles to padd the game such as racing through rings or following warp trails by moving between glowy things within a short time (which is far more annoying than it sounds). The missions themselves are sometimes very loosely based on stuff that happens in the show, but also really off (like the Xindi invading Earth in the Enterprise missions). Others are slightly unique, such as the Enterprise D encountering a giant lifeform and getting sucked into it.
The missions start with a short briefing from an extremely bored William Shatner, with no other voice acting (and zero actual dialogue) in the game, your next objective just pops up in generic sounding text. This couples with how ships move makes it feel like you’re playing with toy ships. Similar to how there are LEGO games, this would feel much better if it was called “Micro Machines Star Trek”.
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I really liked the gameplay of this one.
Decidedly meh game. I think it’s the only game I played through once and never touched again
Never knew this existed. Playing now and it’s good fun so far. The ‘fly through the rings in 2 minutes’ part of the tutorial was a nightmare!
Have fond memories of this one. Played it so much I started finding bugs and ways to glitch certain parts of it. Still unsure if this works for everyone but in the versus mode against the computer use the NX-01 and fight and beat the Borg Diamond then keep an eye on DS9.
I was able to grab a copy in a shop back in 2008 and it was fun I guess for 1 hour max. It really felt like an arcade game of sort. The « sequel » one is better from the few I played.
I will give it that the ships models are good for a PS2 game.
God I love this game. Repetitive yet deeply satisfying. Those Cardassian ships are tough as hell!
I remember the skirmish mode in this game was decently fun, and the collectibles were a neat bonus to the game. Otherwise, yeah. It had a LAME single player mode🤣 can’t wait for your coverage on Star Trek (Battlefront) Conquest🎉