- Original Release: N/A (In development 1998)
- Developer: MicroProse
- Publisher: MicroProse
- Original Platform: PC
- Not played: No leaked prototypes.
After making the Generations game, MicroProse set to work on a game for First Contact. Instead of retelling the events of the film, they opted to make a direct sequel: the Borg Queen had managed to copy her brain to the Enterprise’s computer, and the Enterprise kept some of the Borg (for either study, release or prisoners, it’s not clear). A few months after First Contact, this copy of the queen takes control of the Borg on the ship and starts assimilating.
The whole game would have been set on the Enterprise E (although from the screenshots, the holodeck was also used), with parts of the game being random to encourage replayability. You directly controlled all 7 of the main cast, swapping between them at will. You could also give them tasks, such as researching technology to stop the Borg.. There was an additional tactical interface where you order around 49 other crewmembers.
The game itself would have taken around 5 hours for a successful campaign, although from the sounds of the game I would imagine some playthroughs might get to a point where beating the Borg would be impossible (due to bad planning), requiring a restart. It sounded like an interesting idea, but was cancelled when a deal with Activision was made for Star Trek games.
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I always wanted to play an unfinished version of this one! This game had a significant advance for the time. It used the original unreal engine, but used additional voxels tech for photorealistic enemies and npcs. It was one of the most modified UE1 games pre-Unreal Tournament.
Damn, I remember seeing a release date for that in a PC gaming mag and I was awaiting its release for ages with no idea it had been cancelled
yeah same
This screenshot must come from an early stage of game development. Icons representing the team look like stand-in assets. In fact, these are Bill Eaken’s portraits from A Final Unity.
Oh never heard about that one, or I forgot about it. I remember me as a young kid waiting for Borg Assimilator RTS
Some old games got their dev builds shared online (starcraft ghost, stargate the alliance, Duke nukem forever 2001 etc.), would be interesting to see if some old micropose devs could share them, but I know none sadly.
anyone get hold of this game?