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Game Information
Product Features
- Develop your intelligence and use diplomacy to weave a trail of alliances or enemies
- Rise or fall by your ability to develop or acquire technology
- Manage a complex economy of empire-level resources, solar systems, and trade routes
- Construct, maintain, and refit a Starship fleet
- Play against up to 5 players via LAN, direct connect, modem, or Internet
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Product Description
Product Description
Star Trek: The Next Generation, Birth of the Federation is the first PC CD-ROM strategy game based on the rich Star Trek universe! Forged from the cultures, time lines, events and technologies of the hit TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation, this turn-based epic emphasises resource management, combat and diplomacy. Control one of five major alliances: Federation, Klingon, Romulan, Ferengi or Cardassian, each with its own set of abilities, strengths and weaknesses. Encounter over 30 exotic races. And beware, there lurks the potential for a Borg invasion--threatening all players!
Manufacturer's Description
If a long, complicated journey into Star Trek minutiae sounds like your idea of a perfect weekend, Birth of the Federation is certainly worth the time investment required to play it. That said, this is a very deep strategic game, too abstract and complicated to appeal to the casual gamer.
Similar to space-expansion games like Master of Orion, Birth of the Federation is a race to gain control of the galaxy. In this case, Klingons, Romulans, Ferengis and Cardassians compete with Jean-Luc Picard and the Federation.
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Star Trek Birth of the Federation has to be the best Star Trek game ever!! Playing as one of five main glactic powers (Federation, Klingon, Romulan, Cardassian or Ferengi)you gradually build up a fleet, your solar system (e.g planets, outposts, starbases). You also gradually build uo research (the better the research the better the ships),resources, intelligence, diplomacy, morale and military forces. If you're looking for an adventure look no further than this. Who you alliance with will help you if the borg are to pay you a visit.
All in all this game is one of the most engrossing, strategic games I've ever had the pleasure to play. Wether your a star trek fan, you just like strategic games or you want to try a new sort of game and have a challenge this is deffinatly the game for you.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Birth of the Federation is the best strategy game I've ever played. there are five major races the Federation, The Klingons, The Romulans, The Cardassians and The Ferengi each have there own set of different ships to build. There are other races like the Bajorans and the Trill who you can get to join your group that can also be expanded by colonizing uninhabited systems. There are a number of different things that can effect you like a stray comet hitting a system or a climate change increasing the population of a system. The biggest threat is Borg cubes invading the galaxy (54 cloaked Klingon Bird Of Prey's work well against the Borg). All in all it is a great game and fun
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
This really is an excellent game. I love star trek and stratagy games so when I heard about this I was very excited. The battle sequences are engrossing to do and beutiful to watch - you will find yourself fighting just to watch them and the control management of sytems, which allows you to allocate energy and the native work pool is genius, though if there is one bad thing about this game it is the inability to see the buildings you have created - you don't even see a cut scene after you finished building a fifty turn Vulcan science acadamy or the Cardassian central command. But apart from these few flaws the game is very good, though might not appeal to the casual gamer or 'non trekies'. Buy this now if you like star trek and stratagy or don't if you don't - it's that simple.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
A great game!!
As a BIG Star Trek-fan, I am very glad to have found such a great game. Every time you play this game, it's totally different. Each race has it's own strengths and weaknesses. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Bjorn
Great game, can we get it to work on Win XP?
Without a doubt the best Star Trek PC game! But has anyone got it to work on Windows XP (Home)? Can't justify buying a Win98 machine for this one game alone! Ta, K.
Published on 9 Feb 2009 by K. ROGERS
Too many hours of fun play to give less than 5 stars
Its credit to this game to write this review when im in a somwhat busy time of year in college. But im not the only 1 writing a review of this game many years after its orginal... Read more
Published on 24 April 2008 by Stuart
Classic strategy trek game
This game is in my personal pantheon of all time greats, along with the likes of Sim City and Command and Conquer. It also helps that i have a fondness for Star Trek as well. Read more
Published on 18 Feb 2007 by T. West
Boldly going where no game has gone before
The ultimate Star Trek game. Almost completely accurate to the Star Trek Universe and reliable a game when in single-player mode. Read more
Published on 12 Jun 2004 by Pen Name
BOTF ---- GREAT in single player, multiplayer really buggy!
I really enjoyed this game, with the notable exception of the Elite Force series, it is the only Star Trek game that I really enjoyed playing. Read more
Published on 21 Nov 2003 by Philip Murphy
Fantastic!
Star Trek: Birth Of The Federation is perhaps one of the best games of it's genre to have been created thus far. Read more
Published on 12 Aug 2003
Good but with a few flaws
First hearing about this game and it was set in the next generation era i was excited then to hear the borg was in it i was estatic. Read more
Published on 23 Jan 2003 by "bdel223"
Excellent
Very enjoyable game. Turn-based. Reminds me of the classic amiga game duetrous. After 18 months I still play it. In addition it works well on laptop computers.
Published on 10 Aug 2000 by kkelleher@schlotter.ie
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