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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
a disappointment, 11 April 2008
Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars
I had high hopes for this game as I was easy thinking of the good progression they had through the starfleet command series.
the biggest disappointment was the inability to up grade ships as with the other games.
also that only one faction is used main in the campaign as other could easly be added as they were just as much affected buy the events in the game.
A good thing about the game is that the gameplay is good as you are take control of up to 4 ships this keeps you focused on the game.
also the gaphics are very good but with a slow computer you will not be able to take advantage of them.
I had to put in a new graphics card and I already had and older style 256mb card, altough this is enough memory the processing speed of the older cards is slower and just did not work.
overall a reasonable game but it didn't seem well thought out as with some of the others.
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6 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
I hated this game - but my 11 year son thinks it rather good, 2 Jan 2008
Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars
Star Trek Legacy cost me a tenner. Naturally I was hoping for a 'Star Trek [Voyager] - Elite Force' quality game, and just as ever with the Star Trek series this game is anything but. The idea is pretty good I suppose, no first person shooter, just drive your fleet of ships about and beat up the bad guys fleet - you can be Borg, Romulan, Klingon or from Earth (sorry The Federation). Graphics are fairly good and the Borg ships look cool, but the control interface is just too clunky and I find I shoot off in all directions and soon just give up and reload Thief III or Quake 4 and start strafing Strogg. It seems very marginally better with a joystick - but who cares. I thought what a waste of money. I suppose the gameplay is rather similar to Disney's 'Treasure Planet' game, but this older lower-res Disney game knocks the spots off Star Trek Legacy in terms visual style. Star Trek legacy has fairly high minimum system requirements: DX9 128Mb graphics card, 2.66GHz PentiumIV or AMD XP 2800+, 512Mb RAM, and XP only - it runs pretty fluidly on my son's oldish gaming PC: AMD-2 5000, 3Gb RAM with NVidia 7950 graphics card. Not sure why the games got a 12 rating, possibly because no self respecting preteen would touch this game with a bargepole.
That said, my 11 year old son got bored of his many war sims games and gave Star Trek Legacy a go. He has no interest in Star Trek at all (other than being entranced with Elite Force years ago) but simply loves this game. His ships seem to do his bidding and he regularly wins (in ensign/easy mode). His comment was 'Why don't you like the game - it's quite good. I have completed the campaign mode'. So obviously some can tolerate Star Trek Legacy, although even he doesn't play it much now and mostly choses the games like Supreme Commander, WarCraft, B&W2, Sid Meier's Pirates, Age of Mythology and Age of Empires III in preference. If you are into games like this, as my son certainly is, perhaps this Legacy game will appeal. Despite being a Trekkie, I'm not, so perhaps that's the problem. So I wouldn't recommend this game to anyone, it's dull dull dull (1*), but some obviously do like it (3*) and at least it's going cheap now. However if you haven't got Supreme Commander or it's add on Forged Alliance, I would definately get that instead [provided your PC meets the tough system requirements], as it's the really great game this could have been.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
i expected better, 1 Jan 2009
Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars
first off whoever written in that product description about the game being "Epic" doesn't know of what epic means clearly. this game is the opposite. the campaign can be completed in a matter of hours because they are only 3 eras that are covered, ENT, TOS and TNG each one has 4 episodes to complete so around 12 missions and lets face it, they are highly unimaginative, very easy and very linear.
the graphics are good in some places but are lacking in others especially the shadow rendering in the saucer sections of the federation ships, and any curved sections like the romulan warbirds main hull in TNG.
apart from tng many ships that are in this game are fiction and some including tng era as well. the only exceptions are the NX cruiser, Constitution cruiser, Miranda destroyer and the Excelsior battleship. i was disappointed some other canon ships like the Defiant in the mirror universe in ENT, the prometheus in TNG(VOY), Long island class in TNG(DS9), Norway class in TNG(ST:FC), Sabre class in TNG(DS9) and a few more off the top of my head that were not added, the same like just the 4 races. Federation, Romulan, Klingon and Borg. in all i can think of a dozen races that could of been worthy adversaries like the dominion, cardassians, tholians, suliban, xindi, ferengi, 8472 and kazon for example.
the ai and tactics are always point and shoot without any regard for what a real captain would do, the cloaking device is rarly used in the game and canon romulans and klingons use this device quite a lot in curious situations.
the controls of the game leave a lot to be desired, you press f to target a ship and the computer automatically changes your course and speed to full impulse everytime, until you press one of the WSAD keys to move your ship manually and mouse wheel to adjust the speed of your ship, left click to fire phasers and right click for torpedoes. however you are never fully in control of your ship when you enter a very steep incline/decline your vessel cant do a full 360, and if the ship ever gets upside down it will recorrect itself to straight axis which means certain moves in the game cant be accomplished like that in the canon trek.
the damage effects and debris is highly unrealistic, when you loose a section of hull on any of your ships a grey orangish coloring appears underneath that open area and that is suppose to represent damage. and when a ship is to be destroyed it will fracture apart and explode with force rings and once that clears, the fragments of these ships will shink on the spot then disappear altogether.
although there are mods out as well as patches to combat this worthless game problems, even these cant be good because the game itself limits the entire experience. these people should of been concerntrating on making this game excellent then rather worrying about competition.
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