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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good game...., 14 Mar 2007
Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars
I was initially reluctant to purchase this game after reading some reviews that really slated it but I must admit I was very pleasantly surprised.
Yes, the controls are difficult to get to grips with...but so what? I think games should be a challenge otherwise they are just too easy. It took me about 30mins-1hour to get to grips with controlling the ship, thats not a bad learning curve and it makes sure you have to concentrate on the game to play it properly.
There is an excellent variety of missions in this game with a good selection of ships and races including Federation, Klingon, Jem'Hadar, Kazon, Xindi, Romulan and my personal favourite the Borg!
My only criticism is that every time you mess up a mission you have to sit through the cutscene videos. There is no way to skip them which can get very frustrating after you've had to sit through them 110 times but other than that I think its a good game.
Well worth what Amazon are asking for it
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
These Aren't The Voyages..., 3 Dec 2006
Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars
STAR TREK: ENCOUNTERS is not your traditional Star Trek adventure: instead of exploring strange new worlds, you destroy them; instead of seeking out new life, you kill it; you boldly go into battle with the famous enemies of the franchise instead of where no one has gone before.
Which is hardly a bad thing when the gameplay is so much fun. Episode Missions, of which there are twenty-one spread out across the five generations of the television show, take between ten to twenty minutes of your time and are introduced by William "The Shat" Shatner: you don't really have to pay attention, mind, since each mission ignores Star Trek continuity and does things never thought possible (like open a temporal rift and have all five captains fight a Borg/Romulan/Klingon/Xindi/Dominion Invasion Force over Earth, circa 2006), even within the confines of one of the most outrageous-thinking science fiction dramas. Each starship you control, and there are over twenty in total, comes with handy 360-Degree phaser targetting controlled with the right Analogue Stick. R1 and R2 are in charge of firing phasers/photon torpedoes and locking on to your multiple adversaries. This setup will take some time getting used to, but once you've gotten your eye in, you'll be melting the hull of Borg Cubes within no time.
Generally, you'll be destroying the waves of enemy vessels in your sector, although there are a few course changes into other types of gameplay: stealth (using nebula clouds and cloaking devices), "warp gate" races and locate/retrieve missions break up all the various kinds of death. Move over to the multiplayer mini-games, however, and you've got non-stop action. Head-to-Head battles against a friend, or co-operative Onslaught mode with you teaming up against waves of Xindi, Klingons and Cardassians, etc, offer countless hours of entertainment and plenty of replay value, no matter how quickly you power through the Episode Missions. Throw in unlockable extras, a Starship Viewer for inspecting your latest unlocked craft and Character Cards that help upgrade ship systems while in-flight and there's lots to be done in the final frontier.
The only question is, if you're a Star Trek fan, can you get over the blatant ignorance shown towards the television storylines? Personally, I have, and I'm enjoying STAR TREK: ENCOUNTERS so much because of it. Hopefully you can too. Excuse the cheesy concluding line, but beam up a copy of this today.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
BEST STAR TREK GAME ON PS2, 24 Jan 2007
Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars
I got this game the week it came out for £18, granted i had trade in value and might not have brought it if i didnt.
However i am so glad i did.
Im not really into spaceship shoot-em-ups on the PS2 as the graphics can look a little tacky. However i had seen some screenshots on amazon. THANKYOU AMAZON! and decided to give it a try...
That evening i took out my Fifa 2007 (also brilliant) game and decided to Star Trek a bash.
After 10 mins i was stuck at the end of level one, wanting to rip my hair out because i couldnt get the controls right. In the end, i lost my patience and temper and dropped the controller on the ground and contemplated putting the game on ebay before the price dropped too much.
Anywho... 3 days later, it was chucking it down outside and i had a kidney infection, so feeling rotten and wanting to get out of my bedroom as it were i was in the mood for Trek again as i had just watched some season 2 of Enterprise... Fracking brilliant if you ask me!!
I put the game on, sat back and tried out the vs level in the hope i could get the controls sorted and after 30 mins it felt more and more suited and any thoughts of me getting rid of the game were long gone.
Anyway about the game:
- The graphics are suprisingly good for the ps2
- You get to take control of the Enterprise NX01, USS Enterprise (refit), Klingon Battlecruiser, USS Enterprise D, USS Enterprise E, USS Defiant, USS Voyager and the Federation Station Deep Space Nine of all things in a big Dominion War Style battle!!
I would highly recomend this game to any Trek fan or even someone who likes space battle games...
My main piece of advice for this game is, be patient like me and give it a chance... Ignore the people who gave ratings of 1 and 2 out of 5 as they probably just didnt have the patience to try to get the game worked out. The people who gave the game 3 out of 5, fair enough it just probably wasnt there thing. But this game doesnt deserve anything less than 3 out of 5... Trust me, i am a Trekkie!!
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